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Apple Delays or Cancels Support for AirPrint Via Shared Printers on Macs and PCs?

The lack of the feature to use a Mac or PC as an AirPrint proxy for the iPad will accelerate the creation of AirPrint-compatible printer firmwares by printer manufacturers, who can no longer ignore Linux compatibility - let alone the iPad compatibility. Once they issue such an upgrade, their printers will support AirPrint natively.

Another positive result of this new development is the fact that I won't to have to buy a brand spanking new Intel i7 based $2000 iMac to serve as a central computing hub for my household and to be used as an AirPrint and AirPlay proxy. Spending $2000 just for AirPlay makes no sense. I will continue using MacBook and MacBook Pros in my household to stream to the AppleTVv2 and I may have to spend a few hundred dollars for an AirPrint-compatible printer if the manufacturer of my current printer (Samsung) drops the ball and does not release an upgrade to their firmware that supports AirPrint.
 
AirPrint just works fine for now

Hi. I'm using iOS4.2GM and the latest build of OSX 10.6.5 (10H574) and AirPrint just works perfect so far... I really doupt that they will cancel this.

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AirPrint would be a feature I'd use just occasionally, but it would be handy at times. I'm wondering -- if it's indeed been removed -- whether Apple has gotten any pressure from publishers concerned that iPad users with magazine subscriptions could start their own little cottage industries printing out issues (or parts of them). Even though that seems unlikely and absurd, publishers can be paranoid that way.
 
this isn't THAT big of a deal I think. The feature will come, sooner or later, and it's not like it's an unfixed security hole or something. don't worry, be happy, because when it comes, it will be better than would you'd get now ;):cool:
 
sirozha said:
The lack of the feature to use a Mac or PC as an AirPrint proxy for the iPad will accelerate the creation of AirPrint-compatible printer firmwares by printer manufacturers, who can no longer ignore Linux compatibility - let alone the iPad compatibility. Once they issue such an upgrade, their printers will support AirPrint natively.
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Hey, that's a sharp insight. Force compatibility by removing the use of driver-laden PCs as proxies for AirPrint. I admit I only print things out because I have to hand out long drafts of projects to a few people. It's easier than asking them to print it out themselves. Now when these people all have iPads, or Kindles or Nooks or what have you, I'll can just email PDF or epub files, especially since they don't revise or markup, they just read.

I also print drafts, not so much for my own review by reading, but for ease of marking up. But I'm acquainted with quite a few writers, one of whom won the Pulitzer for book-length fiction, who do everything on a Mac, w/o ever printing out anything. I could change my process, I suppose.

It's kind of like Airplay: Handy, cool feature, but I need it for OTHER people, not myself. I have a 1TB drive attached to my MacBook Air, with monitor, keyboard and mouse, iTunes- and iPhoto-integrated streaming server software, then streaming-compliant modern games consoles at each stereo system. Why would I stream a few things off my iPhone or iPad when I can get to ALL my music, going back to when I was maybe 16 years old, and going back to when my kids were babies, off the Mac? And if it's asleep I can wake it, even launch the streaming server, via an iPhone app.

Airplay would be for when I went to someone else's place and wanted to play from my mobile music collection. Then THEY have to own Airplay-compliant audio playback gear. And I can't force them to buy in.

Airplay around the house would be cool for changing songs without being in front of the playback device. But, I have to admit, I wear headphones most of the time, wired to the iPhone 4 in my pocket. And I used to use original Apple TVs to stream. When the iOS Remote app came out I was like, Wow, that's really cool. I used it maybe twice, even when streaming. Fact is, if I have the whole music library, or an extensive playlist, on shuffle, I just let it play while I work. Fact is, I won't to TRY Airplay because I think it's cool. In practice I'd rarely use it as any better a solution than I already have in place. I'd rather fork over $1,300 for a snazzy new fully loaded 11-inch MB Air than similar money to update all the audio gear in the house fro Airplay. And, no, I don't at all need that new MB Air, either.
 
AirPrint wasn't removed in any 10.6.5 betas

I used all the 10.6.5 betas (up to the latest 10H574) and AirPrint always worked perfect for me. It was never removed... In iTunes it was just implemented for testig different printers by developers but it's not needed there to use a shared printer via airprint.
 
How does software go to GM and only then have the devs realise things aren't working right so let's remove it...

but yet again it did happen with push notifications and OS 2.0
 
Mackan said:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/software-update/

Still mentions printing.
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AirPrint is still there in 4.2: The question is whether Apple have pulled support for AirPrint to shared Windows / OS X printers, not whether it is supported at all

garethjs said:
How does software go to GM and only then have the devs realise things aren't working right so let's remove it...

but yet again it did happen with push notifications and OS 2.0
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OS X 10.6.5 hasn't got to GM yet and AirPrint hasn't been removed from iOS 4.2

dan44 said:
I used all the 10.6.5 betas (up to the latest 10H574) and AirPrint always worked perfect for me. It was never removed... In iTunes it was just implemented for testig different printers by developers but it's not needed there to use a shared printer via airprint.
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This is strange, because it doesn't work for me on 10H574: Do you see any specific options for AirPrint, or do you just enable printer sharing?
 
Hp?

Hope this isn't just a marketing push for HP wireless printers.

Or, then I am guessing there were some troublesome printers connected to computers which made them either rethink, or delay. They don't want to release anything that isn't very close to perfect technically.
 
andiwm2003 said:
well, its not a solution since I and many others can't print at all unless we buy a new printer. I'd rather have a setup program through itunes that allows me to select the relevant drivers for me if I don't want to carry all drivers. Currently you either need to buy a new printer or boot you computer up
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You seemed to have built your whole live around the expectation that you can print from your iPad (via your Mac/PC) starting this Friday. Waiting a couple of more weeks will surely turn your life upside down.
 
Sorry, but I'm just not convinced of this, and few people seem to be checking up on MacStories information. They claim that Apple removed all references for AirPrint from their websites. BUT - Apple's software update page for 4.2 (http://www.apple.com/ipad/software-update) still displays AirPrint prominently when MacStories says it's been removed. Maybe Apple removed that section for updating when MacStories saw it gone and thought it was pulled, and then Apple put the new ad copy in after and no one checked it again?

EDIT: And it appears that Apple's changing the 4.2 page quite a bit in the last 24 hours. AFTER the MacStories story ran about AirPrint, they had a revised page up with a big red "NEW!" banner across the AirPrint section, and it was in the lower middle right area. Today it's moved to the left side and they removed the red banner, and shortened the text. (Sorry, didn't get a screen print.) So they're definitely tweaking that page.
 
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I have been using this through windows on my work laptop loads. Its never failed to print yet. I'm gutted they are taking it out.

Is it really that hard to make this work? There are loads of apps in the app store that do something similar.

Most high volume coporate copiers / printers still dont have wifi so this was a viable alternative for me
 
You Monsters! ;)

Won't someone think of the forests? At least Apple has the courage...

Print to the cloud. Your planet will thank you.
 
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Why on earth are people printing from these devices so much?

So completely exaggerated, like nothing has ever been. Not going to update over this? Give me a frigging break.
 
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Stop listening to rumors. It's not canceled, but is delayed.
 
Still working flawlessly for me. I guess I'm keeping the GM for a while with the modified version of 10.6.5
 
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