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Enabled AirPrint in iOS 4.2/iTunes 10.1/Shared Printers/Windows 7

Hi,

I can't seem to get this to work for me unfortunately.

I downloaded and followed the instructions to the letter, and I cannot see any printers when I try to print.

I have a Brother Printer that is connected via ethernet to my router, which the other computers (and iPhone) in my house connect to. I have iTunes 10.1 (NOT BETA) and iOS 4.2.1 installed on my iPhone 4. Windows Firewall, AVG Free anti virus.

Not sure what is going on here, was really looking forward to AirPrint in this iOS and would like to get it working.

Thanks in advance.
 
Hi all. I am italian and sorry for my bad english.
I've followed step by step the guide. The iPad detects the printer but when I click on the button "print" I get the message: "contact printer".
Anyone have an idea for help me?
I've on the iPad iOS GM iPad 4.2.1, but I think that isn't important.

Thanks
 
Great Instructions. Working perfectly for me. For everyone who is having a problem with asking for a username or password, you need to enable a guest account in user account control. Restart and it should work.

The only problem is that you need to have AirPrint.exe open every time you want to print. This creates an annoying cmd prompt window. Anyone know how I could keep AirPrint.exe open in the background without this window?

Thanks!:apple:
 
mdhansen5 said:
Great Instructions. Working perfectly for me. For everyone who is having a problem with asking for a username or password, you need to enable a guest account in user account control. Restart and it should work.

The only problem is that you need to have AirPrint.exe open every time you want to print. This creates an annoying cmd prompt window. Anyone know how I could keep AirPrint.exe open in the background without this window?

Thanks!:apple:
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Sorry, but you don't need to create a Guest Account. It works with your normal login/password.
Secondly, the Airprint.exe shouldn't have to be run every time. Follow the instructions carefully.
 
Is it possible to connect to a networked printer at work while im connected to the work wireless. Its the same wireless that the laptops are connected to and they can connect to the printers.
 
imacken said:
Sorry, but you don't need to create a Guest Account. It works with your normal login/password.
Secondly, the Airprint.exe shouldn't have to be run every time. Follow the instructions carefully.
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Oh ok. I don't have a password on my account so I found that enabling a guest account would work.

When I don't have AirPrint.exe open, my printer isn't detected. I have to have it running to use AirPrint. How did you do it?
 
thefreeagent said:
So, my question is this: Does the command prompt box (which opens after I double click on AirPrint.exe) have to remain running on my Windows machine in order for AirPrint to work?

This would be unfortunate, and a pain in this ass, if it is this case...

Any input is appreciated!
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This is what is happening to me. As soon as I close the cmd prompt window it stops working.:eek:
 
Thank you. It worked good, but I cant get it to work.

The account I have on the computer I installed it on does not have a password. Is there a way to have it with no password? Or use the usercontrolpass32(Or similar command) to login automatically with the password?
 
This works!

To anyone having trouble, go to Control Panel and user accounts and turn on the Guest account. When iPad prompts for user and pass, just put Guest as the user and leave password blank. Or use a password if you like.
 
You need to run "cmd" as administrator.

Go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt... Right-click on Command Prompt and select "Run as administrator" then hit enter, after the security warning just copy and paste...



exhibit.b said:
I keep getting this message.

C:\Users\Brian>sc.exe create AirPrint binPath= "C:\Program Files\AirPrint\airpri
nt.exe -s" depend= "Bonjour Service" start= auto
[SC] OpenSCManager FAILED 5:

Access is denied.


C:\Users\Brian>sc.exe start AirPrint
[SC] StartService: OpenService FAILED 1060:

The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
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Thanks for all the hard work putting this together!

I have a Windows 7 machine set to a homegroup, an Epson 610 networked printer

I have followed the instrutions I believe...
It says the airprint service is working.

And it can't find my printer. I'd appreciate any help.

TIA,

Phil
 
Sweet. Cheers guys!

I already had the AirPrint files (I saved them from beta1 before updating to public release as I knew it wasn't included) so all I needed was the command for actually running the service.

Thanks muchly!

MaFt
 
For those of you who don't wish to use a password, you can allow blank passwords to be used on your computer, this way the only thing you need to insert when connecting to a printer is your username

Here's how:

[Start] [Run] and type gpedit.msc and click [OK]
Navigate to Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Options
Double click on Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console login only.
Select the radio button next to Disabled and click [OK]

:D
 
It does exactly the same, but the only thing you need to do is click "install". Even the firewall exceptions should be added automagically by the program.
 
need help

I’ve all done this, and this worked it said succes (or something) but on my device I see no printers – and yes he is on!
I’ve tried to open it opens the terminal window and says this:
Listening for connections on *********…
Listening for connections on *******….
Unable to remove “C:\Users\MyName\Appdata\Local\Temp\/cupslite/cupslite” – No such file or directory
Canon Inkjet iP4200: DeviceCapabilities failed
XpdfPrint library version = 3.02.33
 
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