[ipad] Printing

[SimpleSi]

Can I have a few easy/quick/cheap suggestions to let my headteacher print things from his IPad to our networked printers?

 

Ta in advance

 

Simon

[Abaddon]

I've looked at Printopia, which is cheap and works fine over the wireless. Worth a look?

 

Printopia - AirPrint to Any Printer - Print from iPad - Print from iPhone - Ecamm Network

 

You'll need a Mac to set the printers up on, so that they can be seen by the software, but if you have one there already then you're set.

[Michael]

Setup WebDav and print via a PC or Mac is Apple's official position on this!

[SYNACK]

Do you have papercut at per chance, this includes a web print feature that actually works. The native Airprint stuff involves turning off everything even remotely assosiated with security and logging.

 

The other thing you could look at is a printer with airprint support built in.

 

I hope you will give them the appropriate amount of mocking for trying to use an iPad for work instead of its designated workload of facebook postings as it is a consumer device.

 

Enable iOS AirPrint Support on Windows

How To: Enable AirPrint on Windows (32/64Bit) with iOS 5.x Support - MacRumors Forums

 

Consumer grade, thats all its fit for.

[SimpleSi]

I hope you will give them the appropriate amount of mocking for trying to use an iPad for work instead of its designated workload of facebook postings as it is a consumer device.

 

Since this the very nice man that pays my wages, i missed out the mocking (more a look of pity) but did heavily mention that it is a personal device.

 

I've suggested that setting up a gmail account and emailing himself the work he did on the plane back from USA

 

Si

[Pete10141748]

Quick, easy and free printing from iPad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: In all seriousness, I have seen people here do that!

[mondaymorningblues]

Great pic Pete10141748 lol

SimpleSi, probably wayyy too late to reply to your post, but your headteacher could have used some third party apps too

i have print and altamail by a company called eurosmartz on my ipad and it works a treat

anyway thought i could at least introduce myself and say hello!

[fs171]

Have used lantronix is very simple to set up (as in the video) just name the printers found by compairing IP addresses.

[SimpleSi]

I tried out synacks suggestions and it all seemd to go nicely on my ipad - printers appeared as options to print to, files got sent to the server spooler, file disappeared from server spooler queue - nothing came out of printer

 

Will try again (and the other suggestsion) when in on Fri

 

Si

[SimpleSi]

@pete - brilliant OOTB thinking

[mac_shinobi]

PDF Writer / Printer --> Store to the cloud ( Dropbox / google drive or the likes ) --> Logon to a computer ( PC / Mac ) and print to said device ??

 

PDF Printer for iPad for iPad on the iTunes App Store