Air Print Printers

[itguy22]

Hi all,

 

Any recommendations for a natively 'AirPrint' enabled printer. We need it to support our iPads in school.

 

Reasons behind the recommendations would be great! Thanks guys.

[X-13]

Any recommendations for a natively 'AirPrint' enabled printer. We need it to support our iPads in school.

 

Not to sound rude... But this is something you should have sorted before you got the iPads.

[fairm010]

We use Fingerprint Software by Collobos FingerPrint - Collobos Software

 

Lets you use any exisitng network printer with AirPrint!

 

Matt

 

(Just looked - £13.69 is not bad, at least cheaper than a new printer!)

[itguy22]

Not to sound rude... But this is something you should have sorted before you got the iPads.

 

Helpful.....small primary budgets....headteacher requested after and not before..Hands tied really. Thanks anyway.

[plexer]

We use Fingerprint Software by Collobos FingerPrint - Collobos Software

 

Lets you use any exisitng network printer with AirPrint!

 

Matt

 

(Just looked - £13.69 is not bad, at least cheaper than a new printer!)

 

Does the ios device have to directly connect to the mac/pc running the fingerprint sofare though?

 

Ben

[fairm010]

No, we have Fingerprint running on our print server at all times. The iPads/iPhones find the printer on the LAN.

[synaesthesia]

We've got a HP Photosmart 7510 for the office. Works wonders with our iPads, however not sure how managable they'd be for curricular use.

[SYNACK]

Use the existing ones:

Tour - Manage iPad Printing (iOS devices - iPad, iPhone) - PaperCut

[apeo]

Use the existing ones:

Tour - Manage iPad Printing (iOS devices - iPad, iPhone) - PaperCut

 

Seems this needs MAC OS to work:

 

Chapter21.PaperCut & iPad / iPhone Printing (iOS)

[SYNACK]

Seems this needs MAC OS to work:

 

Chapter21.PaperCut & iPad / iPhone Printing (iOS)

 

Ah, my bad, not big on Macs.

[itguy22]

thanks for your replys guys.

[itguy22]

We use Fingerprint Software by Collobos FingerPrint - Collobos Software

 

Lets you use any exisitng network printer with AirPrint!

 

Matt

 

(Just looked - £13.69 is not bad, at least cheaper than a new printer!)

 

Where can you purchase this from in the UK? Do you have a link?

[itguy22]

Where can you purchase this from in the UK? Do you have a link?

 

Ignore me....Found it.... been a long day

[fairm010]

Let me know what you think, works flawlessly here.

[andy_b]

Tried FingerPrint - Collobos Software, but was a pain to install as the program seems to need to contact external servers via the internet to authenticate the initial installation. Didn't seem to work though the schools proxy.

 

I did manage to bodge it via some registry editing, but then it randomly stopped working.

 

In the end I just through a CUPS server (Gordon Turner » Blog Archive » AirPrint on Linux for iOS6) up to serve the printers to the iPads.

[fairm010]

Ah, sorry to hear it didnt work, glad you got it working anyway!

 

Matt

[plexer]

I installed fingerprint last week and it works but the main issue I've got with it is that all print jobs are sent as the server it's installed on which is no good in a manager ala pcounter environment.

 

Ben

[Avalon]

We use Fingerprint Software by Collobos FingerPrint - Collobos Software

 

good shout, many thanks

[jamesreedersmith]

Just put this on your server and share all your normal printers!!