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Using AirPrint from an iPhone or iPad via Printopia
AirPrint, included with the release of version 4.2 of the iOS software for the iPhone and iPad, is Apple's technology enabling wireless printing directly from your iOS device to an AirPrint-capable printer.
Bizarrely, at the time of writing Apple's own AirPort device does not support AirPrint, but a solution is available in the form of Printopia if you don't have an AirPrint-capable printer of which there are few. Unfortunately this does require that you have a WiFi-capable Mac desktop or laptop powered on and connected to the printer, but allows you to share any printers installed on the Mac from your iOS device.
Install Printopia onto the Mac. An icon will be added to the System Preferences pane:
Share the printers that you want to be available to the iOS device.
From the iOS device, select the option to print the item you want, be it an email, photo or document:
You can now select which printer you wish to use as well as how many copies you want to print:
Tap on Select Printer, the iOS device will search for available printers:
After a few moments the printers shared by Printopia will be listed:
Select the printer you want to use, your file will be sent:
If your list of printers is empty, ensure that the wireless network you have connected to is the one that your desktop Mac is connected to. If using wireless repeaters, or the Mac is connected to the local network via ethernet, ideally both the iOS device and the Mac should have an IP address in the same subnet.
If all else fails, on the WiFi-capable Mac create a computer-to-computer network and set the iOS device to connect to that:
Visit the Printopia web site for more details and updates.
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