In short, Apple AirPrint is a tech that helps you get full-quality printed output without the need to download or install drivers. Straight from your iOS enabled device like iPhone or iPad.
So it doesn’t matter whether you created a new Document using an App on your iPad or received a Document or image over email, and now you wish to convert the soft file into hard tangible printout, you don’t need to transfer your data to a Mac or PC. Apple AirPrint is the way to go. AirPrint supports a large number of printing devices, to check whether your printer is compatible, click here.
Apple AirPrint was introduced way back with iOS 4 and it originally had compatibility with only a handful of HP wireless printers, and virtually no shared printers, which made it pretty difficult for the vast majority of iPad users. With advent of newer hardware and iOS capabilities in iDevices, it is now way easier to make use of this revolutionary piece of tech.
The best part about Apple AirPrint is that you don’t need to download or install drivers on your iDevice to print and yet the drawback is that it only works with AirPrint enabled printers.
How to use AirPrint
- Launch an app that supports AirPrint. (Safari, Photos, Mail or any other supported app)
- Tap the “Share” button. It looks like an envelope with an arrow coming out of it
- Choose “Print” from the options list
- A dialog will pop up. Tap the Printer field
- AirPrint should start searching for printers and find yours
- Select your printer, and print
Additionally there is a way to get AirPrint to work the way it was originally intended to, and it’s both easy and free. (However, for now, it only works on Mac.) You can even get it to work with the shared printers on your network. handyPrint (formerly called AirPrint Activator)
handyPrint™ is a 64 bit Mac OSX application that allow you to print from your iPods, iPads and iPhones on printers that do not support the AirPrint protocol.
handyPrint app makes your iPad or iPhone think that your shared printer is one of the HP wireless printers that AirPrint is currently compatible with, and makes it work with your printer. It’s a clever way to trick AirPrint into working in ways it had not previously. This also means that there is no real risk involved in using the program. If it doesn’t work, or you don’t like or need it anymore, you can simply remove it, without removing any files from AirPrint, or your devices.
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