Can anybody shed some light on why there are no battery operated airprint printers?

I have been waiting for Airprint on a battery operated printer since the Airprint technology came available, but for some reason no one makes one.  HP makes great battery operated printers but for some reason no Airprint capability.  My only guess is that these printer manufacturers are being lobbied by other tablet makers no to include Airprint as it would make their tablets a better option.  But with the market share that iPad commands I can see this as makeing any sense.  Any ideas? The applications for this seem endless.  How can we that want this option, effectively express this to manufacturers.  I am supprised Apple hasn't come up with a solution for this!

That may be the reason, I did not think of that.  Do you think that the power required for the AirPrint is much more than a Bluetooth connection?  Surely technology these days would have a cure for that issue.  We currently use an HP Officejet 100 and it has plenty of battery life (using Bluetooth). But it's not compatible with the iPad so stuck using a small laptop to take care of the printing jobs. I have all the apps in place on the ipad to do away with the laptop if only I could get an AirPrint enabled portable printer to handle the physical paper requirements of our operation.

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