I cannot print from my iPad using airport express. My printer is not AirPrint compatible but is connected to airport express thru USB port. My laptop can print with no problem thru the express unit. My lap top is no a mac.

Good day, my iPad does not seem to pick up my printer. My printer is not AirPrint compatible but is connected to my airport express thru the USB port. My laptop which is windows type connects to the printer via airport express thru bonjour and this work well. My iPad does not pick up my printer thru the airport express. I have read about different software that you can download but this seems to be only if you are using a mac. I know my express is working fine as I can use airplay thru my iPad. Any ideas? I do not want to go to the expense of changing my printer, when there was no mention in the express details that your printer had to be AirPrint compatible or indeed wireless.

See this article to learn how to print from an iPad to your USB printer when you have a PC. The PC will need to be running when you want to print from the iPad.
Print from your iPad with PrintCentral | How To - CNET

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Why cant i print from my ipad using airport express but i can print from my mac using the express

why cant i print from my ipad using airport express but i can print from my mac using the express

Because your printer has to be Airprint compatible and connected to WiFi. There are applications, such as Printopia, that will allow you to print through your computer.

Why can't I print from my iPad using airport express

Why can't I print from my iPad using airport express?

Is the printer connected to the USB port on the AirPort Express?
If yes, Apple does not support printing from the iPad in this manner. Try another App like Printopia which should allow the iPad to print. There is a free trial, so you will know in a few minutes whether this will work.
Printopia - AirPrint to Any Printer - Print from iPad - Print from iPhone ...
Is the printer connected to the AirPort Express using wireless only?
If yes, you must have an AirPrint compatible printer to be able to print directly from the iPad. See if your model is AirPrint compatible in this Apple document:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4356
If your printer model appears, the printer may need a firmware update to enable the AirPrint feature. Contact the support folks at your printer manufacturer.
If the printer does not appear, try Printopia as above.

Can my old HP print from my iPad using airport express

Can my old HP print from my iPad using airport express.
If yes what can be done.
Thank you.
Merry Christmas

You might be able to get the iPad to print to the HP by installing an App like Print Central on the iPad.
There are no guarantees that this will work, so worst case you will be out about $10 U.S.
PrintCentral for iPad on the iTunes App Store

Can I print from my iPad using airport extreme?

Can I print from my iPad using airport extreme 802.11n ?

iOS devices use AirPrint to print directly to a printer. That would require a printer that is AirPrint-ready. Unfortunately, just connecting a non-AirPrint-ready printer to the USB or Ethernet ports of the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS), will NOT enable it for AirPrint.

Can I print from my ipad using a windows 7 shared printer?

Can I print from my ipad using a windows 7 shared printer?

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Can I print from my iPad using wifi

Can I print from my iPad using wifi thanks

I know I can use Airprint and other solutions; that wasn't the point. That will no doubt work from home but what use is that to me in other location? I'm looking to print online purchase receipts, customer receipts, photos, emails etc. Chances are I'll be doing all that from my PC anyway and will stick to that. Why would I want to email my local printer and wait till it gets back to me? And why would I want my PC on just to print? Why wouldn't I just print direct from the PC? I'm missing something here. Why overcomplicate a direct process?
Would you be saying the same thing if mountain lion removes print access and you're told to use airprint? No you won't!
I want to print emails etc from my ipad as I wander different offices, or different houses. That other software did it (at a price I wasn't acepting) and I would assume someone else will build it in eventually, I have to ask why Apple want this controlled through one channel (largely) and can only see it as another tie-in to some money garnering solution in due course. It can't be processing or memory limitations as its 64Gb and Apple tell me it's a powerful gadget.
Time to see what my Asus will allow.... can't be this bad surely, but you never know. Trusty networked HP6 laserjet (via jetdirect box) and Oficejet8000 (duplex) aint going to be replaced in the near future. Trusty workhorses do all I want, efficiently, effectively, and cater for 4 users in this home.

How can I print from my iPad using AirPrint?

I have an HP6500 printer connected to an Ethernet port of my wifi router. How can I print from my iPad using AirPrint?

Your printer may not support Airprint. Attached is a how to from Apple for Airprint. If you click on the link for HP supported printers, the HP 6500A is listed, not the HP 6500.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4356

Can I print from my Ipad using airport express?

Hi I am trying to find out if I can print from my Ipad mini to my printer attached to airport express, this works with my book but ipad cannot find printer, if I download airport utility to Ipad will that make a difference or should I be looking at a third party app?

printing to a non-airprinter from an iPad
To print from the iPad your going to have to install some more software:
-- many printer makers have iPad applications for their printers. Look in the app store
-- generic software like Printopia
iPad Print Applications -- usually free:
Brother iPrint&Scan
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brother-iprint-scan/id382775642
Canon Easy—PhotoPrint
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/canon-easy-photoprint/id331269951?mt=8
Epson iPrint
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epson-iprint/id326876192?mt=8
HP ePrint Home & Biz
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hp-eprint-home-biz/id299531647?mt=8
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/searchResults?tmp_product=HP+Photosmart+5515+ e-All-in-One+Printer+-+B111a&product=5063608&tmp_qt=eprint&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&su bmit
Lexmark and possible Dell
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lexmark-mobile-printing/id469415392?mt=8
Kodak Pic Flick
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kodak-pic-flick/id336104814?mt=8
Samsung
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/samsung-mobile-print/id429611283?mt=8
Helper app -- /print n share
Print directly to the widest range of network or WiFi printers available in any app. Alternatively print via your computer to ALL printers including USB & Bluetooth printers. View read and display large PDF, Office & iWork files. Easily transfer & store files from the Cloud or your computer.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/print-n-share/id301656026?mt=8
more helper apps
http://www.howtogeek.com/102671/how-to-enable-airprint-for-ios-printing-from-any -mac-or-windows-pc/
Generic Software:
You can connect the printer to a computer and install software on your computer to print from your ipad to the comptuer then to the printer.
Software for your computer's printer:
Mac and Windows
http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/01/make-any-printer-airprint-compatible/
Makes any printer AirPrint® compatible so you can print from an iPad® or iPhone®. Reportedly works for any router.
http://www.netgear.com/landing/genie/default.aspx
Mac software
example:
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/printopia/
Should you have some office printer that are connected to a computer there are print enablling applicaionts you can run on the iPad to print to such printers.
For Windows, try: PrintBreau, or PrintCentral.
PrintCentral Pro
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/printcentral-pro/id426362921?mt=8
Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2729284?start=0&tstart=0
Thanks to AirPrint Hacktivator you can turn any printer connected to your Mac or Windows PC into an AirPrint compatible printer. from:
http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/01/make-any-printer-airprint-compatible/
Mac and Windows
"WePrint enables printing to shared printers for iOS/Android devices from our range of printing Apps."
http://mobile.eurosmartz.com/downloads.html
this google query will give you more options
ipad airprint via mac
Buy another box
"xPrintServer enables wireless printing for iOS devices such as iPads® and iPhones® using their native print menu. It eliminates the need to print through apps, install software, or email yourself documents for printing. And more importantly, you don't need to buy a new printer because xPrintServer works with more than 4,000 top brand USB and network printers. "
http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/xprintserver/xprintserver.html
You have to check whether this box supports your printer
http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/xprintserver/xprintserver-supported-print ers.php

Can you print from an iPad using airport Extreme?

Do you still need to use a third party software (I.e. Printopia) to send a print file to my Samsung printer via Airport extreme router?

Printing from iPad
You might note the * (asterisk) here and be aware of the fine print at the bottom of the Apple advertising page.
Just a small detail like the printer must be AirPrint compatible.
See this Apple document to see if the printer is AirPrint compatible
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4356
If the printer is not AirPrint compatible, then Printopia might work

I have a Airport Extreme. USB from printer to the router. How do I turn on AirPrint so I can print from my iPad too?

I have a brand new iMac. I also have a brand new Airport Extreme. I have a cannon MG6320. I have the printer contected to the Airport Extreme. It works fine from my iMac. But I do not know how to setup Airprint, so I can also print from my iPad 2 (original iPad 2, not the new iPad 2). Should I call cannon for assistance?

Setup AirPrint Printer (you do not connect to router)
1. Buy an AirPrint enabled printer; see list below
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4356
2. Run the CD provided and set printer and iPad on the same network
3. Start printing from your iPad using AirPrint
Note: Make sure you have the latest firmware on printer

Used to be able to print from my iPad but now when I print the paper comes out but there is nothing on it

Problem printing from my iPad use to work now the paper comes out empty

Go into iMessage and Facetime and sign out.
Go to Settings > iTunes and App Store, log out the person who sold it to you and enter your information.
Or go to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings and then start from scratch.

How do I print from an iPad? Do I need to download SW to the iPad?

How do I print from my iPad to my Photosmart 6510? Do I need to download any SW or App to the iPad? If so which one?
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Hello Luc-P,
You do not need to download any apps or SW to print from your iPad. There are actually two ways to print from your iPad: using ePrint or over a local wireless network using Airprint.
To use ePrint, you would find your printers email address by enabling Web Services on the front of the printer and sending an email to this address for the printer to print your message and/or attachments included
To use Airprint, you would make sure that your printer and iPad are connected to the same wireless network and that your iPad has iOS Version 4.2 or higher and use the embedded print function included on the iPad software. You can print from Mail, Safari, and Photos app this way.
You may need to perform a product update to ensure Airprint is working.
If you have any further questions you can reply to this post and I will try to find an answer for you.
If I have solved your issue, please feel free to provide kudos and make sure you mark this thread as solution provided!
Although I work for HP, my posts and replies are my own opinion and not those of HP.

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Why can't I print from my ipad?

I've had my iPad for almost a year now and I like it a lot. It looks very good, it performs very well even though I'm far from reaching my goal of only taking my ipad to school, nothing else.
One important reason why this won't be the case for quite a while still is that I can't print from the iPad.
Let me explain. I make quite a number of worksheets. Being a teacher this is one of the things you do so that the students have something to write on and do exercises. Over the years there have been many of these and my initial thought was to put them all on the iPad and print them when needed. But imagine my surprise when I found out that printing from an iPad seems to be near impossible.
Other colleagues of mine got themselves cheap EEPCs and they work fine. They can access the local printer easily printing whatever they wish. But I can't do that! Unless my school buys a new Air-thingy printer from HP I just won't print there! And that just *****.
I've bought a sleek and expensive machine that is so sophisticated - that I can't use it the way I want to. And that isn't even ******** about the file system that seems to be equally messed up.
My question is, why can't I print from the iPad? Printing had been announced many times before the launch of iOS 4 and then, all of a sudden, nothing more. How can this be? Why do I have to buy additional software - which is not really cheap and far from certain to work at all - just to be able to print a few pages?
Please help me understand this, as I see it, major flaw of the iPad and iOS 5.

Thanks guys,
I seem to have understood by now.
To sum it up:
- I can print with the iPad directly if the printer is Airprint compatible.
- I can print via a number of more or less working apps.
I've downloaded some HP software for my iPad and even seem to be able to access it from some other apps, that is except Apples Pages app. Sigh! So whenever I have to make changes in my documents, I still can't print.
GoodReader on the other hand lets me send my documents to the HP app, but the app/HP won't let me print microsoft docs unless I register and send my documents over to HP where the printing prep is being made, then they send it back to me/my printer. Anyway GoodReader blows my layout apart, so I must change it on the iPad, but when I do …
It's a big catch.
You must realize that printing really isn't that comfortable and that as a spoiled old Mac user I might be excused for wishing something more workable.
The truth seems to be that I've got to carry all those docs on a USB-stick, move them over to the Windows-machine at our school and print from there - which is what I do on a daily basis already.
All those workarounds that may or may not work (check out user comments on those printing apps!) are so annoying that my overall question remains pretty much the same.
But I could also rephrase the question: Why can't I print from the so-called best tablet office app even if I am equipped with all the apps I apparently need?
Please understand that this is not Apple-bashing in any way. This is a real problem for me in my everyday life. I won't be persuading my school to buy AirPrint printers just because of my little problem and I honestly don't want to spend more money on printing apps that seem never to even have gone through beta testing.
Still, thanks for you efforts. I guess I'll just have to wait for Microsoft Office for iPad to get that big problem solved.

I cannot print from my iPad using airport express. My printer is not AirPrint compatible but is connected to airport express thru USB port. My laptop can print with no problem thru the express unit. My lap top is no a mac.

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