Im sure lot of iphone and ipad users must have tried printing wirelessly but have failed even after having a wireless printer at their workplace or at home.
Apple has kept its print capabilities only possible with the Airprint Printers.
Im sure they are costly so there are other solutions to get this done if you have other wireless printers.
One brilliant option I found out was Fingerprint
Finger print sits on you PC or a MAC and lets you print images, documents and webpages remotely to your wireless printer.
Here is how you can get it done:
Hardware requirements:
Apple has kept its print capabilities only possible with the Airprint Printers.
Im sure they are costly so there are other solutions to get this done if you have other wireless printers.
One brilliant option I found out was Fingerprint
Finger print sits on you PC or a MAC and lets you print images, documents and webpages remotely to your wireless printer.
Here is how you can get it done:
Hardware requirements:
- An iOS device (Obviously)
- A wireless (wi-fi) printer
- A PC or a MAC.
All you need to do is download and install Fingerprint on your MAC or a PC.
Once you are done installing, open the finger print app on you computer and you will be able to see the list of wireless printers connected to the same wi-fi network. Well, you dont have to do anything if you want to keep the default settings but if you need to change some settings like the default paper size, colour etc.. they can be changed from here.
So the final step, the print step.
Select an the photo or the document you would like to print on your iphone and select print.
The print dialog will appear and you will be able to select the printer from the list. Select the printer to which you want to print the document and alas.... You should see your printer beep and print the document/image you printed. (Please see image above)
This would definitely save some money buying a new Airprint printer but this comes with a cost itself. It costs 20$ which is still lesser than the cost of getting a new printer.
But the best part about this is that you just need to install it on one computer on the wifi network and it will work for all the iOS devices in that wi-fi network. I have installed it on my computer and there are around 70 people in my office who can see the list of printers on their iOS devices which is a pretty neat feature of this software and which makes it very cost effective too.
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