Airprinter

hardtimes

Am looking to buy a pressie for someone who has an iPad Air 2. He is always complaining about not having an AirPrinter.

Does anyone have any recommendations on which one to buy. He just prints letters emails etc nothing major like loads of pictures.

securityguy

My Brother printer works well for AIrprint, from a range of iDevices. I presume it's the same basic software on all Brother devices, but my J4410DW is bombproof and you can get cheap ink third party for £17 for all four cartridges. The third-party black cartridges are about 7 quid on their own, and I get about 1000 pages per black cartridge, so well under a penny a page B&W.

Mr_Toad

I think all the major print manufacturers make Airprint compatible printers

Fightsback

Alternatively if they have a PC connected to a printer then you can just install the Bonjour service followed by the Airprint service and use the existing printer:

http://tweaks.com/windows/46495/enable-ios-airprint-support-on-windows/

securityguy

You can, but that requires that the PC be running (not even asleep awaiting wake-on-LAN, but running) in order for printing to be working. That's for many people a deal-breaker.

james_smitha

What about one of these? Ipad friendly, and air print too
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B007Q4VQYC/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewopt_kywd?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=byRankDescending&pageNumber=1&filterByKeyword=ipad

joe134

this may be a daft question, but, what is an air printer?
I've posted on here,below, how do I print, full size, from my ipad air 1 ?
no reply yet, so interested in this.
I can print,the full doc,pic etc, but only a quater size of A4, the rest is blank.
Do you need an "air printer" for i-pads, not just my hp deskjet 3050A, wifi enabled.

joe134

Fightsback wrote: »

Alternatively if they have a PC connected to a printer then you can just install the Bonjour service followed by the Airprint service and use the existing printer:

http://tweaks.com/windows/46495/enable-ios-airprint-support-on-windows/

Thanks for this link, this" may" be what will suit me. but reading it,as my ipad already does print on my shared printer,is it already airprint enabled, but, how can I tweak it to full size? without bonjour,
Sorry OP for highjacking your post

james_smitha

Joe134 What you describe where the item to be printed is automatically adjusted to fit different size pages is called scaling.
It would help to know which printer you have

joe134

james_smitha wrote: »

Joe134 What you describe where the item to be printed is automatically adjusted to fit different size pages is called scaling.
It would help to know which printer you have

Hi james.thanks for reply.
I have a HP Deskjet 3050A.
If it's scaling, then my I-pad is not scaling up to A4, it's keeping it to letter size? using only a Quarter of the A4 paper;
I cannot find anything regarding Printers on the I-pad?
On Pc, you can scale etc , but on I-pad, it's just Print, unless I'm missing it.
Looked in settings.

james_smitha

***Joe134*** In the belief that you have chosen the correct paper size, have a read of this link.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/09/30/printer-pro-5-review/