#Printopia or fingerprint pdf
#Printopia or fingerprint install
#Printopia or fingerprint driver
#Printopia or fingerprint mac

The printer can be attached to the Mac via USB, or plugged to a router the important point is that the Mac must be able to ‘see’ the printer and print to it, in order for you to be able to share it with your iOS devices.

#Printopia or fingerprint install

But like other similar apps, you’ve to install it on a host Mac. Third party apps have also stepped in to bring iOS wireless printing to printers that don’t support AirPrint. Another alternative is to hope that your printer’s manufacturer would release its own app in the App Store so that you can use it as a gateway to print your documents. Still, this is a small number compared to the hundreds of printer models currently out in the market. But last we checked, there are now more than 130 printers - from the likes of Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, and Lexmark - that support it. In the beginning, only a handful of HP printers supported AirPrint. In Apple’s own words, all you need to do is to “tap print, select the printer that supports AirPrint, and print.”

#Printopia or fingerprint driver

The proposition is certainly very attractive: You don’t need to install any driver or configure a printer.

A highly anticipated feature that debuted in iOS 4.2, it allows AirPrint-enabled apps on your iOS device to wirelessly print to an AirPrint-supported printer residing on the same Wi-Fi network. In the corner of my office, on top of my filing cabinet, sits a cheap, reliable printer.Īlas, my trusty Brother laser jet doesn’t support AirPrint.If you’ve an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you might have heard of something called AirPrint.

This means even though my iPhone and iPad have the option of printing, they can’t “see” my printer and therefore can’t print to it.īut! There is a solution that doesn’t requiring buying a new printer (though it might be worth it for the toner). There are some 3rd-party applications that you can install on your Mac to enable printing from your iPhone or iPad.

These apps work by sharing the printers your Mac has access to and allowing iOS to see those printers as being AirPrint enabled. Thus bridging the gap between your iPhone and iPad and the printer. There are a few decent apps that give you this functionality (and some include more features than other). Of the options out there, Printopia is my favorite. Of the apps I tried, Printopia is clearly the best AirPrint enabler out there. The premier feature of Printopia is, obviously, that it allows me to print to my home printers. With Printopia running on my Mac, my iPhone and iPad can see my laser printer and print to it so long as my iOS device and my Mac are on the same wireless network. Tip: To print from iOS Mail, hit the “Reply” button and you’ll see the option for printing.Īdditionally, Printopia can “Print” to any folder on my Mac. Printing to a folder is just like the “Save as PDF…” options in your Mac’s print dialog box.

#Printopia or fingerprint pdf

Using Printopia to print to a folder means that whatever it is you’re printing gets saved as a PDF to that folder on your Mac. You can save it to a standard folder, a Dropbox folder, or send the file to an application (such as iPhoto, Yojimbo, Evernote, etc.)įor example, if I’m triaging email from my iPad and a receipt comes in, I can save it to the “Receipts” folder on my Mac. In addition to printing to a folder, Printopia also allows me to “print” directly to an application, such as PDFpen.Īnd, with an app like Hazel, I can set up all sorts of nerdy actions to process the files I print to my Mac. This is like taking a document on my phone and opening it in an application that’s on my Mac. Though I mostly use Printopia for printing out documents, it’s helpful to have these additional features available when I do want to use them. What was originally called Fingerprint has now been updated to Presto. Fingerprint was the first app I came across that could solve my AirPrint conundrum.