Make network printer airprint printer.

[srichards]

I want to print from an ipad. You'd think with a network printer (samsung 300N) it would be really easy. Nope.

Airprint won't print to it directly even though it is on a network accessible via wifi. It's a bonjour enabled printer too.

I can use the mac laptop via wifi to print to that printer without an issue.

If I share it from my macosx desktop then it still isn't available to an ipad. That's connected to the ethernet network as I don't use wifi as I have a superhub so it's much better to use wired... is it possible to share a printer via this wireless connection only but have the computer use wired for all internet access?? I'm not sure even this would fool it.

If I use the printer pro app I can't print within applications to it unless they have the 'open in' feature which is missing from several. So that's useless. It also needs a desktop interface thingy running on the mac all the time to even print at all with this printer too.

Are there any cheap wireless routers that would allow me to plug in the samsung to it via ethernet and they would handle this airprint mishmash so that the apple devices would be fooled into thinking the printer was now an airprint printer? I have a gigabit switch upstairs where the printer is plumbed in so that could be swapped out for a wireless switch or other device to sit there.

I've never known something that should be so simple be turned into such a fight. Why does apple do this?? Normal people print things!

 

[Chappers]

If you have an Epson printer it does a couple of aps to print wirelesly from an iPad. One app connects to the Printer via WiFi , the other app allows you to print. . The first app is Epson Printer Finder, the second is Epson iPrint. So find your wireless printer via Printer Finder, then print viai Print

 

[srichards]

It's a samsung. Their mobile print thing is crap as it is just a separate app to print from not a proper air print substitute. Safari doesn't support open in feature so you have to cut and paste a url to open it in the samsung app then send it to the printer. Faff central.

I have found something called printopia which does create a proper shared airprint printer. Going to test the demo version over the week and make sure it does what I want before parting with money!