This is a real solution that a lot of people will find very helpful I'm going
to go order one this morning as I refused to buy a new printer when I have a
new one that I just bought last year so this is great news
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From: Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <[email protected]>
Date: February 9, 2013, 3:04:30 PM CST
To: The Accessible Phones Discussion List <[email protected]>
Subject: Now you can print, easily, to a none AirPrint enabled printer.
Reply-To: The Accessible Phones Discussion List <[email protected]>
Hi All,
I'm sure there are many of you out there who wish you could easily print to
your printers direct from your iOS devices, but, you lack an AirPrint printer…
I've been in this position since Apple released AirPrint enabled printers,
having a large HP laser office grade printer here, there was no way I was
shelling out hundreds of pounds to buy a new printer just for that feature. No
matter how much I knew it would be of use etc.
Anyway, I thought I'd share with you all a fantastic little device I bought a
month ago now which has solved everything for me.
Its called X-Print Server and comes in two flavours, home and office edition. I
bought the Home edition as I only have the one printer here, but, do bear in
mind that the home version will do more than one printer.
The device itself is very small, about a third of the size of an iPHone, has a
USB slot and an ether net socket on it. Plus a mains socket for providing power.
The beauty of this device is its complete simplicity. Plug in the ether net
lead and power if you have a network connected printer, if you only have a USB
one, plug in the ether net,, power and USB lead to your printer.
The ether net connects to your switch or internet connection providers hub.
Now this device auto discovers printers on the network, then downloads the
latest drivers for them and that's it, once this initial fully automatic
operation completes, took about a minute for me, your printer will appear
within the print options when you press print on your iOS devices.
This worked a complete charm for me, my HP CM2320 MFP FXI appeared instantly on
all my iOS devices and printing works exactly as you'd hope.
A few things to bear in mind, you may wish to assign your network printer a
static IP if you are using a network printer, as that will avoid any issues
down the road if your printer changes IP for whatever reason.
I cannot rate this product more highly, and its better still folks. The home
edition model is US$99, I live in the UK and got my shipping free of charge,
how, by using the below promotion code. This code is good for mainland US and
Canada so the store states, however, when I was at the check out stage, I typed
it in, free shipping land option appeared, I did not change the pull down to
any of the international options, just left it as land US and continued.
Even though at that stage the cart system knew I was in the UK, it did not
charge, nor did the company contact me to charge more for shipping. So I got my
unit for the equivalent of £54.
The promotion code to use is: TWIT and credit to this code goes to the
wonderful TWIT podcast network offering a high quality range of technology
related podcasts for all flavours of tech fan.
If you'd like to know more visit: www.xprintserver.com
Hope this helps some of you out there.
Regards.
Regards,
Neil Barnfather
Talks List Administrator
Twitter @neilbarnfather
TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS,
Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your
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