Hi Paul, that's very handy! thanks for sharing. Cheers, Donna On May 15, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
> Hi listers, > > I'm glad I can share something back, now that I received so much good help > over time from this list. > > You can print from your iphone. I think you will have seen this already. You > sometimes find an action button, for example while viewing a document from > within mail etc, and then you have the print button. However, this does not > work with normal printers, except with eleven or so dedicated models, because > of an Apple restriction. > > Well, no more. Yesterday I printed off several documents from my phone, to a > normal, non supported airprint printer. And it works like a charm. What you > need is an iphone, a mac, and a printer attached to the mac. As long as you > share the printer on your mac, the iphone can see it if you want. > > There's a program for Lion and sn, called airprint activator. Just google it. > If you happen to find airprint hactivator, so with an h at the start, then > that is the older version and there is a newer one out there, without the h, > called airprint activator, with an ay, as in alpha, at the start. This little > utility is free, and it does not want to alter system files in any way, so > installing it won't ask your admin password on the mac. It only adds one or 2 > lines to some config file, I forgot where that is, but it is documented if > you're curious. > > Once you find airprint activator on google, download it. You will then have a > dmg. You don't need to copy stuff out of there. Just open the dmg, set it to > list mode if yu want, and then run the airprint activator installer app. Then > close your disk image, and eject it from your desktop. > > From now on, you will have a new item inside system preferences for > airprinting. What I did not do right the first time, was enable AirPrint > activation. It's 2 labels with a toggle button in between. From what follows > later on the screen, you can see if this switch is then on or off. Once you > turn the switch to on, it works. If you have not already done so, share your > printer. It will then appear in a grayed out table inside the preference pane > for airprint activator, so you know which printer is being advertised on your > local lan wifi. The table of advertised printers is gray because the utility > itself decides if you have your printer shared correctly. If so, it appears > in the table. If not, then sharing is the problem. So you cannot add or > delete printers from the airprin utility yourself. > > Now to print from your phone, leave your mac running and have your printer > turned on. From the phone, find a print button for some document. Hit it, and > a new little dialog comes up, where the first button lets you choose to which > printer to print. Double tap it and choose your, mac connected shared printer > on the phone. You will return to the print dialog in the phone, where ok will > send the document over wifi to your shared mac printer. > > Not a revolution, but handy to know and have. I donated immediately after I > found the program to work so well. In our household, it is a much appreciated > little tool. > > Hth, > Paul. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
