Airprint

Air Print was made by HP in conjunction with Apple as a way of printing from an iOS device (iPad & iPhone NOT Macbooks)over wireless as there are no drivers present. But I wouldnt be surprised if you can share a driver from a windows PC/MacOS device

Check out these guys, they make a very cool print server type device for iOS

http://www.lantronix.com/

jswinberlin,

EFI has a cool Mobile Printme app that can make any printer (not just an EFI rip) an Airprint printer (Doesn't require Postscript).

It's limitation is that if you can see the printer (IE. you can get on their wireless network) you can print to the printer that you set up. If you need a contact at EFI, let me know and I will hook you up.

I am also very excited about Canon's UniFLOW's "Secure Mobile Printing" That can be set up so that if you are a known user you can print, and if you are unknown, you can't print. It can also be set up to allow "guest" to print even if they don't exist in your Active Directory. Pretty cool stuff, but you have to sell Canon and UniFLOW.

Vince

Thanks guys! Kiwispike, have you used the lantronix device? It does look cool, I might have to get one and try it out.

The new GW+ controller should support this, anyone who knows how to make it work?

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Originally posted by jswinberlin:
Thanks guys! Kiwispike, have you used the lantronix device? It does look cool, I might have to get one and try it out.

Unfortunately no, I actually had a customer ask if we could supply it so am considering it but we would typically use an email based technology like ePrint or Pharos as its more device agnostic. I just cant see many sites being iOS exclusive

Ricoh tells us that this feature will not be available until a firmware update has been issued

couple of items here, it's my understanding that the new "istyle" devices (anything with a "2" as the lasy digit in the model number) will accomodate air print, however the system does need pdf print direct and PSIII module. I'm trying to reverify this as I write this.

This is for Kiwispike: If you use the lantronix print server do you still need to have a ps module in the device?

Thanx

Art

Should work even without ps3, bur it needs new Firmware, not released yet