While only three HP devices were qualified for AirPrint when the 4.2 update was announced earlier this year, that roster has expanded considerably - HP now lists seven compatible printers, five that can be made compatible if updated to current firmware, and six more that will be compatible as of December 27 pending an unreleased firmware update. That's different from how AirPrint works under the hood it leverages Apple's mDNS stack (originally called Rendezvous and now known as Bonjour) to locate and spool to printers on the local network. ePrint gives your printer a unique email address, and you or your application can email PDF files to that address so the printer can spit them out for you. Let's take a quick look at what's in the 'vanilla' version of AirPrint, then move on to the expanded remix edition.Īs delivered, AirPrint will work to send print jobs from select apps on your iPhone or iPad to a limited number of HP printers that support the ePrint standard. The universal shared printer solution for iPhone and iPad was kneecapped in late builds of Mac OS X 10.6.5 for reasons yet to be revealed, and the result is that a big-ticket feature has shipped with very little real-world applicability - at least, out of the box.įortunately, if you're willing to do a little bit of finagling or lay out a small amount of cash, you can quickly gain back the AirPrint functionality you were promised, and more. If AirPlay's first-generation limitations have disappointed a lot of would-be iPhone video mavens who had dreamed of quickly sharing their clips to the big screen, you can just imagine how irate everyone is about AirPrint.
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