AirPrint now supports more than 200 printers

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AirPrint now supports more than 200 printers

14 May 2012 3,092 views 5 Comments

apple officially support 200 plus printers but netputing's AirPrint activator extends compatibility to hundreds of other printer models

In November 2011, Apple let it be known that its AirPrint wireless — iPhone, iPod touch and iPad to Mac — printing technology was supported by more than 100 printer models from HP, Epson, Canon and Lexmark. Fast forward a few and Brother has jumped on board and the printer total now tops 200, cool.

Compatible idevices: Any iPad, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPhone 4, iPod touch (4th generation), iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.2.x or higher

To get the full official list of printers, see Apple’s AirPrint 101 page.

Don’t see yours?

Easily the dodgiest piece of equipment in my office is the multifunction printer and the one I currently own, a Kodak 5300, is the best printer I’ve ever owned.

That said, my Kodak AIO isn’t officially supported by AirPrint yet my family and I can print from our two Macs, two iPod touches, iPad and iPhone, and it’s all due to NetPuting’s AirPrint Activator. This free and completely trouble free OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion compatible) System Preference Pane installs in a flash and, well, it just works.

If you have a printer that doesn’t officially support AirPrint, you owe it to yourself to check out AirPrint Activator…

What’s your take?

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5 Comments »

Lantz said:

I’ve used Brothers printers and MFC devices for many years. Their Mac driver support was great. When we bought an iPad 2 I was shocked to find out they still did not support the iPad with AirPrint. I wrote a letter letting them know my grief and that it forced me to buy an HP. My Brother MFC 7840 wireless laser has been such a great printer and hopefully with this good news it will be supported. The HP Envy is a great printer for the iPad.

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