Currently, AirPrint works seamlessly with a new generation of wireless printers from HP.
AirPrint-enabled printers:
• HP Envy e-All-in-One series (D410a)
• HP Photosmart Plus e-AiO (B210a)
• HP Photosmart Premium e-AiO (C310a)
• HP Photosmart Premium Fax e-AiO (C410a)
• HP Photosmart e-AiO (D110)
• HP Photosmart eStation (C510)
• HP LaserJet Pro M1536dnf Multifunction Printer
• HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fn Color Multifunction Printer
• HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw Color Multifunction Printer
• HP LaserJet Pro CP1525n Color Printer
• HP LaserJet Pro CP1525nw Color Printer
GadgetVenue reports, “Six new printers are launching next month that will also be AirPrint compatible. These include…”
• HP Officejet 6500A e-All-in-One
• HP Officejet 6500A Plus e-All-in-One
• HP Officejet 7500A Wide Format e-All-in-One
• HP Officejet Pro 8500A e-All-in-One
• HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus e-All-in-One
• HP Officejet Pro 8500A Premium e-All-in-One
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Canon please? Dumped HPs a long time ago.
until these things are $50 i’m not buying one. cheaper to print photos via the internet and they come out a lot better as well
Print via the internet?
How so?
Let me see if I understand this. AirPrint is NOT backwards compatible? I thought the current HP printers would be added. But if I am now understanding this, to make use of AirPrint, once has to effectively buy a new printer. Am I mistaken?
AirPrint is a joke. What use is it if it only works on a handful of printers. Apple should be ashamed.
Then again, if they still cannot co-exist with an airport extreme, I have no use for them at all. The D110 I got free with my mac is useless with any of my macs (including the iPad) since it cannot connect to the airport extreme. This lack of connectivity means that it cannot do air-print either. Total waste of time for HP to sell them through Apple. Total black eye to Apple for selling these POS printers.
get Printopia works great with any printer…..I use with my Brother 2170W
Agreed. The way Airprint works is this: the printer has an e-mail address. AirPrint sends your print job as an email to the printer. Unless the printer can read that email, it won’t be able to do anything. Long term, all printers will be this way. In the meantime, we’ll have to make do with the ones we have. And complain.
@Gomer37,
I have not heard an explanation from HP as to why they cannot update prior recent generations of wireless printers to work with Airprint. Unless a convincing one is offered, most customers will find it pretty slimy on HP’s part if they don’t. For example, Apple updates the OS on earlier generations of iPhones to the extent the hardware is compatible. HP needs to do the same.
We should expect to see AirPrint working with any printers connected to AirPort shortly.
“I have not heard an explanation from HP as to why they cannot update prior recent generations of wireless printers to work with Airprint. “
I have yet to hear any printer maker making firmware updates available for their desktop printers. I remember vaguely that some of the ‘workgroup’ (i.e. network) printers by Lexmark had some firmware updates years ago, and HP provided firmware updated for their JetDirect (network printer server interface) cards, but I never heard of of anyone ever updating a consumer or small office desktop device.
I can’t see how could these printer possibly be made compatible with technology that didn’t even exist when they came out, if firmware updates aren’t available.
…”AirPrint is a joke. What use is it if it only works on a handful of printers. Apple should be ashamed.”
How would you propose Apple solve this ‘chicken-and-egg’ problem? Which printer manufacturer do you think would be willing to invest R&D money in order to integrate technology that has yet to be made available for computing devices? In other words, in order for AirPrint to be of any use, it would need many printers to be compatible. How was Apple supposed to convince printer makers to start putting AirPrint into their printers IN ADVANCE of Apple’s own release of the tecnology??
Folks, you need to be patient. One year from now, I can guarantee you, all printer makers will be shipping AirPrint-compatible devices. This is how it goes.
If you really, really need to use your old printer, use Printopia. From what I hear, it works exactly as expected (i.e. very well).
Why is this an issue people? Get Hacktivator (bgr.com is where I found it) and use any printer including shared. My canon is plugged into my iMac and sharing is on. I can’t print from my MBP, iPhone and iPad without a hitch.
*can
Sorry.
I use Printopia on my iPhone 4 to print on my HP Laserjet 1012 and Epson RX-580 all-in-one. Printopia does cost $9.95, but I found it to be worth the expense vs. purchasing a new printer. Quit your bitching about HP (or other manufactures) not updating software/firmware and just go to the App store and get this wonderful utility. Requires IOS 4.2.1 or higher and you also install a Preference Pane on the MacOS computer (works with PPC/Intel Macs). My printers are connected to my dual 2GHz G5 which I leave on all the time (I do turn off the display when not using it).
Wow, there’s a lot of whining here.
@Original Jake
“I have not heard an explanation from HP as to why they cannot update prior recent generations of wireless printers to work with Airprint. Unless a convincing one is offered, most customers will find it pretty slimy on HP’s part if they don’t.”
How about the fact that they are updating the firmware of their printers? How can you blame HP for not having their engineers upgrade all the firmware code on day one when they’re far ahead of every other vendor?
This takes time and resources. HP is going to dedicate their resources to currently selling and future selling printers, as will other vendors.
HP does upgrade drivers for printers they don’t sell anymore, but only where they can, and where there’s significant customer demand. The incentive for this is that HP would rather that you keep using their printer and consuming their costly cartridges than buy a new printer from someone else.
AirPrint is really cool, but it’s going to take quite some time to become ubiquitous.
Just get Printopia. Far better than Hacktivator.
Printing over your own wireless network, please?!?
I know that the issue is driverless printing from a wireless device (eg. your iPhone), (as per Steve Jobs’ email reply), but come on!!! It was working fine in one of the iOS 4.2 betas!!!
Great tips, however, Safari won’t let me download the file to my Ipad. It won’t let me download google chrome or explorer. Do I have to download it to the laptop? I don’t have a mac laptop.