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I have a couple of legacy printers on a print server connected to my wifi home network. I now want to print from my iPad. All the legacy kit is pre the i revolution so air bollx won't work.
Ok, so how do I print a web page from Safari for example?
In my experience the answer to your question is -
You don't / can't
Do you have a mac on the network ? If so you can download AirPrint activator. This will let you print from the iPad/iPhone
There are several apps that let you connect to a network printer.
No macs, everything else of based. Eeeer, thanks Ben, what are they please?
The one I used was called PrintCentral 🙂
Thanks gents.
@simong. Don't really want to buy yet another print server even an i flavour one
@cougar. That's back to the o,d days using a PC as a print server. Really want something on th iPad that can work with the existing print server.
@ben. I'll take peek at that and see what it's all abaat ta.
What printers are they? Epson have their own dedicated app to print from.
One HP laser and a Canon bubble jet thingy. Neither wifi.
Picsel Smart Office 2 can print to most printers without requiring AirPrint or anything fancy.
(Doesn't help you for printing from Safari though obviously)
Really want something on th iPad that can work with the existing print server.
What existing print server?
Not immediately seeing a way of doing it directly without additional hardware, TBH. I'm no iPad expert though.
It's an ancient Lynksys Etherfast 10/100.