[X4U] Printopia for iPad

[Jerry Weldon]

I use Printopia and it works fine. My situation is similar; I have an 
HP printer directly connected to Ethernet, a Mac Pro running 10.6.8 
also connected to the network via Ethernet, and an iPad and iPhone 
connected to the same network via an AirPort Extreme.

The Mac and iOS device do need to be on the same network in order to 
see each other, as the AirPrint protocol uses Bonjour. See "Anything 
else?" on <http://www.ecamm.com/mac/printopia/faq.html>. The Mac does 
not have to have wireless capability itself (it's turned off on mine).

You said all the printers are shown in the preference pane. Are the 
checkboxes next to them checked? Mine are not all checked, but I 
don't remember if the initlal default is checked or not.

Is your AirPort Express set up for guest networking? If so, make sure 
the iPad is connecting to your primary network and not the guest 
network; otherwise, it will not be able to see the Mac.

- Jerry


At 1:12 AM +0200 on 8/31/12, you wrote:
>The iPad is networked via Wifi and an Airport Express.  Our Brother 
>printer is Ethernet connected to all the Macs.  All the printers are 
>shown in the Printopia Sys Prefs window.
>At Printopia they don't see why it shouldn't work.
>On the Printopia website <http://www.ecamm.com/mac/printopia/> is this:
>
>Whether you have an inkjet printer plugged into your Mac, a laser 
>printer plugged into your router or even a network printer, if your 
>Mac can print to it, Printopia will share it. Is your printer 
>plugged into your AirPort or Time Capsule? No problem. Printopia 
>translates for your printer, allowing it to speak to your iPhone or 
>iPad even if it's not an AirPrint-compatible printer. Printopia even 
>supports many password-protected printers.
>
>At Printopia they don't speak about the same network.  Our Mac Pro 
>has no Airport card.
>I even installed Printopia on our iMac which has an Airport card. 
>Same result.  Didn't work.
>
>Paul Moortgat
>
>
>On 31 Aug 2012, at 00:31, Wes James wrote:
>
>>  Are your mac and iPad on the same network?
>>
>>  wes
>>
>>  On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Paul Moortgat 
>><paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
>>  We bought Printopia to be able to print from an iPad 3 and use the 
>>Brother HL-1470N from the Mac Pro (10.6.8)
>>  No printer is seen on the iPad, the message is that no Airprint 
>>printer is found.  Everything looks good on the Mac.
>>  Doe anyone also use Printopia?
>>
>  > Paul Moortgat