Filter News Results HP Newsroom HP Press Releases Copyright 2. HP Development Company, L. Print from your i. Phone without an Air. Print Printer. Share. Share. Share. Email. Once in a blue moon, I have to print a coupon or a letter or something. And when I do that, I use the same printer Ive been using since 2. HP Photosmart C4. Mac. Book purchase. In spite of getting this printer from the Apple Store, it does not support Air. PrintHP didnt start supporting Air. Print until the HP Photo. Smart 5. 00. 0 series I missed it by this much. Although Ill continue to pay astronomical sums for ink cartridges, for some reason I refuse to buy a new printer since this one works perfectly fine. But being unable to print from my i. Phone or i. Padsomething everyone else has been able to do since i. OS 4. 2. 1 was released in 2. Im stuck in the stone ages. So, I did some research. Full Color offers high quality photographic printing service, metal prints, stationery, photo gift items, photo albums, books, canvas prints, wood prints and more. Staples has the HP Ink Cartridge, Toner and Ribbons you need for printing in your business or home office. Shop HPs Online Store for all your computer hardware, accessories, printer needs the best deals. Free Shipping Easy Returns. Shop now. And it turns out that there a few ways to get my non Air. Print printer to print from i. OS. Check it out. Printing from i. OS to a Non Air. Print Printer. The overall concept of printing from a smartphone to a dumb printer is the same for each solution. Usb Game Edition Mini Va Jobs there. Air. Print is a feature that lets you print wirelessly to a printer without worrying about drivers or anything like that, so long as your printer supports the protocol. Hp Photo Printing Software Photosmart C4780' title='Hp Photo Printing Software Photosmart C4780' />But if Air. Print support isnt built in to your printer, you need an intermediary that can accept the incoming Air. Print request and pass it along to a connected printer. That intermediary can be a Windows, mac. OS, or Linux computer, or it can be software installed on your i. OS device. Air. Print Using CUPSCUPS used to stand for Common UNIX Printing System, but as many acronyms go, I dont think it stands for anything anymore. But what you need to know is that CUPS is a printing system that has Air. Print compatibility automatically built in. To get CUPS working with Air. Print, all you need is a Linux device that is always on and always connected to the network. For example, a network attached storage NAS or a Raspberry Pi. With my Synology Disk. Station NAS, getting up and running with CUPS was super easy. It already had all the printer drivers built in, so I didnt even need to install CUPS. I just went to Control Panel External Devices Printers and added my printer. There was a little box for Enable Apple Wireless Printing and it works like a dream. Theres even an option for Enable Google Cloud Print though I admit I havent tried it. You may have noticed that they didnt have my exact printer driver in the drop down list. The HP Photo. Smart 7. HP Photo. Smart C4. After applying these settings, I can now Air. Print to my printer from my phone, so long as my Synology Disk. Station is turned on. I imagine it would be equally as easy on a Raspberry Pi or any other Linux computer you have set up. For a Pi running Raspbian, follow the instructions for installing CUPS in Debian. If you want a detailed how to, shoot me an email or leave a comment and Ill put one together. Air. Print Using a Mac or Windows PCIf you have a non Air. Print printer that is connected to a Mac or Windows PC, you can use that computer as an intermediary for processing Air. Print jobs from your i. Phone or i. Pad. The catch youll need some third party software. Some of these apps are free ish and others are paid. They work pretty much like CUPS, and in fact, some of the Mac variants use CUPS. On a Mac, try out Handy. Print or Printopia. For Windows, try OPrint. Note that I have not used OPrint before. If you have, please let me know if you like it in the comments. Air. Print Using an i. OS App. If you dont want to have a computer or a NAS turned on all the time, you can use an i. OS app to print directly to a non Air. Print printer. I got e. Print Free working with my phone and my HP Photo. Smart printer. The free version is fairly limited in what you can print. I successfully printed a photo from my camera roll. So, you could work around the limitations by screenshotting or saving images to your camera roll then printing them from the app. Other i. OS printing apps include HP Smart, Lexmark Mobile Print, and Samsung Mobile Print. Conclusion. Air. Printing from an i. Phone or i. Pad to a non Air. Print printer is possible. The solution may not be elegant or full featured, but it can be done using software or drivers on a computer, your phone, or another network attached device. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes. If youre having trouble with your setup, leave me a comment and well see what we can come up with. Bonus Hey, if youre printing something from Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets, or Google Drive, you can use Google Cloud Print from your i. OS browser. Check out some vintage groovy. Post for the tutorial How to Print from Google Docs Mobile Using your i. Phone or Android Phone.