When iOS 4.2 brought up the airprint to wireless printing from iPad to your mac printer, Airprint that has been introduced with the latest version of IOS, originally intended to work through shared printers connected to your Mac and Windows as well. There I found a really tricky tips that you should try this on your iPad, so this is a complete step by step to install airprint and to enable you to make a wireless printing on windows 7, vista, or XP. Stay tune on Daily Gadget Tips !!
iPad Airprint on Windows
iPad Airprint
Here are 8 Steps to Enable Airprint Wireless Printing on Windows 7, Vista, Xp
Step 1: You will need the latest version of iTunes on your Windows system. If you do not have it installed yet, download iTunes 10.1 before proceeding at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/.
Step 2: Click here to download the file AirPrint. Extract the zip version to a folder called ‘AirPrint’ on your desktop. This folder will contain three files – airprint.exe, libairprint.dll and Xpdfprint.dll
Step 3: If you are in the 32-bit computer, move this folder from the desktop to “C: \ Program Files \”. Users on 64-bit computers will have to move a folder rather than to “C: \ Program Files (x86) \”
Step 4: From the desktop screen, go to Start -> Run and type CMD. Press the button again to resume
Step 5: Enter the following command in the command window that appears. Please Note: Enter the command as-is. Remember to insert a space after the ‘=’ symbol.
32-bit Windows
* sc.exe make BINPATH AirPrint = “C: \ Program Files \ AirPrint \ airprint.exe-s” depends = “Bonjour Service” start = auto
* sc.exe began AirPrint
64-bit Windows
* sc.exe make BINPATH AirPrint = “C: \ Program Files (x86) \ AirPrint \ airprint.exe-s” depends = “Bonjour Service” start = auto
* sc.exe began AirPrint
Step 6: Application airprint.exe now be launched. If you are prompted by Windows Firewall, choose to ‘block’ application
Step 7: Configure the printer settings that are set to Shared mode on both the printer settings and the network settings
Step 8: You will be prompted for user ID admin and password the first time you start AirPrint from your iDevice. Enter the mandate to enable wireless printing.
Done. You should be able to print from the iPhone, iPad via AirPrint for each printer connected to your Windows PC. Please let us know how the process goes in comments below.
Here are 8 Steps to Enable Airprint Wireless Printing on Windows 7, Vista, Xp
Step 1: You will need the latest version of iTunes on your Windows system. If you do not have it installed yet, download iTunes 10.1 before proceeding at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/.
Step 2: Click here to download the file AirPrint. Extract the zip version to a folder called ‘AirPrint’ on your desktop. This folder will contain three files – airprint.exe, libairprint.dll and Xpdfprint.dll
Step 3: If you are in the 32-bit computer, move this folder from the desktop to “C: \ Program Files \”. Users on 64-bit computers will have to move a folder rather than to “C: \ Program Files (x86) \”
Step 4: From the desktop screen, go to Start -> Run and type CMD. Press the button again to resume
Step 5: Enter the following command in the command window that appears. Please Note: Enter the command as-is. Remember to insert a space after the ‘=’ symbol.
32-bit Windows
* sc.exe make BINPATH AirPrint = “C: \ Program Files \ AirPrint \ airprint.exe-s” depends = “Bonjour Service” start = auto
* sc.exe began AirPrint
64-bit Windows
* sc.exe make BINPATH AirPrint = “C: \ Program Files (x86) \ AirPrint \ airprint.exe-s” depends = “Bonjour Service” start = auto
* sc.exe began AirPrint
Step 6: Application airprint.exe now be launched. If you are prompted by Windows Firewall, choose to ‘block’ application
Step 7: Configure the printer settings that are set to Shared mode on both the printer settings and the network settings
Step 8: You will be prompted for user ID admin and password the first time you start AirPrint from your iDevice. Enter the mandate to enable wireless printing.
Done. You should be able to print from the iPhone, iPad via AirPrint for each printer connected to your Windows PC. Please let us know how the process goes in comments below.
