![]() ![]() And Printopia’s smart if I print an image, it’s treated as an image file. That means if I snap a photo, take a screenshot, or write something in Pages, I can choose to Print to Dropbox, and the file quickly shoots into the appropriate place on my Mac. So all those options appear as potential pseudo-printers on my iOS devices. In Printopia’s preference pane, I added options like Send to Dropbox, Send to Desktop, Send to Acorn-my image editor of choice-and Send to Cloud, a free service for quickly generating public links to images or snippets of text. Printopia recreates that concept, of printing to different file formats on your Mac, from your iOS device. That’s when you use the Print dialog on your box not to print a hard copy, but to “print”-and note that I’m saying the word “print” with quotation marks around it-to a PDF document that you can then email off to someone, or save, or whatever you need. You may be familiar with the notion of “Printing to PDF” on your Mac. The sole requirement is that the Mac on which you installed Printopia needs to be powered on in order for your iOS devices to see the printers.īut as I alluded to before, making your printers AirPrint-ready is at best half of the joy of using Printopia. Tap the Print button, and those printers you checked in Printopia will appear as available options for printing. Go back to your iPhone or iPad and find a document you’d like to print. Make sure the printers you want your iOS device to be able to see are checked-and your setup is complete. That might include printers connected via USB, or printers plugged into an AirPort base station that your Mac also connects to. The preference pane should find all the printers your Mac can print to. Printopia installs as a Preference Pane inside System Preferences on your Mac. Once you fall in love with Printopia like I did, it costs twenty bucks to own. What’s proved even more important to me in my daily use is that Printopia can print to files on your Mac, too-but we’ll get to that in a bit.ĭownload a free trial of Printopia from Ecamm’s website, which we’ll include in the show notes. Printopia lets you instantly share your Macs printers with your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, and send notes from your iOS devices directly to Evernote. ![]() Printopia is happy to serve you.If your Mac can print to a printer, Printopia can enable your iOS device to do so, too. Works With Leopard and PowerPC Macs - Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) and PowerPC Mac users won't get left out in the cold.Dropbox will take care of syncing your printouts for access anywhere you go. Print To Your Mac's Dropbox Folder - users can print PDF and JPG files directly to the Mac's Dropbox folder.Run Printopia on your Mac to share its printers to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. No need to waste paper next time you need to print a confirmation page. Printing from your iPhone or iPad is easier than youve ever imagined. ![]() This week’s Mac Help column doesn’t describe a problem with the Mac, specifically, though the Mac is integral to its solution.It involves a new iPad purchase, an existing Mac and printer support. This virtual printing option will save a PDF or JPG file directly to your Mac. If your old printer doesn’t work with your iPad or iPhone, you don’t need to replace it provided you have a Mac.
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