How to print documents from your iPhone or iPad

We cannot deny that one of the great assets of current devices are the large amount of information that we can store. All these data can be processed, shared, although depending on each operating system there will be some more developed functions than others. In the case of Apple devices, with iOS, there is the function AirPrint, a tool that the Big Apple included 10 years ago in iOS 4 that allowed users to print documents from their terminals by connecting to their printers.

In this article we are going to teach you how to print documents from your iDevice making use of technology airprint, and in the case of not having a compatible printer, how to do it without any inconvenience.

AirPrint: a technology gone unnoticed

AirPrint is an Apple technology with which you can create high-quality printed documents without the need to download or install drivers.

If we click on the «Share» button at the bottom, if we move the bar to the right (move our finger from right to left), we find an icon of a printer. If we press it, a box appears with information that we can customize.

We will have to select our printer by pressing "to select", We wait for the iPhone or iPad to detect the printer and select it. When associated, each printer can have a number of settings: black and white, grayscale ... those printing options are independent of iOS, each one will have some options. We choose the number of copies and press "To print". And that's it!

Using this function we can print almost anything: a PDF, an image, a web page, an invoice ... as long as the tool Print is among those available when accessing the Share menu of our iDevice.

I don't have a compatible printer, what do I do?

Even if you don't have an AirPrint compatible printer or it doesn't work for some reason, quiet. First, you will have to check if your printer can create access points, that is, create a kind of Wi-Fi network to which we will connect to transfer the files so that you can print them.

The easiest way to check it is to see if in any part of your printer you find a button associated with a light next to the icon that you have right here below:

If you don't have it, probably you can't print with your printer, although today few printers do not have this function. Instead, if you have it, each company may or may not allow the printing of documents. The easiest thing is to go to the App Store and check if your printer provider (HP, Canon ...) has an application to print. These are the most common apps that will probably work for you. Each manufacturer has its application compatible with all its printers:

Many of these applications work differently, so we cannot expand on how each one works. But, as a general rule, the printer will create a Wi-Fi access point to which we will have to connect by transferring the documents we want to print through the connection.

If my printer does not support access point printing ...

So, there is only one possibility left: that your printer can print via Bluetooth connection. To check if your printer is compatible with this function, consult the manufacturer or the machine's user manual.