As long as your computer remains on, the Printopia service is turned ON. You can disable printing at any time by sliding the switch in the Printopia preferences to OFF. However, in this tutorial, we’ll simply focus on using the printer functionality of Printopia. If you have Dropbox or Evernote installed on your system, they’ll appear in the devices list as well. Unchecking the devices or applications that interact with Printopia will disable them and keep them from appearing on the iOS printer list. All of your available printers will appear in the devices list.
You can always get back to it by going to Apple menu | System Preferences… | Printopia.Īfter you install Printopia, the service will startup, and you’ll see Sharing for the status message ( Figure A). This will install the Printopia application as a System Preference Pane. Once it’s downloaded, unzip the download, open the folder, and double-click the Install Printopia file. To do this, download the installer from the Ecamm web site (there is a free trial that you can use). The first step towards printing to any printer on your local network is to install the Printopia software onto your Mac. It does essentially the same thing as Printopia (without Dropbox and Evernote support), but it requires a subscription fee to use the software. If you use Windows, then you can download and use a piece of software from Collobos called Presto. Printopia also provides additional functionality, such as the ability to share your printed content via your Mac, Dropbox, and even Evernote instead of printing onto physical paper. This software will allow your iOS devices to see and talk with the available wired and wireless printers connected to your local network and local machine. iOS device and apps capable of printingįor this to work, we’ll be using a piece of software called Printopia.Printopia from Ecamm ($19.95 USD free trial available).
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