Overall, Printer Pro is an excellent iPad app and worth the $7 for paid version. Another ‘would be nice’ is the ability to create a print job while offline to be done as soon as the iPad connects to the selected printer (Windows itself can do this). You can setup different printer profiles to do that but it would be easier to have it on the main print options (Microsoft Office, please take note). A money saving option would be to choose Black & White/Grayscale vs Color. It would not be Office Watch without a few quibbles. Select some or all of the document and copy to the iPad clipboard then switch to Printer Pro and tap on Clipboard. Use OneDrive to ‘Open with …’ an Office document into Printer Pro. There’s no ‘Open with …’ option in Office for iPad so you can’t directly open Office documents in other apps. Microsoft Office for iPad only supports AirPrint printing and not the wider range of printing options available. Select and copy content from any app that lets you select then switch to Printer Pro, tap on Clipboard and the copied content will appear ready for printing. In the Safari browser you can send a web page to print by changing the link to p The most useful option is print from clipboard. There are on-screen instructions for printing from Mail, Web Pages and other apps detected on your iPad (in our example, Pages and Dropbox). Print previously printed documents, contacts and photos. The Printer Pro main screen has good choices for printing directly so you don’t have to use the main app first. There are choices to select the printer (which can include save to PDF), paper size, pages to print, scaling (original, fit to page, fill page), multi-pages on a sheet and copies. should work with Printer Pro via the helper programs. Any printer connected to a Windows or Mac computer via USB or network etc. Wifi is needed for the iPad to link to the local network but the printer can be either Ethernet (cable) or Wifi connected to the same local network. Note that some documentation talks about a ‘wifi printer’ which seems to imply that the printer needs have wifi connection. Would that more printer setups were as easy. Printer Pro Plus ‘saw’ the helper program running on the network, a test page came out fine and the setup was done. A quick test confirmed that Printer Pro Plus could not print directly to the networked printer so we installed the helper program on our Windows desktop computer. The setup was very smooth and easy in our tests. The latter need a free ‘helper’ program available from here. Printer Pro for iPad supports printing to network linked printers and printers shared via a Windows or Mac computer.
Office for iPad now has printing but only Airprint which leaves a lot of printers not available to iPad user, especially if they have a Windows computer.
One of the non-AirPrint options for iPad printing.
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