Nevermind, I found some re-install links. Still annoyed though :)

It appears that they discontinued FingerPrint2 and it’s now “Presto” which is a subscription based product with a $1.95 price tag. DAFAQ!? I got a new PC and went to re-download and was presented by this. Kinda annoying >:o

I think printing from iOS devices is considered the past by now, there are many products out there and my favorite for SOHOs is FingerPrint2, for one reason, because it use the installed MS Windows drivers, this means it will be able to use any installed printer, on the other hand I hate to use the apps that communicates directly to the printer, because all of them doesn’t support all printers also you don’t guarantee the printing quality.

What I’m looking for is an Android app that act as an AirPrint client to be able to print on AirPrint printers friendly or on AirPrint servers, such as FingerPrint2, please let me know if you have any idea.

Thanks

It just works if you live in a Mac-centric eco system?

Not quite. I have an completely, 100% Mac-centric eco system and AirPrint does not just work. I have both an AirPort Extreme and Express and an Epson R280 Photo printer. While I plug the printer into either AirPort and my Macs will see the printer just fine, none of my iOS devices will. Even with Printer Sharing enabled. (Which I don’t like to enable because the printer will show up multiple times on each Mac.)

I used to use AirPrint Activator. It was genius. Not perfect. I often had to restart my Mac-mini (the one Mac that is on all the time) in order for the shared printer to appear on my iOS devices, but it worked. Until Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion killed it.

Going to the website for AirPrint Activator, it is now called Handy Print. It is now a System Preference instead of an app and it can run from the Menu Bar. But that is where the good news ends. Now they want you to pay for the app.

facepalm

@ Alex:
Macs run CUPS by default, so there must be a way to get this to work natively on a Mac…

I can confirm that the free thingy floating around on the internet works great, btw, and we use it at work on a Windows 2008 R2 Server. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1293865 is a good source for it.

@ Matt`:

Heh, yes – exactly, the cheapeskate option is penny wise but pound foolish. Plus, on the iPad it is not as easy to insert a blank page in front of say website you want to print.

@ Dr. Azrael Tod:

I don’t print often, but when I do it is usually stuff like directions for a non-gps enabled relative, forms/documents that need to be snail mailed, or random stuff that I want to show to someone because I’d rather hand them a piece of paper than have them put greasy fingerprints all over my iPad or laptop keyboard.

@ IceBrain:

I shall bookmark this for later. Oh, and re buying software – I guess I’m sort of on the fence about it. For example, I don’t have a problem shelling out money for a video game because it is quite complex and the art assets and voice acting themselves are worth the price. Plus there is really no big market for open source games.

I usually don’t have a problem paying between $.99 and about $5 for a tiny mobile app, or up to $10 for a desktop tool I’m going to be using a lot – especially if it is polished and well designed even if there could be an open source alternative – because what the hell. Impulse buy.

But paying $20+ for something that could have been written by one guy over the course of a week or two is in that grey area where I start to wonder if it’s worth it, and why there isn’t a free alternative.

@ Morghan:

Hey, I got the Wifi-only model so I only paid $499. Also, retina display, so crisp, so nice… But yeah, I agree with what you are saying. It’s shit like this that annoys me about apple. They make great products and then they proceed to cripple them in small ways claiming it is for the sake of usability and whatnot.

@ wittaker25:

Yeah, that could be a solution, though a bit kludgy. For example I’m not sure if iPad can save a website to a file.

@ Zachary Sloane:

Glad I could help. :)

@ Alex:

Nice. So this means CUPS is magic. Seriously, I love how Linux is never ready for the desktop, and yet the average distro includes more useful stuff than any other OS. Install recent Ubunto on a generic Dell laptop and most of the time everything (except maybe wifi or proprietary video card) works out of the box. Install Windows and nothing does and you need to install 20+ drivers before the computer even starts being useful. But I digress.

I’ve got a Canon inkjet hooked up to an Ubuntu server running CUPS, originally for the purpose of sharing with Macs and PCs on my network. Then I noticed that it was showing up in the print menu on my iPhone and iPad. Didn’t have to do anything special, it just worked.

OMG! LUKE! Thanks for this! I never cared enough to search out software like this myself, but having a two iPhone/ one iPad household, sometimes it’s just NICE to be able to print to my NON-AirPrint printer (Dell MFP Laser). This program worked flawlessly. Can’t believe it. I will be recommending it to clients as well.

Maybe try moving to dropbox and having something watch that folder for print jobs? Never had to print stuff from my ipad :(