Printopia Manual

Printopia® User Manual System Requirements -Mac OS X 10.5 or newer -An iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch that supports AirPrint -iOS 4.2 or newer Quick Start Double-click "Install Printopia" to get started. Available printers and Printopia virtual printers are automatically enabled for sharing via AirPrint. Your iPad and iPhone can now print to them. Sharing Printers Printopia's settings screen lives in System Preferences: Local and Network Printers Printopia allows you to share any printer already configured on your Mac. To enable or disable a printer, select the checkbox to the left of the printer in the Printopia settings screen. Once shared, it will be visible to supported iPhone and iPad devices in the Print options screen. Printer Configuration To select printer configurations such as page size and print quality double-click a printer. You'll be presented with all available settings for the given printer. These settings will be used when printing from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. "Send to Mac" Virtual Printer This feature allows you to send a print job directly to your Mac as a PDF or image file. This saves paper, and can come in handy when you’d like to quickly and easily transfer something to your Mac. When you send a document to your Mac with this feature, it will pop up on the screen as soon as it’s received. The files are saved in your home directory, in your Documents/Printopia folder. "Send to Dropbox on Mac" Virtual Printer This feature allows you to send a print job to Dropbox for instant synchronization with your other computers running Dropbox. This requires having Dropbox installed. Adding Virtual Printers Add custom virtual printers by clicking the + button. You may choose to save print jobs to a folder, send directly to an application or send to a PDF Workflow. Double-click the printer to change the name or save location. Password Setup To add password protection to a printer or virtual printer, select the printer and choose "Setup Password…" from the settings ( ) menu. You may assign a username and password to multiple printers simultaneously by selecting the desired printers. (Hold down the shift key to select multiple items.) Note that if a printer already has a password assigned to it via a print server or Printer Sharing from another Mac, you cannot change the assigned password using Printopia. Installation and Removal Installation To install, double-click the Install Printopia icon. Removal To uninstall, open the System Preferences main screen, right-click (or control-click) on the Printopia icon, and select “Remove Printopia Preference Pane”. Troubleshooting If you’re running into trouble, here are some simple steps to try. Important first steps: 1) Make sure that you have the latest version of Printopia. To check your Printopia version, look for the version number in the preference pane, below the Printopia logo. Registered users can click "Check For Update" to obt…