The feature that sold me was the ability to print PDF files to my Mac or Dropbox. I personally went with another AirPrint tool on my Mac - eCamm Printopia (US$9.99). German website has the details on AirPrint Activator for Windows. There's also a Windows version available. We're reaching out to Netputing to clear this up. Reader Ken points out that the controversial Apple-authored files are still present in the package for version 1.7 of the Hacktivator, although they should not be required for it to work at this point. The release notes for this latest version of AirPrint Hacktivator include the following text - "No Apple files are redistributed nor installed by the latest version." This answers a common question about the legality of all such AirPrint hacks for at least the Mac version, this application seems to be entirely legal. While early builds of the Hacktivator did depend on a handful of files from pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.6.5, the app now uses a different technique for turning the printing pipe back on. The AirPrint Hacktivator page has a short video that demonstrates how to share a printer if you've never done it before. Any shared printer will now show up in the AirPrint dialog on your iOS device. It's a simple, non-Terminal way to fool your iPad or iPhone into thinking that your shared printer just happens to be one of those HP ePrint printers that work seamlessly with AirPrint.ĭownload the installer from the link above, unzip it, run it and then slide the toggle switch to "On." Enter your Mac's administrator password to allow AirPrint Hacktivator to make some changes, and then you're done. You can easily install it on your Mac and be printing like a maniac from your iOS 4.2 device in minutes. What can you do to make your iOS user experience complete?Īs Mike noted in his AirPrint roundup last week, Netputing took note of the re-enabling process that Chris posted about and created a little hack called AirPrint Hacktivator (which now uses a different method than it did originally, see below). anything, but that printer hooked up to your Mac doesn't show up in the list of available devices. You've updated your iPad and iPhone to iOS 4.2, and you want to print something.