ePRINT MOBILE DRIVER User Guide
ePrint Mobile Driver User Guide
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Table of contents 1 Product basics .................................................................................................................. 1 HP ePrint overview ................................................................................................................... 2 HP ePrint Mobile Driver introduction ........................................................................................... 3 Supported operating systems ...............................................................
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1 ENWW Product basics ● HP ePrint overview ● HP ePrint Mobile Driver introduction ● Supported operating systems ● Supported products 1
HP ePrint overview HP ePrint is a free service from HP that enables printing from any device that is connected to the web, such as a phone or a computer, to any HP ePrint web-connected product. The HP ePrint solution makes location irrelevant. HP ePrint lets you print from virtually anywhere to an HP product that supports HP's ePrint. Print jobs are sent from the device through the Internet direct to your ePrint-enabled product via HP's ePrintCenter.com. Use ePrintCenter.
HP ePrint Mobile Driver introduction The HP ePrint Mobile Driver makes it easy to print from a desktop or laptop computer to any HP ePrintcapable product. After installing the driver, all you need to do is click File and Print from within your application, and then select HP ePrint Mobile from the installed printers list. This single driver makes it easy to find HP ePrint-enabled products registered to your ePrintCenter account.
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2 Set up HP ePrint Mobile To enable the ePrint print paths using HP ePrint with the HP ePrint Mobile Driver requires that you: ● Configure changes to your ePrint product ● Add your ePrint product to ePrintCenter.com ● Register the HP ePrint Mobile Driver on the Windows or Mac host These steps enable authorized access for sending print jobs from the ePrint Mobile Driver through ePrintCenter.com to your ePrintCenter.
Set up your HP ePrint product 1. Confirm your product is HP ePrint capable. Go to http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/ePrint-PrintApps-Mobile/ePrint-and-Print-App-supported-printers/td-p/351574. 2. Using the product’s control panel or embedded web server, you can enable HP ePrint capability using the HP Web Services settings for your ePrint-capable product.
Register the HP ePrint Mobile Driver Registering the driver to the Windows or Mac computer is required for the HP ePrint Mobile Driver to send print jobs from your print client, into your ePrintCenter.com account, to an HP ePrint enabled product registered to ePrintCenter.com. For direct IP printing from a Windows client over the local area network to a supported PostScript device, ePrintCenter.com registration is not required and is therefore optional if web-based printing is not required.
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3 Windows printing The following steps assume you have already installed HP ePrint Mobile Driver and registered the HP ePrint Mobile Driver to the system using the ePrintCenter.com-supplied PIN. 1. From an application, click File, click Print, and then select HP ePrint Mobile from the installed printers. Click the Print button to open the HP ePrint Mobile user interface. 2. Products must be added to the Printers list before the HP ePrint Mobile Driver can send a print job.
4. Select the target product to send the print job to. Apply optional settings required for the print job. Click the Print button to send the print job. 5. HP ePrint jobs display the print job status in a popup window launched from the Windows taskbar. If the target print path was a web-connected product, you can view job status and history after logging in to ePrintCenter.com. NOTE: Status popups do no apply to network print jobs sent to the product by using direct IP printing.
4 Macintosh printing The ePrint Mobile Driver for Mac only supports web-connected print paths to an ePrint product registered to ePrintcenter.com. The following steps assume you have already registered the HP ePrint Mobile Driver for the Mac system. 1. From an application, click File, and then click Print. 2. Click the PDF button, and then click HP ePrint. The HP ePrint Registration screen appears if the ePrint Mobile has not been registered to the system. 3.
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5 Security Security in the solution involves the following three elements, which are not discussed in detail, but outlined for reference.
HP ePrint product Administration of settings that change or enable ePrint requires physical or network access to the product. To use the full capabilities of an HP ePrint product, consult the ePrint documentation for a complete explanation of settings and management options to enable ePrint.
Everyone: Any installed host with the ePrint Mobile Driver installed email address can send print jobs to the product. The user must enter the product's assigned code (email address) into the ePrint Mobile Driver's user interface before the product can be selected for print jobs. ● Names added to the allowed senders list can be added or removed at any time by the owner of the ePrintCenter account.
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6 ENWW Frequently Asked Questions Question Answer Is there an x32 and x64 version architecture for the Window ePrint Mobile Driver? Yes. The single file download contains both architecture versions, and based on detection at install time the proper architecture will be installed onto the target host.
18 Question Answer How is using the HP ePrint Mobile Driver different from sending an ePrint print job via email to my HP ePrint enabled product? The key difference is driverless versus driver-based printing. The HP ePrint Mobile Driver advantage is it behaves like most other print drivers, which by comparison to emailing print jobs offers the following advantages: ● Print from any application, allowing printing of any file or document type sent by the application.
Question Answer Can HP ePrint Mobile be installed via Point and Print? HP ePrint Mobile is not supported for PnP installs, by design. However, using Microsoft settings/tools, it is possible to share installed hp ePrint Mobile print queue. When a host connects to the shared queue it will not work, and displays the errors “Failed to open [ipaddress/hostname], retrying” or “Operation could not be completed.
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