Every week, someone asks for label printers with an MAC driver option.
Many individuals design labels on their MAC; and want to print directly from
their computer. But not every day, do I
get requests to print directly from an iPhone.
No label printers that I know have an AirPrint wireless option. So the question I had to determine was how to
print from an Apple iPhone to a Windows driver.
Based on a Google search, I found PrintCentral
Pro from Eurosmart: https://mobile.eurosmartz.com/products/printcentralpro.html
These guys claim to print to any network printer. So I had to see if it was possible. First, I had to download and install the
PrintCentral Pro application onto our iPhone:
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| PrintCentral Pro |
Using
this application alone, I could not get it to work. If I would have had available the CAB XC Two
Tone printer with the wireless option, https://www.cab.de/en/marking/label-printer/xc-series/, it may have printed directly.
Second, I had to install the WePrint application on the computer with the Windows driver: http://mobile.eurosmartz.com/downloads.html. WePrint runs in the background; and I configured this application to print from an email routed to the printer.
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| WePrint |
Third, I had to open the PDF as a webpage in Safari. In this situation, a GHS application was producing the label on-demand as a PDF. To open, I emailed the link containing the
PDF to myself; and then opened it up in Safari.
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| GHS Label In Safari |
Fourth, I needed to configure Safari to print via PrintCentral Pro once
the page was opened. In Safari, I had to
go to the “MORE” option at the bottom of the of the screen and toggle “PCL” to
“On”. Once on, I found a “Print with
PCL” option at the bottom of the screen.
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| PCL Print |
When I selected PCL printing, I needed to select the correct
printer. Having many different
printer drivers installed, I had to narrow down my selection as well as
configure the printer settings. As I said earlier, you may want to
test printing direct from PrintCentral Pro; and not install WePrint until
necessary. I do believe it should be possible with the
correct configuration.
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| PrintControl Pro |
Once I selected “Print”, I got a 4” x 6” formatted print output just
like the design of the PDF.
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| iPhone Printed GHS Label |
As I needed to test using an iPhone, I used PrintCentral Pro and
WePrint. If I was using my Nexus 6P, I
would have used Google Cloud Print instead.
You may want to test using Google’s application first depending on the
devices you plan to use.
Printing color labels on-demand from a mobile device to a Windows
driver should work for many yard and warehousing applications. Contact us if you need to print color labels
on-demand and on-the-fly!
Guy Mikel
855-962-7670
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