My MX410 has been working well for several years, printing wirelessly from a Windows laptop and sending and receiving FAXes. But now my laptop is getting finicky, and I'd like to be able to print from my iPad. I understand that the MX410 does not have Airprint, so the iPad cannot print directly to it by default.
However, I found an iOS/iPad app called Printer Pro from Readdle, Inc, that supports printing directly to Bonjour printers that do not support Airprint. The app works perfectly with several older HP printers I have at home that do not support Airprint.
But trying to set it up for the MX410 I ran into trouble. The app properly detects the MX410 on the network as a Bonjour printer, just as it did for my old HP printers. But when I try to print a test page in the setup, the printer does nothing (with the HP printers, the test page printed right away, and I just had to adjust the printable area). But when I report to the app that nothing printed, it brings up a page requesting the printer language understood by the printer. It displays a fairly long list of possible printer languages, and I tried each of them (I think) and none of them worked. The list includes the following entries and a number of others (I don't have access to the printer at the moment and I didn't capture the list):
- ESC/P
- ESC/Page
- LIPS
- PCL
- PS
I called technical support, and Brandon in support seemed somewhat unfamiliar with what I meant by printer language. He gave me the following list of acronyms he said applied to the MX410 interfaces, but I don't recognize any of them as printer languages:
- BIP
- OPP
- SPP
- HCRP
I can get the complete list of printer language choices from the app in the next day or two and post that, but I was wondering if anyone here knows what language(s) the MX410 uses (and/or if it's possible to specify what language it should use, I know some Epsom printers give a choice of PostScript or PCL). It is quite a slow process to choose a language to try and wait to see if it works for the app; trying a language displays a busy spinner and you never know if it's just taking a long time or if it's never coming back. So it's possible that one of the choices would have worked if I'd been more patient. So I thought it would be a good idea to try to find out what the correct choice would be.
Any help appreciated! Anybody have experience using this app with the MX410?