• Many printers will be immediately available and not require testing. These printers will have a green icon.

• Your iPhone/iPad needs to be connected to the same WiFi network your printer(s) is on.

 

IMPORTANT: **If multiple pages of “gibberish” or random symbols/letters print out, your printer is fine. Cancel the print job from your printer, and test out the next shape in the Print Reliably app.**

 

• Touch the “Printer Test” icon at the bottom of the Print Reliably screen.

 

• Click through the prompts, then touch the green Test button.
• Print Reliably will send a shape to your printer.
• If the correct shape printed, touch “Yes”.
• If nothing printed or random text prints, touch “No” until a shape prints.IMPORTANT: **If multiple pages of “gibberish” or random symbols/letters print out, your printer is fine. Just cancel the print job, and test out the next shape in the Print Reliably app.**

• Touch ‘Documents’ (lower left icon) and then touch the ‘+’ symbol (top right corner).

• Touch ‘OK’ to allow Print Reliably access to your photos.
• Select an image to print.
• Touch the image name on the ‘Documents’ tab to print it.
• Select the printer you wish to print to and then touch ‘Print’.

• Open the app you wish to print from (for example, Safari)
• Touch the ‘share’ button.

• Touch the ‘more’ button.

• Toggle ON ‘Print Reliably’
• Touch DONE.

**You only have to do the above steps once**

• Touch the ‘Share’ option from the Safari tool bar, then touch the Print Reliably icon

• Open the Print Reliably app,
• Touch the ‘Documents’ tab
• Then touch the document you want to print (will be named with the URL of the website you sent to Print Reliably, such as ESPN.com).
• Select the printer you wish to print to and then touch ‘Print’.

TIP: You can share things to Print Reliably even when you are NOT connected to a printer to print at a later time.

Buy the app to remove the watermark.

• Touch the ‘Upgrade’ icon at the bottom of the screen, then touch the phrase that says “Buy Now”.
• Complete the prompts to purchase.

Check to see whether your iOS device is on the same network as the printer.

Print Reliably depends on a WiFi connection to see and use your printer. The printer can be network attached and made available to WiFi.

Check whether your printer is on and connected to your network. Not all printers have direct WiFi capabilities. If your printer is not on a WiFi enabled network, you can share it from a Macintosh.

To do that:

• Make sure that your Mac is connected to the same network as your iOS device.
• Open the “System Preferences” app on your Mac, and then look at “Printers & Scanners”
• Select the printer you want to use. Make sure that “Share this printer on the network” is checked.
• From the Printer’s settings, there is a “Sharing Preferences” button— use it to go to the “Sharing” controls
  • In the window labeled “Service”, make sure “Printer Sharing” is checked.
  • In the window labeled “Printers”, make sure your printer is checked.
  • In the window labeled “Users”, make sure that “Everyone” is set to “Can Print” (this will allow anyone on your local network to print from your printer)

Test it on your printer before you buy it! The “locked” version, which prints with watermarking, is exactly the same as the unlocked version, which does not watermark.

There are thousands of printers, all a little different. We’ve tested on several hundred. Yours will probably work, but why guess when you can just try it for free?

Print Reliably can connect to printers in two ways:

Directly via WiFi as long as your printer’s manual says that it supports Wi-Fi, Wireless LAN, or any IEEE 802-11 (a,b,c,d,g,n). Every WiFi printer connects in its own way. To troubleshoot this, contact the printer’s manual.

Through a Mac: if you connect your printer to a Mac, and connect that Mac to the Wi-Fi and then share the printer on your network (see “First Steps” above on how to do this).

Make sure the printer is on and connected to your Wi-Fi network, and make sure that your iOS device is connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

Print Reliably will not work with printers shared from Windows computers using USB. Windows network attached printers are supported as long as they are connected to a WiFi router.

The printer is on a different network. Connect to the same Wi-Fi network to access that printer.

You need to test that printer. Once a successful test goes through, it will change to green.

Use extensions to give print jobs to Print Reliably. Export PDF files from Office or other apps. See instructions above.

Experiment with the “Web Screen Size” in the printing options. Many web pages change how they look in response to the size of the window they’re in.

 

OR try a screen capture.

If multiple pages of “gibberish” or random symbols/letters print out, your printer is fine. Just cancel the print job, and test out the next shape in the Print Reliably app.  Tests for formats that a particular printer doesn’t support usually just don’t print out.

If you get a printout that shows the shape of any one of the tests, that protocol works.

The hexagon format is pretty slow, usually several minutes a page. Sometimes, it’s the only option. If you send the hexagon test, and then a different one, the second test will be delayed while the hexagon is working.

It doesn’t matter, but you may want to choose whichever shape prints out the best for you.

Check the printer name. Make sure it does not say “Export to PDF”. Select the printer name you want to print to, and try again.

Yes.

If your iOS device isn’t just automatically finding and using your AirPrint printer, check out Apple’s instructions.

If Print Reliably isn’t finding your AirPrint device, first, check the WiFi connections of your iOS device and your printer. Then, use Print Reliably’s AirPrint scanner, by touching the word “AirPrint” in the top-right corner of the “Printers List” page.

Newer PIXMA printers are AirPrint-compatible; if your iOS device isn’t just automatically finding and using your AirPrint printer, check out Apple’s instructions.

If you have an older PIXMA printer, use a Mac computer connected to the PIXMA print, and share the printer over your network. Print Reliably will be able to print to it using the “X” printer test.

If you don’t have a Mac computer to use, don’t worry! A future version of Print Reliably will support the BJNP protocol.

Depending on your operating system, maybe!

Generally not.

You can install a program called CUPS on your Windows machine. If you have CUPS on your Windows computer, Print Reliably might be able to reach printers attached to it.

Export your email from Gmail to Google Docs. Export from Google Docs to Print Reliably.

Yes! Anything that can export a PDF can be printed from Print Reliably.

Print Reliably uses Safari to draw Office documents. They are not sensitive to page resolution. To change how things look: From the “Print Preview” page, look at the “Options”– change the “Web Screen Size” to a lower value.