Set Up and Print in Minutes

AirCastPro™ allows you to utilize printers from your iOS® device that would not otherwise be accessible. Setup and configuration is easy– connect your printer(s), power it up, and connect to the “AirCastPro” wifi hotspot. AirCastPro™ can be remotely configured with any computer, phone, or tablet that can use a modern web browser.
Your AirCastPro™ comes with a 5v micro USB power supply. Plug the micro USB end into the AirCastPro™ unit. There is no power switch on the unit itself and will power on once it is plugged in.

Power Up and Connect

Once you have powered your AirCastPro™ unit, its hotspot broadcast should be detectable after about 30 seconds after powering the unit on. Use the device of your choice to connect to your AirCastPro™ unit and look for the “AirCastPro” hotspot in your wifi connection setup:
SSID: AirCastPro
Once connected, use a web browser to go to this address:
AirCastPro.local
The AirCastPro™ landing page provides two links:
Administration Link: Access to AirCastPro™ settings
Documentation Link: Access to the html version of this guide

Printers: Plug, Power Up

AirCastPro™ will attempt to detect your printer. Locate and select your printer from the discovery list. Setting up a network printer is identical to a USB connected printer.
Make sure you have connected your printer to your AirCastPro™ unit and have the printer turned on. Use the plus (+) button below the “Printers and Pools” listbox to discover and set up your printer. You will need to select the proper driver for your printer.
AirCastPro™ will try to narrow the list of drivers. Some printers provide limited information and can make it more difficult to automatically detect the correct driver. If AirCastPro™ does not list the correct driver for your printer, use the “show all drivers” link to browse a list of all available drivers.
Select the driver for your printer and press the continue button.
Next, you can set your printer’s options, such as paper size, color correction, and other printer specific options by using the two pop-up menus provided.
Once you select and set your printer’s option, press the finish button. Your printer should now show in the “Printers and Pools” list, ready for use.

Print Pools:
High Volume with Ease

A Printer Pool is a collection or grouping of printers that work together to expedite print jobs as quickly and efficiently as possible through a process called load balancing.
When printing to a pool, the print will be automatically sent to a printer that is available or has the least amount of jobs in its queue. A Printer Pool will also redirect jobs away from a printer that has stopped because of an error (paper jam, out of paper, etc), keeping your workflow moving.

A Printer Pool will look and act just like a normal printer to your application. Even though a printer may be part of a Printer Pool, you can still select and use any printer outside of the pool.
You can add any printer to a pool; it does not need to be the same make or model as other printers in the pool. You should, however, be sure that your printers in a pool are set to the same page output (print size). The first printer added to a pool should be the fastest of your printers– it will receive priority over other printers in your pool.
Creating a Printer Pool requires at least one printer set up in AirCastPro™.

Tailor AirCastPro™ to Your Workflow

Wireless Hotspot
You can change the SSID (hotspot name) and the password. To change the hotspot SSID or password, press the edit icon and make the changes to your hotspot in the Hotspot Name and Password window. You will need to reboot your AirCastPro™ unit for changes to take effect.

mDNS/Bonjour®
AirCastPro™ complies with mDNS/Bonjour® standards, allowing you to easily find and connect to the AirCastPro™ unit on your network. By default, AirCastPro™ will broadcast its address as “AirCastPro.local”. This is much easier to remember than an IP address– you can still connect directly by using IP address if you wish– and unlike an an IP address assigned by your router, will not change. Just like the SSID name, you can change the mDNS name to whatever you wish.

AirCastPro™ Demo

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