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Here is a link that might be useful: printers-for-mac-ipad-iphone.

Thanks zep, I will have a look.
I was hoping for a personal recommendation from someone using one.

I've had good luck with HP printers for both professional and personal use. Right now I have an HP 6700 all-in-one purchased at Costco. I use the HP remote app very frequently to scan old photos and then seamlessly export to my iPad so I have a digital copy. I also have an HP PC that predates my Ipad purchase so all of the cross compatibility works well for me. I will note that when I want to print photos, I do it from the PC because I have more flexibility for photo editing/printing sizes there than from my iPad. But I am pretty sure if I wanted to look, I might find additional HP apps for the iPad that would "fix" that. But I really print out so few photos, it's not a problem to me. As with most printers, the printers are cheap compared to the ongoing expense for ink. I also buy my ink at Costco - the high capacity ones.

Forgot to mention it's wireless and probably the easiest of any printer I've had to install. It was literally minutes to install for my PC, and the iPad recognized it immediately. The fax feature was something I used quite frequently when I was working. Now I'm retired, I killed the landline we used for faxing.

Other than the need to tell a Wifi-connecting device what password and which SSID to use (if it sees more than one), the other setup setup steps of a wired vs a wireless network printer should be about the same. Unless I'm missing something.

I have always had HP and love them. Bought the 8600 all in one about 4 months ago that works great. Don't have a home phone so the wireless fax is nice. I like if I am away from home I can send something to the printer from my smart phone and use that feature a lot. Mary

I have a HP Photosmart 7520 all-in-one It works well both on the USB port and wireless; Both modes can be active at the same time. Drivers came with it for Windows and OS v10.6 Lion, and Mountain Lion ver. 12.23.

Wireless setup is easy. After its radio is turned on, it will find the router (or gateway). To connect, you key in the router's ID and encription key. To connect another computer wirelessly, install the driver on that device and supply the router ID and encription key. Any device within range of the router may connect to the printer as described above (until you run our of channels on the router).

To reduce the burden on the router, I normally turn the printer's radio off and use the USB connection from my desktop computer. Once set up, the printer's radio may be turned on anytime, and when this is done, it becomes visible to all comparible devices on the wireless WiFi system.

jemdandy, I think you have some misconceptions.

One wirelessly connected device produces no burden on a router, there's no need to switch off a radio if the device is connected and functioning as is. At times I can have 12 or more devices wirelessly connected to my network and you wouldn't know the difference. One consideration is that many wifi transceivers (routers) have a practical limitation in the mid-teens of MB throughput (like maybe 14-16 megs) and so those dozen devices can't all be streaming video before there's a slowdown or confusion. Nor would most people's Internet connections provide enough bandwidth to do that anyway. But at lower levels of sustained rates or bursts, like internet surfing, emailing, or streaming audio, there's no issue for any user, each would think they are the only one active on the network.

Keep in mind that "wifi" is nothing more than the wireless signal connection to a network, it isn't something separate. A wirelessly connected printer is the same as one connected by wire, it can be set up to be visible to all network connected devices, no matter how they are connected.