iPad won't recognise Mg8250 as an air printer

[johnip]

When I try to print wirelessly from iPad it comes back with the message "no air printer found" Is there something I need to do with the printer to make this happen.

I should probably first give a bit of background to my situation which may or may not be helpful, As well as the iPad i have a Windows 7 PC, which is wired both to the router and the printer, and a windows 8.1 laptop which has a wireless link to the same router.Wireless printing from the laptop is not a problem and works absolutely fine. Initially I thought this printer link was via the Homegroup which i had set up but, never really used apart from printing. But, following the re-install of Windows on the PC, I could not get Homegroup set up so currently neither laptop nor PC is a member of a homegroup but wireless printing from the laptop still works. So i have to conlude that the set-up is not (and probably never was) linked to Homegroups

The ipad is on the same wireless network as the laptop and the wired PC

Any ideas? 

[jrhoffman75]

Do you have this firmware update?

http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/Consumer_Products/products/Fax__Multifunctionals/InkJet/PIXMA_MG...

[johnip]

John. thanks for getting back.

I did try that download which appears to update in 3 steps. Step 1 was fine but nothing happened in step 2 and the Start key was greyed out, the only options being Cancel or Back. On looking at the info in step 2 a little closer I saw that the download was version 3.02 and that my current version was 3.03 which was presumably why the installation process was refusing to go any further.

Any other ideas?

[johnip · Accepted solution]

The printing is now working fine without me doing anything. Maybe I had just not given sufficient time for the printer come alive for air printing - this possibly takes longer than for my more usual wireless printing from the laptop.

Sorry for raising what turned out to be a non-existent problem but thanks, John, for your perfectly sensible suggestion even though this time it turned out not to be the answer.