Plug & Print

Getting started couldn’t be easier: Connect your printer and AirCastPro™3 will take care of the rest!
With AirCastPro™3’s incredibly easy setup comes a long list of powerful features and options for seasoned users.
Custom printer instances and print pools, instant borders, watermarks, built-in hotspot, wifi, and more. AirCastPro™3 is compatible with iOS®, iPad OS™, Android®, Mac®, Windows®, and Linux systems.

Power Up and Connect

AirCastPro™3 provides its own built-in hotspot with customizable network name (SSID) and password.
Internet through AirCastPro™3’s hotspot is fed through an outside wifi network, which can be accessed through the AirCastPro™3 General settings page. Ethernet is also an option available to connect to an outside network.

AirCastPro™3 print services can be made available on any of its network interfaces.

HEIPr™ v3 Engine: Warp Speed.

AirCastPro™3 has updated its ultra-fast HEIPr™ Engine to version 3.
HEIPr™ can process images from 20-30% faster than its predecessor.

The HEIPr™ Engine is responsible for adding borders, resizing and cropping images if needed, and converting a multitude of image formats into a printable format. In most cases, it is a good idea to keep HEIPr™ on.

Panoramic Printing

AircastPro™3 is the first to bring panoramic printing to iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux through the Citizen CX-02, Citizen CX-02W, DNP DS620, DNP820, and Primera IP60 printers.
Panoramic printing offers a unique product to your customers, ranging in sizes from 6x14 to 8x36.

AircastPro™3 also includes Frame Panoramic printing, giving you the ability to trim and frame the individual printed panels to create beautiful "windowed effect" photography.

USB Flash Drive Printing

Plug in your flash drive, media card, or just about any storage device. AirCastPro™3 will scan your storage device for images and automatically print them for you.

Dynamic Slideshow

Use the available HDMI port with any TV/ monitor to display your photos as you print. AirCastPro™3 also lets you connect to its built-in slideshow from any tablet, computer, or Smart TV through a web browser.

FTP Printing

AirCastPro™3 includes the ability to print via FTP. Connect your device through FTP, choose your print folder, and upload your images to print instantly.

Guest Photo Upload

Allow your guests to upload and print photos via web page. AirCastPro™3 lets you set your own upload limits for guests.

Photo Archive

Access individual photos or choose to archive all photos into a downloadable zip archive.

Hot Folders = Drag & Drop Printing

Hot folder printing is the process of copying one or more images into a designated folder, which lets AirCastPro™3 print these images.
Hot folder printing can be used with laptops as well desktop computers as well as iOS® and iPad OS® (iOS® version 13 or greater).

Your workflow may need a solution where a photographer needs to regularly download images for print or you may use a photo or imaging app that allow you to save images in a location of your choice. Either way, hot folder printing is the easiest way to move your photos from disk to prints.

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™.

Better Visual Cues. Better Workflow.

Print Queue
The Print Queue will display a thumbnail of incoming images, how many prints are in progress, what printer/print pool the image is assigned, as well as the status of each print.

Printer List
The Printer list gives you a summary of configured printers/print pools and their media levels. These new Printer list visual cues make it much easier to assess the status of your printers at-a-glance.

Need to find an earlier print? We can do that.

The Reprint Gallery will display previous print jobs, beginning with the most recent. Each image will attempt to select the printer that it assigned but will allow you to select any current printer that is configured by AirCastPro™3 as well as set the desired number of copies.

Images in the Reprint Gallery can be deleted individually or the entire Reprint Gallery can be cleared at once.

Instant Border Printing

Since the introduction of AirCastPro™, users have been able to use their own custom borders for instant border printing.
Since then, border printing was added to Printer Pooling as well. AirCast Pro™3 provides the ability to set both portrait and landscape borders.

AirCastPro™3 will attempt to detect your image's orientation and will automatically select the appropriate border. If you plan to print only one orientation, you can use the corresponding border orientation and leave the other without a border.

Overcoat Watermarking

Overcoat Watermarking is the process of using an image to "etch" itself into the finish of your print.
You've seen this done with official ID cards, advertisements, and copyrighted images. Imagine your print with its glossy finish. Now imagine "dull" areas in the finish, perhaps in the shape of your logo.
Overcoat Watermarking is subtle, most noticeable when light strikes the surface of your photo just right.

Overcoat Watermarking is available for most Citizen and DNP Printers.