What's the trick to get the iPad to print to the HP OfficeJetJ4680c?

nospam wrote, on Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:50:44 -0400:

what's a kludge is what mac and windows do, with hundreds of different
printer drivers. eliminating that nonsense an advancement.

You seem to understand the Apple/Android printing model.

On the one hand, on Windows/Linux/Mac, each *printer* has its own
driver (although so-called "universal" drivers do exist), and, once
you install that specific printer-specific driver, then *any* app,
that can display the document on the computer, can then print that
document, to that printer.

As long as the printer is "on the network" (wired or wireless),
you can then print the document to that printer.

I don't fully understand Android/iOS (except that, for the most
part, they don't work), but you seem to understand their model
better than I do.

Are you saying that, on Android/iOS, there is a single printer
driver, which is the "cloud"?

And then, from the cloud, you print, wired or wirelessly, to
the printer?