Plug & Print

Getting started couldn’t be easier: Connect your printer and AirCastPro™ II Express will take care of the rest!
With AirCastPro™ II Express' 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™ II Express is compatible with iOS®, iPad OS™, Android®, Mac®, Windows®, and Linux systems.

Power Up and Connect

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

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

HEIPr™ Engine: Warp Speed.

AirCastPro™ II Express has replaced its already fast imaging engine with the brand-new, ultra-fast HEIPr™ Engine.
HEIPr™ can process images from two times faster with smaller images and as much as twenty-five times faster for very large images 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.

Hot Folders = Drag & Drop Printing

Hot folder printing is the process of copying one or more images into a designated folder, which lets AirCastPro™ II Express 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™ II Express.

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™ II Express 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™II provides the ability to set both portrait and landscape borders.

AirCastPro™ II Express 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.