iPad as a laptop replacement

[bondr006]

I finally found something I thought I could do on the iPad, but apparently can’t. With QuickBooks Online, I went to go print out some paychecks - normally we just do direct deposit, but there was some kind of problem with that this week. There's a button that says print paychecks, which does nothing on Safari on the iPad. I went to make sure my Adblock was disabled, and pop ups are allowed, still nothing.

Fortunately, I have a Windows PC at work, and everything worked just fine with that. This is the first time I’ve had to print paychecks, so it's not a huge deal. Just thought I’d throw another drop in the bucket of some iPad web browser limitations.

Interesting. I just went to Amazon.com with Safari on my M1 iPad Pro 11 to open one of my orders. I opened the invoice, hit the print button and found my printer (HP OfficeJet 8020), and it printed the invoice with no problem.

 

[Kal Madda]

Interesting. I just went to Amazon.com with Safari on my M1 iPad Pro 11 to open one of my orders. I opened the invoice, hit the print button and found my printer (HP OfficeJet 8020), and it printed the invoice with no problem.View attachment 2481064

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Yeah, that’s been my experience with every other website as well. I’ve never had any problems with printing things from websites. Maybe it’s something wrong with QuickBook’s website?

 

[elmoss]

Interesting. I just went to Amazon.com with Safari on my M1 iPad Pro 11 to open one of my orders. I opened the invoice, hit the print button and found my printer (HP OfficeJet 8020), and it printed the invoice with no problem.View attachment 2481064

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Nice one Robert Bond

 

[sparksd]

Interesting. I just went to Amazon.com with Safari on my M1 iPad Pro 11 to open one of my orders. I opened the invoice, hit the print button and found my printer (HP OfficeJet 8020), and it printed the invoice with no problem.View attachment 2481064

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You might want to yank that pic - it's blurry but does have your name & address. You want a bunch of forum goombahs showing up at your house?

 

[xxFoxtail]

Yeah, that’s been my experience with every other website as well. I’ve never had any problems with printing things from websites. Maybe it’s something wrong with QuickBook’s website?

Interesting. I just went to Amazon.com with Safari on my M1 iPad Pro 11 to open one of my orders. I opened the invoice, hit the print button and found my printer (HP OfficeJet 8020), and it printed the invoice with no problem.View attachment 2481064

It's specifically Quickbooks Online website. On the Windows PC, it opened a pop-up window with the PDF to print. I couldn't get that pop-up window to open on the iPad (clicking the button did nothing). I have no issues printing anything else from the iPad in Safari, Mail or any other app (I print probably 20-30 pages a day from it at work).

I went back to Quickbooks just now as I’m posting this comment to try to get a screen recording of what I was trying to explain. Of course now that I try it again this morning, I'm getting a message saying "This site is attempting to open a pop-up window." Tapping Allow opens up the paycheck PDF file I had issues with yesterday. I was on a slightly different page inside Quickbooks yesterday, maybe it was just an issue on the specific website page.

I guess problem solved! 😅

 

[bondr006]

You might want to yank that pic - it's blurry but does have your name & address. You want a bunch of forum goombahs showing up at your house?

Thanks for pointing this out!🙂 Wouldn't want some "unstable mental patient" here getting ahold of my address.😉 I thought I got them all. I was tired when I posted last night but all addresses are blocked out now. As for my name, I've never hidden that, or where I'm from online. I have nothing to hide. If you hover your mouse pointer over my avatar, that info is there. I do appreciate you watching out for me @sparksd.

 

[Kal Madda]

It's specifically Quickbooks Online website. On the Windows PC, it opened a pop-up window with the PDF to print. I couldn't get that pop-up window to open on the iPad (clicking the button did nothing). I have no issues printing anything else from the iPad in Safari, Mail or any other app (I print probably 20-30 pages a day from it at work).

I went back to Quickbooks just now as I’m posting this comment to try to get a screen recording of what I was trying to explain. Of course now that I try it again this morning, I'm getting a message saying "This site is attempting to open a pop-up window." Tapping Allow opens up the paycheck PDF file I had issues with yesterday. I was on a slightly different page inside Quickbooks yesterday, maybe it was just an issue on the specific website page.


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I guess problem solved! 😅

I’m glad to hear it’s working now! 👍🏻.