How to print a UITextField text by AirPrint

Question

i am having this code to do the AirPrint the textview text

-(IBAction)_clickbtnprintermainnote:(id)sender
{
    UIPrintInteractionController *print = [UIPrintInteractionController sharedPrintController];

    print.delegate = self;
    UIPrintInfo *printInfo = [UIPrintInfo printInfo];
    printInfo.outputType = UIPrintInfoOutputGeneral;
    printInfo.jobName =@"Nots of MyBibleApp";
    printInfo.duplex = UIPrintInfoDuplexLongEdge;
    print.printInfo = printInfo;
    print.showsPageRange = YES;
    print.printingItem = _txtmainnote.text;

    void (^completionHandler)(UIPrintInteractionController *,BOOL, NSError *) = ^(UIPrintInteractionController *print,BOOL completed, NSError *error) {
        if (!completed && error) {
            NSLog(@"houston we have a problem");
        }
    };
    [print presentAnimated:YES completionHandler:completionHandler];
}

but i didn't get any popup for printer option like the default pinter option in iPad.am not using a bar button,i have a UIbutton.how to do this correctly,is there any mistake in my code?._txtmainnote is my textview.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

From this, the printingItem:

The object must be an instance of the NSURL, NSData, UIImage, or ALAsset class.

so probably you have to pass something like:

NSData* data=[_txtmainnote.text dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
print.printingItem = data;