Check out Printopia at    http://www.ecamm.com/mac/printopia/

I've used it with my iPhone and iPad and it is great, about $20.00

This is a concise statement from their website:

Whether you have an inkjet printer plugged into your Mac, a laser printer plugged into your router or even a network printer, if your Mac can print to it, Printopia will share it. Is your printer plugged into your AirPort or Time Capsule? No problem. Printopia translates for your printer, allowing it to speak to your iPhone or iPad even if it's not an AirPrint-compatible printer. Printopia even supports many password-protected printers.

Susie

One observation; though not on a 'small' printer.  We carried for several
years an integrated Epson printer/scanner.  But due to infrequent use we
found that when we wanted to print something it took upwards of half an ink
cartridge to 'clean' the heads so it would actually print w/o skipping...

We changed it out for a small laser printer.  Black-n-white with no scanner,
but does not seem to have the long term unused storage issue.

Perhaps a different ink-jet printer would work as well, one that replaces
the print head with the cartridge, as opposed to only the ink:  ala: HP and
Canon approach.  But even then we might end up tossing out an almost full
cartridge due to its clogged head?

-al-

Viking Star
45' Monk Sr. / McQueen
mvVikingStar.blogspot.com

Hey, that is EXACTLY the same printer we picked up last winter!   Was rather
impressed at its low cost (though part of that is they short ya on the
amount of toner sent..), and the ease that it worked via WiFi.   Now we just
put the printer on my workbench, plug it into AC power,can print when we
need to, then put it away.

-al-

Viking Star
45' Monk Sr. / McQueen
mvVikingStar.blogspot.com

From: robertcalhounsmith@gmail.com [mailto:robertcalhounsmith@gmail.com] On
Behalf Of R C Smith Jr
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 8:35 AM
To: Al Thomason
Cc: T&T LIST
Subject: Re: T&T: Mobile Printing

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Al Thomason thomason.al@gmail.com wrote:
 We carried for several years an integrated Epson printer/scanner.  But due
to infrequent use we
found that when we wanted to print something it took upwards of half an ink
cartridge to 'clean' the heads so it would actually print w/o skipping...

We changed it out for a small laser printer.  Black-n-white with no scanner,
but does not seem to have the long term unused storage issue.

Al,

We had the same inkjet problem...and same solution. Laser works after
sitting for months.  They are now cheap:

http://dealnews.com/Dell-Wi-Fi-Monochrome-Laser-Printer-for-55-free-shipping
/732468.html

Thanks,
Bob

Robert Calhoun Smith, Jr.
M/V MARY KATHRYN
Hatteras 58 LRC
Annapolis, Maryland