I'm thinking I'd like to replace my MBP for an iPad for short trips. Use iWork to create/edit docs and then save them to MobileMe. So far, so good. But how will I be able to print from the iPad? Thoughts?
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How will one print from iPad?
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My personal opinion: Printing to most major brands of wireless printers that have drivers available for OS-X will eventually be enabled on the iPad.
Why?
- They are porting iWork apps to it. One is a word processor. Duh.
- It has a web browser. Who hasn't wanted to print a web receipt or web email from their mac or PC? No one will really want to have to get off the Sofa and boot up their powermac just to print. We'll expect the iPad to do it.
- It has Email. I get receipts from on-line purchases in my email. It'll need to be able to print them out.
- Printing is one of those things any netbook or notebook or desktop can do. The iPad wants to play in that territory, so it'll have to print.
So the iPad WILL print. It's a non-starter if it can't. JMHO
Why?
- They are porting iWork apps to it. One is a word processor. Duh.
- It has a web browser. Who hasn't wanted to print a web receipt or web email from their mac or PC? No one will really want to have to get off the Sofa and boot up their powermac just to print. We'll expect the iPad to do it.
- It has Email. I get receipts from on-line purchases in my email. It'll need to be able to print them out.
- Printing is one of those things any netbook or notebook or desktop can do. The iPad wants to play in that territory, so it'll have to print.
So the iPad WILL print. It's a non-starter if it can't. JMHO
Bonjour services
Through Bonjour services...
First it discovers all printers connected on a network(wired/wireless). It then downloads the proper printer drivers from the internet(just like Snow Leopard). This case you use what you need and not having 200+ printers preinstalled which gives the OS bloat.
Through Bonjour services...
First it discovers all printers connected on a network(wired/wireless). It then downloads the proper printer drivers from the internet(just like Snow Leopard). This case you use what you need and not having 200+ printers preinstalled which gives the OS bloat.
Yep a lot of work when it to shrinking print services footprints and making more adaptable for any situation. Which all makes much more sense when you see some thing like the iPad.
I wonder if the system will change so that Bonjour printers will just be in your printer list without configuration much like a computer connected printer shared by bonjour. Make the whole thing much easier.
I think some devs with 3.2 SDK mentioned it, along with the new file system. I have a new Canon WIFI printer and I love it. I frequently print 4x6's that I take on my iPhone and edit in PhotoGene using Canon's print app, which is pretty slick. It would be great if it detected the printers at school and allowed printing to them over WIFI.
There is a very simple answer for this. Apple has a yet to be announced new product that Steve just thought up after seeing how many people bought his iPad pitch. He's decided that the same gullible people will LOVE his new invention.
It's called iPaper. It's made from all natural green trees. This new device will sell a single sheet at a time for the low low price of $.99...hey, still under a dollar right? The iPad user will deem this new invention so innovative that they will merely have to look at the iPaper and "imagine" that the print out has appeared on the paper, and WOLA...the same coked out Apple fan cult following mind will hallucinate the image onto the paper (mind you only visible to OTHER coked out monkeys).
iPaper will be made available shortly after the iPad's release. To ensure that iPaper doesn't compete with regular paper, Steve will conduct another Flint Hall presentation telling the coked out Apple fans that normal paper won't work with the iPad print feature. Because this fan base believes anything and everything that Steve says, their minds will be permanently forbidden from getting any other print peripheral working.
It's called iPaper. It's made from all natural green trees. This new device will sell a single sheet at a time for the low low price of $.99...hey, still under a dollar right? The iPad user will deem this new invention so innovative that they will merely have to look at the iPaper and "imagine" that the print out has appeared on the paper, and WOLA...the same coked out Apple fan cult following mind will hallucinate the image onto the paper (mind you only visible to OTHER coked out monkeys).
iPaper will be made available shortly after the iPad's release. To ensure that iPaper doesn't compete with regular paper, Steve will conduct another Flint Hall presentation telling the coked out Apple fans that normal paper won't work with the iPad print feature. Because this fan base believes anything and everything that Steve says, their minds will be permanently forbidden from getting any other print peripheral working.
Why would I want to print anything on paper?
The iPad has all the advantages of printed paper (can be easily carried, allows easy manipulation of docs - think of hand drawing diagrams or highlighting portions of a document with your bare hands) and none of the drawbacks (can't find stuff easily when you have a lot of printed documents, can't easily erase/update them, the expenses for both paper and ink, wasted space)....
So basically printing anything for yourself, once you got an iPad, will be just a waste of time and money (and trees).
If you're worried about how you're going to share docs and pictures, well, let's say somebody came up with a neat technology called e-mail... welcome to 1993, my friend.
The iPad has all the advantages of printed paper (can be easily carried, allows easy manipulation of docs - think of hand drawing diagrams or highlighting portions of a document with your bare hands) and none of the drawbacks (can't find stuff easily when you have a lot of printed documents, can't easily erase/update them, the expenses for both paper and ink, wasted space)....
So basically printing anything for yourself, once you got an iPad, will be just a waste of time and money (and trees).
If you're worried about how you're going to share docs and pictures, well, let's say somebody came up with a neat technology called e-mail... welcome to 1993, my friend.
Lol! On topic, I have a Canon 850MX connected to my network via an Airport Extreme. I hoping I'll be able to print directly.
Yeah, that would be great and all, but try telling that to my Art History prof. Emailed papers? Blasphemy! Environment be damned. Or my boss for that matter. That man NEEDS a printout of everything. Plus I'm also a graphic designer...so...printing is not so dead for me. Though I'll admit that printing layouts from my iPad doesn't seem likely any time soon. But sketches and comps, yes.
Trhere are plenty of apps for the iPhone that print to networked printers so presumably this will work.
I also recall I think when OS 3.0 was released they were taking about how all these manufactures could develop hardware that could plug via USB into the iPhone port.
Hopfully someone will make a ipad compatiable printer.
I also recall I think when OS 3.0 was released they were taking about how all these manufactures could develop hardware that could plug via USB into the iPhone port.
Hopfully someone will make a ipad compatiable printer.
1993 ? You're 11 years late. Modern e-mail was born in 1982, when RFC821 first appeared and described SMTP. SMTP however is just a derivative of many other technologies that came before it, ie, MTP, FTP mail, Mailbox Protocol, etc...
ARPANET first had electronic mail in 1971.
At least if you're trying to be witty, make sure your wit is factually correct.
What would you want to print? Oh ... I don't know
Boarding passes
Movie/Theater/Event tickets
Return Authorization Form
Your yearly tax forms
A greeting/thank you card
need I continue?
Yeah? Try telling that to most airport/amtrack/etc gates that either don't know or will "fight" you over it.
Easier to print until it's more widely adopted.
1) Scan the screen. You can already do this with coupons at losts of places.
2) Most places you order the tickets online and pick them up.
3) You have a point here but I can't imagine the iPad being my only computer.
4) E-file. The forms can be saved as a secured PDF then printed later.
5) See #3.
By the way I'm not saying I wouldn't like to see printing from the iPad its just that I carry an iPhone/iPad or whatever to cut down on the amount of paper I need to carry.
There are lots of paperless solutions and they will only get more prevalent.
I think it would be logical to be able to print documents etc. (iWork) and mail via bluetooth or your WiFi connection.
yes i think that should be there... and its not hard to hook printer via blutooth.. i dont have a iphone .. is there an option to print on iphone some how? a third party add-on maybe?
Boarding 'passes' have been paperless since 2009 at some airports.
http://www.laptopmag.com/business/travel/your-next-e-ticket.aspx
The story is from Feb 2009, so I assume more sites have come online:
"Travelers who want to take advantage of mobile boarding must first check in through the airlines mobile site on their phones browser. As long as the device is Web-enabled and can receive e-mails and display images, youre good to go, regardless of the screen size.
After checking in, youll see a two-dimensional, encrypted bar code on the screen. Provided your airport has the right equipment, airline officials can scan the bar code on your cell, both at security checkpoints and the gate. If for some reason the system fails, attendants can print your boarding pass at the gate.
American Airlines lets passengers use their cell phone as a boarding pass in Chicago OHare International, Los Angeles International, and John WayneOrange County airports. Continental has programs in George Bush Intercontinental, LaGuardia International, Newark Liberty International, Ronald Reagan Washington National, Cleveland Hopkins International, San Antonio International, Austin-Bergstrom International, and Logan International airports. Delta is running trials at New Yorks LaGuardia International Airport. In total, 13 airlines worldwide offer mobile boarding options."
http://www.laptopmag.com/business/travel/your-next-e-ticket.aspx
The story is from Feb 2009, so I assume more sites have come online:
"Travelers who want to take advantage of mobile boarding must first check in through the airlines mobile site on their phones browser. As long as the device is Web-enabled and can receive e-mails and display images, youre good to go, regardless of the screen size.
After checking in, youll see a two-dimensional, encrypted bar code on the screen. Provided your airport has the right equipment, airline officials can scan the bar code on your cell, both at security checkpoints and the gate. If for some reason the system fails, attendants can print your boarding pass at the gate.
American Airlines lets passengers use their cell phone as a boarding pass in Chicago OHare International, Los Angeles International, and John WayneOrange County airports. Continental has programs in George Bush Intercontinental, LaGuardia International, Newark Liberty International, Ronald Reagan Washington National, Cleveland Hopkins International, San Antonio International, Austin-Bergstrom International, and Logan International airports. Delta is running trials at New Yorks LaGuardia International Airport. In total, 13 airlines worldwide offer mobile boarding options."