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[Merged] iPad & Printing Discussion
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Print N Share and Print Central
I downloaded Print Central, although my 3G isn't due for awhile, because I have communicated a few times with Eurosmartz and looked at their programs and they were very responsive to my emails. It looks like a good company.
I downloaded Print Central, although my 3G isn't due for awhile, because I have communicated a few times with Eurosmartz and looked at their programs and they were very responsive to my emails. It looks like a good company.
The printing apps out there require a Mac to act as a middleman... It'd be cool if we could connect our printers to Airport Extreme or use Wi-Fi printers to directly communicate with printing apps for the iPad...
An app called Fax Print & Share claims to do this. I haven't had a chance to try it because my iPad won't come till tomorrow.
Yes, the iPad can print via APE. However, it can't go directly through. If you share your printer from your Mac or PC, the iPad, with the help of one of the new printing apps, can send the information to your desktop, which will relay the data onto the APE to print. I use Print n Share, with WePrint on a Windows 7 PC, for my printing.
I print using the Eurosmartz product on our Touches.
http://www.eurosmartz.com/
I do, with the iPad have the need to print "out in the field" and i'm going to be sorting that out (if possible) this week so i can try it next weekend. The Eurosmartz products require a piece running on a computer on the wireless net - and i'm not sure that is feasible in the field.
http://www.eurosmartz.com/
I do, with the iPad have the need to print "out in the field" and i'm going to be sorting that out (if possible) this week so i can try it next weekend. The Eurosmartz products require a piece running on a computer on the wireless net - and i'm not sure that is feasible in the field.
I'm hoping someone will try this to save me the money! LOL!!
The Eurosmartz products are solid - and work with other apps too if the developer has added support. I use it 100% with Notebooks by Alfons Schmid. Works great! Now i just need an iPad version of Notebooks.
There is something in the App Store - but it's not getting good reviews.
I haven't had enough TIME with the iPad to be able to delve into this - darn kid wants to play with HER birthday present. HMPH.
I'm just looking for basic print - but the biggest obstacle right now is that the files aren't going to a central area as I thought was going to happen. So i'm not sure i how i can do what i want to do (which isn't a normal circumstance either).
I have a feeling at the rate things are going my 3G version will show up before i can manage to test this. I"m supposed to drop my computer off at the Apple store on Thursday and won't get it back until the following Friday on my way out of town again.... which is a whole other rant.
Anyway, i'm trying! LOL!!
Not really... if its a shared printer on your network the iPad could simply submit postscript or PDF's to be printed.
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Printing needs drivers. But just like you install an app - you could install only drivers you wanted/needed. And you could do this either via iTunes on the computer or via WIFI. There's a way to do anything/everything if "they" really want it possible.
Fax print share? Do a search on print and it should come up. All the reviews are 1 star though.
Despite their vision in other respects, Apple doesn't (yet) see the iPad as a stand-alone device, on which a user can do end-to-end work. For fundamental functions like printing, you still have to send a file back to the mother ship and use the printing functionality built into its operating system. This seems like a big hole in the iPad's OS. I hope they see the value of building this into the system.
Agreed - and here's hoping they find some resolution here. Because for Steve, during the keynote, to say that netbooks don't solve (or was it do) anything while extolling the virtues of the iPad is silly.
And I did buy an iPad - and for what I will use it for, I'm content for the most part. But that being said - netbooks, as crappy as you want to position them, ARE able to print/file share, etc for real productivity. Not that's I'd get one. But if you're going to position your device as "better."
Of course the iPad is a media CONSUMPTION device. But if you're going to offer productivity and content creation tools, you should make them as functional/stand alone as possible. I also posted that the omission of the TAB key from the keyboard I find "funny." I don't own PAGES - but apparently, getting to a TAB key isn't intuitive.
And I did buy an iPad - and for what I will use it for, I'm content for the most part. But that being said - netbooks, as crappy as you want to position them, ARE able to print/file share, etc for real productivity. Not that's I'd get one. But if you're going to position your device as "better."
Of course the iPad is a media CONSUMPTION device. But if you're going to offer productivity and content creation tools, you should make them as functional/stand alone as possible. I also posted that the omission of the TAB key from the keyboard I find "funny." I don't own PAGES - but apparently, getting to a TAB key isn't intuitive.
To me the lack of direct print support is the ONLY thing forcing me to hold onto my MBP. I have an iMac as well that I can do all of the 'typical' computer stuff on and really just use my MBP for general purpose document drafting, surfing, etc. If I could print directly from the iPad, then I'd jettison the MBP. Maybe that's what worries Apple, but I can say if I didn't have a MBP already and had just the iMac+iPad, I wouldn't buy the MBP anyhow.
Printing from IPad to printer via wifi
I just installed "Documentz" APP on my IPad...I can easily print text and jpeg in their sample area. My problem is how I transfer MY OWN info to Documentz. I have identified my Ipad and the printer is synced. I can bring it up but it shows NO emails or PAGE docs. I'm at a loss. Thanks for any suggestions.
I just installed "Documentz" APP on my IPad...I can easily print text and jpeg in their sample area. My problem is how I transfer MY OWN info to Documentz. I have identified my Ipad and the printer is synced. I can bring it up but it shows NO emails or PAGE docs. I'm at a loss. Thanks for any suggestions.
Is this a stand alone app - or do you need to run a program on your computer too?
Supposedly it is stand alone. I know others require additional downloads but this specifically stated no other downloads necessary. It really 'throws' m that I can identify my specific IPad and the specific printer. Also that I can print any of their samples..docs, photos etc. I could not do this till I identified but after that it ran the SAMPLES perfectly.
I hope they make native printing available on the iPhone OS 4.0, even if it means printing to a shared printer from a Mac on the network.
As I mentioned, HP iPrint will print directly to a networked printer. However, it only prints "pictures" from the DCIM folder (aka "camera folder",) so you would have to either export your document as a JPEG into the camera folder, or do the power+home screenshot, and print that. And it only prints to certain models of HP printer. (One that is natively networked, no USB-into-AirPort.)