![]() Print to a Printer - Perhaps surprisingly, Printopia is a Mac OS X preference pane, not an iOS app, and luckily, it requires little setup on the Mac and none on iOS. In fact, I’ve only rarely used Printopia to output something to paper, as you’ll soon discover. Instead, I printed the tickets using Ecamm’s Printopia 2. I don’t print nearly enough to buy a new printer just for iOS wireless printing.īefore you start to worry, let me assure you that I did not have to force myself off the couch. ![]() In iOS 4, Apple introduced AirPrint, a technology for printing directly to a printer from an iOS device - that is, as long as you have a specific AirPrint-enabled HP printer. ![]() (The printer is up there, too, but I can grab the printouts later, or even the next morning.) I could have gone upstairs to my computer, but when I’m nestled into a corner of the couch late in the evening, extricating myself and trudging to my upstairs office sounds like an awful lot of work. I’ve purchased airline tickets using my iPad in the living room and needed to print boarding passes. Well, sometimes you need to review something on paper instead of scrolling around on an iPhone screen, or perhaps you need to hand a copy to a colleague who lacks ready access to a computer or handheld. The idea sounds anachronistic: Why, with a device that delivers everything digitally, would you want to sully the experience with the inconvenience of paper? Printing from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage. ![]()
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