Firmware Updates Bring AirPrint Functionality to 6 New HP Printers

[litchie]

Printing to limited set of printers is a ugly business/financial strategy. Why push people to buy a new printer when technically they can use the old ones?

May bring them more money, but still ugly, an ugly feature on beautiful iPad.

 

[GorgonPhone]

ummm

Its to late!!! i can already print to any printer from my JAILBROKEN 3GS running 4.1...lolol i still love you apple..

IPhones are only great when they are jailbroken to unleash their true potential.. every phone out there has better hardware but the IOS cant be beat

 

[gorjan]

every phone out there has better hardware but the IOS cant be beat

That's my experience at least. I wanted to have a try on Android. My phone has better hardware than the iPhone, but is so slooooow in comparsion and software (web/market) crashes all the time. Thanks Google, but no thanks, my next phone is an iPhone.

 

[hariustrk]

So many negative votes, can't please everyone. Other than including ever driver ever made for every printer, how else would you solve this issue?

I agree it's a small list but this shows it's growing.

You would print to your PCs hardware abtraction layer via iTunes and let OS X/Windows handle the driver issues. Just like every program on your computer doesn't need a driver for your printer, niether does the iPad.

This is Apple abusing power IMO.

 

[Cougarcat]

This is Apple abusing power IMO.

Nobody knows why AirPrint via shared computers was taken out, but I highly doubt that is the reason. If anything, it may have been another company abusing power, as there were rumors it was a patent issue.

 

[litchie]

Nobody knows why AirPrint via shared computers was taken out, but I highly doubt that is the reason. If anything, it may have been another company abusing power, as there were rumors it was a patent issue.

Doubt it. It is no different from printer sharing between computers. Is printer sharing patented???

 

[dime21]

I don't understand the appeal of this AirPrint. Why does a printer have to be wireless? Nobody carries a printer around with them, it's a stationary device, ideal for wired connectivity. Networked printers have been available for decades. Even my little desktop Laserjet 1300n has a JetDirect ethernet card in it, and anyone can print to it from their wireless laptop.

Plus if you have a wireless device (laptop, tablet, etc) in your home already, that means you have a wireless network already. Why do you need AirPrint to print directly to the printer, when you already have a wireless network that can carry the traffic for you?

AirPrint seems like the answer to a question nobody asked.

 

[nippyjun]

I don't understand the appeal of this AirPrint. Why does a printer have to be wireless? Nobody carries a printer around with them, it's a stationary device, ideal for wired connectivity. Networked printers have been available for decades. Even my little desktop Laserjet 1300n has a JetDirect ethernet card in it, and anyone can print to it from their wireless laptop.

Plus if you have a wireless device (laptop, tablet, etc) in your home already, that means you have a wireless network already. Why do you need AirPrint to print directly to the printer, when you already have a wireless network that can carry the traffic for you?

AirPrint seems like the answer to a question nobody asked.

So you don't have to have a computer on to print. You can print directly from the ios device to the printer.

 

[mackarone]

This is ridiculous

It's easy to reconfigure through System Preferences in order to let the iphone or ipad see a shared printer. It's only a question of adding a line of code (only once), deleting all printers and restarting the computer. Try a search on the internet and youll find the solution. It's funny that Apple did intentionally cripple this feature, leaving open a wide crack for circumventing the problem.

 

[NikeTalk]

So some people are actually buying new printers just so they can print from their phones? That's stupid