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Steve Jobs Replies Regarding Rumors of AirPrint Issues
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Yeah, I don't think it would apply to AirPrint, as the driver still resides on your desktop Mac, not the device you originate the printing from (the mobile device). Not sure how this works if you have a printer connected directly to your base station though.
Airprint for both OS X and windows depends on a new version of iTunes which will be released soon. This is why devs with the earlier beta of iTunes 10.1 could still print with Snow Leopard 10.6.5 while those with a newer beta could not. Apple should have it fixed in the final release of 10.1 which should come out on Friday.
You guys will just have to wait.
You guys will just have to wait.
My problem with all of this is that when people email Steve to ask about HEARSAY, and not just any hearsay, but hearsay that will be proven or disproven likely in the matter of a few days (rather than something really far off concerning a purchase now), that one day he might get tired of answering emails from everyday joes and then we won't be able to ask him the questions that matter.
Where'd you get this crap?
Personally I think your ripping people off if your charging them two cents for that crap. And what I mean by that is, there has not been anyone with credibility. saying that HP had an issue, or that it was even an HP issue, if the issue exists at all. So before you start to spout crap. Perhaps you could at least tell us what leads you to these suppositions. Is their any basis for your scenario at all?
Personally I think your ripping people off if your charging them two cents for that crap. And what I mean by that is, there has not been anyone with credibility. saying that HP had an issue, or that it was even an HP issue, if the issue exists at all. So before you start to spout crap. Perhaps you could at least tell us what leads you to these suppositions. Is their any basis for your scenario at all?
re: going "green"
And frankly, it figures it'd be someone in education who goes on about how "green" things should be.
I'm fine with trying to conserve on costly resources, but at the same time? Printers are here to stay! I've spent years at my current workplace trying to maintain and improve their electronic document management system. The reality is? The biggest savings such things give a business is in physical storage space. Instead of putting things in rows of file cabinets, you can shred all that paper once it's scanned in, and keep it all on a hard drive, digitally. But you simply can't avoid the paper itself. If you opt for "electronic billing" instead of a paper bill? Someone inevitably PRINTS OUT the electronic version so they have an easier time looking at the numbers or highlighting parts they're concerned about, or ?? If you deal with practically anyone regarding a business contract? You receive a PAPER copy with all the requires signatures on it. And advertisers will NEVER quit mailing you printed materials, because they know how easily an email gets flagged as "junk" and deleted before it's even read. A paper brochure gets handled by more than just its recipient, and all those "eyeballs" on it have value. Beyond that? A lot of people find paper much easier on the eyes than staring at a computer display. If they've got a bunch of instructions or some article they want to read? They may opt to print it out (and then it's easy to take with them anywhere too).
(And it's here that the "green" argument gets some serious holes in it, too. Isn't it really *more* green to have people read a printed paper copy of something than to use *electricity* to do it digitally? Trees are a renewable resource anyway.)
IMO, if educational institutions are concerned about excessive use of their printers? Simply audit their use! They should all be networked devices already, so enforce printing quotas on a per user or per dept. basis, and bill people if they print more than a certain amount per month! You're not running a free Kinko's, after all.
And frankly, it figures it'd be someone in education who goes on about how "green" things should be.
I'm fine with trying to conserve on costly resources, but at the same time? Printers are here to stay! I've spent years at my current workplace trying to maintain and improve their electronic document management system. The reality is? The biggest savings such things give a business is in physical storage space. Instead of putting things in rows of file cabinets, you can shred all that paper once it's scanned in, and keep it all on a hard drive, digitally. But you simply can't avoid the paper itself. If you opt for "electronic billing" instead of a paper bill? Someone inevitably PRINTS OUT the electronic version so they have an easier time looking at the numbers or highlighting parts they're concerned about, or ?? If you deal with practically anyone regarding a business contract? You receive a PAPER copy with all the requires signatures on it. And advertisers will NEVER quit mailing you printed materials, because they know how easily an email gets flagged as "junk" and deleted before it's even read. A paper brochure gets handled by more than just its recipient, and all those "eyeballs" on it have value. Beyond that? A lot of people find paper much easier on the eyes than staring at a computer display. If they've got a bunch of instructions or some article they want to read? They may opt to print it out (and then it's easy to take with them anywhere too).
(And it's here that the "green" argument gets some serious holes in it, too. Isn't it really *more* green to have people read a printed paper copy of something than to use *electricity* to do it digitally? Trees are a renewable resource anyway.)
IMO, if educational institutions are concerned about excessive use of their printers? Simply audit their use! They should all be networked devices already, so enforce printing quotas on a per user or per dept. basis, and bill people if they print more than a certain amount per month! You're not running a free Kinko's, after all.
It's only considered proof that it wasn't ready for 10.6.5. Apple had to get 10.6.5 out the door due to the long overdue security fixes.
If Airprint wasn't going to be ready, then it had to be yanked. Look again in 10.6.6.
Printer Scam!
Apple and the printer industry need to work together to make Air Print work on current or slightly older machines - say a year or two old at least. This notion that users have to go out an buy (at a premium) another printer that will work with their iPad, while throwing their old printer onto the garbage heap is unacceptable! Not only is it enviromentally irresponsible but unfair to cash strapped consumers looking to save their hard earned money!
How about software that you can load onto your old printer that will allow it to work with iPad available at a more reasonable cost?
Apple and the printer industry need to work together to make Air Print work on current or slightly older machines - say a year or two old at least. This notion that users have to go out an buy (at a premium) another printer that will work with their iPad, while throwing their old printer onto the garbage heap is unacceptable! Not only is it enviromentally irresponsible but unfair to cash strapped consumers looking to save their hard earned money!
How about software that you can load onto your old printer that will allow it to work with iPad available at a more reasonable cost?
Apple and the printer industry need to work together to make Air Print work on current or slightly older machines - say a year or two old at least. This notion that users have to go out an buy (at a premium) another printer that will work with their iPad, while throwing their old printer onto the garbage heap is unacceptable! Not only is it enviromentally irresponsible but unfair to cash strapped consumers looking to save their hard earned money!
First, it's not clear that it won't work (in fact, it does work, although it for now requires a hack).
Second, your righteous indignation is misplaced. You claim that to not allow old printers to work is somehow unfair. How is it unfair? Presumably when you bought your ipad, it was prior to Apple making any sort of promise that you could use it to print to old printers. And when you bought your printer, the printer manufacturer didn't promise you could print from your iPad, did it?
My car doesn't have bluetooth support, but the new models do. I don't claim it's unacceptable that apple doesn't find a way to make my old car work with iphone's bluetooth. Life, and technology, move on.
