Print using your iPhone or iPod Touch

                                                                                         

These cute toys or powerful devices (depends on whether you are a Apple Fanboy or not) can do many things, but some things not so well. Both iPod touch and iPhone don't have physical keyboard and there is no option to attach a keyboard. You have to type on glass whether you like it or not. My other frustration with this device is that I cannot print directly via bluetooth or even attach my iPhone or iPod Touch to a printer via USB.

I can of course connect my iPhone to a PC or Mac, sync it with iTunes and then print whatever I want. But I want a simpler way to do it. Or what if I don't have a PC or Mac around? Syncing with any other PC or Mac is an absolute no-no for me.

Here I remembered the App Store's marketing line - "There is an App for that" and I go in search for "that app".

The result after the little testing I did at my printer, my friends printer and the the printer at my college are not very heart warming. (to say the least) Most of them don't work well and have limitations. They all are buggy, some app work with only one brand of printer, some can't print the photos that are in iPhone itself or they require additional software :( Anyway, some of the apps I tried are -

1. HP's iPrint Photo - well, this is a free app which prints a single photo at a time with a HP printer only if both your iPhone and printer are on the same Wi-Fi network. It worked ok. The only negative thing here hp that you've got to have a HP printer, it will not work with any other printer.

2. iPrintApp - This app is $2 (oh. Sorry $1.99 - what's the difference?) This app does what it's supposed to do but in a bad, buggy kinda way. The official word is it prints directly to PostScript printers connected to Wi-Fi network, but I've got no idea what that is. But it worked in my friend's Canon printer. It's buggy because, it did weird things like double selecting, printing blank pages, crashing when selecting a dozen photos. Sometimes even printing different photos.

3. Air Sharing Pro - This one is a costly app petting you back $9.99 (.99 again) This app works good and is surprisingly bug free after the last two. I think that's why it costs this much. It worked well with both canon and Epson printer. I'd recommend this app if you are usually on road and need to print stuff straight from your device.

About the author:
The author runs a website where you can select cheap ipod touch .iPod is a brand of portable media players designed , marketed and launched by Apple Inc. The name inspired the term "podcasting," a combination of iPod and broadcast.

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