Printing from Iphone directly

I've have had some iPhone applications that will print documents, web pages, and photos from the iPhone directly. But they required having a small application on a host PC also on the same wifi network. It needs to be up and running all the time. And you need to run their Email application or web browser in addition to the iPhone native ones. I think BB's have a similar application now.

I recently downloaded a new iPhone application (Print Magic) that will print directly to a networked printer, or to a printer that is 'print shared' (wired or wirelessly) by a Macintosh computer. It allows me to take any text that I can copy and paste to print, including web url's and and photos. It supports about 500 types of printers, and they don't need to be wireless or BT printers.

In my case, my printer is connected directly (USB) to my Airport Express WiFI router. I can print from my iPhone selected text from my email applications, photos, spreadsheets, maps etc, directly to the printer.

Pretty neat and I've been looking for something like this for a while. I had trouble setting it up first using their free trial version to see if your printer is compatible. They gave me a free upgrade to the full version ( $6.99) and helped me get it to work. It required that I update my printer to the latest CUPS drivers.

Sweet. Thought that I'd share.

P.S. For what it is worth, I now have 60 applications on my iPhone. Perhaps others have more. I enjoy nearly all of them.

 

There is no question that printing directly from the phone, easily, has it place.

 

Oh. What became of the Pre?

 

I didn't know that. I never understood why RIM BB world CDMA phones lack WiFi. Is the Verizon Storm 2 the first and only one? Are there any on Sprint?

 

Thanks for the information. Good to hear that. I can't imagine going to a smartphone without Wifi, after having one.