I was messing around today taking pics and doodling on them with the pen then decided to see if it would print. I didn't expect much but turned on my printer (HP Photosmart C4780) anyway then clicked print. The Flyer scanned for printers and found mine without a hitch. The model I have was not compatible with the Flyer so I just picked one from the drop down that was and that was it, my pic printed right out. I printed out a Google search too just to make it wasn't a fluke. What's even better is the Flyer saves the printer so there's no need to configure each time you print. You can also print black + white or color, landscape or portrait, and print only the pages you want opposed to every page.
The more I use the Flyer, the more impressed I am with it's quality.
Damn, no one cares about printing?
Yup it is a neat feature. I test it here at work. Is your printer an IP based printer? I don't think it can see shared USB printers, but could be wrong.
I just tried it based on what you discovered. Damn, that's a nice feature.
I agree, it's nice to have printing built into the device. The Flyer picked up my Canon printer in seconds. My old iPad never would recognize my printer.
I have the lexmark s600 series. It's is not supported and when I choose a random printer from the dropdown it just says checking status and never prints . You got lucky !
If you use Google chrome and download google cloud print you can print from it as well. this will only work after you set it up and you have to have your PC on for it to work
On google chrome side all you have to do is
1) open browser and hit the wrench icon
2) go to options
3) go to Under the hood and look near the bottom for Google Cloud Print and hit set up
4) sign in to the login box
5) hit manage print settings
6) go to printer tab and find your printers
On phone/flyer
1) go to market and search for google cloud print
2) once it is installed open it
3) follow the on screen instructions until it says refresh printers
4) then choose what you want to print and print it
Stuke00 said:
Yup it is a neat feature. I test it here at work. Is your printer an IP based printer? I don't think it can see shared USB printers, but could be wrong.
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Not sure about usb based but mine is shared wirelessly on my home network.
Gumby63 said:
I have the lexmark s600 series. It's is not supported and when I choose a random printer from the dropdown it just says checking status and never prints . You got lucky !
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Are there any Lexmark printers in the drop down menu? If there is not then that brand may not be compatible.
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I just purchased the G Tablet and I have two (2) wireless printers in my house available to print to. Unfortunately, I am having a difficult time trying to figure out how to print webpages and photos to my wireless printers. I don't believe I can download the drivers that came with these printers because they will not work with the G Tablet Operating System. Please advise how do I evoke printing capabilities on my G Tablet? Thank you for the feedback. Gary
Get chrome browser on pc and cloud printer app from the market
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I tried CloudPrint. The Cloud Print app on the G tablet says "there are no accounts set up on this phone".
Uh, a few problems with Cloud Print from the g tablet
1. The G-tablet is not a phone, but an android wi-fi tablet.
2. Cloud Print app doesn't provide any link to or menu to set up an account on the 'phone'.
3. I've got a Gmail account set up and I can log in to it on the tablet. But that doesn't help...
4. It's sort of a useless app at this point, at least for the generic G-tablet.
Hopefully some day soon, Android OS (and app developers) will get their head's out of their proverbial butts and recognize that to be taken seriously as an app and OS, Android OS and apps need to look beyond being a 'cell phone' OS or app but an OS and app that can seamlessly work on cells, tablets, and pc's running Android...
I use Printershare. It's a paid app ($4.99 or something) and works great.
I can print to my wired printer via a service running on my home pc from anywhere and I can just print directly to my wireless printer while I'm on the home network. My wireless printer wasn't specifically listed so I tried a similar lower model and it printed without issue. If using the printershare service running on the PC...it doesn't matter the printer driver for the tablet as it's printing via the PC.
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I just purchased the G Tablet and I have two (2) wireless printers in my house available to print to. Unfortunately, I am having a difficult time trying to figure out how to print webpages and photos to my wireless printers. I don't believe I can download the drivers that came with these printers because they will not work with the G Tablet Operating System. Please advise how do I evoke printing capabilities on my G Tablet? Thank you for the feedback. Gary
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Go find the printbot app. It works great for me. YMMV
Question: SGSII AT&T only wants to allow Print Page from browser menu to Samsung printers ... lame. Any way around that? Thanks!
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Question: SGSII AT&T only wants to allow Print Page from browser menu to Samsung printers ... lame. Any way around that? Thanks!
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More details? Logcats?
yeah, this is a bit concerning.. can you provide more details...
is this wifi printing? bluetooth printing? who told you that you can only print to samsung printers? error msg? tech support?
thanks!
See attached photo.
Scenario: browse to any URL (my iGoogle mobile homepage in this case). Hit the menu button. Select More. Select Print. This is the menu which pops up.
What gives?
Bump... anyone has any idea how to circumvent this obstacle?
No clue - again, need more details... Bluetooth? Wifi? Does CM7 allow printing from the browser?
In the case of wifi this wouldn't surprise me due to printer driver hell... Printer drivers are highly nonstandardized, and a full CUPS package would be half the damn ROM!
Bluetooth printers may or may not be more standardized.
I'm with a stock ROM, and this dialogue box jumps up before attempting to print through WiFi.
The problem is, I have the HP app for printing any document I have on my phone (PDF, JPG, DOC) installed and it works just fine - but the browser dialogue doesn't allow you access to third party apps like the Share Page function allows you to share through many different apps. Print should be the same = print through <choose app/service>. Instead - we get print to Samsung printers only...
I'm looking for a solution to print from my Prime while at work. I have two different printers in my office (no network) and would like to be able to print from at least one of them. Is there a way to print directly from the Prime that I'm not aware of? The only solution I can think of is using PrinterShare and getting a bluetooth adapter like the BT-0260-v2 from premiertek.
Can someone else shine some light on the situation?
Thanks.
There is a way to cloud print using google Chrome. You need to be signed in on the computer connected to the printer thought.
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There is an app called PrintBot that I use. Free version supports one printer. Works great for me.
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sean.bales said:
There is an app called PrintBot that I use. Free version supports one printer. Works great for me.
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And all main printer companies have developed Android app to print on their machine.. all in market.
The printers aren't hooked up to a network. I'm looking for a way to print directly from the Prime. Any other solutions or am I stuck for now? One is a fax machine that can scan and print as well (a Lexmark X5650) the other is a Dell laser printer that is hooked up to the office computer but I can disconnect that if needed.
j5350 said:
The printers aren't hooked up to a network. I'm looking for a way to print directly from the Prime. Any other solutions or am I stuck for now? One is a fax machine that can scan and print as well (a Lexmark X5650) the other is a Dell laser printer that is hooked up to the office computer but I can disconnect that if needed.
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If they're hooked up to computers with Google cloud print signed in I think that would work but if they're totally disconnected from a network or an online computer, perhaps bluetooth (if the printers had those features) may work. Never tried printing via bluetooth though but my really old Lexmark all-in-one could do it from my old Nokia n82.
Physically connecting the Prime to the printer won't work since the Prime isn't a true computer with drivers and other stuff to accommodate the printer.
If your printers have a print from SD card or flash drive feature then I suppose you can transfer the file straight from the Prime to one of those media first.
the best solution is cloud printing. You install chrome on your computer and make a gmail account. Once your signed in go to the Tool top right, and go to Options then Under the Hood then scroll down until you see Google Cloud Printing and click on Manage Print Settings. You should of been redirected to Google's Cloud Printing Manage area. You'll add a classic printer and thats it. As far as ive noticed this system will send the request to your gmail account, and your browser will send it to the printer when ever it can.
Works great! Only works on iphones if they buy a app. But for us its free its called Cloud Print. It's amazing, you can print anything and it works.
j5350 said:
The printers aren't hooked up to a network. I'm looking for a way to print directly from the Prime. Any other solutions or am I stuck for now? One is a fax machine that can scan and print as well (a Lexmark X5650) the other is a Dell laser printer that is hooked up to the office computer but I can disconnect that if needed.
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The only solution in that case, is to install a chroot Linux distro on the Prime and once running chrooted Linux you can install printers, at the condition that usb dock port accepts connection to a printer.
Search BT5 linux thread to have guidelines and howto for installing linux.
Is there a way to print directly from Prime+Dock, directly to a printer WITHOUT A COMPUTER.
Situation: Epson 960, webtv, and the Prime
When visiting my 95 year old mother, I sometimes want to print items. The only technology is her webtv. The printer will connect to webtv or the prime dock by USB cable.
I haven't found a "stand alone" printing app for the prime...All available seem to want a Wifi Printer, or wifi connection to the home network.
The only solution that I can think of would be to put whatever I wanted to print as an attachment to an email, then open it in WebTv, then print that way...
Anyone have any better suggestions?????
PLEASE!!!!!
Thanks,
Bob
There is an app for that. It's name is printershare.
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huytrang90 said:
There is an app for that. It's name is printershare.
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From what I read, that printer needs either Wifi or Bluetooth capabilities.
Direct USB cable connection does not seem to be an option?
Printing from Prime
I've been using CloudPrint... requires a pc somewhere to have been setup with Cloudprint, but it works with my Galaxy Note and TF201... for work and home printers.
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There is an app for that. It's name is printershare.
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This app looks promising, however the free demo only prints a greyscale test page, which doesn't look great on my printer. The real app is quite expensive and I'd like to know how good it really is before I pay. Let me explain what I mean.
I found a Brother app which works with my printer. However, print quality is rubbish. It looks like it rasterizes web pages into medium-resolution graphics and sends this to the printer. The effect is quite horrible: fonts are fuzzy and text difficult to read. The test page from Printershare looked exactly the same.
So, how does Printershare deal with web pages and PDF documents? Does it do the same rasterizing trick, or does it send proper fonts to the printer and let it render prints properly.
Another problem for me is that Printershare does not have my Brother HL5250 driver, so I have to use a nearest hit...
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Can you print to a PC (on the local wifi network) from the Flyer?
Ie capture the printing quick and easy.
Kermode said:
Can you print to a PC (on the local wifi network) from the Flyer?
Ie capture the printing quick and easy.
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there is printershare app to print to your (wifi)printer to your local network, could be accessible with a little tweak.
if want to create folder on HC, try use the go launcher HD.
hope this helps.
Yes, you can make folders in Honeycomb. Lots of them.
Use this app. (Folder Organizer)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hYmNPcmdhbml6ZXIiXQ..
Or use Circle Launcher for an even better way to launch your favorites .
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wxLDEwMiwiZGUuZGJ3YXJlLmNpcmNsZWxhdW5jaGVyIl0.
Most of the htc apps allow you to print via wifi, and for those that don't, an app called printshare will allow you to print almost anything. I print stuff from my flyer regularly.
indiziert said:
there is printershare app to print to your (wifi)printer to your local network, could be accessible with a little tweak.
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What's it called?
DigitalMD said:
Yes, you can make folders in Honeycomb. Lots of them.
Use this app.
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Yeah, I meant without installing apps.
devator22 said:
Most of the htc apps allow you to print via wifi, and for those that don't, an app called printshare will allow you to print almost anything. I print stuff from my flyer regularly.
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Yes, but HOW - that's what I'm asking. Entering the IP number of my computer in the flyer has no effect.
(And when i say to the computer, i mean "to the computer" (like say a pdf file) i don't have a printer)
Kermode said:
What's it called?
Yeah, I meant without installing apps.
Yes, but HOW - that's what I'm asking. Entering the IP number of my computer in the flyer has no effect.
(And when i say to the computer, i mean "to the computer" (like say a pdf file) i don't have a printer)
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OK, that is a different sort of problem. Printshare allows one to print to a network WiFi printer. I've not heard of an app that will allow one to print to a computer PDF printer. I'm not even sure you can print to a physical printer that is shared with Windows 7.
Kermode said:
What's it called?
Yeah, I meant without installing apps.
Yes, but HOW - that's what I'm asking. Entering the IP number of my computer in the flyer has no effect.
(And when i say to the computer, i mean "to the computer" (like say a pdf file) i don't have a printer)
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Why not just email the file to yourself? Or are you trying to save something as a PDF file from a Word file or something like that from Polaris Office?
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Try enabling your printer, via windows with the sharing printer and which connected to the pc (depends on the us running OS)
http://www.pcworld.com/products/printers
html ://ask.metafilter.com/77920/Printer-sharing-over-a-WiFi-network
For support check on printer compatibility
http://www.printershare.com/help-mobile-supported.sdf
Hope this helps.
It would be interesting to set up CutePDF on your PC, and then set up Printshare to connect to your printer, and see if it will recognize that as the printer and let you print to pdf.
Longshot, but worth a try for sure.
I've got it working with Cloud Print.
It works with Google Cloud Print, you have to get that working first. Basically it sets up a Cloud Print item in the "Share" menu of any Android app. When you share with Cloud Print, the output goes to your printer.
If Google was smart(er) they would making printing a very smooth and visible part of Android. Because getting Google Cloud Print to work was a PITA, it wouldn't detect my printers and the add printer dialogs just kept going in a circle taking me back to a help page or empty list of printers. YMMV.
All I have to say is.....Dropbox.