Is this something that's still foreign to Google's OS? I don't know where to begin to find how to achieve this.
the_game_master said:
Is this something that's still foreign to Google's OS? I don't know where to begin to find how to achieve this.
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Look at printer share in the market
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Just setup my PrinterShare (amazon FAOTD a while back) and it works great on the TFP.
Printing on Android is very flaky at this point. there are number of apps that use Google Cloudprint technology but they seem to work sporadically. Sometimes docs will print right away, sometimes hours later, and sometimes not at all. Google needs to get this issue straightened out if they ever expect android to be taken seriously in the business world.
Look on the market for your printers manufacturer. For instance, I use a Brother printer. Well, Brother has an app for printing to the printer over your network and it works pretty Damn well. I think I saw one for HP and canon as well. Printershare used to work very well, but ever since they made everyone repay for the app its really gone down the pipe.
Just look for your manufacturer on the market and you should find it.
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Printbot can print pdf on any network printer.
Printer Share has worked flawlessly everywhere I have gone (in fact, it has worked when my laptop was unable to find drivers). So no matter where I am, if there is a printer and there is wifi/network - I can print
As another person mentioned - if you have a printer it might have an app. I happen to have a cloud-ready HP printer
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Why is printing a simple word doc so difficult. One should be able to print from polaris, file manager or other file viewing app. It is really frustrating that everything one can do for free on a pc costs a fortune on mobile devices. Don't get me wrong, there are a great deal of free apps that work great.
I was hoping to be able to use this tablet to its potential as a low powered computer yet, software really needs to improve for this to happen.
Anyway, just wanted to know if I am missing some freeware here. I will not buy printershare premium($13) and I can't find something similar for free. I know i could convert the format of the .doc file and use a less adequate program but i should not have to.
Srry I am new to touchscreen device's and I am mad because I have been trying to print one page for hours now. I know these are not replacements for computers but, they have the ability to do more.
Thanks
Try Google cloud print. You unfortunately need some sort of device directly connected to your printer to use it, from my understanding...
http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/
You can print for free. You just have to search for it. Can't give any more details. Google search will be the key to what you looking for. lol
Well the key is one thing that has left me searching for hours along with trying to find a better way to print. Current key is not on the net and older keys will not update, it tells me I did not purchase it.Cloud print is not really what I was going for but it may be my only choice(pointless because my printer does not have eprint and i might as well be printing from the laptop). I don't know if there is a way around key verification but, i have not been able to find a way as of yet.
have you tried searching your brand of printer and seeing if they have an app?
like hp has an app for printing to their printers. Probably similar things for other brands
https://market.android.com/details?...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5ocC5hbmRyb2lkLnByaW50Il0.
edit. Never tried any of these apps myself. Just remember someone else mentioning them
BongoBong said:
have you tried searching your brand of printer and seeing if they have an app?
like hp has an app for printing to their printers. Probably similar things for other brands
https://market.android.com/details?...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5ocC5hbmRyb2lkLnByaW50Il0.
edit. Never tried any of these apps myself. Just remember someone else mentioning them
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This!
Samsung has an app for their line as well and that works great with the laser I have from them.
susko said:
Why is printing a simple word doc so difficult. One should be able to print from polaris, file manager or other file viewing app. It is really frustrating that everything one can do for free on a pc costs a fortune on mobile devices. Don't get me wrong, there are a great deal of free apps that work great.
I was hoping to be able to use this tablet to its potential as a low powered computer yet, software really needs to improve for this to happen.
Anyway, just wanted to know if I am missing some freeware here. I will not buy printershare premium($13) and I can't find something similar for free. I know i could convert the format of the .doc file and use a less adequate program but i should not have to.
Srry I am new to touchscreen device's and I am mad because I have been trying to print one page for hours now. I know these are not replacements for computers but, they have the ability to do more.
Thanks
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What brand of printer? I have a HP and use the HP app and it works great as long as the printer and Tablet are on the same network. I think it will work with any printer as long as you're on the same network
PrintBot
Might be worth giving PrintBot a go. Looks like it doesn't require "enabled" printers and supports legacy printers.
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What brand of printer? I have a HP and use the HP app and it works great as long as the printer and Tablet are on the same network. I think it will work with any printer as long as you're on the same network
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So does that mean the printer needs to be a WiFi printer?
My printer (HP) is attached with a printer cable to a desktop computer that is on the same network as my laptop and Prime. Can I print from Prime to a this non-WiFi printer, that is cabled to my desktop on the same network?
Suggested programs for Prime?
Same goes for Epson. Their Epson iPrint app works great. They even supply you with an "epsonconnect" email address so you can print outside your network.
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So does that mean the printer needs to be a WiFi printer?
My printer (HP) is attached with a printer cable to a desktop computer that is on the same network as my laptop and Prime. Can I print from Prime to a this non-WiFi printer, that is cabled to my desktop on the same network?
Suggested programs for Prime?
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Sounds like Google cloud print will work for you - you install some software on your PC and then there are multiple apps you can install on your phone.
Deskjet 3050 j610 does not have eprint. I have tried hp eprint home and biz but it does not let me print. It sees my printer but for some reason can't print to it. BTW I really hate this app it is very evil and annoying.
The whole point of this is to not have to pick up the laptop when I need to print. I hardly use my families laptop and spend most of my time on the tp(takes some getting use to when coming from a desktop as primary computer). I almost have it to where the prime is just as good if not better than my old and busted desktop. It is certainly faster believe it or not(old amd sempron 1.9GHz single with 1gb of ram). Sad I know. Yet, i do miss that 100gb HDD. I plan to get an SD card when I get some spare cash. After that I am building myself an amd/asus/radeon super computer.
Kinda got off topic there.
Using eprint is just not practical in this case. Hooking up the laptop to my printer so I can print from my tp just sounds stupid to me, it would be faster just to print directly from the laptop.
I have tried everything here. If anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong it would be greatly appreciated!
Edit: tried iprint as well and it can't find my printer
Have you considered this with your printer ?
PrintBot
I tried PrintBot last night.
I have two printers patched into my router. An old LaserJet4 and a HP OfficeJet D Series. I configured Printbot and tried printing the test page to both printers.
The Laserjet4 started printing but it printed wierd characters and spooling sheets of paper so I believe it was sent the wrong printer control characters.
The OfficeJet D Series managed to print the test page successfully.
Didn't have time to print anything else.
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Deskjet 3050 j610 does not have eprint. I have tried hp eprint home and biz but it does not let me print. It sees my printer but for some reason can't print to it. BTW I really hate this app it is very evil and annoying.
The whole point of this is to not have to pick up the laptop when I need to print. I hardly use my families laptop and spend most of my time on the tp(takes some getting use to when coming from a desktop as primary computer). I almost have it to where the prime is just as good if not better than my old and busted desktop. It is certainly faster believe it or not(old amd sempron 1.9GHz single with 1gb of ram). Sad I know. Yet, i do miss that 100gb HDD. I plan to get an SD card when I get some spare cash. After that I am building myself an amd/asus/radeon super computer.
Kinda got off topic there.
Using eprint is just not practical in this case. Hooking up the laptop to my printer so I can print from my tp just sounds stupid to me, it would be faster just to print directly from the laptop.
I have tried everything here. If anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong it would be greatly appreciated!
Edit: tried iprint as well and it can't find my printer
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I just printed a picture from my TFP using HP ePrint home and biz. I dont understand whats wrong with your setup it should work. If your prime sees the printer it should work. Try going in to the gallery than choose a pic or image than hit the share icon than more than hp and finally print. If that does not work your not registered with HP eprint service in that case register and Try again. HP should send a code through email to you that you put in the app or click a link so is instantly linked to your gmail account. Also I wasnt able to print directly from the app the first time I used it I had to go through the share icon. Good luck hope this helps
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$13 is a lot but Printershare works flawlessly for me, even for Printing PDFs. Fortunately I got it as a free paid app of the day from Amazon. I would just pay the money if I needed/wanted to print a lot from my devices. Sometimes it will go on sale for like half price too...maybe wait until then.
Not sure if this is what your looking for but, I recently bought a Canon Pixma wireless printer because I was tired of going to my dessktop pc to print something and wanted to print directly from my laptop and the wife's. Well lo and behold, Canon has an app, that I installed on my Prime and Samsung Droid Charge , that works like a charm !
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Not sure if this is what your looking for but, I recently bought a Canon Pixma wireless printer because I was tired of going to my dessktop pc to print something and wanted to print directly from my laptop and the wife's. Well lo and behold, Canon has an app, that I installed on my Prime and Samsung Droid Charge , that works like a charm !
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I was not able to find it on my bionic, so I searched for it on the web version of the market and found the canon app. Here's a link for anyone who needs it, in case your searching for it on an unsupported phone.
Canon printer app
https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.canon.bsd.android.aepp.activity&hl=en
i got printershare for free from amazon apps, much better than HP provided app.
check amazon app store for free stuff every day!
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I just printed a picture from my TFP using HP ePrint home and biz. I dont understand whats wrong with your setup it should work. If your prime sees the printer it should work. Try going in to the gallery than choose a pic or image than hit the share icon than more than hp and finally print. If that does not work your not registered with HP eprint service in that case register and Try again. HP should send a code through email to you that you put in the app or click a link so is instantly linked to your gmail account. Also I wasnt able to print directly from the app the first time I used it I had to go through the share icon. Good luck hope this helps
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It is very strange that this works yet nothing else does. The only way it works is if you go through the gallery. I blame the fact that this program is evil. Also the print was very slow and poor quality but I'm not sure what to blame.
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Have you considered this with your printer ?
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Wtf
Evo_Shift said:
$13 is a lot but Printershare works flawlessly for me, even for Printing PDFs. Fortunately I got it as a free paid app of the day from Amazon. I would just pay the money if I needed/wanted to print a lot from my devices. Sometimes it will go on sale for like half price too...maybe wait until then.
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lucky
i should check Amazon more often.
I refuse to pay so much for printershare and I don't think I would need it that badly. It just really bothers me that there is not a preloaded application for this. I am just stubborn and would not print a quiz off from the laptop because I had already downloaded it to my tp. It would just be a convenience that's all.
So, today I put my Prime through a trial by fire. I was on a job site, when a friend called me up asked me to stop by, and help him out with few computer issues. I was really not prepared for it, but I went anyway.
As for equipment, I had fully charged Transformer Prime and keyboard dock, a thumb drive.
The work that my friend wanted to do was fairly easy to do with a laptop, which I didn't have with me, but I thought screw it, and gave it a chance with Prime. Few hours later, everything was done! From downloading programs to a USB drive, to configuring few web pages, uploading stuff to FTP site, emailing, reviewing/editing quotes for mutual clients and taking down notes. Remote access to troubleshoot remote server, and examine client's event logs, and more.
I must say, I would never get such flexibility from an iPad 2 that I own. And Prime handled it all very well. And after I was done, I was able to enjoy few episodes of TV shows on the subway home.
Yes, Prime does have issues, such as weak wifi and gps, but the entire day I had it on Balanced, it went through all tasks without a hitch. And I am the kind of person who will have 2349082908340928 tabs open in Chrome. I had no problems doing the same in ICS browser and Opera. Prime took it all like a champ. With a ton of tabs open, I've experienced only one slowdown with stock browser.
So in closing, while being a great media device, it can be used to do some serious work. Will it completely replace my laptop? Probably not. Can it perform superbly and help me get work done? Definitely.
So there.
Thank you! Its good to see a good post for a change. I use my transformer prime all day at work for email, notes, office communicator, and of course browsing the internet.
Great post. Good to hear how well the Prime performed on a unexpected on the spot kinda thing. With the great battery life of prime, versatility, n tegra3 power this can easily be a major work horse device.
awesome!
10-char
Sweet! I plan on using this at work for a digital record of what I do at every job, google maps for getting to customers, downloading diaghrams/schematics and viewing them while working on the equipment, have an app on my evo that lets me access the company software = inverntory/customer info/work orders (hoping it will work on the Prime), and then all my side computer work. Hopefully it will be as good a tool as a toy!
You really should have gotten an ipad2.
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You really should have gotten an ipad2.
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I have that too. And honestly, I only keep it around for one app, Foreflight. Once it's out on Android, good bye iPad 2.
I haven't seen anyone post anything about it yet in this forum, so I just wanted to say that Splashtop Remote Desktop HD is the best remote desktop app I've used on this tablet. It has an amazing amount of features, check the app out here https://market.android.com/details?id=com.splashtop.remote.pad&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLnNwbGFzaHRvcC5yZW1vdGUucGFkIl0.
Looks great, I'm giving it a try. I was using jump desktop but it was super laggy and awful, this looks more up to my standards. Thanks!
The best for me too!
Great app using it here to
Simply the best! Never bring the laptop anymore since I out source all the processing at my home comp while im out. Truly unique to the S since it has host imputs! A must buy!
Splashtop:
Works great, keeps getting better, and it's useful for all kinds of stuff: Vid/aud playback, flashsites/Hulu, etc.
If you are using a keyboard, (the Sony Bluetooth KB works great btw) you have be sure that any encrypted keystroke program that you are running on the host computer is turned off.
For a bit of fun, try using Splashtop with WiFi File Transfer Pro. You can do direct PC file transfers from the Splashtop>WiFI File Transfer GUI to your S1.
Lots of fun things to be done with Splashtop, absolutely a must have.
works great this program. Have only tried the free version. Not really sure if I need this, but it works great. At least as long as I'm on my WiFi.
However, I can't get it to work remote when connected to a 3G connection. Even though I opened up the coresponding ports in my firewall. Oh well. Maybe I just missed some settings somewhere.
Fab app! Cheers for the recommendation. Will be very handy.
Thx, i´ll try it!
I agree , great app. Used everyday.
Worth noting that if your Tablet came with SelectApp (I think they all do), then you can find a Tablet S-optimised version of Splashtop in there. Admittedly, it doesnt actually seem very different, but if you open SelectApp, you can see that they're offering it as a separate version.
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Worth noting that if your Tablet came with SelectApp (I think they all do), then you can find a Tablet S-optimised version of Splashtop in there. Admittedly, it doesnt actually seem very different, but if you open SelectApp, you can see that they're offering it as a separate version.
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I think that's only a 10 minute demo if I remember correctly .
Yes, I can confirm that.
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Better word/excel processor, free for now, try it out
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.onlive.desktop
It isn`t available for my prime in market
Not available in my country (Norway)
MarketEnabler solved the availability
So its better than splashtop?
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So its better than splashtop?
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I was just reading about this from last week. I haven't used it yet, but it's a free virtualized Windows desktop from what I understand. Meaning it's essentially just like Splashtop in that you will have a Windows environment, however you don't need to provide the endstation you're connecting to like Splashtop- they create a virtual one on their servers. How much you can install on it or how long the sessions persist, etc, I haven't figured out since I haven't used it, but ideally this would give you free access to the Office Suite from anywhere for creating docs...
Anyway, like I said that's my understanding w/out having used it. Off to try it now
EDIT: Anyone getting it to work? I created an account, and when I try to log into the app, I get stuck at a "Connecting" hourglass...
Working super well on my Prime. Just upgraded to the $4.99/month plus version (Using it to post this - much better experience than splashtop for me.
not working for me :/ telling me my internet isn't high quality enough, even though I am on Fios, with 27000kbps download, so I dont see a problem.
Can you use Firefox or do you have to use Internet Explorer?
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Working super well on my Prime. Just upgraded to the $4.99/month plus version (Using it to post this - much better experience than splashtop for me.
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how did you install it on a prime?
same with me, says "Network Test Failed: OnLive was unable to complete an iInternet connection test. This might be caused by your router or firewall blocking certain internet traffic."
Tried this at work/home networks and tethered to my phone. No dice with all options
It's working super fast on my Prime, but I was let down when my keyboard dock didn't work. You have to use a built-in keyboard from their VM. I suppose I should have expected it, but I was looking forward to using a fully-fledged word processor with my Prime's keyboard.
Too bad.
Thought Id try this out, works great on my prime with flash and the browsing is amazing.
Definitely worth the extra and has increased what the prime with its dock can do.
Have to say that this kicks ass for a free service. Wonder how they support it considering I haven't seen any advertising yet.
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It's working super fast on my Prime, but I was let down when my keyboard dock didn't work. You have to use a built-in keyboard from their VM. I suppose I should have expected it, but I was looking forward to using a fully-fledged word processor with my Prime's keyboard.
Too bad.
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My keyboard dock is working. Restart it and try again.
My keyboard works fine also. Is there a way to download programs? I don't think there is, but that would be awesome
Could someone post the .apk. It's not available yet in the Netherlands.
Thanks in advance
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@Matthijs: look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23164470#post23164470
Works wonderfull from the Netherlands.
Don't forget to registrate (free) on the website of desktop.onlive.com, otherwise you cannot log in.
Cheers
Not working for me
It's not working for me either. I sideloaded the app on my prime.
It tells my my connection isn't good enough, which is strange considering I can run Onlive just fine.
Anyone got a workaround?
Howdy folks, got my Sony S yesterday & have barely put it down since! love its tactile feel & its ease of use! I plan to get a nas drive to gain access to my music/movies etc but the question I have today is about printing.
I have a 7series brother printer which, although is wireless, isnt supported by any of the apps ive found. It recieves the data but just doesnt do anything with it! All the apps ive found (inc the official Brother one) just dont have the correct drivers.
So I was just wondering who has successly paired a wireless printer to their tablet, which is stable. Ive found plenty of apps that seem to do the job, but before buying a new printer (all-in-one) I wanted to make sure I was getting the right one
I use PrinterShare, and it works perfectly. At home, I have a Canon MP620. At work, we have a couple of large HPs and a Bizhub. I have PrinterShare on my phone and tablet, and my colleagues are always amazed when we're heading out the door and realize we forgot something, and I just go to Google Drive and print directly from whatever device I've got out (ually my phone).
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I use PrinterShare, and it works perfectly. At home, I have a Canon MP620. At work, we have a couple of large HPs and a Bizhub. I have PrinterShare on my phone and tablet, and my colleagues are always amazed when we're heading out the door and realize we forgot something, and I just go to Google Drive and print directly from whatever device I've got out (ually my phone).
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Cheers. Do you print docs straight from the tablet/phone... or is it all cloud printing via google drive?
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I use PrinterShare, and it works perfectly.
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I agree. I also use PrinterShare Mobile Print and I came to appreciate its capabilities so much that I purchased its Premium Key. I have tried several printing apps, some free, some purchased, and I find PrinterShare to be the most versatile, non-intrusive, and user friendly of them all, and it has a comprehensive set of printer drivers. IMHO, you cannot find a better mobile printing app.
No cloud business required. Printer drivers are installed directly to the device. The device then communicates directly with the printer.
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