Our Verdict
It may not be easy to print from your iPhone , iPod cutaneous senses , or iPad , but it can be done — ply you seek out the avail of a third - political party app . But which one should you turn to for help ? Here ’s a looking at three apps contend to wait on you with all your mobile printing pauperism .
Under My Thumb(nail ): PrinterShare ’s mark preview screen displays thumbnail views of all pages of your document , and provides some control over printing options .
PrinterShareis an clumsy app to set up ; besides establish it on your Mac , you also have to register an business relationship . After that , on your Mac , you have to specify which pressman ( or printers ) you want to partake in , whether you need to hide your printer from search results ( more on this in a moment ) , rule the remote printer as registered online , select the pressman ( which is now displayed in two panes of the main Mac applications programme window , and then configure the printer ( paper size , “ notify me on job completion , ” encrypt or not , and so on ) . In summation , a third windowpane appears when you select the Mac app ’s “ incoming ” push , and that provides you with a variety of option , include setting default permissions ( automatically download and print from approved users , await for blessing , remove , and so forth ) .
Under My Thumb(nail): PrinterShare’s print preview screen displays thumbnail views of all pages of your document, and provides some control over printing options.
This all makes gumption , in a way , because PrinterShare is designed to enable you to publish remotely , over the Web , and to allow multiple drug user to publish to the same motorcar remotely . ( For example , employee can all remotely print to a share printer . ) However , there ’s no ostensible alternative for simply printing over a local meshwork . And although you may choose to hide out your printing machine from search issue ( when you are search for a printing machine from the iPhone app ) , it seems that the only room for users to find their own pressman is to make it public and find it ; then , once that ’s done , they can hide it from lookup results . It ’s a confusing process , in part because developerDynamix Softwareattempts to protect users from having their printer hijacked by nameless users . It seems , however , that the first choice should merely enable you to link your iPhone to your pressman by using your user ID , and that “ searching ” for printer should be a secondary choice ( because it would probably be unneeded for most users ) .
You ’ve Got Options : ePrint ’s home screen displays several excess features not include in other printing apps — the power to create and print usance cards and calendar pages using your pic .
PrinterShare let you impress photos , contacts , Web pages , and the contents of your iPhone ’s clipboard . The results are not defective , but far from perfect : you have no control over the font sizing on Web pages , so the results may release out to be hard , if not unimaginable , to read because the resulting printout uses too modest a font size of it . You must type in the URL you need to print every time ; you ca n’t save or bookmark pages you want to print oft . In addition , the app is prone to crashing and freezing ; when I tried to publish my contacts , the app block every time , and took several attempts to restart the right way .
You’ve Got Options: ePrint’s home screen displays several extra features not included in other printing apps—the ability to create and print custom cards and calendar pages using your photos.
PrinterShare version 1.3.1 is compatible with the iPad ; the iPad version takes advantage of the intact screen in standard iPad resolution , and works in just the same fashion on the iPad as it does on the iPhone .
ePrintfromMicrotechis an excellent app that enables you to print from your iPhone to printers connected to your local area electronic internet . It ’s an elegant offering , which you configure on your iPhone by supply a printing machine that the app can notice using Bonjour ; you’re able to also typewrite in the printer ’s IP computer address . The app does a brilliant caper of printing clear Web Sir Frederick Handley Page , and it earmark you to save bookmarks and even organize them into folder . In a nice contact , the app saves your browsing story , which can come in very ready to hand if you ’ve forgotten to bookmark a Sir Frederick Handley Page that you later decide you need to print .
More Screen Space : ePrint uses the iPad ’s generous screen real the three estates to offer beautiful , gravid - scale previews of documents before printing , in this fount a calendar page .
More Screen Space: ePrint uses the iPad’s generous screen real estate to offer beautiful, large-scale previews of documents before printing, in this case a calendar page.
ePrint enable you to also publish cards and calendar pages using photos store in your iPhone library , print notes you take within the app , and print a inclination of selected contact . When you select Print from any of the module , you ’re present with a standard , graceful mark options screen that show page previews ( in thumbnail form that you’re able to analyse more closely by tap on the image , which then expands to satisfy the iPhone blind ) . The preferences screen door also offers a variety of paper size and layout choice . The app is also stable and fast : there ’s little delay in printing requested documents .
ePrint 3.3 is iPad compatible , and works identically to the iPhone interlingual rendition . Like PrinterShare , it also uses the full resolution of the iPad blind to bring home the bacon serious views and easier pilotage on the bad screen .
Ready , Set , Print : DocPrinter ’s print preview page enable you to take the number of copy you want printed and narrow down a page range for printing . It also bear duplex house printing .
Ready, Set, Print: DocPrinter’s print preview page enables you to select the number of copies you want printed and specify a page range for printing. It also supports duplex printing.
DocPrinteris one ofmore than a half - dozen printer appsoffered byEuroSmartz ; it ’s also one of the developer ’s more versatile offerings .
DocPrinter enables you to download and publish documents from FTP , WebDAV , iDisk accounts , and a folder you define via the Mac - host WePrint waiter . you’re able to e - postal service Web pages , photos , and document from within DocPrinter , although the app does not enable you to have e - mail . It does allow you to eastward - postal service , exportation , move , rename , and even make zip fastener data file of your shared pamphlet documents , powerful functions for this type of app .
You also have the capability to employ DocPrinter as a virtual intemperate drive , arrange it up via your Mac as a electronic connection gimmick .
Picture Perfect: DocPrinter’s iPad display provides an excellent, high-resolution preview of documents to be printed.
The app performed well in a test printing from a Google Docs history , and did an excellent line of work of import from my Mac and afterwards print a complex PDF file .
Picture Perfect : DocPrinter ’s iPad show put up an first-class , in high spirits - resolve preview of document to be print .
DocPrinter also enables you to select contact you want to print , and give up you to choose whether you want them printed in list or scorecard shape . you’re able to print ( or save as documents ) photo , entanglement Page , contacts and contact leaning , and documents you ’ve download from one of your WWW or FTP accounts , or from your Mac ’s specified folder .
pressman options are also impressive , as you’re able to opt a Sir Frederick Handley Page stove to print from , and , if you have a duplex apartment pressman , you’re able to take semidetached house impression as well .
DocPrinter is a stiff offering from EuroSmartz , but it comes at a relatively high price . It ’s also worth noting that other EuroSmartz apps have some iPhone printing capability that DocPrinter does not offer , such as printing e - chain armor . set up the app to work with your networked printing machine and Mac , which is necessary for you to use all of DocPrinter ’s mapping , is fair straightforward , and EuroSmartz offers well - organized and well - write help pedagogy at its Web site .
DocPrinter 2.2 human action like the other printing apps in this review in that it ’s a intercrossed app that runs on the iPad . While it take advantage of the entire iPad screen , DocPrinter works the same in iPad form as it does on the iPhone .
[ Jeff Merron is a free lance writer and editor living in North Carolina . ]
