“Support notes for the iPad’s iWork apps all note that ‘printing directly from iPad is not currently available’ and imply that it will be an option at a later date,” Electronista reports.
“Rumors so far haven’t confirmed whether or not it would appear in Thursday’s special event, though it presents the first clear opportunity,” Electronista reports.
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Just seems to me that Apple would have included printing at the beginning for the iPad. I can do without Flash, so-called multi-tasking, etc., but cannot do without ability to print.
Printing from iWork, along with Excel and PowerPoint export will make the iPad infinitely more useful for me as a work tool. The email, calendar and contacts apps already blow away anything else I use.
Makes sense they would release it when they release OS 4. That way the iPad, iPhone and iPod all have the same OS features.
I mean, printing is not that hard, seeing as there are several printing apps available. I use the HP app. Of course, you’ll need a wireless printer, or a printer shared over Bonjour.
I think for me thats the only thing lacking currently in the ipad, printing support. i´m a lawyer and notary public it will be great just to have my ipad with all my legal forms and just print from anywhere and not to worry about what arcaic windows version my client has in his pc.
That would be the cats’ whiskers
1. printing is a non-issue
2. in pages for ipad you can save the file or email the file to a server that will then print the file for you – that is how companies and offices will handle printing
3. there are many printer drivers for many printers
4. apple should not pick and choose which printers they will support and they will not do so
5. printing direct from a portable device is not really necessary
ipad is awesome, this is more nonsense
@ chu
get a server that polls an email address and prints out the attachements, that’s what offices do, that’s what I do
i’m a lawyer too
Steve Jobs, could we also get AirTunes support?
I think printing on an iPad would be great!
I’m not a lawyer thank god! (and still have a soul.)
I live in the UK and a colleague is going to Ohio next week for 3 days. She has offered to buy me an iPad, so I’m going to give her the money and get my very own piece of techno goodness.
I can’t tell you how excited I am!!!
Does anyone know what the sales tax is in Ohio?
Jamie: You can Google “Ohio sales tax rates” and get a whole list; you might need to know what county your friend is going to as they can vary from area to area.
@Jamie
Money for an iPad and a trip to the U.S.? You may never see her again.
ploogman. “get a server that polls an email address and prints out the attachements, that’s what offices do, that’s what I do
i’m a lawyer too
But I can’t spell. Amazing.
“i’m a lawyer too”
And my name is Bill Gates…
Here at MDN we can be anything we want to be. Hell, I’m a NASCAR driver!
I suspect he can spell just not so good hitting the right key at times like most of us mortals.
I can see two ways this could be done without having to have a bunch of drivers loaded on iPhones or iPads –
1) The printer would need to be setup through iTunes and would only need to copy the driver for the printer you specify on to the device.
2) Set up printing through MobileMe. Again the setup would only require specific drivers for the printer you setup on MobileMe and wouldn’t require thousands of drivers loaded on the devices. The driver would be loaded on MobileMe.
… and I’m an astronaut. I’m typing this on my pre-release iPad space edition from the space station. LOL.
Patience, folks. Remember when the first iPhone came out, and the limitations that people were complaining about? Over the next few months we’ll be seeing all kinds of additions, improvements and bug fixes. You’re on the bleeding edge, so buckle your seat belts and enjoy the ride!
There are apps for printing from iPad. My favorite is Air Sharing HD, but there are others. The others all make you install something on a desktop computer in order to print; Air Sharing uses Printer Sharing. On the other hand, Air Sharing can only print if you have Mac or Linux on some machine on your network. Print n Share and some others can print via their own Windows apps.
So this is really not news. Apple may catch up with these guys eventually, but so what? The apps are only $5-10.
@ Rick Sterner
Never mention bleeding and the iPad together again! Shame on you!
Personally. I want tethering, multitasking (which I have using my iPhone jailbreak) and network file sharing. Using drop box and such is a pita. Just let me map a drive already.
Having to exit out of programs in order to copy and paste. Or respond to a skype message,etc is beyond kludgy and far from productive (which is what I thought Apple was all about).
@Ploogman,
“1. printing is a non-issue”
Unless you *need* to print. Then it becomes the only issue.
“2. in pages for ipad you can save the file or email the file to a server that will then print the file for you – that is how companies and offices will handle printing”
That’s great except for when you don’t have access to a server.
“3. there are many printer drivers for many printers”
There’s another way. All that needs to happen is apps can write PDFs to a “Print” folder. Printer apps can then read these files from the folder and send them to specific printers. You could also see the files in the folder and send them to other apps (like email) and sync this folder with iTunes. This would work two-way so you could do things like always have your resume ready for printing.
“4. apple should not pick and choose which printers they will support and they will not do so”
They wouldn’t need to. Any printer manufacturer (or 3rd party) can create a printer app that accesses the PDFs in the Print folder. All Apple needs to do is approve the printer app in the store.
It should be noted that most of this is actually already in place. The major printer makers (HP, Canon, etc…) already have printer apps and 3rd parties already have printer apps in the App Store. The iPhone OS already allows apps to write PDFs. All that needs to happen now is the opening of a Print folder and the apps to be modified to access that instead of just what they can now.
“5. printing direct from a portable device is not really necessary”
Unless you need to.
It also opens the door to other things as well. For example, you could have apps that access the Print folder and fax the documents, or print via IP to anywhere in the world. FedEx/Kinkos could have an app that accepts all kinds of print jobs. And photo stores could allow you to print your photos. These are just some of the possibilities, and it doesn’t require much work to be done.
@ricmac – Here at MDN we can be anything we want to be. Hell, I’m a NASCAR driver!
I love it!! Not many times do I for real LOL, but you made my day! Hmmm, let’s see, what do I want to be today? I know, a beach bum in the tropics…, that’s it, hey y’all, I can use my iPad and print from my own beach… remotely too!
One of my biggest irritants is how printer manufacturers have so many different “Printer Drivers” for every different printer, and little or no support or update process.
The more you spend for a printer, the less likely the driver software is to be maintained. I have an expensive large format printer and an expensive MultiFunction Color Laser printer, neither of which have drivers that will work without issues on Snow Leopard despite being current products 18 months ago.
There must be a better way.