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Hey what is a good app to use so I can print pictures and webpages from my phone to a printer?
Printershare works well. You basically long click the url, select share-> printer share and you can send it to a wifi printer.
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One of the things that all android applications (and the system itself) lacks, is the ability to print. As mentioned, there are some weird HACKS that you can do to make this functionality a reality (hackishly), but what would be REALLY cool would be native network printer support. There is NO reason why this hardware can't handle CUPS.
Note that you CAN install CUPS on the phone and it WILL work, which would give you the ability to print from the terminal... and this is relatively easy... but due to application limitations, you wouldn't be able to print from any android applications that I am aware of.... the actual functionality on the application side would NOT even be difficult.
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Has anyone tried one of the new HP printers with "eprint"?
or Google Cloud Printing?
or some other way to print from your phone?
What I need is a way to print mainly emails, and some documents.
Does any one successfully print with this tab? Wifi or USB? If so what printer? I am using an app called Print Hand and it recognises my older HP Deskjet D4360. It will print, but some things it doesn't like, and I have to set up the printer each time. I'm just wondering if anybody has luck with this.
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droidxxxxx said:
Does any one successfully print with this tab? Wifi or USB? If so what printer? I am using an app called Print Hand and it recognises my older HP Deskjet D4360. It will print, but some things it doesn't like, and I have to set up the printer each time. I'm just wondering if anybody has luck with this.
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I have had excellent performance with the Cloud Print App. Uses Google Cloudprint and then forwards the print job to your PC - is seamless and has worked great for me - web pages, Word doc's from Documents to Go, etc.
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I have had excellent performance with the Cloud Print App. Uses Google Cloudprint and then forwards the print job to your PC - is seamless and has worked great for me - web pages, Word doc's from Documents to Go, etc.
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Yes..but I don't want to involve my computer. .as I need the copies in the field. I plan to direct print via usb, wifi, or bluetooth. I am purchasing a hp deskjet 460c that is on the supported acer print list..its a portable, nice and small made for the road. It has usb for sure..i'll have to buy the wifi or bluetooth cards. Hopefully it will do ok. I've tried printhand to print from another othwise unsupported printer, with so so results. I'm having trouble with the rendering software making my excel sheets split the header..making it have 3 pages and on the forth page being what I wanted to print, it has part of the 5th page at the bottom because the header is taking up the first three pages which shouldn't be happening. .lol. maybe acer print will render it correctly.
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Yes..but I don't want to involve my computer. .as I need the copies in the field. I plan to direct print via usb, wifi, or bluetooth. I am purchasing a hp deskjet 460c that is on the supported acer print list..its a portable, nice and small made for the road. It has usb for sure..i'll have to buy the wifi or bluetooth cards. Hopefully it will do ok. I've tried printhand to print from another othwise unsupported printer, with so so results. I'm having trouble with the rendering software making my excel sheets split the header..making it have 3 pages and on the forth page being what I wanted to print, it has part of the 5th page at the bottom because the header is taking up the first three pages which shouldn't be happening. .lol. maybe acer print will render it correctly.
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Sorry, I didn't get that from the original. I don't have Acer Print since I am running a custom ROM but I would think any WiFi enabled printer will work assuming you have an App that handles the print render - sometimes it is 'share' and then select the printer. Sorry not more help.
Looks like there is also an HP print App on Play that support both WiFi direct printing (for equipped/capable printers) as well as cloud printing - if your printer supports the WiFi direct printing that would maybe be your answer.
Good luck.
I bought a Brother J430W recently, and installed their iBrother app on both my phone and this one. I can print scan, via WiFi. tried once to print a photo, looks fine. tried to scan a lot, works great, can save as PDF or JPG. it really made the PC obsolete.
Has anyone managed to get printing working with older HP laserjets with built in print server (Jet Direct)
Well..the winning combination is an HP deskjet 460C with the wifi card. I have it connected to my phone hotspot by printing out the wifi info page and finding out the mac address and name of the device. Then I simply entered that info in the add devices section in the wifi tether settings. Right when I did that the green light came on on the wifi card and it was a go. The best app I have found for the printing part is Wifi Print Easy Reader. I still have Printhand installed because it works too..and I paid like 9 bucks for it lol, but it just doesn't like Excel files. WithEeasy Reader it saves it as a PDF and then prints it..which I guess I could do manually but this actually renders it better...working great I can print anything wirelessly now and keep my usb mouse keyboard dongle plugged in..no more wires at all..and streaming Slacker Radio across my bluetooth FM transmitter at the same time..lol. I'm going to purchase the battery for the printer and eliminate one other cord. It's really a sweet little printer.. very portable.
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Well..the winning combination is an HP deskjet 460C with the wifi card.
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How much does the ink cost you? If the ink is at $5 to $10 each, you really should not spend all the money and effort on that.
ctiger said:
I bought a Brother J430W recently, and installed their iBrother app on both my phone and this one. I can print scan, via WiFi. tried once to print a photo, looks fine. tried to scan a lot, works great, can save as PDF or JPG. it really made the PC obsolete.
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Same here .. I love my brother printer . Works perfectly from any and all of my devices. No need at all for a computer
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How much does the ink cost you? If the ink is at $5 to $10 each, you really should not spend all the money and effort on that.
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I don't think its too expensive..t takes the HP 94 and 95 cartridges I think..its worth it for the portability.. If I have a lot to print I go to the office lol
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Hi there
I was looking for some cool applications for Note 3 which you all are using. NO stock apps please.
Mainly I am looking to keep notes, looking at offline maps of cities (detailed), any way I could write with S pen and it is automatically converted into typed words. Other handy business applications that could be of help!
Thanks alot in advance!
Mobile Notes is a note taker that will transform your scribblings into digital text, LectureNotes is an excellent note taker for handwriting with S-Pen. There is also an calculator app that takes handwriting input.
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MapsWithMe Pro. Brilliant offline map app, ridiculously detailed, it even lists benches and powerlines. Based on Openstreetmaps.Org as opposed to google maps.
Another app I've found to be incredibly useful is Sidebar Pro. It gives you a sidebar you can swipe onto the screen with a list of apps and toggles you can manually add (every app, not just a specific few) and also lists active apps you can open or swipe away to close.
There are free versions of both.
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adblockplus (wifi only without root with the wifi proxy thing ) or ffox with adblock extension (no root).
likewise, norootfirewall. (it's a bit meh compared to android firewall...)
disablemanager to disable some of the bloatware (although samsung marks some bloat as essential so you need root)
appops shortcut - to revoke the permissions for some of the things I install. pity you can't revoke the internet one
FileManager - decent free file manager without annoying fremium
JetAudio - FLAC, folders, DSP, etc (although the shake to switch song feature breaks up audio when walking - must be the sensor monitoring or interrupt algo :/ )
ezPdfreader \ repligo - instead of adobe reader for PDFs to easier scroll/page zoom. (although reflow is not perfect on either. by far)
MultiLing keyboard - because although beta-ish, it's pretty amazing for one handed typing and YMMV may have better swype.
a mix of super backup and i'm not sure what, because without root there's not TBU
Any alt apps for watchon for the IR remote?
Try smart remote...its a paid app, but it works for everythind I have ...climate control, hifi, tv, cable..ect....basically I hve not touched any of my IR remote after installing this.
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Kumabjorn said:
Mobile Notes is a note taker that will transform your scribblings into digital text, LectureNotes is an excellent note taker for handwriting with S-Pen. There is also an calculator app that takes handwriting input.
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ShadowLea said:
MapsWithMe Pro. Brilliant offline map app, ridiculously detailed, it even lists benches and powerlines. Based on Openstreetmaps.Org as opposed to google maps.
Another app I've found to be incredibly useful is Sidebar Pro. It gives you a sidebar you can swipe onto the screen with a list of apps and toggles you can manually add (every app, not just a specific few) and also lists active apps you can open or swipe away to close.
There are free versions of both.
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svyr said:
adblockplus (wifi only without root with the wifi proxy thing ) or ffox with adblock extension (no root).
likewise, norootfirewall. (it's a bit meh compared to android firewall...)
disablemanager to disable some of the bloatware (although samsung marks some bloat as essential so you need root)
appops shortcut - to revoke the permissions for some of the things I install. pity you can't revoke the internet one
FileManager - decent free file manager without annoying fremium
JetAudio - FLAC, folders, DSP, etc (although the shake to switch song feature breaks up audio when walking - must be the sensor monitoring or interrupt algo :/ )
ezPdfreader \ repligo - instead of adobe reader for PDFs to easier scroll/page zoom. (although reflow is not perfect on either. by far)
MultiLing keyboard - because although beta-ish, it's pretty amazing for one handed typing and YMMV may have better swype.
a mix of super backup and i'm not sure what, because without root there's not TBU
Any alt apps for watchon for the IR remote?
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Try smart remote...its a paid app, but it works for everythind I have ...climate control, hifi, tv, cable..ect....basically I hve not touched any of my IR remote after installing this.
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I am very grateful to all of you for sharing your experience and applications. Highly appreciated. I will try all of them !
I ran out of thanks if I hadnot thanked you today, you will get soon !
I've been using the Google Cloud Print app on my Nexus 10 since it came out. I went to print one of my notes from Google Keep today by long pressing and then accessing the share menu. However, Google Cloud Print was no longer listed. So I looked in my app drawer and noticed it was missing. I then went to the play store to reinstall in, however it was already installed! The strange part is when I click on it, there is no option to open it or uninstall it like there usually is. I figured this probably got messed up when the Kitkat update came out. But I looked on my wife's Moto X which is also on 4.4, and hers can still access the Google Cloud Print app from the share menu of Google Keep (and it still appears in her app drawer). Her phone is just Android 4.4, while my Nexus 10 is 4.4.2, so I'm not sure if they changed it between 4.4 and 4.4.2. Since I only had regular 4.4 on my tablet for about a week, I don't recall if the Google Cloud Print app worked when I was on regular 4.4 or not. I'm guessing Google may have disabled it thinking that app developers would all start using the new print capability of Kitkat. But not even a 1st party app like Keep supports it yet! Does anyone else have this issue? Or at least a work around so I can print from Keep?
I'm using Google Print, but I don't have an app, it's in Settings, towards the bottom. I've had no problems.
Edit to add that I dont use the Keep app, so cant help you there. I mostly print from Gmail.
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I'm using Google Print, but I don't have an app, it's in Settings, towards the bottom. I've had no problems.
Edit to add that I dont use the Keep app, so cant help you there. I mostly print from Gmail.
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Thanks sttovo. I do have it in Settings under the Printing section as well. But it seems that only shows up in apps that have the new Print capability. The nice thing with the old Good Cloud Print app was that you could access it from the share menu in apps. Once more developers add the Print capability to their apps, this shouldn't be an issue any more. But in the mean time I don't know that there is a solution for apps that don't have a Print option but do have a Share option.
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Thanks Steve. I do have it in Settings under the Printing section as well. But it seems that only shows up in apps that have the new Print capability. The nice thing with the old Good Cloud Print app was that you could access it from the share menu in apps. Once more developers add the Print capability to their apps, this shouldn't be an issue any more. But in the mean time I don't know that there is a solution for apps that don't have a Print option but do have a Share option.
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OK - I understand now. The native Google Print integration for 4.4 is for certain apps, like Gmail, Chrome and Google Drive.
I use Printershare Mobile Print (not free) to do what you stated. I don't know if it integrates with every app, but it did have a share-to option. I haven't used it about 6 months, so make sure you read up on it if you decide to buy. Sorry I wasn't of any help.
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OK - I understand now. The native Google Print integration for 4.4 is for certain apps, like Gmail, Chrome and Google Drive.
I use Printershare Mobile Print (not free) to do what you stated. I don't know if it integrates with every app, but it did have a share-to option. I haven't used it about 6 months, so make sure you read up on it if you decide to buy. Sorry I wasn't of any help.
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Thanks sttovo, I will check that out. Prior to the Official Google Cloud Print app, there was one by a 3rd party app that I used (also called cloud print). I may try that one again or try the HP e-Print app.
Any local network only alternatives to Android printing?
I get that the cloud is the way of the future and there's a huge convenience factor (no drivers, print from anywhere, etc...) but I just prefer not to hand sensitive docs out to a cloud service just to get them printed. Is there a way to remove the "Cloud" from printing with Android? I have never been able to print from Android because I'd really like to keep my printing local and not send sensitive documents to the cloud.
If my printer has no gateway configured and I'm able to disable my Nexus 10 wi-fi and print a document, I'd be on cloud 9 (ok, bad pun intended)
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I get that the cloud is the way of the future and there's a huge convenience factor (no drivers, print from anywhere, etc...) but I just prefer not to hand sensitive docs out to a cloud service just to get them printed. Is there a way to remove the "Cloud" from printing with Android? I have never been able to print from Android because I'd really like to keep my printing local and not send sensitive documents to the cloud.
If my printer has no gateway configured and I'm able to disable my Nexus 10 wi-fi and print a document, I'd be on cloud 9 (ok, bad pun intended)
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Look at my post, 2 before yours, is that not what you need? I know it's not free, but it doesn't involve the cloud at all.
jimmyn89 said:
Thanks sttovo, I will check that out. Prior to the Official Google Cloud Print app, there was one by a 3rd party app that I used (also called cloud print). I may try that one again or try the HP e-Print app.
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Cloud print and cloud print pro (registered version) that is a frontend by Paulo Fernandez for Google cloud print. It works with any app that has a share button and can print from drop box, Google drive and sky drive or even straight from the clipboard Or Google calander. I love this app. I noticed Google added the cloud print to a few of their apps this time around, but still prefer this app (along WITH google cloud print) since it has many more setting you can change . you can also still print from almost any app/screen on the n10 (can't with Google print alone, yet)
I absolutely think this is where Google print should be heading, but it is already in this app!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pauloslf.cloudprint
sttovo said:
Look at my post, 2 before yours, is that not what you need? I know it's not free, but it doesn't involve the cloud at all.
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It looks like Printer Share might be a solution for me! I'm going to try their free app and see how it works. Thanks, sttovo!!
I know its possible to do it the other way but my question is, can it be reversed?
Why im asking? Well i jest got my Cardboard VR set and its amazing!
My Oculus Rift DK2 is on the way but i thought i can use the screen on the note 3 to mirror my desktop and try use it as DK1.5 minus the position tracking, Because DK2 uses Note's 3 screen anyway so i thought why not give it a go.
Sorry if been asked before.
Thanks.