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Print photos from your iPhone with HP iPrint Photo

by Steven Sande Dec 30th 2008 at 8:00AM

How would you like to be able to shoot photos on your iPhone, and then immediately print them on your HP printer?

HP has a new product called iPrint Photo (click opens iTunes) available in the App Store that makes it very simple to print your iPhone pictures. The free download opens to a list of photo albums that looks very similar to the list in the Photos app on the iPhone. Tapping on a photo brings up a Print Photo page with a large Print button on it (see photo at right). If you only have one networked printer available, just tapping the Print button sends a 4x6 inch (10x15 cm) print job to that printer.

If more than one HP inkjet printer is on your local Wi-Fi network, tapping on a printer search icon brings up a Chooser-like list of printers that you can select one from. This is an excellent free app -- it took no setup and I was able to print a picture immediately after downloading the software from the app store.

Between this software and HP's announcement of their Mac-compatible media server, it looks like HP is starting to play nice with Apple!

Check out the gallery below for a few more photos of this app in use.



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Tom

"it looks like HP is starting to play nice with Apple!"

Starting? HP has usually always done well alongside Apple, being one of the first printer companies to adopt Bonjour, selling HP branded iPods, preloading machines with iTunes and so on. It even extends to the enterprise side, with the majority of the HP Storage solutions certified to work with OS X on XServes.

December 30 2008 at 11:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ladanada1

Worked great on my networked Photosmart 3310. Color great. Looks just like one printed from my PC. Nice work HP/Apple.

December 30 2008 at 4:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
A A

Nice App. I hope that the other printer manufacturers start creating their own utilities similar to this one. Hello Brother, Epson, Cannon, Lexmark, are you guys listening?

Arvi

December 30 2008 at 12:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
notjustin

I was really looking forward to trying this app. But I guess my Photosmart P1000 printer that I just bought is not supported. Ok, maybe it is a little old, but it still works and prints just like it did 12 years ago.

If you are reading these comments before trying the app, here is HP's list of supported printers....
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01619067&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3857218

December 30 2008 at 12:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
perfectcr

I wonder if it still prints in BLACK AND WHITE ONLY? I have an HP All-in-One printer and when plugged into the Airport Extreme N Router printing wirelessly yeilds black and white only. The only way to get color is to connect the printer directly to my MBP. Anyone else have this issue? There is a huge thread on the Apple Discussion Forums but no fix. :(

December 30 2008 at 11:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Chris

I had the same problem with a new HP printer (Deskjet D1560). Black and white only when plugged into my TimeCapsule or AirportExpress. I called HP support and was told it was a "known issue related to the HP drivers". The rep suggested to "return the printer" when I asked about possible solutions. Had the printer returned the same day. Picked up a wireless Lexmark and love it.

December 30 2008 at 12:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan

FYI, I checked and although they just advertised wifi printers it also works with HP wired network printers. (I was using an HP Photosmart 3200 Series)

December 30 2008 at 11:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Vikram

Another thing to add to the computer of an iPhone!

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December 30 2008 at 11:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pd18

@dasilvetz:

Take a screenshot of your mail/attachment/PDF, by holding down the home and sleep buttons. Then launch iPrint, enter your camera roll and you should be able to print whatever you want.

December 30 2008 at 10:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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conigs

Are you really suggesting taking a 480x320 screen shot of a PDF as a substitute for direct printing?

December 30 2008 at 4:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
niclet

A little search shows also:

Print
http://mobile.eurosmartz.com/print/index.html

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=299105918

I didn't try it and users comments aren't too "eulogistic"! I can't believe that Apple didn't implement a full native iPhone Print Utility. The iPhone is still missing this feature.

December 30 2008 at 10:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Murphy Mac

A step closer to the iPhone "It's a computer" claims becoming reality.

December 30 2008 at 9:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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