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Print photos from your iPhone with HP iPrint Photo
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.
Gallery: HP iPrint Photo App
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Dan S. said 8:43AM on 12-30-2008
So, what's the hack for those of us who live in Epson-only homes?
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Glyn Evans said 9:08AM on 12-30-2008
We broke this new back before Christmas, see http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2008/12/19/printing-from-the-iphone-now-possible-with-hps-iprint-photo.html
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dan rather said 8:42AM on 12-31-2008
Way to go Edward R Murrow.
John B. said 9:24AM on 12-30-2008
What about an app that uses Bonjour to print to your shared printer? It seens like that would benefit more people. Actually, why doesn't Apple just build that support right into the iPhone OS?
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nicleT said 9:34AM on 12-30-2008
Exactly!
phil said 11:45PM on 12-30-2008
@John B.
The technology that powers this app is OS X bonjour. This is just one if the first companies to employ it.
Nate said 9:22AM on 12-30-2008
This is a major breakthrough — for the first time in recent memory HP managed to print something without 300 MB of “drivers.”
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dasilvetz said 9:25AM on 12-30-2008
this is great news, having said that, is there any way to print regular mail documents/attachements/pdf's directly from the iPhone?
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Jason Martin said 9:58AM on 12-30-2008
It seems to me that all it would take would be for some enterprising person to come up with a simple program that converts those documents to a JPG file and then send it to this app or another like it. I know nothing about programming for iPhone, but given the cool stuff already out there, I can't imagine this would be too difficulty, but what do I know?
heytpn said 11:50AM on 12-30-2008
If you hit the home button and the power button at the same time, it sends a screenshot to your photo library.
Murphy Mac said 9:25AM on 12-30-2008
A step closer to the iPhone "It's a computer" claims becoming reality.
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nicleT said 10:14AM on 12-30-2008
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.
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pd18 said 11:01AM on 12-30-2008
@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.
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conigs said 4:07PM on 12-30-2008
Are you really suggesting taking a 480x320 screen shot of a PDF as a substitute for direct printing?
Vikram said 11:05AM on 12-30-2008
Another thing to add to the computer of an iPhone!
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Ryan Smallegan said 11:43AM on 12-30-2008
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)
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perfectcr said 11:56AM on 12-30-2008
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. :(
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Chris said 12:44PM on 12-30-2008
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.
notjustin said 12:22PM on 12-30-2008
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
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A A said 12:27PM on 12-30-2008
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
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