Air Photo prints photos directly from iPhone or iPod touch

Our good friends at Download Squad found a great app on the App Store called Air Photo that will let you wirelessly print pictures directly from your iPhone or iPod touch. Just install the app (for $1.99, cheap if you print your iPhone's photos often) on your mobile device, put the server on your Mac (or PC, if you swing that way), and then you can snap and print at will. Connecting to the server from your device opens up a Bonjour window, where you can crop or adjust the picture and then print whatever you like.

While the technology itself won't be that helpful for everyone (who really prints pictures any more, especially iPhone pictures?), it is interesting to see this done so easily and well with a wireless connection. Sure, there's apps like Remote and the Keynote controllers, but it seems like the iPhone-as-wireless-accessory idea is still relatively untapped on the App Store.

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heytpn

Wow.... it worked once and only once. After that it didn't work NO MATTER WHAT I DID. It's not something I did, since I just did exactly what it told me to. It also took about 30 minutes for me to find the software to download. DO NOT BUY THIS!!!!

January 22 2009 at 4:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pistol

I was amazed when I printed a photo straight from my iPhone to my HP networked printer, without the PC being on.

Amazed because it's the only time a piece of HP software has just plain worked.

January 22 2009 at 9:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben Wisdom

...documents directly to a printer from the iPhone.

[Sorry, something weird happened with my comment.]

January 22 2009 at 9:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben Wisdom

I'm glad this is conceptually possible, but I'm waiting for the ability to print >>any

January 22 2009 at 9:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

DA360

This is another peice of software that I hope soon becomes a future feature in the device itself, because I could see this being very useful. Especially if you received a picture in email, it would be cool if you could just shoot it off to your printer ASAP.

Either way, this software seems like a really good idea for those who like to print allot of photos.

January 22 2009 at 6:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

snave

If you don't have a HP printer, then this is currently your only solution if you want to print photo's from your iPhone. Come on Canon, Epson etc. if HP and a 3rd party developer can do it, so can you!!

January 22 2009 at 1:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tdowling

What would be nice is if someone came up with a way to print just any ol' document directly from the iPhone via Bonjour.

January 22 2009 at 12:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

shane

The HP iPrint is much better. It's free, and it requires no setup at all. It will find the network printer for you and set up the relationship automatically.

I think it may only work with HP printers though.

January 21 2009 at 11:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brandon

Even better is HP iPrint. It will allow you to send your iPhone photos straight to a wireless HP printer as long as your on the network. It only prints 4x6, but it does them borderless and without any trouble. It worked great on two different wireless HP printers that I tried it on.

January 21 2009 at 11:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brenden Delzer

I wish there was an app available that would allow me to send photos to my Pogo printer! :(

January 21 2009 at 9:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply