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HP experts to provide real-time support for Snow Leopard users on 9/9

by Steven Sande (Sep 1st, 2009)

Have you upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and found that your HP printer or All-in-one is having issues? HP announced today that experts from the company will be providing real-time support on September 9th to help you out. From 8 AM to 5 PM PDT on September 9th, 2009, HP's Mac-connect team ...

Try Bonjour on your PC for using Mac printers

by Mel Martin (Jul 26th, 2009)

It's not a hidden secret, but lots of people simply don't know about it. We mentioned it ourselves more than a year ago in answer to a reader question, but I think it's worth a revisit. Here's my scenario. People show up at the house with PC laptops and want to print something. A boarding pass, an ...

TUAW review and giveaway: Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer

by Steven Sande (Mar 25th, 2009)

This review has an interesting history. Back at the end of January, Polaroid sent a note to TUAW requesting that we ask our readers to join in asking Apple to support Bluetooth printing from the iPhone. Polaroid had a very good reason for doing this, since the iPhone is a phenomenally successful ...

Polaroid: Help us convince Apple to add Bluetooth transfer support

by Steven Sande (Jan 30th, 2009)

We received an interesting email this morning from Polaroid -- they are asking for the assistance of iPhone owners to convince Apple to provide Bluetooth transfer support for the platform. Adding Bluetooth transfer support would make it possible for the iPhone to print to the new Polaroid PoGo ...

TUAW Macworld Video: HP Products for Mac

by Steven Sande (Jan 7th, 2009)

If you were one of the many people who were expecting Apple to announce some sort of Mac mini-based home media server yesterday, you weren't alone. We talked about another media server solution, HP's MediaSmart Server, a small Mac-compatible device that can be used for Time Machine backups, iTunes ...

Terminal Tips: Make extended print dialog show by default

by Cory Bohon (Sep 15th, 2008)

When you print something in Mac OS X, the standard print dialog window will pop up. However, if you always use the extended options (such as landscape/portrait orientation, number of copies, etc.) then you might have to click the blue arrow constantly. With this Terminal hack, the print dialog ...

Apple releases HP Printer Driver update 1.1

by Cory Bohon (Jul 15th, 2008)

Apple just released an update for HP Printer support in Mac OS X. The update weighs in at a whopping 405.1 MBs and includes "latest drivers for printers you have used on your system." In order to download the update via Software Update (Apple menu > Software Update), you must have the affected ...

TUAW Tip: Auto-quit Printers in Leopard

by Mat Lu (Nov 13th, 2007)

I just ran across this simple, but handy tip over at Mac OS X Hints. One of the little annoyances of Leopard that didn't make our recent post is the way Leopard handles printers. When you print something it starts the little application that controls the print queue for that device but (unlike ...

Apple the exclusive retailer of new Samsung printers

by Mat Lu (Sep 21st, 2007)

I don't recall this happening any time recently; the Korean newspaper Chosunilbo is reporting that Apple is the exclusive US retailer for a new line of Samsung printers, at least until January 2008. The printers in question are the slick piano black monochrome laser ML-1630 ($199.95) and ...

Ask TUAW: Windows Printing, AutoFill, FireWire HDs, MacBook power adapters and more

by Mat Lu (Aug 29th, 2007)

It's time again for Ask TUAW, our weekly feature where you ask the questions and we make up the answers... er, I mean carefully research and determine the optimal solution. This week we'll be tackling questions about printing from OS X to a printer connected to a Windows box, AutoFill in Safari, ...

Faster printing through Quicksilver or a simple drag and drop

by David Chartier (Jul 23rd, 2007)

At TUAW HQ we absolutely love Quicksilver, the powerful, incredibly extensible and indispensable productivity tool, as it's capable of speeding up just about any conceivable operation on your Mac. Still, with everything Quicksilver is capable of, I honestly never thought it could be used to help ...

Location Switch Automator action

by David Chartier (Jul 17th, 2006)

Location Switch is an Automator action that adds some painfully missing features to Mac OS X's built-in Locations option (y'know, that feature you never touch in the Apple menu?). Location Switch can a whole host of application preferences and settings based on which location you chose, such as ...

Enable drag-and-drop desktop printing

by David Chartier (Jan 17th, 2006)

Since I don't actually own a printer, I find it ironic that I'm posting a tip about printing more efficiently on a Mac. Regardless, this is a handy little tip right out of Apple's Pro site for all you chronic printers out there: if you print a lot of documents throughout the day without necessarily ...