Thursday, September 18, 2003
Mobile Printing DOES Work!
Posted by Brad Adrian in "SOFTWARE" @ 01:00 AM
I know that printing has never been a particular strength of Pocket PCs. There is a dearth of applications and drivers, and usually, by the time I install them and figure out how to get them to work, I realize it would've been faster to have a monk transcribe the documents by hand. Last week, though, I found out that HP's Mobile Printing application really does work, and it works wonderfully!
I was speaking at a conference and had a few last-minute thoughts I wanted to include in my presentation. So, I jotted down a few sentences on my notebook PC. But, when I took my PC to our workroom to print it, I found out that nobody had bothered to actually connect the printer to the network we had set up! Luckily, it was an HP960C printer, which has an infrared port. Since I had already copied my Word document to my HP2215 (as a form of on-the-road backup), all I had to do was align the IR ports, perform a few screen taps with the free HP mobile printing application, and watch the document roll off the printer. Man, my co-workers (who were still fuming about not being able to print) were impressed!
Printing this way isn't perfect, because only certain types of documents can be printed. However, I used it throughout the week to share reports and fine-tune my other presentations.
What about you? Have you been able to print from your Pocket PC?
I was speaking at a conference and had a few last-minute thoughts I wanted to include in my presentation. So, I jotted down a few sentences on my notebook PC. But, when I took my PC to our workroom to print it, I found out that nobody had bothered to actually connect the printer to the network we had set up! Luckily, it was an HP960C printer, which has an infrared port. Since I had already copied my Word document to my HP2215 (as a form of on-the-road backup), all I had to do was align the IR ports, perform a few screen taps with the free HP mobile printing application, and watch the document roll off the printer. Man, my co-workers (who were still fuming about not being able to print) were impressed!
Printing this way isn't perfect, because only certain types of documents can be printed. However, I used it throughout the week to share reports and fine-tune my other presentations.
What about you? Have you been able to print from your Pocket PC?
