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Title: Wireless printing app
Post by: fxsarge on October 10, 2012, 05:17:28 PM

I just bought an HP wireless printer and would love to print from my tablet problem is I need an app for it.

The HP app I feel needs to much information from the user and I do not wish to give any information to HP are the their any other apps you guys are using to print to a wireless printer?

Title: Re: Wireless printing app
Post by: S.Prime on October 10, 2012, 07:37:50 PM

PrinterShare at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamixsoftware.printershare.premium (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamixsoftware.printershare.premium) is excellent, but the price tag is not that easy to accept. I got it as the free app of the day on Amazon last year.

Title: Re: Wireless printing app
Post by: birdastrompgman on October 10, 2012, 09:13:26 PM

Set it up as a cloud printer, and use Easyprint on your N7.

Title: Re: Re: Wireless printing app
Post by: fxsarge on October 10, 2012, 10:45:45 PM

Quote from: S.Prime on October 10, 2012, 07:37:50 PM

PrinterShare at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamixsoftware.printershare.premium (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamixsoftware.printershare.premium) is excellent, but the price tag is not that easy to accept. I got it as the free app of the day on Amazon last year.

It sounds like what I'm looking for but that app needs a lot of permissions too. I wish their was an app that would just print document files and PDFs. I don't need my SMS messages printed.

Now on easy print it sounds like its actually printing sending the document to my computer then my printer, so does that mean I would have to leave my laptop on all the time? Cause that wouldn't work either.

Title: Re: Wireless printing app
Post by: birdastrompgman on October 10, 2012, 11:54:59 PM

Yes, your host computer has to be running for cloud printing to a classic printer (if your HP isn't a cloud capable printer), but you can let it sleep and waken it remotely with your tablet running Unified Remote, or something similar.

Title: Re: Wireless printing app
Post by: CBers on October 11, 2012, 01:26:21 AM

Try CHROME cloud printing on PC, with the CLOUD PRINT application from Google Play.

That's how I do it.

Title: Re: Wireless printing app
Post by: mwbritt on October 21, 2012, 03:37:45 PM

This reply won't help the original poster ( sorry  :(  ) but im hoping it may help someone in this situation with a brother printer.  If this applies to you then you might want to check out their web site as they offer a free app.  it has been working well so far.

Title: Re: Wireless printing app
Post by: arborij on October 23, 2012, 07:19:15 AM

I also use Printer Share to mprint form my phone and tablets.  Although it does require a significant amount of permissions, it has performed for me flawlessly since I got the free download from Amazon, last year.  Another app that I have heard good things about is Cloud Print (sorry for not attaching it to the word, the computer I am on doesn't allow it)

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=cloud+print