iPad – Easy Wi-Fi Printing Almost Here no comments
We were promised an update to iOS 4.2 would be coming to the iPad in November, and it appears to be on schedule. One of the new features I’m waiting for (besides multitasking) is the ability to print over Wi-Fi directly from the iPad.
Yesterday Apple announced that it released a beta version of its AirPrint wireless printing to the iOS developers. AirPrint will be included free in the iOS 4.2 update and enables your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to automatically find printers on your local network and print to it over the Wi-Fi connection.
AirPrint will be able to print directly to HP printers that are enabled with the ePrint feature, or to a printer shared by a Mac or PC. ePrint works by assigning an email address to your printer. You then just email your document, picture or other printing assignment to your printer. Other brands of printers should offer this feature as well — some of Epson’s printers also offer direct wireless printing from an iPhone or iPod touch; this should work for the iPad after iOS 4.2 is released.
The update to iOS 4.2 is an important one, and will include lots of other goodies besides the Wi-Fi printing thingie. Multitasking and folders to organize your app icons into are a couple of other improvements we can expect.
