[ale] Android/Tablet printing

Robert L. Harris robert.l.harris at gmail.com
Sat Jul 7 23:46:41 EDT 2012


USB only dumb printer.

Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:

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>If it's one of those ePrinters from HP you could probably go through
>the set up for the service on the printer. It essentially sets up an
>email account on an HP server so you could forward the message to your
>printer's email address and it'll just print. Just make sure any
>firewall settings allow access to the printer from the internet.
>
>I was playing around with mine several months ago just to see what and
>how it did it. Haven't done much with it since then. I was able to
>take pictures with my phone and email them to my printer.
>
>
>On 07/07/2012 08:14 PM, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>> Not easier than a 'print' button for an 86yr old retired teacher,
>> but I'm curious how that would work.  I did say she only has the
>> Android tablet and HP printer.   :>
>> 
>> On Jul 7, 2012 4:25 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Thumbdrive sneakernet?
>> 
>> On Jul 7, 2012 6:23 PM, "Robert L. Harris" 
>> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com <mailto:robert.l.harris at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah, she doesn't have a windows machine.  That died and she 
>> replaced it with the tablet.  She has the HP printer, tablet and 
>> thats it.
>> 
>> On Jul 7, 2012 4:10 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> looks like the ALL use a chrome browser to print. I looked at
>> several other printer apps from google play and they all seem to
>> be the same: keep a chrome browser running on a windows machine and
>> you can forward print jobs to it from your android device.
>> 
>> that stinks
>> 
>> very very stinks
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> It looked it would use a networked printer for the server
>> end but it
>>> seems to be brain dead and require a winders machine as a
>> host.
>>> 
>>> crap
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Robert L. Harris 
>>> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com
>> <mailto:robert.l.harris at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> Yeah,  that's printing gmail.com <http://gmail.com> from
>> chrome I don't need, printershare will
>>>> print that directly to her usb printer.  I am looking for
>> a way to print
>>>> from the built in application "gmail".
>>>> 
>>>> Robert
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 7, 2012 3:59 PM, "Jim Kinney"
>> <jim.kinney at gmail.com <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> looks convoluted but:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/37748/how-to-set-up-and-use-cloud-print-in-google-chrome/
>>
>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> includes how to "cloud print" from a gmail app in android
>>>>> 
>>>>> cloud print. what a stupid marketing term.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Robert L. Harris 
>>>>> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com
>> <mailto:robert.l.harris at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> I see that in 'gmail' if I use chrome but not in the
>> native android
>>>>>> gmail which is what she is using.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jul 7, 2012 3:46 PM, "Robert Owen"
>> <robeowen at gmail.com <mailto:robeowen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Robert, at the top right of a message page there is a
>> down arrow which
>>>>>>> gives more options. Print is one of the options.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Robert L. Harris 
>>>>>>> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com
>> <mailto:robert.l.harris at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The tablet sees the printer, I don't see a 'print'
>> button inside the
>>>>>>>> gmail app is the problem.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Jul 7, 2012 3:12 PM, <simontek at gmail.com
>> <mailto:simontek at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hp printers have the user at eprint setup. Sent via
>>>>>>>>> BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: "Robert L. Harris"
>>>>>>>>> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com
>> <mailto:robert.l.harris at gmail.com>>
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