How to print documents from your iPhone and iPad

In recent years the Internet are increasing reports that one or another company buys dozens (or even hundreds) iPad and iPhone, to make mobile business and give up office computers. However, since the creation of the operating system iOS an area of ​​concern for business users is a simple, at first glance, the effect - the conversion of digital documents printed.

Let's say you - the head of a private hospital and want to purchase for your service personnel iPad. It would seem that the idea of ​​the possibilities of the budget looks really interesting. However, many immediately arise a number of questions and doubts: "What will the ordinary doctor, if he needed to print patient history? What will he do when you want to give the client a description of some diseases from Wikipedia? ".

Apple, in such situations, recommends technology AirPrint. The problem is that this feature only works with supported printers, and many popular models are not listed. You have to buy new printers to print with iDevaysov?

Not at all. The company is developing a program Collobos FingerPrint for Windows and Mac systems that allows you to print documents from iPhone and iPad with virtually any printer.

You do not need to use some kind of "heavy" tools, you just download a simple client FingerPrint to your computer. After installation the application will automatically detect all connected printers and make them available for the iPhone and iPad.

For example, you need to print an e-mail from the Mail on iOS. Now you can click on the button «Print», select the printer and number of copies.

Furthermore, there is support for so-called "virtual printers", like Dropbox and Evernote. For example, you can add cloud service Dropbox to your printer list. In this case, instead of printing on paper of physical, FingerPrint app will put your photo, document or e-mail in your Dropbox folder on your desktop computer, which, in turn, must be synchronized with service. Pretty simple and fast way to share a file or archive it.

In late November, a new version of FingerPrint 2.2. It was added additional security solutions, printer support Corporate-wide (using more than 25 devices), as well as the ability to print files without the need to confirm the action on the computer.

FingerPrint It sells for $ 20, which is much cheaper than a new printer. Incidentally, the site developer has a free trial version.

[via macworld]