ok, so I know how to print using google cloud print. But, my phone has "printer settings" in the options. I found my printer, and even printed a test page successfully. Now, how do I print a document from my phone via the ICS Print, NOT cloud print?
Thanks!
All items that you want t print need an app that has a share ability - document reader, PDF reader, images, etc. You then share the document and select the print app.
so basically the ability to print is not native to android, you need an app with the ability.
Correct.
You can print pictures from your phone gallery but you need an app for doc's.
Technically, the Gallery itself is an app. You need apps for all. It's just that an image viewing app is already built in to our phones.
Does anyone know if it will print via a bluetooth printer with out a "Middle man" computer?
Depends on if you can connect the phone to the printer and send files to it or not. The BIONIC does support A2DB, so it should be possible, but our printer may be just as much of a problem s the phone itself.
I don't know about bluetooth, but I have a WiFi printer that is not connected to a computer and it prints fine to that printer. If I'm at the house, I can print with the MotoPrint thingy, but away from home I use Printer Share or HP EPrint. The jury is still out on which I like better.
BigRedGonzo
Let us know - I'll be looking for a remote solution soon, n I'd like to know which is better.
so what's the trick to making a wifi printer work.
so far i've had no luck in using the wifi feature. the phone connects. the laptop connects. but nothing prints untill that wire is connected to laptop. have yet to make the phone work. PERIOD.
The phone will connect via WiFi to either 1) the printer itself, provided that the printer can be connected to the LAN directly (WiFi or wired), ***AND*** the wireless connection that your phone makes to the router ***IS NOT PARTITIONED*** - IOW, so that it can see other devices on the same network; or 2) The computer that is sharing the printer on the network.
It sounds like you're in group 2 - which means, yes, you need the wire connected. However, your post is very ambiguous. Can you detail what wire where connected which to what?
More importantly, please detail your setup - ***SPECIFICALLY*** whether your printer is connected directly to your router or if it is connected to your computer and shared to the network. Then it will be easier to help.
To anyone else about to say "Well, I tink OP means "this" or "that" - let's hear back from the OP and be sure, instead of thinking.
I have a tiny network with two computers and one network printer controlled from wireless/wired router. I can use the Bionic to print through the Wi-Fi connection to the router to a printer.
With Wi-Fi on you have to go into System Settings | Printer
Select Add Printer
I had to use Manual and give it the IP address of the printer
The print support on the Bionic is pretty limited.
... Thom
Wireless partitioning needs to be disabled on your router for this to work in any manner or fashion. Learned that the hard way.
The phone actually works.... but it sounds like it doesn't have a driver that allows it to "talk" directly to the printer so it is using another computer to do that for you. You may want to ask the manufacturer of the printer if they have any plans to make drivers for the Android OS ( ICS in this case )
Not sure who you are reporting to, but yeah, that is the general gist of how the printer works.
@all: FWIW, Brother printers usea very hokey proprietary PCL driver that absolutely sucks. If you have issues with Brother printer, go to the website and grab the generic Windows PCL driver - it works tons better.
