If you have an Internet-enabled smartphone, you may use it to browse the Web or check your emails on your way to work. When doing this, have you ever come across a document, report or an email attachment that you urgently needed to print? Well, now you can do it using your smartphone, sending documents to your home or office printer so that they will be ready and waiting for you when you walk in the door.
There are two main ways you can print documents using your smartphone.
Use Google Cloud Print
If you have a Gmail, and you want to print an email or an email attachment on the move, you can now do it quickly and easily using your smartphone and a handy service called Google Cloud Print. There are few steps to follow before you can start wirelessly printing:
- Connect your printer to Google Cloud Print using a Windows PC (Google promises that support for Mac and Linux machines is coming soon)
- Go to Gmail. Com on your Android or iPhone browser
- Choose the ‘Print’ option from the dropdown menu in the top right-hand corner for anything you want to print
- Pick up your document from your printer when you get home or enter the office
If you use another email provider or than Gmail, or you want to print other documents, reports, images and pages from around the Web, you can use a mobile printing app to send print jobs to your printer at home or at work. Many of the main printer and printer ink manufacturers, such as Epson, Lexmark and Canon, have released their own mobile printing apps which are compatible with their printers. However, there are also many others to choose from.
Mobile printing apps require a small amount of setup, but once this is done, you should be able to print from your smartphone at the touch of a button. Some apps even allow you to scan documents and take photos to be sent to a printer in another location, a feature which many users find very convenient.
