Phone/Printer

mo!

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Mixed Farmer
Location
York
Printer needs to have wifi and phone and printer need to be on the same wifi network (or direct link via phone's mobile hotspot).
There are also printers which can take information over the net. I think you will need an app on your phone though.

Printing from your phone anywhere in the world. Craziness.
 
My Galaxy 68 (android) prints OK to an HP 6970 printer from distance if needed . Your printer needs to be compatible and I think you have to have an app on your phone , but I'm not that tech savvy . I've spent half a day today with Zen techies configuring a new Fritz box modem/router , so i don't know whether I can still print remotely . That's to be discovered still ! Zen have them at half price compared with say Amazon , and my old Netgear was playing up a bit . Just checked the DL speed , 37.8 Mps so speed OK
 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
I print from my android phone to my Canon wireless printer, when on the same network. I think I can print from a remote location but haven't sussed it and can't see the point.
 
Just re-run the Ookla speedtest , so it's pretty stable. Happy at that anyway . Check the printing thing tomorrow perhaps .
 

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You need a printer that supports wifi printing, some of them also support NFC tap and print for Android phones and airprint for apple phones. Be careful when purchasing that these features are explicitly listed on the box, a small number of the cheaper printers do not support it.

Some printer also allow printing over your home network so you can print from any machine in the house.
 
Can a phone be used to work a printer and if so how?

George
As said earlier on, depends really on what phone/tablet and what printer you have. Lots of printers now support either (or both) of the printing protocols below used by / built into the operating system of the phones/tablets.

Typically Android phones will be printer enabled with "Google Cloud Print" and Apple/iOS devices will use "AirPrint"

If your printer doesn't natively support either of the above, then its possible to enable an existing printer using a compatible "print server". This is a little device that connects to your local wired/wireless network, it connects directly to the printer, usually by USB. When you hit 'print' on your phone this shows up as a the device for you to print to.

However for most home/small office users its probably going to be cheaper to either (a) replace with a new printer that supports AirPrint / GCP or (b) print from your phone via a computer on your home network; it would need to be switched on at the time though. You can definitely do this for AirPrint not sure for GCP.
 

Lincs Lass

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Location
north lincs
Im using Epson Iprint on a Samsung S5 from the play store ,,set up the model of printer you have if its epson ,it can scan through the phone and print pictures from the phones photo gallery
 

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