iWork printing

[xpunksbeendeadx]

I don't disagree with you. I guess my point was that I expected to see both software and hardware issues surface with the launch of the Ipad. I also expected that Jobs and company would never address these problems/issues as quickly as we want them to.

All joking aside, I realize issues like this are frustrating.

You have to give it to Jobs and company though that the iPad is actually a really solid product. Honestly I feel less frustrated when I've used the iPad then I did with the iPhone. The iPad does what you need to it do superbly, it may not replace your main computer but it's an amazing portable device.

 

[whmurray]

Apple is not going to fix this "problem." (Really simply a limitation of the strategy.) All but the smartest (network attached) printers require purpose built drivers and there are hundreds of them. On personal computers, we install, late, only the drivers for the printers we have.

For the most part, we will have to rely upon open computers to drive these dumb printers. This is as much a printer limitation as an iPad limitation.

(One can imagine that the vendor of a WiFi printer might build an app to drive his printer but it is hard to figure how one might transfer an arbitrary object to the app.)

 

[rijc99]

I agree, printing support is a non starter. This is why I see the iPad as more of a mobile Internet device instead of a notebook replacement.

 

[ifarlow]

*sigh*

The iPad is not a notebook replacement. It never was. It never will be. It was not designed to be. And what the heck is a "non starter" supposed to be?

 

[rijc99]

Except almost every reviewer out there has presented the ipad as a netbook replacement. I said it's a non starter because I don't think Steve Jobs ever intended to provide printing support.

 

[whmurray]

Except almost every reviewer out there has presented the ipad as a netbook replacement. I said it's a non starter because I don't think Steve Jobs ever intended to provide printing support.

This will not be the first time that Steve has had to bend reviewers' heads. That is what he does. Will not be the last Their heads are not as flexible as when they were young so sometimes it is painful.

 

[Adan Daroski]

Printing on the iPad from any iWork for iPad app using Fax Print & Share Pro by Ndili Technologies, Inc. In this demo we show how easy it is to print documents created on your iPad using Pages. The printing app used here is ?Fax Print & Share Pro for iPad?, but it will also work with ?MobileToolz Pro for iPad? and ?Documentz Pro for iPad?.



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[jasonact]

Question about document handling on the iPad:

I know that the iPad uses a document repository for apps to store and access documents on the device. Does anyone know if there is a single repository that all apps can access? Or is each app limited to its own repository? In other words, if I created and saved a document using Pages for iPad and then exported that document to the repository, could another app (such as a printing app) access that same document without connecting to a computer? It seems that in that case, a decent printing app could almost completely fill the printing void until Apple chooses to do so.

 

[forgot]

I don't own any of the iWork apps, but my understanding of the 3.2 OS is that you can do exactly that. New applications written to work on the 3.2 OS can take advantage of the ability to "share" files. For example, if you have one of the new printing, PDF, or file storing apps, and you receive an email with an attachment, you can press and hold on the file to choose which app to open the file with.

Have any of you with the iWork apps tried this?

 

[rijc99]

Does not work in pages. After using pages for a while now I feel it is very feature poor. My biggest complaint is that when the ipad is turned into landscape mode your toolbars simply disappear. I'm finding myself having to turn back and forth between portrait and landscape mode just to work with it.

Given the current feature set of pages, it should have been a free program included with the ipad.

My stowaway Bluetooth keyboard works great with it though.

 

[BriDroid]

I've got a Stowaway BT keyboard in a drawer somewhere and was wondering how it would work with an iPad. I'm looking forward to trying it out.

 

[rijc99]

The 4 arrow keys make working with documents so much easier.

 

[whmurray]

Question about document handling on the iPad:

I know that the iPad uses a document repository for apps to store and access documents on the device. Does anyone know if there is a single repository that all apps can access? Or is each app limited to its own repository? In other words, if I created and saved a document using Pages for iPad and then exported that document to the repository, could another app (such as a printing app) access that same document without connecting to a computer? It seems that in that case, a decent printing app could almost completely fill the printing void until Apple chooses to do so.

Access to the document is only one part of the problem. The biggest part of the problem is support for all of the dumb printers in the world. They can give away printers because the computer has all the smarts and does all the work.