HP ePrint app coming to webOS 1.4.5 as well 39
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:09 pm EST
HP’s slick ePrint integration with the HP TouchPad has been a point of pride for HP. They’ve long said they intend to use webOS to help integrate their entire product ecosystem, but for a while it seemed like some older devices might not make the cut. You may recall a few days back when HP unveiled an ePrint for webOS app and demoed it on an Palm Pre 2 running webOS 2.0. The ePrint app interfaced with a network-enabled webOS printer to, well, print.
Our suspicion was that ePrint would only be available on webOS 2.0 devices, with integration coming in webOS 3.0. Our suspicion, it seems, may have been incorrect. In the fine print in HP’s press release announcing the ePrint app was mention of ePrint coming to webOS 1.4.5 devices as well, a possibility we have confirmed with HP as being reality.
(1) BlackBerry and HP webOS platforms require HP ePrint Enterprise server software. Solution works with PCL5/6, PCL3, PCL3GUI printers (HP and non-HP). HP ePrint mobile app for printing at public print locations requires internet- and e-mail-capable BlackBerry smartphone OS 4.5 or newer, or HP webOS devices running webOS 1.45 or 2.0, wireless internet service and HP ePrint app. HP ePrint mobile app for webOS available late spring 2011.
You may have noticed something else, particularly that first line: require(s) HP ePrint Enterprise server software. HP’s ePrint server software actually enables compatibility with practically any printer, so long as it supports standard Printer Command Language (PCL) protocols, but first you need the software installed on your server. We’re going to say that line is poorly worded, because we’ve seen ePrint on webOS in action (the TouchPad demo at Think Beyond), and it was working with a consumer-grade printer (an HP Photosmart C310a, if our eyes are as good as we know they aren’t).
HP has promised the ePrint for webOS app to come in “late spring,” presumably alongside and preinstalled on the HP Veer.
Source: HP
39 Comments
Late Sprint? Whaaaa?
Ha ha... Sprint!? But seriously who prints anything these days and from their phone? I don't get the whole excitement about this feature at all. Maybe it's just not for me. I am at my workstation when I need to print something or my home laptop. I can't see this benefit me in any way.
What I want to see is WebOS 2.X update for my Pixi Plus! Grrr...
So I'm sitting @ Maxims in NYC having Breakfast. I have my Pre- & reading Emails.. Just bought a GROUPON for a $50 massage & if I had E-Print could mail it to Maxims printer & go get my massage... Instead I have to find a Kinkos & pay to print it..
so ya I see value...
"HP has promised the ePrint for webOS app to come in 'late Sprint'"
I think you mean "late spring".
Sprint on the mind these days?
I am failing at proofreading.
Freudian (Sprint)...er, Slip
" late Sprint " I love it, better late than never, lol.
Late Sprint is HP code for early Wintert ;-)
don't you mean early "Summert"?
Nah, late WinterT, or Urly Sprint 2012 ;-)
wow...for my pre minus on Sprint that's not getting 2.whatever....
They'll have better luck getting me to use an app like that on another platform at this point.
"HP has promised the ePrint for webOS app to come in late spring"
Let me re translate:
"During early spring of 2012 HP will make it known through an interview with a third party that e-print will only work with WebOS3.x and will not be made available for lesser spec'd OS'es due to resourcing issues. HP will work with all printer manufacturers to offer something else to consumers in lieu of this 'forward thinking' news."
They have a long way to go before getting much credibility back.
in “late spring,” presumably alongside and preinstalled on the HP Veer --->
I just watched the Feb 9 event. At the end of introducing the Veer, and just before he moved onto the Pre3, Ruby said that it would be made available in 'early' spring. Now there is a three month gap between early and late spring. Why is everybody refering to late spring then? Has there been a correction, change of mind, or is everybody just like me now and not relying much on HP's word?
Let's see, the statement that there would be a period of weeks from announcement to availability of new devices...nope, six months again. How about Flash being available for the ORIGINAL Palm Pre, and two years later we still have not seen it. When HP/Palm says ANYTHING involving how long something will take for availability, add months/years to that.
I don't even trust that the Pre 3 will show up this summer...I am thinking from that that we will see it for the holiday season at the end of the year.
Just more vaporware announcements from HP and Ruby.
Here we go again, first was we getting flash, then was we getting 2.0 and now this, people lets wake up, is clear that for hp palm we are not part of the think beyond.
HP will get this done. Anything that gets you to use more ink/toner is good for them.
Hm, extra App. Does that mean: I surf the web, want to print some page or something on a page, have to open HP ePrint, have to open the site again and then print? Not exactly what I hoped.
@Amohazab: Not that I know. I think they are incorporated Palm's/HP's well know well know wording "in the next month", "early something" and so on.^^
is this..what..supposed to make it better?... o.o'?
Wow. This just solidifys the fact that they weren't planning on releasing 2.0 for legacy devices.
yah! yah! And they promised WebOS 2.x for Pre/Pixi Minus, too. We'll believe it when it shows up.
The only thing I'd be interested to print from my phone would be pdf files.....BUT THOSE DON'T OPEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Agreed...
SO glad they get their print ability to everyones phones but NOT an updated WebOS...
Well the good news is at least there will be One developer that is producing programs for the Pre and Pre Plus.
I guess this says Volumes about how Palm/HP is going to "make things right."
Anybody knows if Palm/HP will push out updates for the now outdated WebOS 1.x Line (i.e. Pre/Pixi) at all? Or is it like "Buy Pre2 or higher if you want any updates"?
HP Palm has something special for Palm Pre and Palm Pixi owners on Sprint. Although they won't be able to get ePrint, they will be able to fax documents to printers... but only those that have thermal paper.
I think "late Sprint" is probably referring to Sprint's demise. I'm loving my Prē much more since I dumped Sprint and went wifi only. Thanks Palm!
Yea think of Poor Srint.. Sold 1 million Pre phones & had to put resources in place to handle another 1+/- replacements..
I can hear Dan Hess talking with Rudy.." You want me to Sell the same phone called a PRE +, 2, & now a 3? I really don't think so"
Call me when you have reliable HW.....
just saying...
Yawn... This isn't the "make things right" your looking for.... move along... move along...
I'm confused by the "software must reside on the server" concept. If my printer at home is on my wireless network, it has no server. So I can't use this?
Was the consumer grade printer seen with this attached to a server?
Most printers have zerconf networking aka bonjour built in so they basically are the server. they broadcast themselves on the network and you are able to connect and print
So doesn't this mean that a business or individuals would first need to download and install the e-print software to their network server before we could print to a printer on their network?
If so, I can't see that many businesses bothering to do this. Who'd want a bunch of non-business related print jobs showing up on their printer and costing them money? I could maybe see it for an individual printing something to their home network printer.
Does HP/Palm have ANY credibility when it comes to ANYTHING regarding the WebOS platform? ANY?
If it works with my phone and the C310a that'd be awesome...because I just got one of those this year!
Print? Like on paper? This whole needless fascination with paper needs to stop. The only thing I ever print anymore are Chucky Cheese coupons. If they would only take digital coupons on the phone like some places, I would have no need for a printer at all. And doesn't this also need a fairly specific printer? I just don't understand the excitement for this print app..
This app shouldn't even have been on the minds of hp until next fall. Instead, this and the whole ecosystem idea appears to be the holdup. Google was smart and realized they couldn't beat Apple by trying to be Apple. Apple is too far ahead for that to be a winning formula, so Google decided to attack in numbers.
Google Print already lets Android users print almost any networked printer without any extra server software. It is just as important for HP to be able to also print to any networked printers without requiring IT departments to add software to the servers.
HP has to be able to print to HP printers wirelessly since Android already can. It isn't for bragging rights. It's for credibility.
Wow. People must really like to complain! Imagine if it would only have only been available on webOS 2.0 phones. I'd like to thank HP for this feature. Hope it's free!