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Will the iPad Offer Printer Support.
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
With the launch of the iPad imminent I have heard no mention of whether printer support will be built in. I do not expect to be able to plug a USB printer directly into the iPad unless the advertised photo connection kit will double as an external USB port although I feel this is unlikely. I would like to be able to print to network attached or shared printers over a wireless network though. This would seem sensible as Apple also prepares to launch the iPad version of the iWork applications, Pages, Keynote and Numbers that could all warrant the use of a printer. Otherwise users of these apps would have to sync the documents back to a computer in order to print them. This could be particularly fiddly if the user does not have the desktop versions of these apps or is using windows where the desktop versions are not even available. This would presumably be possible using one of the existing iPhone or iPod touch third party printing applications available, but an integrated solution would be so much slicker.
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