Re: It'll be no good...
Unless it can print to a non-existent printer? The 8512 shipped with a dot matrix. It was the 9512 that came with the daisy wheel.
According to Steve Jobs, one of the iPad's more-glaring deficiencies - its inability to easily print - will be remedied. Someday. That is, if a thoroughly undocumented report from a MacRumors reader is to be believed. According to that unnamed source, an email sent to Jobs last Friday asking "Why no printing on the iPad? What …
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So....the $500 ipad can't print? Doesn't Apple own the Common UNIX Printing System? Tell me again how the hell does Apple do it? I just have to believe that their customers simply aren't that bright. Well.......if Steve said it was good then that's good enough for me!
WTF because there is no icon of his Steveness bending a fruitard over.
Fuck me! I've just blown almost the same money on an unlocked smartphone running an OS made by Google and... IT CAN'T PRINT NATIVELY* EITHER!!!!!ELEVENTYONE!!!
How dumb must we Googlephibians be if fanbois are as dumb as you say!
Oh wait: it's a fucking PHONE. I have a laptop computer I can use for printing. Phew! What a relief.
Guess iPad users can also use their computers too, in much the same way.
* (i.e. as a built-in OS feature, not via a third-party app which imposes its own obstacles.)
ah so this is the obvious feature that's missing from this apple device... there's always something!
I thought from the title it meant they were designing a clip on mini mobile printing device, not that it can't print directly to a printer at all.
They need to make them for netbooks - so you can print your boarding pass when on holiday!
I want airtunes on the iphone, ipat come on Apple, you can make that happen ...
I don't care for printing, have not printed anything in years. I chucked my 8 years old HP 930C years ago and have stopped paying the ransom money for ink ... and ... I save trees!
I want a tree-hugger icon ... ;-)
First time I use an evil jobs icon, methinks!
The fanbois can't be that smart. It took Apple till the iPhone OS v3 to finally get that in. But the fanbois had to jailbreak their phones to get it earlier.
Again, it took this long to work out they can't print from their brand new shiny apple tablets?
Printing from my ancient Treo 650 is possible out of the box, or if I want, there are apps that give me more capabilty. Yes, there's an app for that too!
Not for the beloved iPad though.
Watch me shed a tear. Wait for it, "it will come".
...early adopters get the shite.
So they buy at full price, then upgrade, at a cost.
Later adopters get the better version, for the same price or less.
This is and always will be the way. Let the idiots buy the shite, buggy & crippled version for twice the price of the later edition. Of course they will complain, but they are so dumb, they will repeat over and over again.
I think I've printed one document in the past 10 years. Yes. One. That was last October when I had to fax (?!) a document to a vendor before I could make a purchase from them. I had a moment of confusion at that point thinking I'd maybe fallen through a wormhole in space-time back to 1995.
So, based on my own experience, I really struggle to see why such a fuss is being made about the iPad not being able to print.
Canon made a range of BN and CN laptops with built in bublejet printer. They haven't done so for quite a while.
The BN's were sold off to Morgan computers to clear Canon's warehouses as they were massively overpriced for what the then market would take. They were also releasing the CN range.
The CN's depending upon model had a b/w printer such as the CN500's (P120's) and they also had models with colour injets built in. The last one to my knowledge with a colour printer was powered by a P150 CPU.
They sold a lot of them off to members of staff on a Christmas special and others were held back and used by the service technicians for a while in order to be able to flash the ROMS on their copiers. They were given a P166 CPU based machine. They came with only Windows 95 and had to be upgraded to 98 even to support their own service support tool. They weren't Y2K compliant but it was a simple fix after the roll over date.
On most of the CN's the printer was built in to the docking station, which also held an Ethernet connection and had the option of a modem module being added.
The BN's were mainly 486 based machines with the printer built in to the body of the laptop. The very early ones only had greyscale displays.
The one really useful item as shown in the photo link you posted was their version of a trackerball/mouse which was hand held and worked very well, probably better than the touchpad on later CN's
For their day they were very useful machines, but typically of Canon at the time overpriced. after dropping the laptops they made a range of ultra-portable printers. No where near as convenient as it being built in to the base with no leads to worry about.