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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / September 2008Pocket printer?.....scanner?
http://planon.com/ Didja ever need to print out that email or webpage on your pocket device so you could read it or have a hard copy to show a bunch of people? Printstik.....street price about $240....is a THERMAL printer with its own internal paper cart (buy.com wants $18 for 3 rolls for it) that's Bluetooth connected...no wires...rechargeable...no cords...NO INK OOZING out into your briefcase as the plane takes off and the pressure drops.... Google it and YouTube. This think is, of course, about 12" long but it's still tiny by portable printer standards. I've already emailed them to connect their driver coders to Maemo's driver coders. I want one pretty bad..... Uses? Many!...... You're out looking for 213 Maemo Drive and want a bigger map of the maze of streets in this stupid neighborhood.....print the map Someone needs a printout of something and doesn't have a BT printer to connect to to give it to them. Print it yourself. The boss emailed you a list of instructions and stuff to pickup all over town while you are out. It's on the tablet/iphone/blackberry but it's a PITA to keep popping it up all the time....Print it and carry the paper into the shops. You need a printout of the schematic they sent you to fix their PoS that's broken. Squinting at a little piece of this huge schematic just isn't enough on the 4" screen. PRINT IT....or the portion of it you need, 11" wide by as long as there is thermal paper in the cartridge....yards long. "How much will this cost me?", the CEO you're trying to sell to asks. Print a preliminary document for him before his very eyes....most impressive. I can see LOTS of uses for such a tiny thermal printer. Planon also has a really cool BT-connected SCANNER that looks like a pen! Scan the document someone handed you into your Blackberry and email it to your desktop at the office. Scan your daily expenses into jpgs and email them to the accounting department so your check will be waiting for you....not 3 weeks after you get back. Cool stuff....Maybe an iPhone printer if you kidnap Jobs and demand a driver before releasing him. > http://planon.com/ > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I've already emailed them to connect their driver coders to Maemo's > driver coders. I want one pretty bad..... Get the Maemo guys to dash out a quick dirty screen dump driver for this: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PPA6-BLU&cat=PRN $16 for a IR-connected thermal printer that runs for hours on 4AA Batts and is no larger than a paperback book. I've got three of them I've used them for years with Windows laptops and WinMo PDAs/phones. I'm still pissed off my current WinMo phone omitted IR and has no way to connect to it ! I keep one in my travel bag for use with my tiny Asus EEE PC, and used to keep one in the card to print out the occasional on-line coupon from my PDA phone for restaurants, etc. > Uses? Many!...... > > Cool stuff....Maybe an iPhone printer if you kidnap Jobs and demand a > driver before releasing him. The real problem with most portable devices is that their OSes have no native print function- it's kind of like the old DOS days where each program had to supply it's own printer support. On WinMo, for example, the printer manufacturer generally creates a print program that will print text files, screen caps, and maybe a few file formats (the Sipix printer I referenced above had a program to print plain text, Pocket Word and Excel files, and emails. You selected the file to print from a list in the printer's own program, not the native program- i.e. Pocket Excel didn't "grow" a print function in it's menu- you have to run the printer program and select the Excel file you wish to print.) For seamless print support of any document, the device would need a system- wide print function all programs could direct output to, that the OS would then handoff to the printer driver (like a modern desktop OS), and, AFAIK, no mobile phone OS (RIM, iPhone, Symbian, WinMo, Palm) provides such print support. With my Sipixes hooked to WinMo, I usually just used the "print screen" function, just making sure the text or image I wanted to print was on screen first. (The Screen print program runs in t e background and is triggered by whatever hardware button you assign to it, so you're free to roam around in any app you want and get the necessary info on screen, hit the assigned button, and get a "Print this screen? Yes/Cancel" pop-up dialog.) Seeing the poor clerk at a Barnes and Noble valiantly trying to scan the blurry 1/4-sized thermal-printed barcode on the "20% off any item "email coupon I printed in the car moments before just adds to the geeky fun! One way to print from and scan to the iPhone would be to use one of those web-based email->fax / fax->email services ... the problem these days can often be finding somewhere with a fax machine to use. Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in news:gbm9g1$bo7$1 @aioe.org: > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PPA6-BLU&cat=PRN Availability: Out of Stock Sold out. Maybe they'll find some more. I clicked the alert button. I have a USB-to-DB9 Serial Port cable for the tablet and we have a little linux driver to go with it. I can feed it serial data but no Irda, either. Serial is fine...(c; Thanks for the pointer. nice unit miles cheaper. Maybe Ebay or Craigs list. > Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in news:gbm9g1$bo7$1 > @aioe.org: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Sold out. Maybe they'll find some more. I clicked the alert button. Sorry- I googled it quickly and didn't pay attention to the stock status. Sign up for alerts on this one too: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=I-PPA6-BLK&cat=PRN It's the same printer but in black instead of see-thru blue. > I have a USB-to-DB9 Serial Port cable for the tablet and we have a little > linux driver to go with it. I can feed it serial data but no Irda, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Thanks for the pointer. nice unit miles cheaper. Maybe Ebay or Craigs > list. Before you get too excited, you'll need a driver before it'll work on the tablet. It's a graphics-only (bitmap) printer- it doesn't print ASCII text directly- the driver converts text to a graphicf bitmap before the printer can print it (the same way a fax machine "prints" text. Still a nice cheap comanion for your laptop, however, if you can still find one. The roll and sheet paper are hard to find and expensive, but my cheapskate ways fixed that. I took a thermal fax paper roll and cut the whole roll with a mitre saw and "rolled my own"! ;-) One roll of fax paper will give me a lifetime supply the little I use it! > Still a nice cheap comanion for your laptop, however, if you can still > find one. The roll and sheet paper are hard to find and expensive, > but my cheapskate ways fixed that. I took a thermal fax paper roll > and cut the whole roll with a mitre saw and "rolled my own"! ;-) One > roll of fax paper will give me a lifetime supply the little I use it! I have cases of paper that may already fit it. Someone I did some electronics work for handed me a perfectly good working Alden WEFAX HF receiver with built-in thermal printer that uses narrower paper. I got all the supplies he had left over when I converted his WEFAX to his laptop hooked to the audio of his marine HF-SSB radio. |
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