3 Free iPhone Apps for Wireless Printing
If you are one of the many folks that have a photo printer at home, you may be interested in one of the following apps: the HP iPrint Photo 2.0, the Epson iPrint, or the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint for the iPhone. All are free applications that allow you to print photos from your iPhone via Wi-Fi to your photo printer.
Let’s first look at the HP iPrint Photo 2.0 [iTunes link]. This application works with any iPhone or iPod Touch running iPhone OS 2.0 or up. It lets you access your photo albums or simply capture photos from camera directly and then prints it wirelessly to your HP Inkjet printers connected to the same WiFi network. The app is very easy to use. It also comes with features to let you crop and rotate pictures, as well as, do simple image scaling. By leveraging Apple’s Bonjour technology, the iPrint Photo 2.0 automatically discovers and set-up any of your HP wireless printer on your Wi-Fi network. No complex setup or network configuration is required. There is a complete list of photo printers that the iPrint Photo 2.0 supports at www.hp.com/go/iprintphotoforiphone. The iPrint Photo 2.0 also supports multiple paper sizes and paper types.
Next up is the Epson iPrint [iTunes link]. The app is for those using an Epson printer. Similar to HP’s iPhoto app, you can select photos from photo album stored on iPhone and prints it wirelessly. It does auto-discover your Epson network printers and allows you to print photos from your photo albums choosing your desired paper size and type. The iPrint application, however, does not allow access to the camera from within the app, nor does it let you crop, rotate and scale your images. The list of printers that the iPrint will discover is limited to about 10 printers. Needless to say, this application needs a 2.0 version to keep up with the HP one. Anyway, it’s still worth to download if you want to print wirelessly with your Epson printer.
Finally, we have the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint (iEPP) for the iPhone [iTunes link]. The iEPP does everything the HP iPhoto app does except crop, rotate and image scaling. Unlike the other two printing apps, the iEPP app only supports limited number of Canon printers. It’s only compatible with PIXMA MP990 series, PIXMA MP640 series and PIXMA MP560 series. But again, the basic functionality of discovering the printer on a wireless network and support of various paper sizes are included in the app.
Clearly the most advanced of all these applications is the HP iPrint Photo 2.0. Not only does it support many, many printers but the crop, rotate and image scaling are excellent added editing features. Hopefully, the Canon and Epson applications will be upgrading soon and offer support for more printers and also provide editing of your photos within the application. However, if your printer is compatible with the app, you will find the app useful to print your photos right from iPhone to the printer wirelessly.
