HP announces 'world's first' portable multifunction printer

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 09:01 AM

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#2 thomaspin

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 09:22 AM

Coming soon: 'HP announces acquisition of Kodak'.

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 10:04 AM

I've used only HP laser & a few inkjet printers with my Macs over the past28 years. My HP LJ IID later updated with new motherboard to a LJ IIID was said not to run with Macs but a 3rd party developer took care of that. I trust HP printers more than any other. It is strange that in this day & age that we are taken back to the mid 80's with lack of out of the box Mac support.

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 10:19 AM

A friend of mine just called last night asking if I knew of a printer that he could use in his service van to print out invoices. This would be perfect, if it had AirPrint support. Such a shame.

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 01:31 PM

In terms of Mac wireless compatibility, I wouldn't write this printer off just yet.

I am using an Epson RX680 MFC, normally connected through USB.

The specs indiate that it will work wirelessly with the "Epson bluetooth print server," which retails around $50.

I had bought a 99-cent blue tooth USB dongle online, and one day inserted the dongle into the port on the Epson meant for printing directly from a flash drive.

I turned on bluetooth on my early 2011 13-inch MacBook Pro, opened up Printers in System Prefs, and voila, saw and added my printer as "Stylus Photo RX680-bluetooth." It's slow but otherwise works fine.

#6 KnuteRondum

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 03:06 PM

I will not buy another HP printer. Cheap crap.

#7 MikaelEB

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:44 PM

Office Jet 150 portable??
Well try to beat my Canon BJC-55, 11.8 x 4,1 x 1.9 inches 4.3 pound.
Buy a scanner cartridge to it and You also have a scanner.
Ok, slow, ok, no paper feeder (can be bought separately, but ads weight and size)
Did I mention it goes on battery? LOL

#8 BadDude

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 09:53 PM

Not really portable at those dimensions!

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 05:38 AM

Not yet possible to print from iPads and iPhones. Truth is, Apple bears more than a little responsibility for making it difficult to print from the iPad and iPhone. You can't tell me the company that designs devices as advanced as these is unable to figure out a way to get them to print easily. At this point it's a choice on their part to not allow it. I wonder why.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 05:55 AM

heisetax, on 09 May 2012 - 10:04 AM, said:

Where does it say it doesn't have Mac compatibility? The only issue I saw in the article is with iOS devices. The specs sheet says it works with Macs.
http://www.hp.com/hp...50Mobile_R2.pdf

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Posted 07 April 2013 - 12:27 AM

Its already 2013 and HP still have not produced mobile printer wich supports airprint. I think its very difficult for such huge company full of engineer to insert a small wifi router inside mobile printer

seems to be they are busy playing angry birds. I just woden how many pieces they sold of HP 150, who needs this HP, today the field work done on ipads or other tablets and nobody whant to keep with him power adapters, laptops, usb cables to tint out a simple invoice or check list or field report. The prblem is that world already a mobile and HP is still a desktop company.