Android Apps the printer manufacturer
You are the lucky owner of a network printer that is supported by the printer App from the manufacturer in the Play Store, the next steps are very easy. If your printer is the App compatible, the manufacturer usually in the App description.
- They download the suitable printer App from the Google Play Store. The quickest way to find this, if you enter the name of the manufacturer (HP, Canon, Epson, Brother, etc.) in the search.
- Then, you set up the App by the network to your printer browse. Note: Some of the Router columns by default, Wi-Fi and LAN into two separate networks, so that a LAN cable connected to printer with the Wi-Fi connected Android device can't be found. In General, the can be on the Router changed.
- The printer was found, you can use it already. Which formats are to be printed, depends on the App. While Canon's App "Canon print service", only photos (JPEG, PNG) print, bring it with "HP ePrint" all Office formats to paper.
With the App, Canon Print Service, you can easily print photos from your Android phone
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Printing with third-party Apps
You have a printer that can be connected to network or offered by the manufacturer, not an App, you printer third-party Apps. For this you need a print server, or a switched-on PC, if the printer has no network connection.
- The App PrintBot prints the main Office formats such as PDF or DOC, and image files. The monthly workload is limited in the free Version, however, three files of up to a maximum size of a MByte. The setup can be tricky, if you need to share the printer on a Windows PC. Because first of all, the LPD must be installed on your computer.
- Also Cloud Print brings all of the major Office formats and images in JPEG Format to paper. The printer App uses Google Cloud Print Service to send the data to your printer. Your printer supports Cloud Print, you do not need a PC to your Android device printing. How to use the printer Service by Google to set up, read here.
Cloud print to print easily via the Smartphone. An additional program on the PC is no longer required
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Printing on Android: The best printer for this purpose
Quickly and easily print your documents via Cloud Print from your Android Smartphone. But also, your printer must support this Standard.
- Meanwhile, there are almost no devices that don't come with tons of network features on the market. In addition to services such as Cloud and AirPrint many printers support their own E-Mail addresses to which you can send your documents to Print.
- Which devices have these functions and their documents and photos, especially great to paper, showing you our latest "best of" list. Let's go already from under 90 euros.
