Printing Poll
 

Have you printed with you n770/n800?



http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=10057

http://geekpenguin.blogspot.com/2007...0-is-here.html

I am sure I missed some options for the poll, someone wanted, please feel free to tell em what I should have put up there, you always do!!

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No, I haven't used a printer in about 5 years. Everything's electronic now.

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My accurate answer: I wonder if I can print through my PC (via IT and the cable)cause I have no wireless at home. :rolleyes: I wonder if anyone will tell me if I can do this. I wonder if they do tell me, will it be so complicated that I will think "someday I might try".
I never expected to print from my IT and I wonder if I will ever have a reason to do so. From this last wondering I think it may be useful some time.:)

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Abiword 2.2.7 prints text; I have problems with graphics.

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I voted that I have not tried and I do not need to print from tablet... at least for now.

Even from my home desktop PC, I print rarely, maybe once every 2 months...

Don't get me wrong: I'm excited about the possibility to print from tablet! I just have to find reason to print something in general... :rolleyes:

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I know only a few people have been polled, but I am very surprised at the responses.

I have been wanting to print for two years, and finally its working, I figured people would be as excited as me.


WOOO HOOO I AM PRINTING!!!! Oh well at least I can please myself, uh, perhaps that came out wrong?

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I'm in about the same spot. I certainly wouldn't mind having printing support on my N800, but as I only print once a year from my home desktop (tax paperwork), it's not a pressing need for me. Printing support would have to take up very little storage space on the tablet to make it worthwhile as "just in case" kind of addition.

As it is, my home print server accepts print jobs via FTP, so if I had a simple command line FTP client for my N800, I could print text files right now. Given a PostScript printer to connect to the print server, I think I could do even more.

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Same here.

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im excited about printing...just waiting for the .deb...im lazy heh

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Not exaclty sure there is a deb comming, do debs compress? if not it would be a 100MB deb.

Not sure application manage could handle this?

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Haven't tried yet, but just due to a lack of time. Otherwise, my answer would be that more apps need to support it. Yes, it's big, but being able to print would be a big help!

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Well, this is true, but now we have a reason to add print to the apps? Judging from the responses thus far, I am not thinking that many maemo developers are going to consider adding support anytime soon. Luckily, I can add the support to apps myself using XFCE, and perhaps later KDE, printing from konq would be nice. I finished compiling XFCE again now with cups support. Now I will be looking to add some apps that I can use. Currently the gqview is a great image viewer, with slidshows, and you can print your pictures from it. EDPF which I included does not seem to support printing, so a new pdf viewer with printing support is a must. A browser you can print from is a must. I have not had any luck compiling full mozilla/seamonkey/firefox but I wonder how it would run. Konqeror runs good on n800.

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Hmm...sounds interesting so I went ahead and installed it.
Of course, I don't own a printer just use one at work.

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Alright, who voted for me to just go away,

oh well cant make everyone happy, especially when your not trying!!!

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I would love the ability to print, but being a noob, I'm not too confident in going through the steps you have marked out. A deb would be nice.

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Penguinbait, nice work! This may come slowly, but you've made a great improvement. I was waiting for the update to create room for it.

Debernardis, How did you get Abiword to print? I can print a test page, but not from Abiword.

EDIT: I figured it out. I had not set a default printer. Now I am going to try to print PDFs from the command line.