Canon has announced a pair of apps that enable users to scan to and print from their mobile phones and tablets utilizing ImageRunner MFPs. The apps are for the iOS and Blackberry operating systems.
From a press release, "The Canon Direct Print and Scan for Mobile application provides
communication between Canon multifunction products (MFP) and an iPhone
and iPad, allowing users to perform print and scan functions between the
two devices, such as scanning from the MFP to an iOS device or printing
from an iOS device to an MFP."
The iOS app is free at iTunes and will work with compatible ImageRunners and Image Runner ADVANCE devices. "Through the app users can remotely manage "scan
options from an iOS device (e.g., select paper size selection, select
scan resolution, duplex printing, color vs. black and white, select
number of prints, collate and more)."
The app for Blackberries is also free and does basically the same things as the iOS app. It does require that users purchase a MEAP application to run on their hardware. (Go figure, a Blackberry app being more inconvenient than an Apple app....market dynamics are hard to change.) Canon seems to have an Android mobile app for scanning and printing photos but not yet for documents. Not sure why Blackberry was ahead of Android in the development cycle. Probably made sense when development started.
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From Canon: At this time, Android is being considered for a future update version. There is no release date as of now.
I already have a phone and a camera. The phone I have no is a really crappy prepaid phone from t-mobile. All you can do is call and text, no camera, no apps, no Internet.
I have a really crappy canon point and shoot camera from like 2004 also. No HD Video.
I really don't know if I should get a new phone, I was thinking of the mytouch 4g slide, or a new camera, it's a DSLR, the Canon EOS Rebel T3i (I'm really into photography)
The phone has more features, but I have an iPod Touch 4G too.
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