I’ve always found HP’s printer apps — which download data directly to the printer so you can print stuff — to be pointless and buggy, but they keep on building them regardless. The ABC has launched two new printer apps for HP devices, one offering general news and the other tied in with its venerable Behind The News analysis show for kids.
Chrome: Not all web pages have a built-in print function to print articles without the filler, so if you’re looking to cut out ads or images, Print Plus lets you pick out exactly what gets sent to the printer.
Digital cameras might have all but killed off the film market, but they don’t appear to have totally dented our enthusiasm for physical photos. An analysis by Futuresource Consulting suggests that we’re increasingly keen on photobooks (entire bound collections of photos, often centred on a single theme). Sales are expected to grow 25 per cent, with the US alone seeing 25 million sold this year, rising to 29 million in 2012.
Hi Team Lifehacker, I try to go as paperless as possible at work, just like in your complete guide to going paperless. The problem is, something in my caveman brain finds it much more difficult to really absorb and analyse text on a screen compared to good old-fashioned paper. I find that with around five pages or more, I really start skipping information and missing important detail.
If you need to regularly work with printed documents, then being able to access your office printer from the Internet might well be a godsend. Just remember that a network-connected printer represents a potential security vulnerability.
If you need to print a large number of files at once, having to open each one individually and then print them can be a nuisance. Speed the process up by dragging the files you need onto the printer.
