[cabender11]

im getting my z10 shortly in a few weeks but wondered if you can print anything as easily as you can as with an ipad for example. Apple has a small print icon feature on the top of almost any page. I was wondering if the z10 had this where you can send wireless to a printer on your network. thanks in advance for any reply

[imz]

There's no native way of doing it but there are some free and paid apps that allow you to print directly from the phone.

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[sgt_snacks-64]

As mentioned above, there are a few free/paid apps that can support printing on the BlackBerry Z10 (Ricoh Hotspot printing etc) although applications like that require specific devices in order to function.


Just want to add:
Airprint, although handy for the everyday consumer, is something that's really not fit-for-purpose in the large enterprise environment. The issues surrounding Airprint are:

>No support for MS Office documents (Only really PDF and Images)
>No support for device accessories (Think MFD/Printer finishers that allow stapling/sorting and bypass trays allowing printing onto card)
>No support for Print Management systems (Like Equitrac/Papercut etc), right down to basic user code authentication on a device (As Airprint isn't essentially a "Driver", you can't specify a usercode. As such, a device set up with user code authentication (used to track prints from specific people) would have to be disabled on most devices in order to allow the User-code-less Airprint documents to print out.

I actually work as a printer engineer. And currently were updating the firmware on request to support Airprint on our devices. It's a neat feature and certainly has it's uses. But for any sort of Enterprise/Large-scale business who may have systems in place to manage their printing, it's not exactly a final solution to the mobile worker.

As mobile computing picks up in the near future. I can see a "standard" printer language for mobile devices being developed, and hopefully adopted by OS developers (Sort of like PCL is for Windows/Printers)