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Ich hatte schon drei Drucker für das Mobile Drucken. Der Canon BJC-70, den BJC-85 auf IR Basis und den Pixma IP90 mit zusatz Bluetoothmodul. Alle samt mit Akku Packs. Wobei der IP90 ausgezeichnet war als Mobile Lösung.

Alles in allem habe ich das Mobile Drucken zu selten gebraucht. Sei es nun vom Noklia 9200 oder jetzt vom Nokia E90 aus von meinem UMPC gar nicht zu reden. Deswegen habe ich die Geräte wieder verkauft.

Die Tintentanks sind klein, die Geräte sind recht schwer und wenn ich z.B. zwischen meinen drei Favoriten wähle.

Also, dem Everun, P1610 oder dem X41 vom IBM wäre der Drucker immer das größte Gerät in der Tasche.

Dann lieber FreepdfXP installiert eine PDF daraus gemacht und was ich gedrucht brauche per Email direkt an den Kunden oder Partner versand.

Mobiles Drucken hatte bisher nur Erahrungswerte für mich, keinen Wirtschaftlichen nutzten. Es ist sehr Speziel und als just for fun einfach zu unwirtschaftlich.

what he said...

Just so the rest of you won't have to run siberia21's comment through Babelfish...

I had already three printers for the mobile pressures. The Canon BJC-70, the BJC-85 on IR basis and the Pixma IP90 with additive Bluetoothmodul. Everything including with Akku of luggage. Whereby the IP90 was excellent as mobile solution.

All in all I used the mobile pressures too rarely. It is to be talked now about the Noklia 9200 or now about the Nokia E90 out about my UMPC not at all. Therefore I sold the devices again.

The ink tanks are small, the devices are quite heavy and if I select e.g. between my three favorites.

Thus, the Everun, P1610 or the X41 of IBM the printer would be always the largest equipment in the bag.

Then dear FreepdfXP installs pdf from it made and which I need gedrucht by email directly at the customers or partner dispatch.

Mobile pressures so far only Erahrungswerte for me, economical one did not have used. It is much Speziel and as just for fun simply too uneconomic.

Oh Babel fish use I with the next time. Thanks at Sumocat for the reference.

Is there a Gobbledygook Fish to translate that translation?

Hey, Babelfish isn't very good -- I remember trying to use it in reverse to do a presentation with slides in German while I spoke English -- but but it basically works.

siberia21's experience is roughly the same as mine. I used a BJC-70 and a BJC-90, but, for most trips, they still too bulky and need ink replacements too often. Many hotels now have business centers, and I select my hotels a lot by which ones won't charge my first-born for a simple printout. If I have heavy printing needs, I'll go to Walmart or something similar at my destination and buy a cheap printer for use while I'm there. Sometimes, if I like it, I'll ship it home. Sometimes, I'll leave it behind.

C'mon kip, knowledge is earned not given. You gotta work for that last bit of translation. ;P

What about that small, portable printer Warner showed us at CES? Is it out?

Personally. i carry the Pentax Penjet thermal transfer printer.

Steve

I already detailed why my HP460 is so amazing on page 2 of Accessories forum. I have a BJC85 also, and while suitable for adequate output, the 460 is barely larger when BJC85 has battery attached yet produces zero difference from HP's best six-ink desktops. It also uses their tanks, so ink life is identical. With heads in cartridge, firing up after unused six months gives 1st print perfect. Actually, my 460 is the best printer I've ever owned regardless of its size. I never experience banding, stripes, blobs episodes anymore.

To me, carting around a printer is about quality output worth bothering at all more than shaving a few ounces or mm. I find total weight doubles after including paper and ink spares packed along anyways.

But, stunning six-color archival 8x10 photos churning out on seat next to me in auto greatly expands the mobile concept yet widely ignored. If I have to pump out laser quality materials in hotel room the 460 delivers with ppm respectable specs.

There's great satisfaction knowing printing covered totally in one Sumdex large laptop sleeve: printer with battery, ac brick, 4 extra tanks, 8x11 double weight premium photo paper and various general use papers, and clear sleeves, envelopes and 8x11 boards. The prints are so good, everyone wants one, but inkjets are prone without protection handling.

Take a 460 to a wedding and quietly bang out full-size 8x10 prints on-site impresses all. Firing up Photoshop and tweaking on tablet first makes good shots great. A DSLR RAW image processed into 28MB TIFF on HP Premium Plus 8x11 paper radiates with detail and glow. 90% of first print are spot-on. The key is using the six-ink tanks pair and always Premium Plus paper and closely monitoring options selecting that paper driver.

I've been a commercial photographer for three decades and finicky as possible. The quality level I've described possible is very high. On a portable printer, its remarkable. For low-volume users it can be the only printer owned.

Lastly, the HP basic drivers Vista includes provides full functionality without the massive, intrusive baggage HP package spawns. Plug-in USB, discovery/driver in archive and ready to use in minutes. Check later for latest driver from Device Manager avoids full HP suite.

HP's web store ships supplies overnight free. Sometimes two-for-one paper specials opportunity to slash the single downside: high costs for ink and best paper.

I agree with bmhome1. I am a travelling sales engineer for a mining company and I recently have been travelling with my Fujitsu P1620 in my custom SF bag (www.sfbags.com)+ HP Deskjet 460CB + Fujitsu S300 portable scanner. The printer + scanner is housed in an Axio Tekno backpack (http://www.axio-usa.com/tekno_black.html).

It seems awkward the laptop weighs the least in the whole group. But I can carry the whole bundle inside the plane.

One gripe I guess would be if the printer's weight can be shaved off even further. It's nice and light for a desktop duty but with it hanging behind your back, 50% less weight would be ideal.

Printing solutions:

1. Office Depot

2. Kinko's

3. Public Library

4. University Library

5. Hotel office (beg staff)

(I don't usually print much away from home, and printers are heavy.)

Few years back, when I was traveling extensively I learned this trick that I think is still quite usable, specially for emrgency situations. Note, this is not a high quality solution, but just to get some text (agreements, memorandums etc.) in paper format.....

FAX!

When in hotels they normaly charge for prints but not for faxes received. Also in many hotels they bring the fax in to your room as a normal service, or you you just pick it up from the front desk.

Also faxes are (still) so widely used, that you can find those everywhere. If you ask "do you have a printer? can I print some stuff to it" in a gas station or in a coffee shop. You will have little or no change (not to mention the connectivity problems). But if you ask "can I have my friend to fax me one document to your fax here" you will most likely get an OK.

Also you can check from their website or local yellow pages for their fax number beforehand.

I'm with sbtablet. I work at one of the listed print shops and get all of my color printing (maybe 100 or so sheets a year) at work. At home I have a Brother HL2070N that is just a monochrome laser printer. If I need something nice printed, be it while running around or between classes at school, there has been a print shop within a 5 minute drive in every case.

There's just one thing to remember with this method... always always ALWAYS carry a flash drive with you. It's so much quicker to just put your document on a flash drive and hand it to someone to print than to mess around with emailing a file when you're standing right there or trying to upload it through their programs. And if you're using Office 2007, save both your Office 2007 formats (.docx, .pptx, etc.) AND a copy in the Office 2003 formats too. Not every place can open the new file formats without a large hassle so make it easy on everyone.

$.09 per black and white copy and $.49 per color copy is a lot more reasonable to me than lugging a portable printer around and dealing with ink cartridges (I've sworn off inkjet printers because of them) paper and everything else. It depends on how much printing you do though. I know both Office Max and Office Depot use a DocuColor 250 (or 240/252/255) for their color prints and the quality on that machine is great.