Print from your PDA with ActivePrint 4.7
For the true mobile warriors that actually view and modify documents, spreadsheets or other artifacts on a PDA, this one’s for you. ActivePrint is a mobile printing application that runs right on your Windows Mobile device and the software has just been upgraded to v.4.7. I’ve previously used earlier versions of ActivePrint a few years back and found to be very useful.
It doesn’t allow you to directly connect a printer to your PDA; instead, it queues up docs you want to print and then executes the print jobs via a host PC and printer the next time you synch using ActiveSync. Upon first glance, this might not appear too impressive until you actually think of how you would use it. You can mod some docs on that train ride to work, update some spreadsheets while waiting in line at a coffee shop or draw a quick diagram while waiting for the cable company to show (you know: "we’ll be there between 8 & 11 or 1 & 4, otherwise we’ll see you tomorrow"). After adding your docs to the ActivePrint queue, you’ll get printouts of all of your updates when you cradle that device, which can add a bit to your productivity level. No such luck for the cable company’s productivity, however….
Pricing for ActivePrint varies from $19.95 for the UltraLight version up to $64.99 for a corporate edition.
(via Boston Pocket PC)
-kct
In a way, this sounds like those “use Skype — for “free” — from your cell phone” deals (by that, I mean “where’s the unique value?”).
It’s not clear to me what the advantage of this is over the current situation where you can modify files on your PDA, sync with your PC, and then print those files from the PC — without this $60 software. Other than cueing the files before you sync (rather than after you sync), what’s the benefit of this?
Okay, I re-read your post and I guess you are saying that this “cueing before the sync” so that printing happens automatically after you sync is the benefit. I suppose.