The Daily App: Print n Share For iPhone

One segment poised to become a battleground in the mobility buildout for IT is printing and imaging – with smart devices developing a set of increasingly robust hardware features that support higher end graphics, document digitization and more.

Smartphones and tablets will increasingly capture and receive data that will need printing and reproduction, so leave it to the app world to deliver. One of the top-rated printing apps for the iPhone is called, simply, Print n Share. It’s not free: the download from the Apple iTunes App Store will run $8.99.

Once installed, and with the iPhone connected to a network via WiFi, the app will do all the work of configuring a connection to a printer. Six easy, one-touch buttons will let you print files, email, Web pages, contacts and images either from a camera roll or new photos taken just to print. We tried it out, and literally within a few minutes of download, our phone was sending files to a printer on our network for printing.

Expect that as use of apps for scan-to-PDF and other data creation tasks spread throughout the smart-sphere that apps like Print n Share will proliferate.