Travel printer
Sep 24, 2009 | 12:04 am
#1
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Travel printer
Mac is easy to connect to pretty much any printer around but often it would be useful to have a small, portable, perhaps optionally battery- or USB-powered printer available.
Anyone seen one? In theory A5 (half A4/letter) size might be sufficient enough, no need for fancy features but just for printing a few pages, e-tickets, boarding passes and similar urgent needs.
The best option I've found so far are the small, 10x15 -sized photo printers but I wonder what they'd think at the airport of a "photo boarding pass" ;-)
Anyone seen one? In theory A5 (half A4/letter) size might be sufficient enough, no need for fancy features but just for printing a few pages, e-tickets, boarding passes and similar urgent needs.
The best option I've found so far are the small, 10x15 -sized photo printers but I wonder what they'd think at the airport of a "photo boarding pass" ;-)
Sep 24, 2009 | 7:08 am
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I see a recertified Canon Pixma iP100 portable printer for $150 at Newegg; new they're $250.
Dimensions 7.2" x 12.7" x 2.4"
Weight 4.4 lbs.
HP used to make these but I don't think they do anymore.
This is an application that might have better solutions than carrying around a printer:
1) So many hotels these days have business centers or the ability to print from your room to a remote printer.
2) For $39 or so in the US, you can literally buy a cheap color printer at Office Depot/Max/Staples, use it during your stay, then gift/abandon the printer and do it again at the next stop.
Dimensions 7.2" x 12.7" x 2.4"
Weight 4.4 lbs.
HP used to make these but I don't think they do anymore.
This is an application that might have better solutions than carrying around a printer:
1) So many hotels these days have business centers or the ability to print from your room to a remote printer.
2) For $39 or so in the US, you can literally buy a cheap color printer at Office Depot/Max/Staples, use it during your stay, then gift/abandon the printer and do it again at the next stop.
Sep 24, 2009 | 4:53 pm
#4
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I don't have a portable printer, but sometimes wish I did. I too use hotel business centers, or if unavailable I just fax the document from my laptop to the hotel's fax.
During a recent search for a travel printer, this is the concept I think best approaches how it should look like: PRINTBRUSH (http://tinyurl.com/yb34cp8). It looks small and prints on plain paper, which is easy to find anywhere. Unfortunately this printer hasn't made it to the market yet.
Others I encountered (but didn't buy for various reasons):
Brother: http://tinyurl.com/ybczpgd
Planon Printstik: http://tinyurl.com/yev3lag
Pentax: http://tinyurl.com/l7wu44
During a recent search for a travel printer, this is the concept I think best approaches how it should look like: PRINTBRUSH (http://tinyurl.com/yb34cp8). It looks small and prints on plain paper, which is easy to find anywhere. Unfortunately this printer hasn't made it to the market yet.
Others I encountered (but didn't buy for various reasons):
Brother: http://tinyurl.com/ybczpgd
Planon Printstik: http://tinyurl.com/yev3lag
Pentax: http://tinyurl.com/l7wu44