This morning I discovered that an app in the iTunes app store was going to be on special starting on Black Friday. The special had the enticing price of “free” and, given that I was just waiting to back some spending money back before picking ACTPrinter up, I immediately downloaded it and set it up.
This is an incredible idea for people who are tired of wasting paper in order to print things like e-tickets (bar codes are scannable right off the iTouch screen), directions, or even sermons. A small helper app gets installed on your mac and you end up printing any document directly to your iTouch/iPhone as a PDF, and the transfer is seemless. I normally print out my sermon outline so I can prepare my presentation slides, today I just printed my outline to my iTouch and went to town – it worked perfectly. This will save me a great deal of ink and paper in the coming year!
I do hope that zooming features are improved in the ACTPrinter browser in future iterations, though, it would be nice to double-tap on a paragraph and have the document zoom perfectly for that portion of text. Even without this, the ability to carry around anything you might want to print from your Mac is a great idea – and one that is well implemented by ACTPrinter.
Here is my video demo for ACTPrinter:
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I still don’t understand how “printing” something means sending it to another electronic device. To me printing entails transfer to paper in one form or another. Usually with ink of some kind. I suppose I’m a bit reluctant to let the definition be changed.
It’s similar to printer to a file. “Printing” just means converting the data to a transportable format (no specific program needed) – where you output it to is irrelevant.