HP has hailed a new era of ‘ePrinting’ in India, with the Photosmart and Officejet e-All-in-Ones (eAIO) lineups of web-connected cloud print-enabled home and business printers, starting Rs. 7,570. This does not yet herald the arrival of the Android Zeen tablet, along with the Zeus printer that’s now known as the HP Photosmart eStation C510.
Using tablets and other interfaces including smartphones as the converged devices for ePrinting, HP aims to offer its users that glorious dream – “easy, customizable printing from anywhere, anytime.” The e-All-in-Ones feature a combination of the TouchSmart interface, personalized applications, and of course, access to the internet and hence the clouds. Services include:
E-mail printing: Sending an email to a unique address would allow for users to directly send documents to their printer, wherever they are.
Mobile printing: With HP’s ePrint or iPrint mobile app installed on users’ smartphones, they can print from documents and images from wherever they are (see list of compatible handsets).
HP ePrint Center: Contains a variety of apps made by local and wordwide partners that are intended to provide entertainment and news apart from productivity and printing tools. Cloud storage also features somewhere. Some distinguished names include: Web Sudoku, Quick Forms, DreamWorks, Snapfish, Google Calendar, Tabbloid, Google Maps, Crayola, Arrival Guides and Picasa.
Mr. Raj Kumar Rishi, Director, Inkjet and Web Solutions at Hewlett-Packard India, commented on the availability of these new web-connected devices in India, a topic we touched upon in our discussion a few months ago:
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Read on to see the details about the web-connected printers HP has just launched in India, starting with the entry level eAIO…
HP Photosmart Plus e-All-in-One B110e (Rs. 7,570)
Features a wireless TouchSmart display/tablet as the interface, which gives you control over what you are printing, including rotate, crop, scale, brightness and colour effects, without requiring the PC. The TouchSmart has access to various apps from the HP ePrintCenter, where several mobile apps also make their appearance.
HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One C410 (Rs. 22,999)
The C410 features a TouchSmart colour display allows you to interact with documents and images, just like the B110e. Apart from the fax, it also allows for full duplex printing, and can supposedly print lab quality photos.
OfficeJet 7500A Wide-Format e-All-in-One & Pro 8500A e-All-in-One
