Mobile ActivePrint For Your Pocket PC - And Get A Free USB Drive

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://activeprint.pocketwatchsoftware.com/">http://activeprint.pocketwatchsoftware.com/</a><br /><br /><i>"Pocket Watch Software is happy to announce the release of Mobile ActivePrint. Based on our award winning ActivePrint Technology, Mobile ActivePrint gives the user the ability to print even while in the field or at an office that isn't their own. This self-contained version of ActivePrint can run off of a USB flash media drive. Simply run Mobile ActivePrint from the USB drive, connect your Pocket PC through Microsoft ActiveSync, and you're read to print your Pocket PC's documents."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2004/20041222-mobileactiveprint.jpg" /><br /><br />The software costs $39.99 and there is a 15 use trial available. Purchase before January 7 and you get a free USB drive. The first 5 to request it get a 128MB drive. The rest get a 32MB drive. :way to go:

[ctmagnus]

So, to print "anywhere" you'd need to have an ActiveSync installer file on the flash drive? That would mean waiting twenty minutes for the installation to get past 91% if you're using a PC that doesn't have ActiveSync installed already.

[Dermot81]

I don't get it...

If you are already connected through active sync, then why do you need their software to let you print? Can't you just copy the files you want over to the desktop and print normally?

[Darius Wey]

I don't get it...

If you are already connected through active sync, then why do you need their software to let you print? Can't you just copy the files you want over to the desktop and print normally?

Yes, you could do that. But I suppose if people want to fiddle around with their print jobs from their Pocket PC, this solution allows them to do that, as opposed to having to copy a file to your computer, and then operate print jobs from your computer.

[cteel2004]

I don't get it...

If you are already connected through active sync, then why do you need their software to let you print? Can't you just copy the files you want over to the desktop and print normally?

The general idea of ActivePrint is to automate this process for you. This is particularly useful if you are like me and create alot of documents while away from a printer or desktop.

The model works like this:
1. You create a number of documents while out of the office.
2. As you create these documents you queue them up in the part of ActivePrint that goes on the PPC.
3. Then, the next time you are at a desktop with a printer you run the part of ActivePrint that resides on the USB drive and tell it to print all the documents you have queued up.
4. ActivePrint takes care of the rest, all you have to do is wait for the printer to finish printing.

Charles W. Teel
Owner
Pocket Watch Software