HP ePrint Setup and Support Services

HP’s new ePrint service sounds great: You can print from anywhere to one of HP’s ePrint-enabled printers by sending the job via e-mail. Instead of a driver or a direct connection, cloud computing allows you to send your job through an HP-managed server to the printer. HP’s promotional text encourages you to “use HP ePrint mobile printing to instantly share memories (send a photo of your child’s first steps directly to Grandma’s printer two states away) or print important materials without delay (print itineraries, directions, purchase confirmations, and more, right from your mobile device).

Instantly? Without delay? Dig into HP’s ePrint FAQ, and you’ll find this disclaimer: “As with any email, there is no guarantee when or if it will be received.” That’s what PCWorld/Macworld Labs’ Jim Galbraith experienced when reviewing the HP Photosmart Premium and other ePrint-enabled models recently. Most of the ePrint jobs he sent through his iPhone printed quickly — within a minute or two. One, however, took hours to print, and another never printed at all. Checking HP’s support forums, he found a raft of HP users who were having the same sorts of problems.

The ePrint service’s cloud-based infrastructure is convenient and cool — but is it reliable? A team of PCWorld/Macworld staff and contributors spent 24 hours using ePrint, and the results ranged from perfect to puzzling.

We set up two ePrint-enabled models in our lab: the HP Envy 100 e-All-in-One and the HP Photosmart eStation. Each ePrint-enabled model comes with a unique e-mail address — a deliberately long and complex alphanumeric string, the better to protect the printer from spammers and other security risks. You can also restrict the models to accept print jobs only from specific senders’ e-mail addresses. Our sending devices included several cell phones — an iPhone, an Android phone, and a BlackBerry, all using the handsets’ e-mail clients to send from Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo — as well as a couple of traditional desktop computers, one on site and one remote.

How to Print Wirelessly from an iPad with HP Eprint App

The HP ePrint app on your iPad can be a powerful tool to have. With it, you can print on any HP ePrint-enabled printer, anywhere in the world. You can print your documents and pictures from your iPad wirelessly to supported HP printers in your local Wi-Fi network. Items you can print wirelessly with the app include photos from your gallery, emails and their attachments, web pages, and documents from your cloud storage services, like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, and OneDrive.For HP Printer Support call @ +1-888-863-4264