PCMag-iPrintApp 1.0.3 from Celstream Technologies is a powerful, inexpensive printing app for the iPhone and iPod touch, but I found it to be quite buggy.
I tested the app on an original iPhone connected to a Wi-Fi network. iPrintApp is supposed to print any photo stored on your iPhone either to PostScript printers directly connected to the same Wi-Fi network or to any printer connected to a Mac on the network with Printer Sharing turned on. (PostScript is a special language used primarily by higher-end laser printers.)
The app's interface has three panes. First, in the Photos pane, you pick out photos from the phone's gallery. You can select up to 12 at a time.
Then, in the Preview pane, you arrange your photos. You can move the photos around or change their size and orientation by swiping on the screen. However, I found that control sluggish—I often had to paw at the screen before a photo grew or shrank.
Finally, you click on Print, where you can select a printer and paper type and print your sheet of photos.
Unfortunately, I had problems with almost every aspect of this app. Our office has Postscript-based Tektronix Phaser printers, but I couldn't get the app to print on those printers. I had more luck printing to Canon and Epson printers shared by nearby Macs, though it didn't work with a Brother laser printer.
Sometimes, I'd quit the app, return, and find that all my selections were doubled—it wanted to print each photo twice. Used with a Canon inkjet printer, iPrintApp would always print a blank page before its set of photos. Finally, when I asked it to print eight photos on one page, it stalled and crashed; then, when I asked it to print two photos instead, it printed the previous eight. That said, when it worked, it worked; I got decent-quality printouts of my photos through the Mac-connected inkjet printers.
Normally, I wouldn't recommend a product this buggy. But given the lack of other iPhone printing options that print easily to non-HP printers—and given iPrintApp's low $2 price—I think it's at least worth a try.
iPrintApp (iPhone OS) Review
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