It will switch to the Printer Pro app and let you fire up your print job. You just open the document you want to print in iDisk, tap the standard Sharing button in the app, and choose Printer Pro from the list. So, for example, when you tap on the iDisk tab along the left hand pane of the app’s main window, you get a screen telling you exactly what you need to do to print from within the iDisk app, via Printer Pro. It provides excellent instructions for each of its printing options. It should mean that there’s very little that you can’t print from your iPad. Like I said, a very good range of coverage there. It allows you to print: the contents of the clipboard, contacts from your Address Book, photos from the camera roll or any of your photo albums, email attachments, web pages, documents stored on your iDisk, docs stored in Dropbox, and iWork documents. Printer Pro does a very good job at making it easy to print a broad range of document types from a good array of apps.
Now, on to some thoughts on Printer Pro …
Oh, and just in case you thought you need to wait for Apple’s release of iOS 4.2 for the iPad for printing to work, check that article out – because printing already works very well on the iPad with its current (3.2.2) operating system version. It has similar set of features to Print Central, which I mentioned in an earlier article on printing from the iPad. It can print directly to many Wi-Fi printers and to any printer attached to your Mac or PC via a helper application installed on your computer. I say all-rounder because it is not tied to a particular make of wireless printer and is capable of printing a broad range of different document types and from various popular apps and services. Printer Pro is another good ‘all-rounder’ type printing app for the iPad.