One of the common questions android tablet users ask is whether they are any printer drivers for android so that they can directly connect to printer via USB and print files, but unfortunately there is no official or decently supported hardware drivers or hardware gadget for android that can directly connect to printer and print files.
But you can print files easily if your printer support wireless printing via Bluetooth or WiFi, there are loads of free apps out there in android market most of them released by Printer manufacturer itself such as HP, Samsung, Kodak see below pic, a simple search on android market will list a whole lot of apps install one which suits your needs based on printer you have.
And if you are too geeky you could try a hack authored by Mike Kershaw from Kismet and Mike Baker of OpenWRT which allows you to connect your droid device with any USB-enabled device though its not a straight forward method and requires coupling of different cables to achieve it
you can find the detailed instruction in chris paget's blog, though at present above hack needs to restart your android device every time you connect to different devices such as printer, camera etc due to lack of usb support in android kernel for peripherals, but you could expect lots of new things in near future by independent developers or hacker group may be Google might come out with a standard driver stack for usb support until then finger crossed.
So bottom line there is no way to directly connect to printer and android via USB the best option at present is to buy a printer that supports either Bluetooth or wifi printing.
But you can print files easily if your printer support wireless printing via Bluetooth or WiFi, there are loads of free apps out there in android market most of them released by Printer manufacturer itself such as HP, Samsung, Kodak see below pic, a simple search on android market will list a whole lot of apps install one which suits your needs based on printer you have.
And if you are too geeky you could try a hack authored by Mike Kershaw from Kismet and Mike Baker of OpenWRT which allows you to connect your droid device with any USB-enabled device though its not a straight forward method and requires coupling of different cables to achieve it
you can find the detailed instruction in chris paget's blog, though at present above hack needs to restart your android device every time you connect to different devices such as printer, camera etc due to lack of usb support in android kernel for peripherals, but you could expect lots of new things in near future by independent developers or hacker group may be Google might come out with a standard driver stack for usb support until then finger crossed.
So bottom line there is no way to directly connect to printer and android via USB the best option at present is to buy a printer that supports either Bluetooth or wifi printing.
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