Printing Solution for Mobile printing on HP printers
The Personal Digital Assistant or PDA was introduced to replace the bulky paper organizers that people have long carried around. The PDA is a tiny, fully functional computer that you can hold in one hand. PDAs can even hold your downloaded e-mail and play music. The only feature lacking is facility to Print.
HP has enabled such embedded devices to have printing functionality by releasing an SDK called the Appliance Printing Development (APDK). Using the APDK, developers can write their own device drivers for the HP DeskJet series of printers, targeting their host system. Thus, non-PC devices such as palmtops, web TV terminals, watches, digital cameras, cell phones, and handheld PCs can make use of HP printers.
APDK contins a minimum set of codes, but is not a complete driver - it serves as the basis for creating a very small yet functional printer driver. To extract a complete device driver, a developer has to code for some functionality in the targeted platform....
