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  Msg # 63 of 12811 on ZZUK4448, Saturday 8-29-25, 12:40  
  From: ROGER HAYTER  
  To: OWEN REES  
  Subj: Re: As predicted. VPN ban incoming,  
 From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 28 Aug 2025 at 12:53:45 BST, "Owen Rees"  wrote: 
  
 > Roland Perry  wrote: 
 >> In message , at 
 >> 14:45:55 on Thu, 21 Aug 2025, Jon Ribbens  
 >> remarked: 
 >>> On 2025-08-21, Jethro_uk  wrote: 
 >>>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:52:04 +0100, Roland Perry wrote: 
 >>>>> Not that this would help much, because the document in question 
 requires 
 >>>>> a wet signature, and they don't have a printer (I assume you can attach 
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 >>>>> a printer to an iPhone if you try hard enough, but I've never seen 
 one). 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Quite aside from WiFi enabled printers, don't Apple do an "AirPrint" or 
 >>>> somesuch similar which allows you to print to a cloud connected printer 
 ? 
 >>> 
 >>> AirPrint is nothing to do with the cloud, it's a network print protocol 
 >>> so that you can print to any device that understands AirPrint without 
 >>> needing to download drivers or whatever. So provided your printer 
 >>> supports it, printing from an iPhone is generally very easy. 
 >> 
 >> They don't have a printer. 
 > 
 > Why bother to follow that with a remark suggesting that printing from an 
 > iPhone is difficult? 
 > 
 > The problem is lack of a printer, not the data being on an iPhone. 
  
 My current Android phone seems to have an equivalent to Airprint. It can 
 print 
 from most apps to my (HP) printer independent of either being connected to 
 any 
 existing LAN, via a direct WiFi connection, without any additional drivers 
 or 
 any WiFi passwords. I was quite surprised. 
  
  
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