Printing to your home printer from your Android device

When I’m on my Android tablet at home, there are times where I’d like to print something out. Even better, I’d love to be on my Android phone while I’m out and have a printout of something waiting for me at home. Through the magic of Google, it’s possible.

To be a bit more specific, I’d like to print to my older printer, one that doesn’t have cloud printing built in. It’s attached to my computer at home.

Here’s how to do that.

Setting up your Android Devices for Dropbox

Step 5 in Learning about Dropbox

In the last step, you configured one of your computer’s folders to synchronize with the cloud. In this step, you’ll configure your Android device (smartphone, tablet, etc.) to do the same. You’ll need to do this once for EACH Android device. It’s an easy process:

Dropbox: It’s Cloud Storage

Dropbox is a free service that allows you to put files up on the Internet (“the cloud”) and lets you access them from your computer(s), smartphone(s), tablet(s), and other devices. You can even share these files with friends. Dropbox has a terrific tour to tell you what it is and what it does. Take the Dropbox tour. It has cute illustrations and will take you less than 5 minutes.

Perhaps its greatest trick is that when you take a picture on your phone or your tablet, it automagically* uploads it to the Dropbox cloud, then down to any of your devices. So that picture you took of your dog/the sunset/that sale item/yourself automagically* gets to your computer without you connecting any cables. Awesome!