Approaching Hewlett-Packard printers that will allow clients print remotely using mobile phones and other wireless devices, devoid of needing a traditional computer, the corporation proclaims.

By subsequent year, most of the printing will be complete from Web than customary computer based word dispensation programs, a tendency that has pushed HP to mounting Web-friendly printing services, said, the chief of HP's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), during a press occasion in New York.

HP's Inkjet and Laserjet lines next to with further user and venture-level printers will contain the ability, called ePrint, to print from Web-connected devices. Joshi said clients would not pay a "premium" for ePrint.

Every printer with the ePrint ability will be allocated its own e-mail address. If somebody needs to print a document from an iPhone, the document will go to HP's data center, where it is provide into the accurate format, and then sent to the person's printer. The procedure takes about 25 seconds.

The benefit for clients is that the process does not engage a computer. No drivers have to be installed, Joshi said. The ePrint characteristic works with mobile devices from Apple, such as the iPad and iPhone, plus Palm, Android and Microsoft smartphone platforms.

HP's technology holds a special advantage for iPad clients because the device does not have inhabitant printing ability.