And in this game, the documents dance to the music the devices hear your software play. It's all about getting documents from your mobile device to your networked all-in-one. The latest dribble of innovation, though, is pretty radical. Of course, it was easy to get your settings wrong and waste paper and expensive ink. Then we got smart and popped a Bluetooth dongle into the USB port of a PictBridge printer to print images from our cell phone (it didn't even have to be smart).

And not long after that we were proudly showing off color images from our USB inkjet.Īnother leap later and we marveled how one WiFi device could handle printing and scanning for the whole household, the whole office.

It wasn't that long ago we were firing up dot matrix printers at the end of a ribbon cable plugged into the parallel port of our desktop. You just have to remember how things used to be to appreciate where we are now with apps like Canon's mobile version of Easy-PhotoPrint. OK, they're changing slowly, but they're changing.

Canon easy print photo app