Hi Diane, > This, to me, is a serious problem with the PK. I would rather be able to print to a printer directly and save the time in > finding a computer to do it for me.
Actually, I would have to disagree with the assertion that this is a problem with PK! The whole spirit of PK is that it compliments a PC and is intended to be used in tandem with one, but giving you the portability to work away from that machine and then handle your data on either or both. This it does extremely well imho. To date, I've not needed to print anything at a time when I'm unable to synchronize with a desktop machine. In fact, thinking about it, in my particular circumstances, I rarely want to print anything at all anyway, since even sighted colleagues normally exchange data with me in soft copy and then they can choose to print it if they wish! I'm sure printing is something that could easily be added to PK, and may well be at some point, but I do have concerns that if we keep on adding functionality to the point that we turn PK into a kind of laptop, we're in danger of going back on the philosophy of a very small and accessible PDA by forcing PK to grow physically to accommodate all we want to add to it! I've just checked a friend's mainstream sighted PDA, which is pretty whizzy, and it doesn't support direct printing - he synchronizes with a desktop machine when he needs to do this and is perfectly happy with that approach, so we need to be aware that our PDA isn't so very different from many mainstream specifications. Cheers. Paul.
