HP ePrint Can Save You Time and Money

Working from home can be hard enough with all the distractions that it brings.  You have kids, household chores, and the almighty Honey Do List.  Thankfully, there is a great tool available from Hewlett Packard called ePrint, and like Cozi it can be a huge help with time management.  ePrint goes beyond Cozi however in that it can also help with so many other things around the home.  First lets start with what ePrint is.  ePrint is a service offered by Hewlett Packard for many of its newer model printers.  If your new HP printer is equipped with ePrint you will be given the option of setting up the service:  do it!  It is completely free and opens up a massive resource for moms and dads, business professionals, small business owners, and homeschoolers alike.  Your printer will have its very own email address.  In short if a customer of mine wants to send me a work order on hard-copy I don't need a fax machine to receive it.  He or she would simply email my printer directly and the email and document will print out automatically.  The sending email can be sent from just about any device including cell and smart phones as well as computers. Create your account via the setup options for whichever printer it is that you have.  Then what you will want to do is go to this website.  Once you arrive you will see the following page.

On a side note you can also setup ePrint from this page if you prefer.  Personally I recommend doing it from your new printer, but to each his own.

Take some time and explore this page.  One of the things I've seen that impressed me is the way you can view your print history.  I printed out some Disney coloring activities for the kids, and you can clearly see when it was done in the history page.

Speaking of Disney there are a large number of apps you can download to your printer.  The easiest way to do it is to select the apps you want from the website.  You can select apps from your printer, but in this case bigger is better; you can see what you are getting as well as samples of the apps.  On a side note this page is compatible with computers and iPods/iPads.    Now lets talk about some of the types of applications you can download to your printer.  Here is a screenshot from my ePrint account and I'll go over some of the more useful and fun apps that I use.

Like I said earlier I use the Disney ap A LOT especially Jake and the Neverland Pirates for Thomas.  He's obsessed!  The next most used is coupons.  I've saved literally hundreds of dollars using manufacturer coupons for all kinds of products.

In the year and a half since I bought my HP D110 printer this one application has literally paid for the printer and ink numerous times.  That is not an exaggeration.  One of my favorite tactics is to take one of these lovely coupons to a retailer or grocery store like Smith's or Albertsons.  If you're enrolled in the customer program they have you get discounts on gas once you spend a certain amount.  As a result I'm saving double: up front with the cashier thanks to ePrint and again when I fill up my Jeep.  And lets face it, the economy sucks and saving some money is a must for any family, business owner or not.  You can also have specials shown in your area.  

Let me close with this little gem.  We've all needed custom forms printed out either for our kids to help with learning or keeping organized around the home and office (or in some of our cases the home and office is the same thing!)  HP Quick Forms fills the bill.  Simply select the application and you have dozens of custom forms to choose from.

In closing, if you're in the market for a new printer take a look at Hewlett Packard.  The innovation they have displayed is staggering and as a user of this technology I can honestly say it has saved me a ton of time and cold hard cash.  Not only do I get coupons and time saving tools on demand, but I no longer need that expensive fax line.  Do your homework.  I think you'll like what you see!