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I want a "print to iPad" printer driver.

Just use the "Print" command in any application - Word, OpenOffice, LyX, Dia, PageMaker, whatever - and choose "my iPad" from the list of printers. Then the document is wirelessly synced to an iPad app with a simple browsing interface. Basically like Instapaper, but it could work really well with complex graphical documents.

Feel free to steal this idea. :)

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"Save as PDF..." + Dropbox + Dropbox for iPhone/iPad and you're done :)

Yup, and that works okay for me, but I think "print to iPad" would be appealingly simple not just for me but for lots of less-savvy users. "Print to Kindle DX" (or other large-screen e-ink reader) would be good too.

Actually, this is a really brilliant idea. Combine it with push notifications and you have a service that could actually be dead simple and replace a lot of the common print jobs at my work.

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