[brecklundin]

I never considered this before, it might serve just as well for devices of all sizes, though large format readers might be most in need of it. But with an on-demand wifi built in and a generic printer driver built-in the firmware or OS, adding the ability to print certain documents from a reader makes a LOT of sense.

In another thread someone mentioned company forms handy on a KDX is a nice thing. My thoughts went to "...yeah, but what good is a form you can only look at..?" Well, sans a touch interface or even with a touch interface, if one could connect to your office or home network and print a form or pages of interest on demand that sure would be a good argument for including wifi in even eink devices.

Yeah, sure one can use their PC or even a tablet device...but if you buy into say a KDX for business or school use, printing becomes a problematic overly complex multi-stage process.

Anyway, just an observation from the cheap seats.

BTW, not asking if you individually don't need the ability, that is not relevant, buy a device w/o the ability in that case. But rather for those who seem the target demographic for larger reading devices it sure seems like printing should be a given. Generic, basic printer drivers exist, the current crop of CPU's in readers have all the clock cycles to spare in order to generate the printer output...it just seems to be quite an oversight. I know I never thought of it before.