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There are many apps that allow printing from iPhone OS, but few that allow you to print anything but photos directly to a wifi-enabled printer. Of these, most require you to forget you're in the 21st century, and cut & paste the text into the print app - slick! - or have an app installed on a desktop or laptop to act as some kind of interpreter.
So, printing from an iPhone is obviously an issue for the folks that need to do it (though as an aside, like cut&paste, it's something I've never needed, personally...). That said, I'd be disappointed if Apple actually shipped the iPad without some kind of printing ability enabled (especially with the effort that's gone in to iWork for iPad) though not totally surprised; iPad (this version, at least) is being pitched as something that sits between your laptop and you smartphone, and whilst I agree that it would probably serve the computing needs of many people (e.g. my parents) it isn't a fully-fledged, multi-purpose 'computer' in itself - if it was, it would have multi-tasking, Flash support, SD-card slots, USB ports, a pull-out keyboard and a webcam that reads what you're typing over your shoulder and translates everything into Esperantu - right?
So, to sum up - it's still six weeks away from being on sale. Nobody knows, outside of Apple, what features it will have when it's available. It may be fun to speculate, but to write something off because the current OS that it might ship with wasn't intended to support a feature you may need on a device that's still weeks away from shipping doesn't make a lot of sense to me. <shrug>
Cheers, Pete.
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