A **smart printer** generally refers to a printer that supports advanced features like wireless connectivity, mobile printing, scanning with AI enhancements, OCR (optical character recognition), and the ability to print from various sources such as cloud storage and mobile devices without needing drivers.
Several apps named “Smart Printer” enable mobile users to print wirelessly:
– The **Smart Printer App & Scanner by Appers Ltd** allows mobile printing and scanning on Wi-Fi printers without drivers, supports multiple formats (PDF, JPG, PNG), AI-powered scanning with OCR, and editing/combining scanned pages[1].
– The **Smart Printer App for iOS** supports AirPrint with over 10,000 printer models, offers printing from galleries, iCloud, web pages, and features like photo collages and improved AI scanning/text recognition[2].
– Another Android app, **Print Master (Smart Printer)**, offers universal printing to many printer types including inkjet and laser, supports printing photos, PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, and multi-image printing on one sheet[3].
In contrast, **hardware smart printers** (such as HP Smart Tank Plus models) combine user-friendly design, wireless printing/scanning/copying, and cost-effective ink solutions offering long ink supply (up to 2 years of ink included), high print quality, and energy efficiency[4][5].
Thus, a smart printer can be either software/app-based—enabling seamless mobile and wireless printing and scanning—or physical printers designed with features for connectivity, efficiency, and cost savings.