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Use a Third-Party Printing App

Several third-party apps offer printing capabilities. Such apps must provide a way to perform two key activities:

• Getting the document from an app: The most sophisticated printing apps use Document Support to enable other apps to send them a fully formatted document. Lower-tech printing apps ask you to select whatever you want to print, copy it, and paste it into the app. Copy-and-paste may be adequate for simple output, but you're likely to lose document formatting, such as margin settings and layout details, in the process.

  Yet another approach is to offer printing of documents you transferred from a computer, data that's already available system-wide (such as contacts and the contents of your photo library), or ...