WirelessPrintout.com is a website that lets users at participating wireless hotspots print their files to a printer in the hotspot directly over the Wi-Fi network.

Users located in a wireless hotspot that has installed the Wireless Printout System from FiveStar Wi-Fi can make printouts.

At a hotspot that offers the wirelessprintout.com service, open a browser to www.wirelessprintout.com. From there, just click on the Go Print button and be taken directly to the printing system. From there, you select and upload the file to be printed, preview it, and then if it looks good, print. The upload is extremely fast because it travels only over the Wi-Fi network.

When you use the file-->print command in your own programs, a specialized program within your computer (a printer driver) gets involved in order to configure your printout exactly the right way depending on the type of printer you are using. By using wirelessprintout.com , it is no longer necessary to find out what type of printer is available and then find and download printer drivers specific to that printer type and to your computer's operating system. This makes printing much easier for both customers and staff at wireless hotspots.

Because some hotspots may charge for printing, it is important for the user to acknowledge that he or she is satisfied with the way the printout will look before paying.

The system allows you to print the following file types of files: .doc, .rtf, .xls,.pdf, .ppt, .jpeg, .gif, .txt

This option is useful if you need to quickly print text within an email, a website, or other document, without the need for printing the whole document. In some cases it is the best way to print emails.

Because of the many different types of content on webpages today (like flash videos and javascript functions), webpages can't be printed directly with WirelessPrintout.com . However, some good options are available:

• Copy and paste a screenshot of a webpage into a word or wordpad or other file capable of accepting pasted images from the clipboard. On a Windows PC, make sure that the window you want to capture is in the foreground, and press alt+print screen. This puts a screenshot into the system clipboard which you can then paste into a Word or Wordpad or other document by using Ctrl+V or Edit->Paste. After the screenshot has been pasted, save that file & print it just like any other file you would print through wirelessprintout.com.
• Print the website to a PDF file first, then print the pdf file using wirelessprintout.com. Although it takes a little extra time, this option gives the best result when used with the most recent versions of popular internet browsers. This requires that you install a PDF printing software program on your PC, such as PDF Creator at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/. This software lets you "print" your files to a pdf document, which you then can print with wirelessprintout.com.

To offer the service to its users, a wireless hotspot only needs to purchase and install the Wireless Printout System from FiveStar Wi-Fi. Visit www.fivestarwifi.com for more information or send email to sales@fivestarwifi.com .