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ThinPrint has released a version of its wireless printing solution, Content Beamer, for Research In Motion's popular BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds. The application and service was already available for Symbian platform devices.

According to the company, Content Beamer for BlackBerry offers users of Bluetooth-enabled BlackBerry devices a way to print e-mails and attachments in their original format on Bluetooth-printers. Users can print to network printers too.

You do not have to download an e-mail attachment to print it out. Instead, the server component of the software sends a highly compressed print job to the handheld. This way, ThinkPrint asserts, it takes less time to print out the attachment than it would take to download the file.

Print jobs are created from the server component of the Content Beamer for BlackBerry and sent via BlackBerry Enterprise Server to the mobile device. Both servers are behind a firewall.

For security reasons, the only accepted Bluetooth printers are those to which the BlackBerry user has previously explicitly established a connection. Content Beamer for BlackBerry supports all conventional print languages, like PCL, PostScript, etc.

ThinPrint Managing Director Carsten Mickeleit asserts the company didn't expect as positive a response as it got when first announcing the product in April.

"By adding network and direct print functions, we want to ensure that Content Beamer truly represents all aspects of printing and meets the needs of BlackBerry users with one easy-to-find `print' option in the BlackBerry menu," says Mickeleit.

Content Beamer goes for $2,280 USD for one server, including 5 users.