Windows Phone (News - Alert) users can now download a version of Printicular that runs on their smartphones. With this app, users can submit photos from social media sites to a local Walgreens store and pick up prints within an hour.

Printicular is an app developed by MEA Mobile Limited. The New Haven, Conn.-based company develops several apps like Part, which uses a technique of splitting photos into mosaic-like pieces to make another image. The iLapse app uses your phone’s camera to perform time lapse photography. Another app, iSupr8, adds aging effects to video like scratches and graininess to make them look like an old movie. MEA has also developed several apps for clients’ other companies.

The additional support for Windows Phone means that Printicular is available on all major smartphone platforms. According to the Printicular website, users have several options when it comes to printing their photos. They can be express delivered anywhere in the world, so you don’t have to be near a Walgreens to use the app.

Photos from Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, Google (News - Alert)+, Picasa and those stored on the phone can be printed from Printicular. There is no need to use cables as the app submits the photos using the wireless connection.

The addition of Printicular to the Windows Phone platform may be indicative of a current trend. According to research firm IDC, the established mobile OS platforms like Android (News - Alert) and iOS will see a slight drop in market share between now and 2018. Windows Phone will pick up the slack, increasing its market share from 3.9 percent to seven percent.

App vendors cannot afford to overlook Windows Phone anymore as Microsoft’s (News - Alert) market share increases in two ways: a higher percentage of the market will be using Windows phones and there will be more smartphone users the next four years. That represents millions of users; too large of a market to ignore.

The existence of Printicular itself may represent another trend: a return to some low-tech activity. The world seems in a rush to go to e-books while brick-and-mortar bookstores struggle to stay in business; the paperless office is finally becoming a reality and photos are being stored on public clouds.

It seems paradoxical that a high-tech solution like Printicular facilitates the low-tech behavior of getting hard copies of photos and has solid demand, but some consumer behaviors die hard.