Document printing goes mobile
With the idea to unhook physical documents from a user’s computer and allow travelers to take their documents with them and use them with no more than a cellphone and access to a local printer, Hewlett Packard has launched Cloudprint.
This service requires users to first “print” their documents to H.P. servers connected to the Internet. The system then assigns them a document code, and transmits that code to a cellphone, making it possible to retrieve and print the documents from any location.
Later, using the SMS message the service has sent to the user’s cellphone, it is possible to retrieve the documents by entering the user’s phone number and a document code on the Cloudprint Web site. The documents can then be retrieved as a PDF, ready to be printed at a nearby printer.
H.P. will soon be announcing a partnership with a major retailer that will offer a variety of Internet-connected printing services at hundreds of locations around the United States, and the Cloudprint service will include a directory service that will show the location of publicly available printers on Google Maps.
The system currently works with any Windows-connected printer, though this strategy is an extension of a broader, and all-important, H.P. strategy of indirectly creating a business that will foster the sale of Hewlett-Packard ink and supplies.
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