Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Lainye Reich

David M Hall

Sherri L Brown

Shell Sterling Simpson

Erik D Ness

Jeff M Anderson

Jeremy Bunn

Charles J Gazdik

Daniel Revel

David Edward Staas

David Jeffrey Miller

Donald J Welch

Karen E Misustin

Raghothama S Cauligi

Steve Claus

A printing system and method are provided that facilitate the mobile printing of a document. The printing system comprises an automated print agent located in a device coupled to a network. The printing system also comprises a network alias associated with a printer coupled to the network, where the automated print agent acting as a network destination for a transmitted document addressed to the network alias. The automated print agent orchestrates the printing of the transmitted document on the printer upon receipt of the transmitted document from a transmitting device.

System and method for mobile printing

A method for use in printing a print job from an application program on a printer. The printer has associated job settings which include a private portion containing a printer-specific job setting. The method includes providing a program interface configured to enable the application program to access the printer-specific job setting. The method also typically includes, from the application program, sending a command to the program interface to perform an operation related to the printer-specific job setting, and performing the operation related to the printer-specific job setting.

Printing method

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Vancouver, WA, United States of America

Lainye Reich