Repository-Based Print Services

摘要

An approach is provided for a service provider to identify documents to include in a client's repository and for the client to print the documents from the client's repository. In an embodiment, a computing device receives authentication information identifying a first user, receives first user information identifying a second user, receives information indicating selection of a one or more particular documents, from a set of one or more documents, and sends document information that at least identifies the one or more particular documents to a repository associated with the second user. A printing device receives second user information identifying the second user, and, in response to receiving the second user information, retrieves the one or more particular documents from the repository based, at least in part, on the second user information. The printing device processes at least one document of the one or more particular documents for printing.

主权项

1. A printing device, communicatively connected to a scanner, wherein the printing device is configured to:
receive scan data from the scanner; wherein the scan data is generated from a scan, by the scanner, of a user identifier code; wherein the scan data includes a digital representation of a user identifier that identifies a user; the printing device is further configured to perform, in response to receiving the scan data from the scanner:
determine, from the scan data, the user identifier that identifies the user;retrieve, via one or more networks and based at least in part on the user identifier, one or more particular documents from a particular repository associated with the user;wherein the particular repository is remote from the printing device, and the printing device is communicatively connected to the particular repository via the one or more networks; andprint at least one document of the one or more particular documents.