Remote printing of secure and/or authenticated documents

摘要

A method for the remote printing of a document by use of a network, the method including receiving at a server the document as sent from a sender; the server forwarding the document to a recipient; the document being authenticated prior to being forwarded to the recipient; and the server receiving instructions from the sender regards printing controls and the server implementing those controls on the recipient. A hardware device to support the printing controls is also disclosed.