Any free 'email a print job to my printer' applications out there?

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robjg63

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#72113 20-Nov-2010 20:27

I note that HP/Lexmark/Canon and co are all bringing printers to market that have their own email address. The concept being that no matter where you might be you can 'email' your print job to a remote printer.

I was wondering if anyone has heard of any free software that does something similar. I imagine that you would have to mail to a program on a PC that has the printer connected as most printers dont have an email server.

Anyone got any suggestions??
I tried googling but didnt get much of a result - maybe I used the wrong words, or....

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#407174 20-Nov-2010 20:59

Giving spammers a license to print... spam?

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#407198 20-Nov-2010 22:55

BlakJak: Giving spammers a license to print... spam?

Ha! But you make sure the printer has run out of paper - then the joke would be on them!

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#407220 21-Nov-2010 02:55

BlakJak: Giving spammers a license to print... spam?

I think there would be a way to only allow print jobs from certain email addresses, or this would be rather pointless for that exact reason.

Saw a AD from HP on TV tonight, and it was like "All printers come with a email address" - just was thinking what kind of email addresses these printers come with, are they easy to guess? Spammers will be able to pick up on this quite quickly if it was something simple + printers were not smart enough to purge anything but your own emails.

This may just be the evolution of Fax Spamming?

OP: It will be simple to use Linux, make a rule in Evolution "If the subject like says Print then send the job to the printer" or something like that, I have never had that need though.

There's another way of doing it using Dropbox (A free tool) Here which will be a way more secure option, Dropbox comes on almost every mobile platform, you can upload files from your Android / iOS device or Laptop from anywhere and you know it will be printed when you get back.

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#407240 21-Nov-2010 08:58

michaelmurfy:
BlakJak: Giving spammers a license to print... spam?

I think there would be a way to only allow print jobs from certain email addresses, or this would be rather pointless for that exact reason.

Saw a AD from HP on TV tonight, and it was like "All printers come with a email address" - just was thinking what kind of email addresses these printers come with, are they easy to guess? Spammers will be able to pick up on this quite quickly if it was something simple + printers were not smart enough to purge anything but your own emails.

This may just be the evolution of Fax Spamming?

OP: It will be simple to use Linux, make a rule in Evolution "If the subject like says Print then send the job to the printer" or something like that, I have never had that need though.

There's another way of doing it using Dropbox (A free tool) Here which will be a way more secure option, Dropbox comes on almost every mobile platform, you can upload files from your Android / iOS device or Laptop from anywhere and you know it will be printed when you get back.

Yes - you obviously need some sort of 'protection' - probably need a 'pseudo printer' on the client PC that embeds some data in the email that the target PC/server would verify before setting up a print job.

It was that HP ad that jogged my memory that I was going to investigate that once before. HP wont have invented it. I figured there were probably some packages that could already provide some similar functionality to less smart printers but I couldnt find it on google - maybe it doesnt exist.

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