Google Gives HP Printers Own Email Addresses
Printers with widgets, an app store, a Web connection and their own email addresses.
Web-connected printers are slowly gaining prominence and HP has always been at the forefront of this endeavor to make these smart printers a mainstream commodity. This week we learn HP has teamed up with Google to give Web-connected printers their own email addresses.
A recent article in the New York Times talks about HP's new strategy when it comes to printers. It discusses Web-connected printers and the company's desire to load these peripherals with apps (think movie tickets, coupons, directions) from a dedicated app store. However, one thing we didn't know is that Google is interested in the direction HP is taking printing and the two have formed a unique partnership. According to NYT, the collaboration allows people to send things like Google Docs and Calendars directly to HP's printers.
It makes sense when you think about it; if your printer has it's own email address, you can have someone send those important documents straight to your printer, and nearly cut your computer out of the equation completely.
Would you buy a smart printer? Let us know in the comments below!
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someone on the inside of google post a few printer emails. time to spam a printer
Absolutely! I can print things on the road and tell my wife(who is not so tech savvy) it's on the printer. My only concern however is what if someone accidentally e-mails my printer a 500 pages?
no more hp's for me their ink is like $8000 a gallon....
It would definitely be interesting.
But the only thing I am concerned about is, my printer printing all those Nigeria bank account hoax and enlarge your penis junk mails sent to it.
I like the idea. Needs some good secure passwording, and some solid processing on the printers' part (Can it print Cry... PDFs?)
It's good if it can have filters and configurable settings.
Great, now I need to worry about getting chain letters from my printer too!
Can't wait till the SPAM prints start coming, it will be like those SPAM faxes from years ago.
@No more HP's for me. All printers rip you off on the ink no matter what brand it is. That is exactly why you just refill your ink so you can reuse the cartridge. Refill it is when it's about half full. I have refilled my HP ink cartridge over 10 times already and have had no problems with it.
@No more HP's for me. All printers rip you off on the ink no matter what brand it is. That is exactly why you just refill your ink so you can reuse the cartridge. Refill it is when it's about half full. I have refilled my HP ink cartridge over 10 times already and have had no problems with it.
If you do a little research youll see that monochrome printer can print 12000 pages from a $70 cartridge/drum....... ie on new egg the "brother DR360 Drum Unit"
so you can print 12000 brother pages or 1000 hp pages for $70...... 12K is like enough for few years.
It's not a bad idea. Your documents "emails" would be stored in Gmail(in the cloud). The printer downloads the document only if the user decides to print it. It's the next evolutionary step in faxing! And to think it only took 20 years! LOL I blog about this on my site http://avillacampa.homeserver.com/blog/
As I know this things will happen. There are lots of things in the web and more problems too I hope HP will learn from that.
this would be cool for about 5 minutes until some stupid spammer sends 100 pages to your printer and depletes all your comsumables.
spam can be countered easily in this situation ie require a password to print. spamming wont be a prob.
So much for the "paperless office"...
A smart printer definitely sound interesting. However, how do we ensure the security and storage space?
No thanks! I get enough SPAM email on my current email account.
I don't think I need this feature.
This feature has been around in all kyocera network printers for approximately 5 years! (pop3 printing).
What impresses me with HP devices is the insane consumables oriented business model (why do people still buy this crap?), not the features !
seems like someone could easily spam your printer w/ adds, or photos that take up allot of ink and resources. I hope there would be some way to filter content to it, or approve every file before its printed
If they will do it in Laser then I'm up for it.
Good idea, i.e. for my mom or someone without a computer. (Of course why then would she have internet.) "Can you send me some new pics of the kids?", "Sure thing, coming right up!". Sounds good to me. BUT, I agree with the spam concern. Hope Google has some for of filter to let only the e-mails pass you want to or else HP is going to be giddy over revamped ink sales based on junk mail alone.
It would definitely be interesting. But the only thing I am concerned about is, my printer printing all those Nigeria bank account hoax and enlarge your penis junk mails sent to it.From what I see it uses Gmail. I have been using Gmail for years and it has the best SPAM filter I have ever used.
From what I see it uses Gmail. I have been using Gmail for years and it has the best SPAM filter I have ever used.
Like a fax printer.
It would be more smart to add a mini-computer to the printer.
With it's own OS, some Embedded Linux.
That can act as a buffer and do lots of things that aren't possible now.
And also the email thinghie.
This way you can do all sorts of things with it including adding a big HDD/SSD to it if you want to.
So its a modern day fax machine... gotchya
By and large one of the greatest inventions I've ever heard...don't know why it hasn't been done yet! I mean, they've had stuff like this on corporate-end mega-printers for a while, making an elegant solution WITH APPS would be freakin' epic...It'll probably be WebOS-based if it's HP (time to start enacting that IP they just purchased!).
Seriously epic idea. I hate having to turn my computer on just to print off directions or movie tickets or the like. Think about it...a google docs app, a Fandango movie tickets app, an app that interfaces with my really nice HP camera... no need for a computer to serve printing anymore! Seriously...i'm ultra-excited just thinking about it ^.^
Oh...and one even more epic idea...i didn't even think about it...what if it interfaced with your android/webos phone in a unique and interesting way...a la docking station...to print off text conversations, or pictures from the phone camera...or ran apps and the like. taking printing to a whole new level ^.^
Well would it just send the files to your printer then are you able to view then select what to print at the printer itself? If that were the case then it wouldn't be half bad.
I'd only do this if I can specify a white list of print automatically addresses and I'd like to have a hard drive that stores the documents, both printed and unprinted ones so that I can print others that weren't on the white list.