System and method for printing documents using print hardware and automatic context inference

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions including instructions which, when executed by a processor,

• identify a document to be printed on a mobile device,
• obtain information relating to at least one of the following:
• a user of the mobile device or the identified document,
• use the information to automatically infer a context at a time that is concurrent with identifying the document, wherein the context is indicative of potential formats of the identified document desirable by the user of the mobile device upon printing of the identified document,
• use the context to customize the identified document by identifying and modifying at least one parameter of the identified document to produce a printed document, and
• transmit the customized document to a print device for printing by the print device to produce a printed document.

A method of printing a document at a print device comprising:

• coupling the print device to a proximate mobile device;
• and
• by a processor of the print device:
• receiving a document to be printed from the mobile device,
• receiving information relating to an inferred context from the mobile device, wherein the inferred context is indicative of potential formats of the identified document desirable by a user of the mobile device upon printing of the identified document,
• using the information relating to the identified context to customize the received document by identifying and modifying at least one parameter of the received document to produce a printed document, and
• printing the customized document to produce a printed document.

A system for printing a document from a mobile device comprising:

• a non-transitory, computer readable memory;
• one or more processors;
• and
• a computer-readable medium containing programming instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:
• couple the mobile device to a print device,
• execute a print software application on the mobile device to:
• identify a document to be printed,
• obtain information relating to at least one of the following:
• a user of the mobile device or the identified document,
• use the information to automatically infer a context at a time that is concurrent with identifying the document, wherein the context is indicative of potential formats of the identified document desirable by the user of the mobile device upon printing of the identified document,
• use the context to customize the identified document by identifying and modifying at least one parameter of the identified document to produce a printed document, and
• transmit the customized document to the print device for printing by the print device to produce a printed document.