Printer selection
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAnil Datta Kumar B, Ramesh Kumar Veerthineni, Sekhar Muni Sirigiri
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to identifying a plurality of available printers associated with a printer sharing service, displaying, from the plurality of available printers, a sorted list of the plurality of available printers and a cost per page for each of the plurality of available printers, receiving a selection of a first printer of the plurality of available printers, and causing the first printer to print a print job.
Claims13
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:
- identify a plurality of available printers based on a contract criterion comprising an affiliation with a printer sharing service to which a user subscribes at a particular level governing access to which types of printers are available to the user;
- display, from the plurality of available printers, at least one printer of the plurality of available printers and a cost per page for a print job, the cost per page calculated according to a print material cost, a margin of a printer owner, and a service fee of a service provider maintaining the printer sharing service, the service provider different than the printer owner;
- receive a selection of the at least one at least one printer;
- and
- cause the at least one printer to print the print job.
A method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of available printers based on a contract criterion comprising an affiliation with a printer sharing service to which a user subscribes at a particular level governing access to which types of printers are available to the user;
- displaying, from the plurality of available printers, a sorted list of the plurality of available printers and a cost per page for each of the plurality of available printers, the cost per page calculated according to a print material cost, a margin of a printer owner, and a service fee of a service provider maintaining the printer sharing service, the service provider different than the printer owner;
- receiving a selection of a first printer of the plurality of available printers;
- causing the first printer to print a print job;
- and
- debiting an account associated with an owner of the print job.
A system, comprising:
- a printer sharing engine to:
- identify a plurality of available printers based on a contract criterion comprising an affiliation with a printer sharing service to which a user subscribes at a particular level governing access to which types of printers are available to the user;
- provide a list of the plurality of available printers and a cost per page for each of the plurality of available printers, the cost per page calculated according to a print material cost, a margin of a printer owner, and a service fee of a service provider maintaining the printer sharing service, the service provider different than the printer owner;
- receive a selection of a first printer of the plurality of available printers;
- and
- cause the first printer to print a print job;
- an account engine to:
- debit an account associated with an owner of the print job, and
- credit an account associated with an owner of the printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.