Roving printing in a cloud-based print service using a mobile device

A method for roving printing using a print server, the method being performed by at least one processor, the method comprising:

• providing a print dialog, over a network, to an application utilized at a mobile device, the print dialog providing a list of printers for selection, the list of printers including one or more available printers associated with a cloud print service implemented by a print server and a generic printer representing a virtual print queue at the print server, the virtual print queue configured to store print jobs designated for roving printing;
• receiving, over the network, from the application utilized at the mobile device at a first location, a print job, the print job identifying a selection of the generic printer and content to be printed;
• storing the print job in association with the virtual print queue;
• providing a printer identifier associated with a selected printer to the mobile device at a second location in response to a bar code scan by the mobile device on the selected printer;
• determining whether a user of the mobile device has access to the selected printer in response to a selection related to the printer identifier;
• retrieving the print job from the virtual print queue and providing print options to the user via the mobile device;
• and
• receiving a selection of at least one of the print options via the mobile device and sending a printable file having the content to be printed to the selected printer.

A computer program product tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and includes executable code that, when executed, is configured to cause at least one processor to:

• provide a print dialog, over a network, to an application utilized at a mobile device, the print dialog providing a list of printers for selection, the list of printers including one or more available printers associated with a cloud print service implemented by a print server and a generic printer representing a virtual print queue at the print server, the virtual print queue configured to store print jobs designated for roving printing;
• receive, over the network, from the application utilized at the mobile device at a first location, a print job, the print job identifying a selection of the generic printer and content to be printed;
• store the print job in association with the virtual print queue;
• provide a printer identifier associated with a selected printer to the mobile device at a second location in response to a bar code scan by the mobile device on the selected printer;
• determine whether a user of the mobile device has access to the selected printer in response to a selection related to the printer identifier;
• retrieve the print job from the virtual print queue and provide print options to the user via the mobile device;
• and
• receive a selection of at least one of the print options via the mobile device and send a printable file having the content to be printed to the selected printer.