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AssigneeCanon Europa N.V.
InventorsBenjamin John Parks, Pierre-Jean Champault, Jiawei Hu
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A method of printing an email comprising the steps of sending an email to be printed to an email address associated with a printing apparatus using an email application on a mobile device and receiving identifying information at the email application in response to the sent email. Identifying information is passed from the email application to a printing application. The printing application sends an instruction to print an email to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus retrieves the email for printing from the email address associated with the printing apparatus and prints the email.
A printing system comprising a mobile device and a printing apparatus, the mobile device comprising:
A mobile device comprising a printing application and an email application, wherein the email application is operable to forward an email for printing to an email address associated with a printing apparatus, to receive identifying information at the email application in response to the sent email, and to pass the identifying information from the email application to the printing application, and the printing application is operable to send an instruction to print an email to the printing apparatus.
A printing apparatus comprising a printer-side application configured to generate the identifying information that identifies a received email upon receipt of an email for printing sent to an email address associated with the printing apparatus from an email application of a mobile device, and operable to retrieve an email for printing from the email address associated with the printing apparatus and to cause printing of the retrieved email upon receipt of an instruction to print the email.
A method of printing an email comprising the steps of:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a printer-side application configured to generate identifying information that identifies a received email upon receipt of an email for printing sent to an email address associated with the printing apparatus from an email application of a mobile device, and operable to retrieve an email for printing from the email address associated with the printing apparatus and to cause printing of the retrieved email upon receipt of an instruction to print the email.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a printing application operable to receive identifying information from an email application;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.