Printing devices supporting printing over air or printing over a wireless network

A method for a printing device to wirelessly provide printing services, the printing device includes wireless communication circuitry for establishing a wireless local area network connection to a wireless local area network, the method comprises:

• (1) wirelessly connecting, using the wireless communication circuitry of the printing device, to the wireless local area network;
• (2) wirelessly establishing communication, using the wireless communication circuitry of the printing device, with an information apparatus that is in the wireless local area network in (1);
• (3) wirelessly transmitting, using the wireless communication circuitry and over the wireless local area network, device information from the printing device to the information apparatus in (2), the device information includes at least one of identification information, capability information, address information, status information, or attribute information, individually or in any combination, related to the printing device;
• (4) wirelessly receiving, via the wireless communication circuitry of the printing device, print data from the information apparatus for printing at the printing device, the print data is based, at least in part, on the device information transmitted to the information apparatus in (3).