Systems and methods for printing a document using a graphical code image

A method comprising:

• managing storage of documents and associated document identifiers, the documents and associated document identifiers being stored in a storage system, a particular set of one or more of the documents being associated with a particular user, the particular set of one or more of the documents and one or more document identifiers associated with the particular set of one or more of the documents being stored in response to receiving a storage request from a work computing device, the work computing device being distinct from a server system;
• receiving a user request containing identification of the particular user from a mobile computing device, the user request received subsequent to the particular set of one or more of the documents and the one or more document identifiers associated with the particular set of one or more of the documents being stored in response to the storage request from the work computing device;
• providing a list of the particular set of one or more of the documents associated with the particular user to the mobile computing device in response to receiving the user request;
• receiving a document request from an image forming apparatus, the document request containing information identifying a selected document of the particular set of one or more of the documents, the image forming apparatus receiving from the mobile computing device a graphical code image identifying the selected document by a document identifier associated with the selected document, the graphical code image further identifying the storage system;
• and
• providing the selected document to the image forming apparatus in response to the document request, thereby facilitating printing of the selected document by the image forming apparatus.

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the image forming apparatus to perform:
• receiving a particular graphical code image from a mobile computing device, the particular graphical code image identifying a particular document to be printed, the particular document identifying a location of a storage system storing the particular document;
• transmitting information identifying the particular document to a server system, the server system configured to manage storage of a plurality of documents associated with a plurality of document identifiers, the plurality of documents and the plurality of document identifiers being stored in the storage system, the server system being distinct from the storage system, the plurality of documents including the particular document, the plurality of documents and the plurality of document identifiers being stored by the server system in response to a storage request received from a work computer prior to the receiving the particular graphical code image by the image forming apparatus, the work computer being distinct from the server system, the plurality of document identifiers including the particular document identifier;
• receiving the particular document from the server system in response to the transmission of the information identifying the particular document;
• and
• printing a particular printable representation of the particular document.