Drone Delivery Of On-Demand Printed Matter

A system, comprising:

• a client device having an ordering application;
• an airborne mothership having an unmanned aerial vehicle (“drone”), a printer and a communications server;
• the drone and the printer coupled to one another;
• the communications server in communication with a network and configured to receive a print order from the ordering application via the network;
• the communications server in wireless communication with the printer to provide a print job to the printer responsive to the print order for on-demand personalized printing thereof;
• the printer configured to generate a printed result for the print job and provide the printed result for the print job into a container;
• wherein the ordering application is configured for personalization of the print job responsive to the print order including a personal identification number for unlocking the container;
• wherein the ordering application is configured to allow the print order to include an attachment document or design for the personalization of the print job in flight for the on-demand personalized printing;
• the drone configured for airborne delivery of the printer to an address associated with the print order;
• and
• wherein the mothership is an airship with an aerodrome-like bay for the drone.

A method, comprising:

• providing an airborne mothership having a printer, an unmanned aerial vehicle (“drone”), a container loader, and a communications server;
• communicating over a network by a client device having an ordering application to obtain a print order;
• sending the print order from the network to the communications server;
• generating print data for the print order to provide a print job;
• on-demand personalized printing with the printer the print job to provide a printed result;
• loading the printed result into a container with the container loader;
• creating delivery instructions responsive to the print order;
• sending the delivery instructions to the drone;
• loading the container into the drone;
• wherein the ordering application is configured for personalization of the print job responsive to the print order including a personal identification number for unlocking the container;
• wherein the ordering application is configured to allow the print order to include an attachment document or design for the personalization of the print job in flight for the on-demand personalized printing;
• airborne delivering of the container with the printed result by the drone in accordance with the delivery instructions;
• and
• wherein the mothership is an airship with an aerodrome-like bay for the drone to take off therefrom for the airborne delivering and land thereto after the airborne delivering.