Drone Delivery Of On-Demand Printed Matter

摘要

Systems and methods relating generally to on-demand printing are disclosed. In such a system, a client device has an ordering application. A mothership has a container vending machine, a container loader, a printer, an unmanned aerial vehicle (“drone”), and a communications server. The communications server is in communication with a network and configured to receive a print order from the ordering application via the network. The communications server is in communication with the printer to provide a print job to the printer responsive to the print order. The printer is configured to generate and provide a printed result for the print job into a container. The drone is configured to obtain and hold the container for airborne delivery of the printed result to an address associated with the print order.