WIRELESS PRINTING DEVICES THAT PROVIDE PRINTING SERVICES OVER A NETWORK WITHOUT A PRINTER SPECIFIC PRINTER DRIVER AFTER HAVING REGISTERED THE PRINTING DEVICE WITH A SERVICE OVER THE NETWORK

摘要

Wireless printing devices that are configured to register with a service over a network (e.g., Internet) for providing printing services for one or more client devices without printer drivers are herein disclosed and enabled. The printing device may include a touch sensitive screen interface to receive security information for connecting to a wireless local area network (LAN). While connected to the wireless LAN, the printing device accesses the service for registering the printing device, and transmits device information related the printing device to the service. Subsequent to registration, one or more client devices using the service over the network may select the registered printing device for printing, and the printing device is configured to receive output data either from the service or via a computing device within the wireless LAN, and wherein output data is related to the device information transmitted to the service.