Imagine taking a photo with your smartphone (such as an Android or iPhone) and then emailing it to your printer. Your print can be waiting for you when you get home.
Or, perhaps have a printed copy of the day's weather forecast, Red Sox updates (last night's scores) or news waiting for you as you walk to your printer in a robe and bunny slippers. (Am I saying too much?)
To do this, you will have one more email address to remember if Hewlett-Packard has its way -- your printer's. It will be a fairly one sided conversation. You send a document to your printer's email address, which is actually hosted by HP. The company rasterizes your document into a format that can be printed and HP then sends it directly to your HP printer. The company says that it works with photos and documents, including PDF, JPG, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel (.doc, .docx, .xls, and .xlsx).
HP is really jumping into the long distance printing to your home business. It announced print apps from Yahoo!, msnbc.com, Facebook, Live Nation, Crayola, Reuters, DocStoc, and Picasa Web Albums. It is even creating a service called Scheduled Delivery, which can automatically send information -- such as the weather forecast or the daily news -- to your printer at the same time each day.
Emailing to printer is pretty cool. I am worried that one day the printer will email me back.
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