Ask HN: Printing as a service, has anyone tried doing something like this?

by jorgecastillo on 9/28/2016, 6:02:25 PM with 2 comments
If anyone has where could I read more? In my imagination it would work like this. I upload some documents I need to print. I go to a convenience store where there is a printer. With my smartphone I scan a QR code on the printer, I print what I want to print, I pay over the Internet. I get going to where I am supposed to be. If the printer is occupied I go to the next convenience store a few block away. I did a quick Google search but I didn't find much info.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=printing+as+a+service

  • by dandr01d on 9/28/2016, 6:04:17 PM

    How is this different than existing commercial printing locations? AFAIK they already offer printing of documents via web/mobile apps.

  • by dsr_ on 9/28/2016, 6:20:34 PM

    FedEx online printing does this.

    CostCo does this.

    Other companies do it as a mail-your-printed-goods services.