HP Gives Printers Email Addresses

Barence writes "HP is set to unveil a line of printers with their own email addresses, allowing people to print from devices such as smartphones and tablets. The addresses will allow users to email their documents or photos directly to their own — or someone else's — printer. It will also let people more easily share physical documents; rather than merely emailing links around, users can email a photo to a friend's printer. 'HP plans to offer a few of these new printers to consumers this month, and then a few more of the products to small businesses in September.'"

Comments

Why is this news?

[djsmiley]

At work we have printers and scanners you can email to, from Ricoh.

Not sure what this is getting on slashdot for exactly?

Re:Why is this news?

[BobMcD]

Welcome to slashdot. A few pointers:

1) Not everything here is 'news'.

2) Not everything here is 'for nerds'.

3) Not everything here will make sense to any one given person.

4) Commenting 'why' has approximately zero chance of modifying any of the above.

Enjoy your stay!

Re:This

[CarpetShark]

Nope. It's not like printers have been hacked with less to work from.

Re:horrible horrible horrible idea.

[schon]

who can't already print from their existing email client?

ipad users.

Re:I really hope this has some form of verificatio

[BobMcD]

1. Spambots sending your printer garbage...
2. DDOS somebody's printer with a combo of tubgirl / lemonparty / goat.se
3. Invest in companies that sell ink
4. Profit?

Re:horrible horrible horrible idea.

[icebraining]

CUPS supports three different printing protocols over TCP (which means, over the Internet). IPP (Internet Printing Protocol), for example, is ten years old, and it supports access control, authentication, and encryption.