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HP Gives Printers Email Addresses

Posted by Soulskill on from the enjoy-the-spam dept.

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.'"

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  1. This by CSFFlame · · Score: 5, Insightful

    could never ever be abused in any way.

    1. Re:This by PPH · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I can just imagine the first wave pf spam: 8.5x11 color photo quality coupons for printer ink refills.

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  2. Please. by JesseL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tell me these will use at least a whitelist to determine which emails get printed. I don't need a stack of full color Viagr@ spam in my printer tray.

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    1. Re:Please. by dsavi · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Whitelist? Oh no. They're gonna get rich from all the ink this uses!

  3. Re:Why is this news? by Venerable+Vegetable · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was thinking the same. Each printer (including the small desktop models) at my work can be emailed to and from, which works excellent with printing, scanning and faxing (receiving and sending). I've seen the same printers for sale at normal consumer shops...

    If I understand correctly though, it will have a preconfigured, easy to set up web-based email adress om a HP server. Basically bringing the normal enterprise functionality to home users.

    That would be fairly neat, but also rather useless and easy to abuse.