Printer identification and mobile printing

1. A printing device comprising:

one or more processors;

a print process configured to process print data, which is received from a network service, and to cause a printed version of an electronic document be represented by the print data to be printed by the printing device; and

a display for displaying encoded data that represent a printer identifier for the printing device, wherein the network service receives print settings selection data and electronic document identification data from a mobile device.

2. The printing device of claim 1 , wherein the printing device is further configured to transmit the encoded data to the mobile device using a wireless communications link.

3. The printing device of claim 1 , wherein the encoded data is displayed in a manner that can be captured by one or more scanning devices and one or more cameras.

4. The printing device of claim 1 , wherein the encoded data is in a machine-readable format.

5. The printing device of claim 1 , wherein the encoded data further represents features and options currently supported by the printing device, and network service interface data for the network service.

6. The printing device of claim 5 ,

wherein the encoded data is encoded as one or more of: a quick response (QR) code, a bar code, one or more symbols, one or more alphanumeric characters;

wherein the encoded data further comprises an application programming interface key comprising authentication information to validate access to the network service;

wherein the printer identifier is an alphanumeric string that comprises one or more of: a printing device identification number, a printing device model number, a printing device serial number; and

wherein the network service interface data comprises one or more of: a uniform resource identifier (URI), an email address, a network address.

7. The printing device of claim 1 , wherein the printing device further comprises an encoded data generator for generating the encoded data.

8. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

a print process configured to process print data, which is received from a network service, and to cause a printed version of an electronic document be represented by the print data to be printed by a printing device; and

a display for displaying encoded data that represent a printer identifier for the printing device, wherein the network service receives print settings selection data and electronic document identification data from a mobile device.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the printing device is further configured to transmit the encoded data to the mobile device using a wireless communications link.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the encoded data is displayed in a manner that can be captured by one or more scanning devices and one or more cameras.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the encoded data is in a machine-readable format.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the encoded data further represents features and options currently supported by the printing device, and network service interface data for the network service.

13. The system of claim 12 ,

wherein the encoded data is encoded as one or more of: a quick response (QR) code, a bar code, one or more symbols, one or more alphanumeric characters;

wherein the encoded data further comprises an application programming interface key comprising authentication information to validate access to the network service;

wherein the printer identifier is an alphanumeric string that comprises one or more of: a printing device identification number, a printing device model number, a printing device serial number; and

wherein the network service interface data comprises one or more of: a uniform resource identifier (URI), an email address, a network address.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the printing device further comprises an encoded data generator for generating the encoded data.

15. A mobile device comprising:

one or more processors;

an encoded data receiver configured to receive encoded data from a printing device; and

an encoded data processor configured to process the received encoded data to obtain data that represents a printer identifier for the printing device, wherein the printing device is configured to process print data received from a network service, wherein the network service receives print settings selection data and electronic document identification data from a mobile device.

16. The mobile device of claim 15 , wherein the mobile device further comprises one or more scanners and one or more cameras for capturing the encoded data.

17. The mobile device of claim 15 , wherein the mobile device further comprises a wireless communications receiver configured to receive the encoded data over a wireless communications link.

18. The mobile device of claim 15 , wherein the encoded data is in machine-readable format; and wherein the encoded data further represents features and options currently supported by the printing device and network service interface data for the network service.

19. The mobile device of claim 18 ,

wherein the encoded data is encoded as one or more of: a quick response (QR) code, a bar code, one or more symbols, one or more alphanumeric characters;

wherein the encoded data further comprises an application programming interface key comprising authentication information to validate access to the network service;

wherein the printer identifier is an alphanumeric string that comprises one or more of: a printing device identification number, a printing device model number, a printing device serial number; and

wherein the network service interface data comprises one or more of: a uniform resource identifier (URI), an email address, a network address.

20. The mobile device of claim 19 , wherein the mobile device is further configured to:

generate a user interface based on the features and options currently supported by the printing device;

detect user selections of one or more user-selected features and options;

receive the electronic document identification data; and

send the one or more user-selected features and options, the electronic document identification data and the printer identifier to the network service according to the network service interface data.