CloudPrint Beta is a free shared printer service from HP that allows you to share, store and print files and documents using your mobile phone remotely using SMS text messages.

From your desktop computer, you can print documents to the CloudPrint “virtual printer” and your print job will go live “in the cloud.” When you print a document to CloudPrint, the service will notify all the people you send it to with an SMS message containing a unique document code. With just your telephone number and that document code, anyone can retrieve the sent documents using their unique PIN code.

To print to the Cloud (upload documents): First, you can download and install the virtual printer driver on your Windows PC which will add a new printer called CloudPrint to the list of your printers. When you print using the virtual printer, you need to enter your own mobile phone number, and the telephone numbers of all the people you’d like to send it to. Then your document gets printed “to the cloud,” and all the recipients get notifications via SMS.

To print from the Cloud (retrieve documents): With your SMS containing your document code, visit HP Cloudprint website from any computer, enter your phone number and the document code, and press Retrieve. Your document will appear as a PDF, ready to be printed to the local printer.

Soon you’d be able to SMS web URLs to CloudPrint from your mobile device, share them with people and get them printed automatically on your PC.

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