US Patent 7812984 Remote stored print job retrieval

A technique is disclosed for printing, at a local printing device, a print job that was previously stored at a remote printing device. According to one aspect of the technique, a command is received through a console of a local printing device at which a particular print job is not stored. In response to the receipt of the command through the console of the local printing device, the particular print job is requested from a remote printing device at which the particular print job is stored. The particular print job, sent from the remote printing device, is received at the local printing device. The particular print job is printed at the local printing device.