[darkwater]

Buuuuut, is that really a valid use case? how many people do actually want to remotely print from another network to a printer, beside print shops without dedicated WiFi networks? How many people do actually want to use it as some sort of fax-machine replacement?

[londons_explore]

Many people don't bother with connecting a phone to wifi anymore - 4G is frequently faster and more reliable.

Having to dig out the wifi credentials just to use the printer isn't fun.

[toast0]

It's like sort of useful. In the old days, I would print my lab reports to the college printer from home (using smb based print spooling, which dates me, because smb over the internet was allowed then). You could also use cloudprint to send a document to a print shop before you got there; not the worst way to print things if you don't have a printer at home.

[tedunangst]

Most of the people I know who tried that in college seemed to always send the first copy to the wrong printer. So you print you report on the physics printer. Walk over. Nothing here. Walk back to dorm. Realize you printed in chem building. Print again in physics lab. Walk over again.

[CiaranMcNulty]

I've definitely worked places with segregated LAN and WANs, where it's a pain in the ass to print if you aren't plugged into the ethernet

[toomuchtodo]

Which likely means the printer isn't allowed to punch a hole outbound to a cloud service.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

I do this all the time, when I'm at work and my wife needs some document printed. However, I usually just ssh into a box on my home network and run lpr myfile.pdf