Patent ID: 8885182

Claim:
A method comprising: installing a printer driver of a printing device in a computing device such that the printing device is being simulated as a mass storage in the computing device, wherein installing the driver of the printing device in the computer device further comprises installing in the computing device a print service that is configured to monitor any file that is placed in the mass storage drive; simulating, on a display of the computing device, the printing device as the mass storage drive, wherein the mass storage drive is simulated as a separate drive of the computing device, and wherein simulating the printing device as the mass storage drive comprises displaying folder on the display, wherein the folder represents the printing device as the mass storage that is different from one or more other drives of the computing device; receiving user input placing a file into the folder representing the mass storage drive; and in response to the file being placed in the folder representing the mass storage device, printing contents of the file at the printing device.