The present invention provides methods and systems for providing printing
services. In particular, the present invention enables a print job
source, for example a facsimile machine, to print directly to a printer
over a network, without an intervening personal computer. In an example
embodiment of the invention, a telephone number is assigned to a printer.
A print job is associated with the telephone number. The print job is
then forwarded from a print job source to a spooling server over a
network. The print job is associated with the printer at the spooling
server based on the telephone number. The print job is then forwarded
from the spooling server to the printer and printed.