is netprinting an English word?

[Yehudit Chana Yeinan]

Hello friends,

I'm wondering if "netprint" is an English verb.
Googling yields lots of proper nouns, but I can't find anything suggesting that it's a commonly used term in non-proper sense.

TIA,

YCY

[Evan Emswiler]

What is it supposed to mean? I can't be sure that it doesn't mean something in some specialized context, but I don't think it's a common word at any rate. 

Evan Emswiler

[Peter Tuffley]

This is not a word that I recall ever having encountered before - but at the same time it looks to me on the face of it to be a perfectly possible coining.

Like Evan, I' pondering as to what it might mean. One vision I have is of some process whereby a document file is electronically transmitted to all the printers attached to a network in such a way as to cause it to be simultaneously printed on all the networked printers. But that's just a guess.

Mi two-cents'-worth.

Peter Tuffley

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[Matthew Schlecht]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Peter Tuffley <peter....@gmail.com> wrote:

This is not a word that I recall ever having encountered before - but at the same time it looks to me on the face of it to be a perfectly possible coining.

Like Evan, I' pondering as to what it might mean. One vision I have is of some process whereby a document file is electronically transmitted to all the printers attached to a network in such a way as to cause it to be simultaneously printed on all the networked printers. But that's just a guess.

     That's most likely correct.

     I haven't encountered the term before, at least that I recall, but my first impression was that it was a contraction of "internet footprint", i.e. internet presence, or the aggregate extent of one's exposure on various internet sites.  However, this definition is probably specious, and it wouldn't lend itself readily to a verb form

Matthew Schlecht, PhD
Word Alchemy
Newark, DE, USA
wordalchemytranslation.com

[Alex Koolhof]

Well...my feeling is that "netprinting" refers to either:

A service whereby you upload your document that you want to print to an online service and then you go to a convenience store and print it out. 7-Eleven has such a service, which I have used in the past. Great if you dont have a printer at home but need to print something out.

http://www.printing.ne.jp/index.html

OR

A service whereby you upload your photos and the company behind the service prints them out and sends them to you in the snail mail.

https://netprint.co.jp/

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[Masako Sato]

Did some searching. As a noun, it seems pretty common:

For insance, 

https://netprint.msu.edu/

Google Could Print. There are already printers that use the system. 

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/07/samsungs-new-nfc-laser-printers-simplify-future-proof-printing-at-home-2/

As Koolhof さん wrote, in Japan:

http://www.printing.ne.jp/

From a noun to a verb may be just a short step, I think. 

Masako Sato

[Jonathan Dougherty]

I think "online printing" might be a good, natural sounding translation for ネットプリント.  I have a feeling you might want to differentiate this kind of printing from "network printing," i.e. printing over a LAN.

For example, Mimeo (http://www.mimeo.com/) offers online printing services similar to Japanese companies that offer ネットプリント services like Fuji (http://fujifilm.jp/netprint/) .

Jonathan Dougherty
Osaka

[Michael Hendry]

From: "Yehudit Chana Yeinan" <ycye...@gmail.com>

> I'm wondering if "netprint" is an English verb.

There is a failure to provide CONTEXT here. Without it, we are just guessing
and wasting our time. Why does the OP ask the question? It this a Japanese
word he/she is translating to English? How is it used in the source text? At
least one page says the Japanes ネットプリント is the equivalent to "online
printing"
(http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%83%8D%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88).
Please provide context so that we can provide relevent answers to the
question.

Michael Hendry, in Newcastle Australia