Yep, the printing service is a third-party api (PrintNode) that routes the request to one of any number of desktop clients. The reason we did it this way is 1.

Yep, the printing service is a third-party api (PrintNode) that routes the request to one of any number of desktop clients. The reason we did it this way is 1. we have a web app so we can't print directly to their printer without a print dialog, and 2. we want to print to potentially a different device than the user is on.