Cloud atlas was published in 1802. It followed a similar effort in French by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1801. Howard's nomenclature defined four fundamental types of clouds: cirrus or thread-cloud, cumulus or heap-cloud, stratus or flat cloud (level sheet), and nimbus or rain-cloud (see Classification of clouds). There followed a long period of development of the field of meteorology and the classification of clouds, leading up to 1896, the International Year of Clouds. The history of this period is the subject of a popular book, "The Invention of Clouds". During that time, the Englishmen Rev. Clement Ley and Hon. Ralph Abercromby, were influential.
Cloud printing options do simplify the printing process, all the print data must travel through the public cloud as it makes its journey from device to printer. It also means no printing is possible when the cloud is too slow or when there is a connection outage. Since some clouds charge on inbound and/or outbound traffic, heavy print jobs can have a significant cost. True cloud print solutions do not require any on-premise server in the company complementing the cloud, whether that is a print server or an application server, or a "gateway" service. Today many solution providers just interface an on-premise