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Everything you need to know about cloud printing

Learn everything you need to know about cloud-based printing solutions for businesses.

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What's cloud printing all about?

Cloud computing is nothing new. In fact, it’s a staple of everyday life: Streaming music, movies, or TV? You’re in the cloud. Backing up photos on your phone? Cloud. Using online spreadsheets? Oh, you better believe that’s cloud.

Like entertainment streaming and countless other software, platform, and infrastructure services, print management is another area of technology being enhanced by cloud computing.

It’s an obvious enough desire: eliminate on-site print servers and leverage the cloud for your print environment. Cloud printing. But there’s more to it than that…

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Picture this: you’re sitting at your office computer, next to your printer. Traditionally, your printer and computer connect via a wireless or wired network, and your secure and quick printing has historically been facilitated with the help of an on-premises print server, likely hidden away in a bulky server room somewhere in the building.

 

The dream of cloud print management is to outsource printing to a cloud provider without having a print server on-prem. For that, you need some kind of software to talk to your printers AND the cloud.

To conquer the cloud, you need to solve two problems

First, if you’re sending your print jobs to a service up in the cloud, you’re sending your documents over the internet - this can be slow and maybe a security concern. So you have to think about your organization’s security risk posture and what barriers you need to protect your intellectual property.

Secondly, your print job’s delivered to the cloud service provider (which you may not know the actual physical location of) but getting the print job from the cloud back to the printer in a fast and secure way is tricky -especially if you have a complex print environment.

 

To connect the cloud to the printer, extra software or hardware needs to exist somewhere on your network to fetch the print job from the cloud…

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