Printer manufacturer Xerox announced the release of Mobile
Print Solution, which offers tools that make it possible to print
regardless of location. The solution allows businesses to securely
print e-mails, presentations and other business documents from any
smart phone or e-mail-enabled device. Enhanced Mobile Express and
Global Print Drivers tell workers what printers are available to their
laptop for printing options for the roaming workforce. The Mobile
Express and Global Print Drivers are free and currently available for
download via the company’s Website.
Mobile Print Solution allows users to print from e-mail-enabled devices
without having to download drivers or applications. Users e-mail the
file in its original format, such as Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF, to a
secure server. A confirmation code is then e-mailed to the user to
securely release the document for printing from any Xerox Extensible
Interface Platform-enabled multifunction printer (MFP).
The Mobile Print Solution runs on a company’s private server to
maintain compliance with the existing security infrastructure and
preserves all formatting and data when printing Microsoft Office
documents, offers full preview of the document on the MFP’s user
interface before printing and provides the same print settings such as
duplex, color and finishing options that are available to users on a
desktop.
The updated drivers eliminate the need for IT departments to install
new drivers to support full functionality on current and future Xerox
products, provides access to the latest set of features on Xerox
printers and MFPs such as Color by Words, which displays simple words
to select colors such as “red apple” or “blue sky”, helps workers
identify print jobs in workgroups without banner pages by automatically
including user and job information in the unused page margin
eliminating wasted pages and offers Earth Smart print driver defaults
that can be set to include two-sided printing, proof print, recycled
paper and draft mode.
“No two mobile workers are the same – from the executive reviewing a
presentation on his phone en route to a staff meeting to the NYC-based
employee working at Paris headquarters – but all need an easy and
secure way to print,” said Rick Dastin, president of Xerox’s enterprise
business group. “Our approach delivers simplicity for any location,
helping mobile workers focus more on their business and less on how to
print.”
With the new Global Print Driver, IT administrators can also “push”
driver settings out to employees on the network, such as duplex
printing as a default, without having to reinstall the entire driver.
Mobile Print Solution will be available for early customer installs
beginning in the fourth quarter, with general worldwide availability in
early 2011, a company release stated.
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