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purpose so that in many organisations secure printing is now mandatory. Server-based systems that allow users pull print jobs down to any printer on the network, instead of having to push it to a specifc printer, are a key component of MPS implementations. The most comprehensive of these, such as Equitrac and Safecom, combine pull printing with powerful job accounting features. There is not much that printers and MFDs can do to prevent the most determined industrial spies. But through a process of user authentication and secure print, businesses can do a lot to minimise the risk of opportunistic theft by insiders and contract staff.

Secure Print : Mobile Printing

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Printing on the move

Secure print solutions are also available from independent suppliers. ThinPrint, for example, recently introduced a cost-effective, vendor-agnostic secure pull printing solution, .print Personal Printing Essentials, that can be used with any device in a mixed printer feet.

Running on standard hardware, it ensures that a print job is accessible to appropriate users via required authentication. When a user wants to print, he simply selects Personal Printing: the print job is then saved in a user-specifc directory. The user can start printing his personal documents at any time on the printer of his choice by authenticating his identity with

a smartcard or a combin BlackBerry smartphone codes. Using the BlackB scan a printer’s unique opens an app that allow user to start printing. “Our secure printing costs about a quarter of other solutions currently the market do. Clients h the choice of using standard hardware or BlackBerry smartphones with free QR barcodes instead of expensive special devices to authenticate a print job,” said Charlotte Künzell, CIO and COO of ThinPrint AG. “The solution is ideal for companies that want to lower printing costs with a straightforward and manageable investment or want to enable

secure, personal printing of confdential documents for individual departments.” The server software is priced at 2,500 Euro, with an an additional charge of 30 Euro per user.

A free demo version of .print Personal Printing Essentials is available at www.thinprint.com/ personalprinting www.thinprint.com/press

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HP and Xerox have expanded their mobile printing offerings with new cloud-based solutions

to-print options where the user knows a printer’s email address, the cloud-based driverless printing service comes with an app that shows a list of enterprise printers available to print to. The system integrates fully with a company’s existing environment with all data routed over a secure network. It is even compatible with some pull printing systems, enabling the user to send a print job to the pull printing print queue and then output it on the network printer of their choice. Another notable introduction by HP this summer are its frst devices to have WiFi Direct printing. Available on the HP LaserJet M1217nfw mono MFP and the HP LaserJet Pro 100 Colour MFP M175nw, this new standard allows users with WiFi-certifed devices to print directly to a WiFi Direct printer without needing a network connection. In this respect, it is similar to Bluetooth but being WiFi it has a greater range.

HP believes WiFi Direct printers will prove popular with home users and small businesses, but expects larger businesses to want to maintain more control over enterprise printing.

Xerox adds PrintMe A more sophisticated solution for printer hotspots is PrintMe

from EFI. This long-established cloud printing system enables mobile business executives to fnd the nearest PrintMe-enabled printer, upload or email their document to the PrintMe cloud and then pull it down to their chosen printer by entering the PrintMe code sent as confrmation that the document has been received by PrintMe.

Xerox has just added PrintMe to its expanding portfolio of mobile printing solutions, which already includes an enterprise driverless printing system that lets offce workers send prints from any email-enabled device to Xerox Extensible Interface Platform-enabled MFPs. By enabling customers to embed PrintMe in Xerox EIP-enabled devices, Xerox is expanding the out-of-offce printing options for mobile workers and smartphone users and giving businesses the chance to provide a revenue-generating print service to their customers.

A rival cloud printing service, PrinterOn, is available embedded into Ricoh hotspot printers, including the 42 pages per minute Afcio SP C431DN-HS Colour HotSpot Printer. For more mobile printing solutions, see the next issue of Business Info Magazine (issue 105).

The printing needs of an increasingly mobile workforce are encouraging print vendors to expand their mobile print offerings.

Market leader HP has just announced an enterprise version of it ePrint mobile printing solution. HP ePrint allows users to email a fle to any ePrint-enabled printer anywhere in the world. You won’t need the print driver, but you will

output automatically – after a delay of a few minutes – on the printer of your choice. You can see how this works by visiting www.hp.com/uk/eprintlive and emailing a document to the HP ePrint Demo Centre: a webcam above the printer of your choice lets you view the document emerge from the printer. HP ePrint Enterprise extends the capability of HP ePrint by allowing users to print to non-HP