Xerox Mobile Print Solution Allows Procter and Gamble to Print from Smartphones

Ink Cartridges — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:09:22 +0000

Employees at household goods company Procter & Gamble will soon be able to print e-mails, presentations and other business documents directly from their smartphones, according to a press release from printer vendor Xerox.

At the company’s Goldmine event today, P&G unveiled Xerox’s new mobile print solution as part of its Enterprise Print Services (EPS) strategy. The company said through EPS, P&G can simplify and digitize its global printing infrastructure by consolidating devices and controlling how and when documents are printed.

Using any smartphone device, employees can send documents to a secure server or cloud. Documents are held in the cloud until the employee walks up to any printer in the network and enters a code to release the prints.

The mobile print solution is the first result of the Xerox and P&G Innovation Council, created to explore future work and technology trends and to design solutions that will benefit the P&G business. Mobile print supports P&G’s “Give Back 500 Million Minutes” program by reducing time employees spend on print and output-related issues.

“We have more than 20,000 employees using mobile devices, so taking the hassle out of working on the road is also going to boost employee satisfaction and efficiency,” explained Filippo Passerini, P&G’s president of global business services and chief information officer. “Xerox’s mobile print capability keeps printing easy and secure—maintaining our agile global workforce and protecting P&G’s brand and intellectual property at the same time.”

The mobile print solution builds on the EPS platform, allowing employees to print without downloading software, mapping to a printer or booting up their laptops. Developed with customers like P&G, mobile print is the newest addition to Xerox EPS, a platform organized to address an organization’s entire print infrastructure.

According to research firm IDC’s recent managed print services MarketScape report, companies considering mobile print services should look at the breadth of a vendor’s offerings and the strategic direction for future services. The report found a well-executed MPS program can slash costs up to 30 percent, increase productivity and improve environmental sustainability.

“The mobile print capability is an example of how Xerox is extending the value of managed print services for our clients and empowering them with innovative services that benefit their core business,” said Stephen Cronin, president of Xerox Global Services. “Our comprehensive approach delivers the future of printing—cost-effective, productive, environmentally sustainable and mobile.”

Via: eweek.com

HP: introducing the webOS… printer?

Ink Cartridges — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:20:11 +0000

We’ve been all over the ins and outs of HP’s planned acquisition of Palm—the tablets, the phones, the bright promise of a cloud services company buying a cloud client, the grim prospect of one failed smartphone maker buying another—but for all that Palm will supposedly do for HP, the one thing I haven’t seen mentioned is the idea that webOS will go into a printer. At least, not until HP’s quarterly earnings call, where HP’s Mark Hurd said:

I think in this case of Palm, and our planned acquisition of Palm, it really has more to do with the intellectual property and the fact that when you look across the HP ecosystem of interconnected devices, it is a large family of devices. When we think of printers, you’ve now got a whole series of web-connected printers that, as they connect to the web, need an OS. We prefer to have that OS in our case to be our IP, where we can control the customer experience as we always have in the printing business, and that’s a big deal to us.

In other words, webOS gives HP its own lightweight, Web-savvy client operating system for all of its consumer-facing gadgetry up through netbooks. For anything that cries out for a touch-based OS—as opposed to a stylus- or mouse-based OS—HP now has webOS as an in-house option. One wonders what’s next: Calculators? Digital cameras? (Actually, a digital camera would certainly be a candidate for the webOS treatment.)

Hurd also reiterated the obvious point that HP is indeed planning a webOS-based tablet. Of course it is—the only question is whether said tablet will be based on ARM, x86, or both. And if it’s based on x86, will it dual-boot Windows?

When discussing tablets, Hurd went out of his way to emphasize that HP isn’t necessarily abandoning a Windows tablet. “Microsoft is probably one of the best relationships we’ve got in our company, and they’re still extremely important,” Hurd said.

Via: arstechnica.com

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