3 Reasons Why You Need to Adopt Mobile Guest Printing

With over eight million travelers around the world flying on a daily basis, and flights connecting all parts of the world like never before, the hospitality industry is certainly flourishing!

A significant portion of the millions of travelers are destined to stay at, or have some interaction with a hotel.

Air travel passengers often require plenty of paperwork, ranging from plane tickets and boarding passes, to financial and business meeting documents.

With passengers often forgetting to print all of their documents before hand, or having to print documents on the go as the need arises, finding a simple, convenient, and secure printing solution can be a challenge for them.

Problems with the Current Print Environment

Current print set-ups in most business centers at hotels, guest houses, airports, etc. present a variety of issues for both guests and business owners/administrators.

Most business centers consist of a simple setup with a few desktop computers and USB or network connected printers.

Guests often prefer not having to login to their email, Dropbox, Office 365, and other accounts, using their personal credentials on foreign devices, as this may possibly increase the risk of breach.

On the other hand, business owners and administrators may feel uncomfortable with providing users the freedom to plug and print using their own USB devices, as it is quite possible that users could unintentionally, or even intentionally transmit viruses and bugs onto local desktops and connected networks.

This would undoubtedly be a nightmare situation for any owner!

Mobile Guest Printing: What is it and What are some Benefits?

With current print environments causing a host of problems, as outlined above, mobile guest printing might just be the ideal solution that both businesses and guests are looking for!

With mobile guest printing, guests can print at business centers by simply discovering printers directly from their mobile devices, or by sending their print jobs as attachments via email to a designated printer email address.

The email option offers guests the flexibility of being able to print from any of their mobile devices, without having to worry about operating system compatibility and integration!

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Some of the benefits of the ideal mobile guest printing solution include:

Greater Flexibility and Convenience

With guests now able to print directly from any of their mobile devices, whether it be laptops, tablets, or mobile phones, this allows users to conveniently print while on the go, not having to waste time in getting to the business center, logging into their cloud accounts, and then finally printing.

Instead, with mobile guest printing, users remotely connect to the printer if discovery has been enabled, or send off a quick email with the print job attached, and print right away from the comfort of their rooms, suites, boarding gates, etc.

Enhanced Security

Mobile guest printing enables users to conduct the entire printing process from their personal mobile devices, only interacting with the printer at the very end to pickup their hard-copy output.

This mitigates the risk of security breaches for users by not having to login and access their files on foreign, third-party computers, while also reducing the security threat for owners by ensuring that their printing environment does not provide users with an open access point to possibly spread viruses or corrupted files through USB devices.

Another feature that owners should look for in potential mobile guest printing solutions is a randomized, secure print job release code mechanism.

This would allow users to authenticate themselves at the printer before their print job is released, further securing their hardcopy output and ensuring that printed documents are obtained by their appropriate owners!

Simplified Print Management

With significantly less equipment required for business centers after deploying mobile guest printing, organizations are able to cut down on costs for IT support and maintenance.

Additionally, most mobile guesting printing solutions integrate easily and seamlessly with the existing IT network infrastructure, not requiring complex print drivers or software, subsequently enabling administrators and owners to focus their time and money on more important aspects of their day to day business.

Are you a business owner currently struggling with your existing print environment? 

Check out the various mobile guest printing solutions available in the market today, and streamline print management for yourself, while also improving the overall printing experience for your  guests, customers and clients.

ePRINTit™’s mobile guest solution uses the most powerful cloud processing system in the world,  deployed across thousands of businesses and hotels, and used by over 15 million people worldwide. Millions of guests around the world rely upon ePRINTit™ everyday to print their documents for work, travel, and meetings.

ePRINTit™’s secure, fully hosted solution offers guests the flexibility to print their documents from any of their devices, to any designated ePRINTit™ printer, while business owners rest assured knowing that their print management is completely taken care of.

Have you already made the switch to enabling mobile guest printing? What benefits have you derived that are specific to your business? Has it benefited your customers and clients? Let us know in the comments below! 

Check out this free webinar on integrating secure mobile printing into your environment!