What is cloud printing?

Cloud printing connects digital devices like smartphones, laptops, and tablets, and workstations with printer stations. By comparison, traditional printing done through cables is plagued by software driver problems, compatibly issues, and device connectivity problems.

How does cloud printing work?

Cloud printing services allows you to print from any web-connected device by routing print jobs between your computer, smartphone or tablet and sends them to an internet connected printer. It also allows users to quickly discover printers and print from their own device without the need to set up driver installations.

What are the benefits of cloud printing?

There are five major benefits of moving from an on-premise print server to a cloud printing environment. - Reduction of cost: It removes the need for other servers leaving a predictable monthly charge and it also reduces operating costs for maintenance and on energy costs for running your on-prem devices. - Free up time for your IT Team: You can save time spent on installing print drivers on machines and print server infrastructure management. - Flexibility: Scaling up and down or adding new functionality and services can be implemented far more quickly in a cloud environment. - Secure Printing: Your user access will be easily managed by the same rules and security that you apply to your Azure AD within the same environment as your Active Directory. - Ease of use: Location based rules can connect the user to the nearest printer automatically.

Cloud Printing Solutions

Today, Cloud Solutions are widely deployed by large global and small local organizations alike. This allows hundreds or thousands of users, devices and printers, often across locations and geographical divides to connect with the data center over the Cloud. Mobile users may need to print from multiple locations – in different parts of a building, in a branch office or from another country, using corporate or their own devices.

To enable fast and reliable cloud printing in such complex environments, IT has to overcome many issues. They include new printer and driver installations, printer management and driver updates, printer mapping, and securing sensitive data as the print data stream makes its journey from the user device to printer across the Cloud.

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Secure Cloud Printing

UniPrint InfinityCloud provides a cloud printing solution that simplifies intra-organizational printing software and hardware structures to align the printers, drivers, devices and users within the system. The Enterprise Printing Solution allows both remote printers and centralized printing. The web based printing software comes with a user-authenticated pull printing solution that improves document security; and a high availability with load balancing capabilities setup that allows full redundancy to maximize enterprise printing uptime, all of which are key to driving your enterprise Cloud success.

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How it works

The user starts a VDI session by connecting to an application server in Azure. From an application, the user prints a document. The UniPrint universal printer driver (UPD) creates a compressed PDF file and transfers it to the UniPrint Bridge.

The UniPrint Bridge and Print Server, renders the PDF print job into compressed print data and then streams the print data to the appropriate remote location.

Compressed print data is sent to either an onsite UniPrint Print Server or to a vPad device.

For direct printing, the RAW print data is sent to an on premise UniPrint Print Server.

For SecurePrint, the user is required to authenticate at the vPad first.

The UniPrint Print Server decompresses the print stream and forwards the RAW print data to a network printer.

After a user authenticates, the vPad device decompresses the print stream and the RAW print data is sent to a network printer for printing.

All Clients Can Print to Any Printer, Anywhere Over the Cloud

Through UniPrint Print Server, UniPrint InfinityCloud eliminates the need to install client software on user devices enabling clientless or zero client printing. UniPrint’s all-client capability promotes reliable and fast printing no matter where you are working across the Cloud. Users are able to enjoy efficient cloud printing through their mobile devices, with the ability to print seamlessly over RDP, PCoIP, Extreme Blast or ICA.

UniPrint InfinityCloud supports any printer make or model. Print commands sent through UniPrint Virtual Print Queue (VPQ) to busy or non-functioning printers can be redirected to other available printers for immediate printing, minimizing unnecessary work disruption caused by a printer breakdown.

UniPrint InfinityCloud offers full redundancy through the High Availability (HA) setup, providing an effortless alternative to Microsoft Cluster Services.

The result: All users connecting to any platform can print from any client device to any printer at any time in any location across geographies.

Cloud Printing For Microsoft Azure and Office 365

Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services that are used to build, deploy, and manage applications. With UniPrint Infinity and Azure, you get the freedom to build and deploy cloud printing wherever you want, using the tools, applications, and frameworks of your choice.

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Simple to Manage and Easy to Deploy

No more “driver mess” or print queue errors! At the core of UniPrint InfinityCloud is our patented, PDF-based Universal Printer Driver (UPD). UniPrint’s UPD replaces all manufacturer printer drivers on the application server, negating the need to manage multiple printer drivers in any computing environment, be it Citrix, Microsoft RDS, and VMware View-based. In addition, with the UniPrint PrintPAL printer mapping utility, administrators can set up remote print servers without site-to-site VPNs. With printer incompatibility issues out of the way and simpler printer setup and deployment, printer management is almost effortless.

Improve Printing Speed over the Cloud

UniPrint InfinityCloud is PDF based. By deploying UniPrint agents in remote locations, print spool files will be converted and compressed by over 90%, providing speedier printing with the added benefit of less network bandwidth usage.

Improve End User Printing Experience and Reduce Costs

UniPrint InfinityCloud is a true UPD that supports any printer make or model. This gives organizations more flexibility when it comes to choosing new printers or accommodating existing printers in a cloud computing environment. Rather than dictating what printers your end users must standardize to print, UniPrint InfinityCloud allows your clients (end users) to choose printers based on their specific business requirements, pick the “best-of-breed” hardware from any vendor, and enjoy the best end user experience in printing.

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