Xerox Offers Smartphone Printing for

Managed Print Services Connect (May 25 2010) Cloud/Mobile Printing , Workflow

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   On May 6, Xerox announced a smartphone printing solution for one of

   its major managed print services (MPS) clients, household goods giant Procter & Gamble

   (P&G). Xerox prefers the descriptor Enterprise Print Services (EPS) to describe its MPS

   solution and identified P&G previously as one of its global clients

   (click here)

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   At the time of Xerox’s previous announcement, Jim Joyce, senior vice president of Xerox

   Enterprise Print Services, explained the importance of universal print drivers and mobile

   printing to EPS, at least on a client-specific basis. The announcement with P&G provides

   a proof point to that idea.

   In keeping with the recent Google Cloud Printing announcement

   (click here)

   and HP's

   stated interest, Xerox describes the P&G solution as follows, “Using any Smartphone

   device, employees will simply 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 announcement also gives some insight into the

   inner workings of an MPS client with the following comment: “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 design solutions that 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.”

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