Posted by Devin Anderson

Think it’s impossible to eliminate print servers? Think again.

With PrinterLogic’s enterprise print management software, it’s possible to comfortably reduce or even migrate away from your existing print servers entirely while retaining all their functionality. To put it another way, PrinterLogic allows you to forego the hassle and expense of maintaining and upgrading print servers without having to sacrifice the features they’re supposed to provide.

In fact, PrinterLogic introduces infinite scalability to your print environment plus an additional feature set that print servers and lesser printer management software tools simply can’t deliver. Features that include:

• Auditing: Detailed reports let you quantify print activity along with consumables usage
• Mobile printing: Allows mobile, BYOD and guest users to print securely from any mobile device—anywhere, anytime
• Pull printing: Enables end users to release jobs at the printer for greater convenience, added security, and reduced waste
• Self-service installation: An intuitive portal that empowers end users to carry out routine installations themselves

Thanks to practical and cost-saving features like these, PrinterLogic goes beyond mere print management software to become a comprehensive printing solution that not only increases your control over your enterprise print environment but also reduces the time and energy required to maintain that control.

That means the right printers can be deployed effortlessly and automatically to the right users, even in virtual sessions like Citrix and VMware, yet without the need for finicky scripts or group policy objects (GPOs). Drivers can be easily installed and upgraded, too—manually or automatically, selectively or in batches. Default printer settings can be adjusted for one or thousands of printers enterprise-wide with the simple click of a box. And you can rest assured of the reliable, round-the-clock availability of your print environment on account of PrinterLogic’s robust architecture.

Through it all, PrinterLogic provides you and your IT staff with centralized, at-a-glance administration of the entire print environment, no matter whether your organization has a single site or is distributed over several hundred locations. Whereas print servers tend to result in fragmentation and obfuscation, PrinterLogic’s enterprise print management software serves to unify organizations of all sizes and increase visibility into their print infrastructure. As our customers’ experience has shown, those efficiencies ultimately come back in the form of increased productivity and significant ROI.

Curious as to how PrinterLogic can help your organization reduce or eliminate its print servers altogether? This page has some handy information on the benefits of PrinterLogic as it relates to print server functionality. You’ll also find a white paper on print server elimination that you can download for free.

Posted by Devin Anderson

Ever since the term BYOD went mainstream (roughly four years ago for those of you who are counting), the number of employees bringing their personal devices to work has increased rapidly. Some surveys show that the BYOD adoption rate for employees in the developed world is already well over 40%—with the possibility of doubling in the next few years. This has put pressure on organizations to proactively seek out BYOD printing solutions.

Unsurprisingly, not all organizations have greeted the BYOD movement with a great deal of enthusiasm.

We understand their reluctance. That’s because we here at PrinterLogic recognize that conventional BYOD printing solutions are less than desirable. Some require extra devices. Some are one-trick ponies that aren’t guaranteed to play nicely with all the other hardware and software in your print environment. Others are finicky, calling for cumbersome workarounds that introduce critical vulnerabilities. In an effort to accommodate your employees’ BYOD demands, you end up exposing them to more frustration, inconsistency, and even potential security risks.

But what if we told you there’s a BYOD printing solution that addresses all those concerns in one fell swoop? A solution that allows BYOD employees—including guests, contractors, freelancers, partners and consultants—to easily print from any mobile device, anywhere, anytime. A solution that works seamlessly with your existing print environment and requires no extra hardware or software. A solution that’s secure and subject to administrative oversight. A solution that can be implemented by organizations of any size, in any sector, across all of their physical sites.

It’s not too good to be true. It’s PrinterLogic’s Mobile Printing solution.

Unlike other BYOD printing solutions, PrinterLogic’s Mobile Printing derives its power from simplicity. By leveraging rock-solid email-to-print capabilities, it opens up BYOD printing to everyone without resorting to print servers or proprietary third-party software like iOS or Google Cloud Printing—no matter if the device is personal or company-issued, on- or off-network.

BYOD users who want to print simply obtain the dedicated email address for the desired printer, email their documents, and the job immediately enters the local print queue no differently to one initiated from a workstation. That means:

• No calls to the support desk asking for help installing printers
• Any mobile device can print to any authorized printer—regardless of whether the hardware is legacy or bleeding-edge
• Printing is as easy for the end user as emailing
• Jobs sent via Mobile Printing can be monitored and audited just like any other

This is one BYOD printing solution that’s also inherently secure. You control who has access to which printer as well as how much and what file types each BYOD user can print. You can also authorize or restrict access to specific printer settings such as monochrome printing or paper trays. BYOD employees can even choose to release their print job to a specific printer from their mobile device, so confidential documents aren’t left out for all to see.

Check out this page for even more information on how PrinterLogic simplifies and secures mobile and BOYD printing.

Posted by Devin Anderson

If you’ve spent any time researching PrinterLogic, you know that we’re pretty fond of emphasizing the fact that our enterprise print management solution allows you to eliminate print servers altogether. We say it a lot—and with good reason. Most organizations don’t immediately realize that it’s not only possible to migrate entirely to PrinterLogic from a print server environment, but that it’s also amazingly easy to do.

But just because you can eliminate print servers with PrinterLogic doesn’t mean you have to. A lot of organizations are actually content with their print servers, or at the very least they consider them to be a fundamental and unavoidable part of their print environment. If your organization falls into one of those categories, the good news is that you can still enjoy the myriad benefits of PrinterLogic without having to sacrifice your print servers. It’s not an all or nothing proposition.

For environments where it makes more sense to manage print servers rather than eliminate them outright, PrinterLogic provides a ton of added functionality. Organizations that choose to use PrinterLogic as a printer and print server management tool can take advantage of features such as:

• Self-service portal: One consistent printer installation portal throughout your entire enterprise. No domains, no trusts—just simple, one-click installations for end users with optional floor plan maps for added convenience.
• Automated printer deployment: Have PrinterLogic do the heavy lifting by deploying printers individually or en masse, with added options for dynamically setting the correct default printer, or proximity printing in which nearby printers are automatically installed.
• Support for Citrix and VMware: It’s built-in and seamless. All of the features mentioned here are supported in these sessions, including automated printer deployment and even the self-service option that allows session users to install printers quickly and easily.
• Queue management: Use the central admin portal to identify and purge stuck jobs anywhere in the organization. You don’t even need to know which host server the job is associated with to delete it, and you won’t need to deal with domains or trusts in order to access and manage print servers enterprise-wide.
• Print job auditing: Powerful oversight tools and reports allow you to track the most heavily utilized network printers as well as consumables usage. There’s even support for USB printers.
• SNMP status monitoring: You can view the online status of any printer and capture SNMP notifications like low ink, low paper, empty tray, or tray open in order to better pinpoint problems.

Don’t get us wrong. Here at PrinterLogic, eliminating print servers still remains our goal. But PrinterLogic also has the remarkable ability to make print server management a breeze, too, providing your organization with the robust and feature-rich print environment it needs to succeed.

Posted by Devin Anderson

Location, location, location is a maxim most often associated with realtors. Yet it applies just as much to enterprise printing—specifically, being able to easily enable seamless location-based printing for your employees.

Location-based or location-aware printing is as practical as it is leading-edge, because it quietly and automatically takes the guesswork out of printer installation. With location-aware printing (also known as proximity printing in Citrix environments), users within a specified range of IP addresses can conveniently access any networked printing devices that fall within that same range. That virtual location (IP address) can be linked to a physical location using variety of methods, creating a real-world scenario whereby mobile employees can instantly print at a branch they happen to be visiting, to give just one example.

When you use PrinterLogic to configure location-aware printing in your enterprise, you can quickly add printers to a workstation according to its IP address, computer name, Active Directory (AD) computer or group, or AD Organizational Unit (OU) membership. Users will always see the closest printer to their client device in any given session. That effectively allows you to automatically deploy printers based entirely on location, saving your staff and your employees the hassle of service desk calls to troubleshoot installation woes.

Because PrinterLogic works so well with a variety of virtualization solutions, you can easily set up proximity printing in a Citrix environment or enable location-based printing in a VMware Horizon View environment.

In the case of VMware, PrinterLogic dynamically provisions printers into VMware Horizon View VDI sessions, replacing ThinPrint location-based printing altogether as well as the related problems of managing endpoint device printer drivers or configuring custom printer settings. Not only does that give you effortless location-based printing with VMware View 5 or VMware View 6, you also enjoy further benefits such as:

• Simple and efficient driver management on endpoint devices
• Pre-configuration of printer profiles
• Faster logons
• No rights management
• Straightforward printer deployment
• Intuitive self-service printer installation

As mobility becomes the watchword in the modern workplace, location-aware printing will only grow in importance for enterprise printing in the coming years. Any organization that hopes to keep its employees satisfied and productive will have to make it an integral part of its print environment. Thanks to PrinterLogic, it’s possible to easily implement location-based printing in highly demanding enterprise environments—even (and especially) those that make use of Citrix and VMware Horizon View!

Posted by Devin Anderson

Bring your own device (BYOD) and email printing isn’t just a casual request in today’s workplace. It’s a philosophy. A movement. More and more employees are arriving with their own tablets, laptops, netbooks and smartphones, and they’re expecting to use them alongside—or even instead of—their company-issued devices.

What’s more, whether they’re contractors, mobile employees, freelancers or guests, they expect their personal devices to work seamlessly, both on and off the corporate network. They don’t want to have to install drivers, call the service desk, or fiddle with configuration settings in order to print an email at the office. They assume that the same ease of use they experience with their mobile devices at home will apply to the enterprise scenario too.

That mindset presents IT departments with no end of challenges, not least when it comes to printing:

• How do you accommodate such a wide variety of hardware?
• How can you ensure compatibility of your print environment with the different operating systems and apps running on those devices?
• How can you retain control over where and how much users print?
• And even if printing were to function smoothly and consistently for all users, how can you maintain enterprise-grade security?

PrinterLogic provides a single answer to all these questions. Its native email-to-print capabilities provide the versatility, simplicity, security, and oversight required to meet any enterprise-level requirements.

Unlike traditional print management solutions, PrinterLogic doesn’t require any expensive and finicky workarounds to deliver effortless Mobile employee, BYOD and guest printing. There’s absolutely no extra software or add-ons to install. Any device that can send an email also has the ability to print via PrinterLogic: All the mobile user has to do is obtain the dedicated email address for a particular printer and then email the documents or images.

That means freelancers who are onsite for a week or mobile employees who are at a branch office for a day can print without having to call the service desk or configure their devices at all. The employee working from home can easily print documents on her departmental printer for her colleagues. And all these users can print any kind of file, too, thanks to PrinterLogic’s support for universal file printing.

As unbelievably straightforward as that is, you still remain in complete control. PrinterLogic’s powerful authorization features allow you to set quotas for how much guests can print, where they can print, the file types they can print, and what printer settings (such as paper trays and color options) they can access. You determine which guests have the network printers’ email addresses, and you retain the ability to block certain domains outright. Even better, BYOD and guest email printing is subject to the same comprehensive auditing as workstation printing, so you can keep tabs on consumables usage and more.

Want to know more about PrinterLogic’s email-to-print feature and its benefits? Leave a comment or schedule a demo that includes a 30 day free trial by clicking here.

Posted by Devin Anderson

Enterprise print management is serious business. You’ve got a fundamental aspect of the day-to-day operations of an entire organization riding on your shoulders, and it’s up to you and your IT team to make sure it can take place easily, transparently and without interruption for every single end user from the office intern to the CEO.

At PrinterLogic, we recognize precisely what serious business enterprise print management is, which is why we’ve spent many years developing a solution with a feature set that reads like a print management wish list.

• We solved the frustration of fragmented printer administration with at-a-glance centralized printer management from a single pane of glass.
• We dealt with the traditional quirks and workarounds required by Citrix and VMware by creating a solution that integrates seamlessly with these popular environments and augments virtual sessions with its powerful functionality.
• We took the hassle out of routine printer installation through a self-service portal that is so intuitive, so simple that end users can identify and install nearby printers themselves with a single click.
• We stripped the complexity out of driver management, allowing admins to deploy updates or change profile configurations for one printer—or even a whole fleet of printers—by little more than checking a box.
• We designed an integrated Mobile Printing solution that caters to the cutting-edge needs of BYOD employees and guests while making it effortless to carry out secure enterprise-wide printing from any device.

PrinterLogic proves that just because robust, reliable enterprise print management is so vital to your organization’s success, that doesn’t mean it can’t be straightforward too. In fact, the more straightforward it is, the more empowering it is for your IT team as well as your end users—so it’s easier for you to make use of PrinterLogic’s built-in advanced functionality, such as cost-saving comprehensive auditing, or for employees to carry out routine printer installations on their own, saving them and you a call to the service desk.

And with each new enterprise installation, PrinterLogic demonstrates its amazing versatility. Through direct feedback as well as multiple surveys carried out by independent research firms, customers of ours across a vast number of industries—education, logistics, law enforcement, transportation, manufacturing, food services, you name it—have told us how implementing PrinterLogic as their enterprise print management solution saved their organization significant time, money, and frustration. Regardless of their size, their site distribution, or their sector, PrinterLogic put them in total control of their enterprise print environment. Some organizations used PrinterLogic to better manage their existing print servers. Many used PrinterLogic to eliminate print servers altogether.

So if your organization is serious about enterprise print management, why not opt for a streamlined, seamless solution that takes enterprise print management as seriously as you do?