Where Output Management And Mobility Merge
With the advent of mobile computing and moving around from home to temporary offices, customers, overseas subsidiaries and clients, a printer output management solution allows you to seamlessly send your document to a print queue somewhere in your corporate haze of IT and pick the hardcopy up at a printer conveniently located near you.
There are now printer independent solutions that accurately or close thereto report paper and toner use over a wide range of printing systems. As IT users have become more educated independence from printer type is an important feature for organizations that do not want to be locked into any particular printer make. Considering those requirements, an output management software and ID reader hardware solution where required which is independent from the printer manufacturer makes good strategic sense.
If you are responsible for paying the color laser toner, you will know that misuse of color printing systems can be a costly undertaking, also this issue can be addressed using an output management system enabling or disabling color printing ability by user policy.
Some output management systems have a web-interface allowing you to drag and drop office documents onto your personal web accessible print client. Thus when you are in a hotel or airport you can put your print in the queue and pick it up at a convenient place.
Top of the range output management systems can accept any type of identification method, from swipe cards, proximity cards or FOBs, smart cards, barcodes or biometric fingerprints or combinations thereof for dual and triple factor authentication.
Organizations that are embracing mobility computing as well as wanting to assure their revenues for their respective owners or shareholders may want to enhance their computing environment with an output management system that achieves availability, controlling cost and accountability to solve a number of compliance issues.
Related Tags: mobile computing, output management, followme, push printing, pull printing, convergence, assurance
Klaus Bollmann is a veteran in printer output management and has been in the forefront of innovative output management technology for more than 20 years. He was the original developer of many of the concepts used in today's multi function printers including the FollowMe printing concept.
Some printer makes allow output management by independent vendors to run embedded on their printers. In 2006, HP was one of the leading printer makers in this field. HP is different in as far that independent software can run on the printer as well as their ability of accepting independent manufacturer's authentication readers can be plugged directly into the HP printers' USB host ports, requiring no external authentication devices and making this a more cost effective solution rather than using external authentication hardware.
If you are interested, Ringdale(r) provides FollowMe(r) Output Management software tailored to different size organizations, even a free version supplied with its range of authentication readers at FollowMe(r)
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