#mobile print

Just the words ‘Print Drivers’ are enough to send a shiver up the spine of nearly any office worker who survived the early days of office printing. But thankfully, they’re a thing of the past (well, unless your office is still living in the past).

Office printing wasn’t very easy or convenient, it was a chore in itself. How many times did you find yourself in a position where printing your project was even more difficult or complicated than writing it? Or find that a simple, “print and sign” task was harder than closing the deal to begin with? We’ve all been there!

With Xerox Mobile Print, those days are over. Workers have been released from their printer cord tether, free to work – and print – from anywhere at any time. Xerox Mobile Print combines convenience, options and security (our three favorite words) to make it possible for you to print easily and securely from anywhere – you don’t even have to rely exclusively on Xerox printers.

It’s Cloud integrated, which means you can print from email, Office, Adobe Acrobat…pretty much anywhere you can think of, clearly and with ease.

All devices are compatible, whether you’re on your mobile devices, laptops or your desktop computer, Xerox Mobile Print makes it easy to print from wherever you are. 

Collate, staple, print in bold, glorious color, directly from the device you’re working on. No more emailing files to yourself or asking to sit at someone else’s computer “just for a minute”.

Get out of the print queue and back to what really matters with Mobile Printing from Xerox. Because your print job shouldn’t be your whole job.

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RR Donnelley announced the availability of an iPhone app for its Socrates line of products through a press release last week. The app which allows for mobile viewing, searching, and purchasing, of legal forms such as rental lease agreements and vehicle bill of sales. This is just the first in a series of iPhone related applications the company intends to release. By releasing the first app  on the consumer side of business, the app is effectively a beta test for the two yet-to-be-released which fall on the B2B side of the business. The next in the series will focus on RR Donnelley's CustomPoint and RightProspectus platforms. CustomPoint is a custom developed web-to-print based application, whereas, RightProspectus caters to financial service company's needs for regulatory printing. This release by an industry leader is a pivotal step in mobile development as other industry leaders and suppliers will now take notice. Read these related articles: Future of Print: Does your MIS have an App for that?

How big will the mobile Internet be?

HUGE! Mary Meeker, an technology analyst for Morgan Stanley, recently gave a presentation stating just that and can be viewed below. Interesting Facts

Mobile Internet eclipses the adoption rates of the Desktop Internet.

Apple's iPhone and Facebook are the 500lb gorillas at the moment.

73% of Mobile Internet revenue in 2008 came from e-commerce - users buying stuff. (Why not print?)

Growth will be driven by real-time, cloud-based services.