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Two sides to printing

Posted by: Jonathan Middleton, Posted on: 13 May 2016 - Categories: Common technology services
drivered devices, driverless devices (eg phones, tablets, or where people cannot install a driver), and guests send jobs to a cloud print provider the jobs are sent with network and data encryption the cloud print provider controls the print queues, and print management, and the release of jobs the client sits locally with the printer, but does not retain any data the cloud print provider could be configured to validate users against a directory

Printing. At best it’s something that just happens. At worst it involves visits to the IT helpdesk, long login processes, or simply the hunt for toner. It’s not interesting. Or is it? In CTS we are creating a blueprint for printing.

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