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34 MOBILE PRINTING
POPULAR
MOBILE PRINTING
MOBILE PR
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APPS
To Print
Printing for iPhone
Printer Verification
Free Prints
HP ePrint
KODAK Kiosk
Connect App
Lexmark Mobile
Printing
HP All-in-One
Printer Remote
Photobucket Backup & Print
Shop
Printer Pro Lite
Epson iPrint
Air Photo Wifi
Printing
A combination of technology and
usage trends means that mobile printing’s
“Gutenberg Moment” has arrived.
The only thing better than a great idea is
a great idea whose time has come. Why is
Johannes Gutenberg popularly remembered
as the father of movable type printing,
even though a Chinese inventor named Bi
Sheng actually came up with the idea back
in the Song Dynasty, five centuries earlier?
Because for Gutenberg, the time was ripe.
For starters, seen through the lens of
today’s technologists, Gutenberg had the
easier programming language: German.
With only 26 characters he was able to
cut costs and complexity to a degree that
Bi Sheng, grappling with thousands of
Chinese characters, would have envied.
Gutenberg also had the ultimate killer app:
religion (the Gutenberg Bible being one of
those enduring bestsellers). Being the son
of a wealthy merchant didn’t hurt; it gave
him access to dad’s rich friends who, with
an initial 800-guilder investment, became
early venture capitalists. That these same
investors then kicked him out, sued him
and ran off with the business, doesn’t take
away from the fact that the right dynamics
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were in play for Gutenberg’s method to
make a splash: technologies, markets and
capital all aligned in fifteenth century
Europe for movable type printing to
explode across the continent.
560 years and countless innovations later,
we find ourselves at yet another exciting
moment in print history: we’re betting our
proverbial guilders not on movable type
but on mobility itself. Unleashing a print
job simply by tapping a mobile device is
surely an idea whose time has come. In fact
it’s been coming for some time. The first
mobile print applications date back almost
a decade and a half, even predating the
popularization of the smartphone (a time
that for many of us seems almost as long
ago as the Song Dynasty). But has mobile
printing had its “Gutenberg moment”?
Mobile printing in the pre-smartphone era
was a niche application, but in today’s age
of the do-everything mobile device, the
signs are auspicious.
2 billion people own smartphones today,
and within 5 years analysts at venture
capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz predict
that virtually every human on earth will
have a smartphone. This rate of adoption
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is profoundly shaping the workforce,
with research firm IDC suggesting that
nearly 40% of the world’s workforce is
now mobile. In countries like the US, that
share is even higher and likely to exceed
two thirds of the workforce within 5
years. Some verticals, like healthcare, are
already closing in on those rates today. An
additional accelerator on these trends is
the demographic shift in the labor force:
the Pew Research Center reports that as
of this year Millennials, the tech savviest
generation of workers yet, represent the
largest share of the US labor force.
A workforce that expects to do
everything on a mobile device also
demands an expedient mobile printing
feature. From the user’s perspective, the
mobile printing value proposition certainly
sounds compelling. As with all things
mobile, it centers on convenience and
productivity: print as needed, anytime,
anywhere, from any smart device without
fiddling around with printer drivers, IP
addresses, etc.
Given all that promise, it’s worth
considering why actual adoption rates
of mobile printing have been slow to
rise. Broadly stated, research shows that
businesses have long reported an interest
in the idea of mobile printing but are only
now starting to put their money where
their mouths are. Before delving into the
details, it’s worth cross-examining the
macro trends: yes, Millennials (those
born between the early 1980s and 2000)
love their handheld devices, and yes, they
will dominate the workforce in the years
to come… but has anyone ever seen a
Millennial actually print anything? For that
matter, has anyone ever seen a Millennial
actually hold a piece of paper in his or
her hand? Stated differently, will mobile
printing explode like other segments of
the mobile economy or will it develop at a
measured pace like other segments of the
printing economy?
Let’s look at what the number crunchers
have to say. Data gathered by research firm
Quocirca suggests that as of late 2014,
only about 14% of large companies in
advanced economies had deployed mobile
printing in their organizations (up from
5% in 2012), while 73% were thinking
about doing so. More interestingly,
35% of surveyed firms said they plan to
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Canon MG2920
Brother J4620DW
Polaroid - ZIP
Mobile Printer
Fujifilm Instax
Share SP-1
VuPoint Photo Cube
Canon SELPHY
CP910
Polaroid Grey
Label GL10 Instant
Mobile Printer
LG's Pocket Photo
Printer
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What would Gutenberg say today about mobile printing?
deploy a mobile print solution this year. If
confronted with an easier way to print,
combination of security and flexibility by
respondents in Quocirca’s sample were as
people will use it. Which brings us to
offering secure, device agnostic mobile
good as their word, and indicative of the
the crux of the matter: what constitutes a
and guest printing capabilities, with an
behavior of their peers, then almost 50% of well executed mobile print solution? In a
intuitive user-interface, and as part of a
large companies will have deployed mobile nutshell: true convenience combined with
comprehensive print management solution.
printing by the end of the year, suggesting
robust security. Every BYOD enthusiast,
Like Gutenberg, Drivve was born in
phenomenal growth rates. That may be
every evangelist of the “consumerization
Mainz. In fact, though our headquarters are
presuming too much, but a recent IDC
of IT” has experienced the buzzkill of the
now in the US, our German office is still
study does highlight that the accelerated
IT department’s insistence on security.
less than two miles away from Gutenberg’s
adoption of mobile technology is one of
Luckily, security is something that we in
old workshop–no doubt a source of
the key drivers of growth in the entire
the print management industry already
inspiration to our German engineering
print management industry. To
team.
underscore the point, TechNavio,
With a customer base that spans
another market research outfit,
across, continents, verticals, and
WITHIN 5 YEARS ANALYSTS
projects that the mobile printing
includes some of the world’s largest
PREDICT THAT VIRTUALLY
market will grow, on average, by
multinationals as well as thousands
a third every year between 2014
EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH WILL of SMBs, we don’t believe that
and 2019. Not too shabby if one
one-size-fits-all. Depending on
HAVE A SMARTPHONE.
considers that, according to IDC,
customer needs, our offering
the overall print management
ranges from a modular approach
software market grew by just under
tailored to the customer’s existing
10% last year. While other bits of the
do well. Protocols for secure job release
infrastructure, to a fully integrated endmobile economy might yawn at predictions that require authentication and maintain
to-end imaging, printing, and document
of a CAGR of over 30% over the next few
a complete audit trail are well established
management solution. As mobile printing
years, it’s pretty exciting stuff in the print
across the industry. The trick is pairing that reaches its Gutenberg moment, we’re
management world.
security with a positive and intuitive endexcited about the implications on how
So whether or not one believes that
user experience that accommodates the
businesses will collaborate and manage
Millennials in the workplace will be avid
fragmented ways in which mobile printing
documents and workflows across
mobile printers, a well-executed mobile
actually happens (including via email,
organizations–an excitement that both
print solution should make printing
cloud environments, and mobile apps).
Gutenberg and Bi Sheng would certainly
easier. And history has shown that when
At Drivve, we accomplish this
share. ■
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INDUSTRY INFLUENCE INDEX
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feature about mobile printing?
2. Smart phones and tablets are a part of
everyone’s daily life and enable them to
connect easily with a printer nearby; 27%
Industry Analysts
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InfoTrends
Market Analysis
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Actionable Intelligence
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132,190
Static Control
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198,741
UniNet Imaging
uninetimaging.com
239,552
Cartridge World
cartridgeworld.com
277,322
InfoTrends
infotrends.com
358,891
TOP WOMEN WHO IMPACT
1. Margaret “Meg” Whitman (Chair, President, and
CEO of Hewlett-Packard), USA
4. You can now store lots of documents on your
personal device to be retrieved anywhere at
any time; 13%
2.Ursula M. Burns (Chair and CEO of Xerox), USA
DID YOU KNOW?
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Of the 300-350 million
inkjet cartridges sold in
the EMEA region, around
15% were remanufactured
OEM cartridges.
(Source: ETIRA)
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Honored: Top Women to Impact the Global
Print Consumables Industry See p9
New GEO, Cease and Desist Orders on
Canon’s Dongle Gear Case See p13
Sales of Printers in Western Europe Up
See p15
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against Environmental Office Solutions See p9
Largest Counterfeit Toner Seizure See p10
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According to an August 26 Women’s Equality Day
Industry Poll
3. OEMs have invested in creative mobile
printing apps; 17%
5. The paperless office will never disappear.
Consumers will continue to connect through
emerging mobile technologies. 10%
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the smaller the number—Google is No. 000,001 (1 Sept, 2015)
1. Printer manufacturers are developing smaller,
portable printers that allow busy people to
print on the run; 33%
10 MOST READ NEWS ONLINE
US Patent Office Approves NoTwist Drum
Gear See p13
New York Times Speaks Out on Current Patent
Law Battle See p13
Xerox Codes its Cartridges by Region See p31
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Clover Partners with IBPI See p23
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3.Mary Ouyang (CEO, Mito), China
4. Dr. Grazyna Kmiecik Lawrynowicz (Principal
Scientist, Xerox), USA
5. Violien Wu (Editor, Recycling Times Magazine),
China
6. Sunny Sun, (Editor, RechargeAsia Magazine), USA
7. Sand Sinclair, (Editor, ImageSource Magazine), USA
8. Susan Nimes, (Editor, ENX Magazine), USA
9. Jackie Russin (CEO, RTS Imaging), Australia
10. Tricia Judge (EO, I-ITC trade association), USA
Lexmark Paves the Way See p33
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