PaperCut makes BYOD printing free for everyone

Please find below an announcement from our sponsor PaperCut

This week we made our flagship BYOD printing feature, PaperCut Mobility Print™, a free standalone product.

Today we want to share why we did that.

First some background (in case you’re not familiar with what Mobility Print does).

Mobility Print enables easy printing from Chromebook, Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Windows devices in any combination.

And here are the main benefits of using it:

1. No fees

2. No subscription

3. No extra software required

4. Auto printer and driver installation for Chromebooks/Android/iOS/macOS/Windows

5. Printing via the device’s native interface in any application

6. Easy self-setup to let users find shared network printers

7. Continuous updates pushed on release reducing ongoing maintenance

So that’s the official spiel. The “what”. But what about the “why”?

We built Mobility Print to provide an easy way for your users to print from whatever device they want. That was the main driver (if you’ll excuse the pun).

So after almost three years of Mobility Print being available as a feature of PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF, our product guys got to thinking, “How do we make BYOD printing easier for more people?”

And while it’d be awesome to sell lots and lots of PaperCut NG and MF, the reality is that many organizations only need to enable printing, not necessarily track it or control it. Google Cloud Print has been available for nearly a decade as a free solution, and we wanted to provide a free alternative.

The PaperCutter in charge of Mobility Print, Willem Groenewald, puts it this way: “The freedom afforded by BYOD printing is invaluable – we didn’t want to force people to jump into the deep end of print management or pay extra for something so essential.”

There’s an exciting enhancement around the corner, too. Early 2020 Mobility Print will enable users to print over the internet or from an untrusted guest network by sending jobs compressed and encrypted via PaperCut’s cloud service. And it’s also absolutely free.

As of writing, Mobility Print looks after the printing of close to 3.5 million Chromebooks, making it a leading Google Cloud Print alternative.

Add in the Apples and Windows and iPads and Androids and Samsungs et al of the world, and that’s a LOT of devices thoughtfully printing via Mobility Print.

Download Mobility Print today.