Printme mobile
Printme mobile trial#
EFI offers a free 90-day trial copy of the software.
Printme mobile software#
PrintMe Mobile is sold as a traditional enterprise-licensed software application.
Printme mobile android#
For mobile clients, it supports iOS 4.2 or later, Android 2.1 or later and any BlackBerry, Windows or Symbian phone with a native email application. It supports the range of Microsoft Office file types, along with Adobe PDF, most standard image and photo file formats, HTML, HTM. The server application can run on Windows XP Pro, Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Professional Ultimate. Later, the user can show up at the printer and uses one of several techniques to authorize the EFI server to complete the print job. A users who's away from the office, or even in another part of the building, can forward a document or file to a designated printer email address the EFI acknowledges receipt but puts the print job on hold, so sensitive or private information isn't left lying in the printer's out tray. With this approach, visitors or contractors can be given access to corporate printers without granting them network access: They're simply emailing a document to a legitimate corporate address.įinally, PrintMe mobile also offers a "secure print" or "release to print" option. The user forwards an email with the attached file to one of those addresses, over a wireless connection, passing through the firewall for virus checking the EFI server handles the needed file conversions, formatting and other details, packages it as a print job, and sends it to the printer. The IT group creates an email address for each authorized printer that they want to "publish" to their BlackBerry users. The user selects a file to share, selects the PrintMe Mobile app, which then coordinates with the server to send the file to the designated printer on the network.įor BlackBerry users, as well as iOS and Android users, the EFI app can use the native email client and its "forwarding" feature, along with the corporate email server. To the iPad, these printers appear to be AirPrint devices.įor Android, which lacks a native print feature, the EFI client application makes use of Android's "Share" capability, for exchanging selected information and files with other devices, as a substitute, says Offut. The EFI server is listening for this print request, and responds with a list of authorized printers for that user. An iPad user, for example, simply goes through the standard AirPrint steps.
Printme mobile code#
The server code takes over managing the print job and sends it to the target printer.įor iOS users, PrintMe Mobile "emulates" Apple's AirPrint protocol.
The client uses these features to output documents, images and pictures, which are intercepted by the EFI server. The EFI client code in effect exploits some existing features in each mobile OS to mimic the missing native print capability. And that means, among other things, that iOS users can't print to existing, older printers. But AirPrint works today with only a small number of printers, whose manufacturers have incorporated the Apple protocol. Apple's iOS, for example, is the only mobile firmware with a built-in print capability, according to Offut: the AirPrint protocol introduced about a year ago. Mobile users don't have many options when it comes to printing from handhelds, says Tom Offut, EFI's director of business development. It sells software that turns big copying machines into printers for networked users, and high-end, large-format inkjet printers for specialized printing. The EFI application will display to the user a list of authorized printers and then manage the print job on the user's behalf.ĮFI is a Foster City, Calif., company founded about 20 years ago.