Pull printing is a solution to your businesses growing need for safeguarding documents and reducing the number of wasted resources. Users want easy and reliable printing from any mobile platform or operating system and pull printing is easy to integrate as many manufacturers are offering this function as a part of their printing solutions.
IT administrators need control over network access and printer output to better manage printing costs along with protecting confidential information. Pull printing offers your business an easier way for users to send their documents location to a pull printing server to be processed, freeing up their computer for other tasks and reducing network traffic.
Document management that beats traditional methods
Local printing and network printing are the traditional methods that are still relevant in many workplaces. Local printing is simply a printer connected to the computer and when printing is required it’s done on the spot. Network printing involves many printers hooked up to a network and when printing is required users can select which printer to print from and it is done immediately.
Opposite to these traditional methods, the print job is sent to a network rather than immediately printing. The server holds onto the job until the user goes to the printing station and “pulls” it from the server. This gets rid of the task of immediately retrieving the document, and users can access the document at a later time when needed.
Pull printing – a cost-saving and mobile efficient approach
It happens to everyone, you print out a document and are on your way to print it. Something happens, interrupting you from picking up the print job until a later time at which the document has been disposed of. Pull printing has been proven to cut the number of pages printed by 20-30 percent, cutting your costs and giving you the opportunity to purchase higher end office solutions rather than smaller machines for each employee.
As more and more businesses are adopting a strategy that includes employees personal devices, pull printing is a great tool to use to integrate them. Many companies are offering integration of third-party mobile device management solutions to help enhance the use of mobile in the workplace. Mobile users can easily authenticate their devices and with the capability to track printing activity by device, businesses can reduce costs and improve security.
Some printer and copier problems are better left for an IT or service contractor to handle, unintentionally damaging the inside your machine could have costly consequences. If your office equipment requires service, connect with the BrockOA service department below.
