Why Universal Printer Drivers Are Not Created Equal
What is the best universal printer driver (UPD) for your environment to ensure driver incompatibility and bandwidth issues are not interfering with the daily workflow of your employees?
Many printer manufacturers and third-party software providers offer UPDs to help streamline printer management throughout enterprises. One might think that any of these UPD offerings will solve your incompatibility issues – after all, they’re “universal” aren’t they?
System Administrators – Do Printing Workarounds Really Work?
Many of us IT pros are creative at coming up with methods to solve day to day technical challenges including printing issues in our organizations. Why not? After all, it is part of our job and value added to the company.
Case in point – many admins have told me they use workarounds to solve their Citrix printer issues, which lead me to wonder if those workarounds actually made their lives easier and provided enhanced user experience in the long term.
Microsoft Office 365: Are there really any printing problems?
When Microsoft introduced Office 365, it took the corporate world by storm! The innovative software as a service (SaaS) solution offered users access to their favourite Microsoft Office productivity tools from one single platform.
Productivity levels soared for corporate users, with enterprises across the world purchasing the SaaS subscription for their organizations. With additional products catered specifically for business environments, such as Skype for Business and SharePoint, Office 365 has become a mainstay for most organizations.
As new, innovative SaaS solutions are introduced into the market, they also bring along their own challenges.
Printing in a Digital World
Although a digitally-driven world is imminent and the shift towards it is well underway, a completely paperless world is not on the horizon, at least for the foreseeable future!
Research and market studies all point to printing being well and alive, with Gartner reporting that employees print an average of four hundred hardcopy pages on a monthly basis!
Mobility and Workforce Productivity: A Trend You Simply Can’t Afford to Overlook!
Employees in today’s corporate world are constantly on the go, equipped with mobile devices that aid them in accomplishing their daily work-related objectives, anytime and anywhere!
Having eliminated location barriers and the limitations of the classical office workstation, through the widespread use of mobile devices, employees across most organization are now able to experience 100% mobility and complete their work with a high degree of flexibility.
With emerging, state of the art mobile technologies being developed, the trend towards a completely mobile world is growing exponentially on a daily basis.