While the computer has long been the center of IT, the network has moved to the forefront. Processes which first ran centrally, then locally, are today increasingly dispersed. Mobile computing and the internet have made freedom of location a central paradigm.
ThinPrint .print is the infrastructure for printing in the mobile internet. With flexible, device-compatible presentation options, ThinPrint .print is the ideal platform for distributing information over every connection on every end device.
What are today's challenges - and how can ThinPrint help?
Freedom of location
With more and more people traveling for business, we need the flexibility to work wherever we are. Location independence creates completely new demands for printing. Whilst on the move, you cannot predict what printer you will need to print to, nor whether the device will be able to load the relevant printer driver, or if it can even spool or cache the entire print job.
Hence, any system which will attempt printing in this mobile world must spontaneously adapt to each new situation and coordinate communication of the individual components as needed.
ThinPrint .print is such a system.
Printing in the mobile internet
The mobile internet has changed many things, including the meaning of printing. More than 80 % of all mobile information is only accessed, not edited. This demand can be met optimally with a print process. With the device-compatible presentation from ThinPrint .print, content can also be displayed on the end device without being printed. A print job has outstanding properties for mobile computing: It´s independent from operating system, from application, from display format and especially in its property as print stream from memory on the mobile device. ThinPrint .print complements these properties with a device-specific viewer - from original quality to ASCII - as well as flexible document management which, combined with infrared or Bluetooth, supports almost any printer.
Bridging a changing architecture
Information technology is always changing. Businesses today often distribute windows applications over terminal services, or run web applications. ThinPrint .print bridges these changes and creates a uniformly consistent infrastructure for printing and distributing information. If an application's print or information output has been adapted to the .print framework, it has also been adapted to the changes in system architecture without requiring any further modifications. Existing, years-old reports, for example, can be issued effortlessly over, say, a mobile telephone. In this way, ThinPrint .print offers unique investment security.
Quality of service
The excitement over the possibilities of wireless or internet-based access can quickly be dampened by the loss of performance. Even when new communication standards promise ever-increasing bandwidth, the usable bandwidth is nonetheless considerably less than the bandwidth in current Ethernet networks. In wireless LAN, an access point's bandwidth must also be divided between all participants; what's more, bandwidth decreases radically as distance increases.
It is, however, possible to prioritize data to curb network traffic with no loss for the user. ThinPrint .print combines compression and very flexible bandwidth management to provide an ideal solution.
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