Printing without a Desktop: Cortado to Optimize Google Cloud Printing
Thursday, April 29, 2010
As the mobile business division of the printing specialist ThinPrint AG, we plan to improve Google’s recently announced Cloud Print solution. Printing without using a desktop will be possible. We already offer such a solution for BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, iPod touch and iPad. Soon, our cloud printing solution will also be available for Google Android smartphones.
Google and HP have announced cloud printing solutions where you can print with a printer connected to the cloud. This printer must however either support Google’s or HP’s technology or be connected to a running PC. We have taken a completely different approach. With our cloud printing solution, the user can print to any printer directly connected via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to the smartphone, a netbook or iPad. This approach saves you searching for a printer that supports Google’s or HP’s cloud printing solution, or having to turn on a PC.
With Google wishing to motivate manufacturers to produce Google Cloud Print compatible printers and with HP only supporting certain printer models, we have risen to the printer driver challenge in our certified hosting centers. More than 12,000 customers using the Cortado Workplace cloud printing solution can already use over 6,000 different printer drivers. Feedback from our customers enables us to constantly update and expand our range of printer drivers. Already now, nearly all available printers are supported.
With the latest approach from Google, we feel confirmed in our belief that a cloud printing solution is necessary. Therefore we are sticking to our plan to create the best possible cloud printing solution for Google Chrome OS. Both approaches will complement each other perfectly.
Cortado will enhance the Google cloud printing solution with the following features:
- Spontaneous direct printing from Google Chrome OS or Android devices
- Supporting all existing printers
- Expanding cloud printing support outside of Google Apps
- Offering a ‘Private Cloud’ solution for integration into corporate IT
- Supporting nearly all file formats
- And much more…
Cortado Cloud Printing is available free for BlackBerry, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad:
www.cortado.com/cloudprinting
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