Microsoft’s ‘Universal Print Anywhere’ Now Available
On August 12th, Microsoft reported that pull-printing for its Universal Print is now available…
On August 12th, Microsoft reported that pull-printing for its Universal Print is now available…
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by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 11, 2024
The leading providers of public cloud services maintained their positions in 2023 with the combined revenue of the top-five public cloud service providers – Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce Inc., Google, and Oracle…
The new technology is said to be one of the largest changes to the Windows Print stack in more than 20 years, and provides a modern, secure print experience.
Of interest this week was Quocirca’s release of its forecast for the top-10 print-industry trends for 2024. Overall, it’s hard...
On September 6th, Microsoft announced that it’s ending servicing of legacy v3 and v4 Windows print drivers. The end of...
On July 6th, Microsoft announced that it’s completed its investigation into a print vulnerability, called “PrintNightmare,” which affects all versions...
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by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 25, 2021
On June 18th, Microsoft provided a list of printer partners and printers and MFPs that support Microsoft Universal Print. Universal......
The problem is that two Windows 10 Security updates released on March 9th are resulting in serious system crashes.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 24, 2020 · Last modified August 3, 2020
Although at least once a week it seems, we receive encouraging news of a coronavirus vaccine or treatment, it seems......
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by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 22, 2020 · Last modified July 21, 2025
For existing printers, customers can simply use a Universal Print connector application that connects printers to Universal Print, but printers that natively support Universal Print will offer the best cloud experience.
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by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 6, 2020
This week, the big news didn’t come from either Xerox or HP Inc. – with Xerox, as expected, making a......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 5, 2020 · Last modified July 21, 2025
Universal Print moves key Windows Server print functionality to the Microsoft 365 cloud, so organizations no longer need on-premises print servers and don’t need to install print drivers.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 9, 2019 · Last modified January 14, 2020
China could replace printers and MFPs with those made by Pantum – the first China-brand printer company.
And what summer doldrums and “slow news”? This past two weeks has been full of drama in the printer/copier industry...
“These devices became points of ingress from which the actor established a presence on the network and continued looking for further access.”
Two other office-imaging equipment makers, Ricoh and Konica Minolta, have also begun shifting some production out of China.
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