Cloud vs. Print Servers for Print Management

Many organizations find managing printing tedious, costly, and time-consuming. Yet, for a long time, printing has resisted modernization. But this is changing. Cloud computing offers significant cost savings and efficiency gains across various business areas, and these benefits can now extend to print management.

By moving print infrastructure to the cloud, organizations reduce reliance on on-premises architecture and costly maintenance. The cloud's pay-what-you-use flexibility also provides greater adaptability. This shift allows businesses to manage print services more efficiently, making printing the boring part of your day.

Cloud Print Management: What You Need to Know

Print servers often present IT departments with ongoing challenges, from driver management to hardware maintenance. Moving print management to the cloud offers a modern alternative that simplifies operations and reduces infrastructure demands, making it easier for IT to manage print services from anywhere.

Why Consider Cloud Print Management?

Traditional print servers require continuous updates, troubleshooting, and physical hardware. This creates a hidden drain on IT resources and budget. Cloud print management, in contrast, eliminates the need for dedicated print servers and the associated overhead. This means fewer moving parts and fewer support tickets for IT teams.

Benefits of Cloud-Based Print Management

A cloud-based approach to print management, such as with ezeep, provides a flexible and centralized way to handle all printing needs. It reduces administrative burden, improves flexibility, and helps ensure consistent printing regardless of location or device. This shift helps make printing a non-issue for both users and IT.

How Cloud Printing Reduces Costs

By eliminating physical print servers, organizations avoid capital expenditures on hardware and reduce operational costs related to power, cooling, and maintenance. Cloud services often operate on a subscription model, allowing for predictable budgeting and scaling resources up or down as needed. This model avoids the hidden costs associated with traditional print infrastructure.

Increased Flexibility with Cloud Printing

Cloud print management offers unparalleled flexibility. It allows users to print from any device, anywhere, without needing VPNs or complex network configurations. This supports remote work, hybrid offices, and mobile employees. For IT, it means managing users, drivers, and printers from a single platform, making administration easier and more adaptive to changing business needs.

You can set up cloud-based printing for all your users in around 30 minutes with ezeep. Built on Microsoft Azure, ezeep scales as you need, offers plug 'n' play onboarding with the ezeep Hub appliance, and uses a single management platform to manage users, drivers, and printers from anywhere. Whether for zero-trust environments, home office setups, or remote desktop printing, ezeep handles it all with ease.

Proof Point: Trusted and Reliable

ezeep is built on ThinPrint technology, trusted by Fortune 500 organizations and used in production environments handling millions of printed pages daily. This heritage ensures dependable performance and reliable security for your print environment.

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Learn how you can shift your centralized on-premises print servers to the cloud and set up cloud-based printing for your users in around 30 minutes with ezeep. Based on Microsoft Azure, you can scale as you need, take advantage of plug 'n' play onboarding with the ezeep Hub appliance and use a single management platform to manage users, drivers, and printers from anywhere. Zero-trust, home office, or remote desktop printing – ezeep handles it all with ease.

ezeep offers a modern approach to managing printing, moving it from a challenging on-premise task to a straightforward cloud service. By replacing traditional print servers with a nimble cloud solution, organizations gain efficiency, reduce costs, and support a flexible workforce.