Samsung Electronics has acquired mobile cloud printing company PrinterOn in a bid to enhance its mobile cloud services to the business-to-business market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Focused on three major vertical markets – enterprise, education and public printing locations – PrinterOn uses cloud technology to let users print documents from any smartphone, tablet, or laptop to any PrinterOn-enabled printer, regardless of the network or its location, according to the company’s website.
Users e-mail documents from their smartphones, tablets or laptops and PrinterOn renders the document in the cloud and securely delivers it to the PrinterOn-enabled printer of choice, where it is then printed after the user enters a secure release code. There are over 10,000 PrinterOn printing locations worldwide. The company also offers private cloud services on-site for customers that require mobile printing but do not want data to leave the secure corporate network.
Samsung said last month it had agreed to acquire SmartThings, a developer of software to connect household devices and control them remotely from smartphones. Acquiring the two-year-old start-up will strengthen Samsung’s presence in the market for the Internet of Things, a moniker for the proliferation of small, connected devices.
The acquisition of PrinterOn will boost Samsung’s leadership in the standardisation of mobile printing as a founding member of the Mopria Alliance, it said in a statement. A non-profit organisation, backed by vendors like Hewlett-Packard, Canon, Adobe and Xerox, Mopria aims to drive standards adoption by mobile, printer and OS industry leaders, and certify products to carry the Mopria brand.
John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
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