ThinPrint V-Layer and Personal Printing

Printing is something quite a few of us do every day, but seldom do we give that whole process much of a thought. ThinPrint, however, has given it quite a bit of thought and routinely offers new and interesting technology to make the process more efficient, more flexible and more powerful. At VMworld in Europe, they launched an extension to their V-Layer technology and their version of personal printing technology.

Here's what ThinPrint has to say about their technology

Expanding on ThinPrint’s V-Layer Driver Free Printing, Next-generation V-Layer technology will deliver new standards for printing speed and flexibility through new features, including:

• SpeedCache technology - further reduces the load on the network and accelerates the speed of printing
• ThinShare - lowers costs for hardware and bandwidth by compressing the print data
• Print-to-Cloud - Allows users to print to the cloud from any application and device including Mac, PC’s, tablets, or smartphones
• Ability to send faxes without having to run the fax server

ThinPrint is also introducing its Personal Printing technology that allows companies to print their confidential documents securely, flexibly and in environmentally friendly matter. Personal Printing protects sensitive information by requiring the user to identify himself at the printer before the printout can take place. For identification, ThinPrint's Personal Printing supports pin-code access, badge recognition as well as all common smartcards and fingerprint readers.

Snapshot analysis

All right, I'll admit it. Printing is a necessary, but rather boring, part of the computing experience. I've always found it a pain to deal with not having the right print drivers installed to print on a hotel- or customer-supplied printer, needing to print something back at my office while I'm on the road, or many other obscure printing issues. I've also grumbled about the resources needed to print documents and that some operating systems make it difficult to re-route a document from one print queue to another (if they're supporting totally different types of printers.) While I've been grumbling about it, ThinPrint has been doing something about these and many other issues.  Their technology is worth a glance to be sure.