Secure Printing with BlackBerry Smartphones and QR Barcodes
Written by ThinPrint
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
ThinPrint .print Personal Printing Essentials for BlackBerry
smartphones enables secure printing without investment in smart cards
or new printer hardware
(Berlin / Denver, November 22, 2010) ThinPrint today launches .print Personal Printing Essentials. This new solution enables secure printing with user authentication through BlackBerry® smartphones and QR barcodes.
The secure printing solution from ThinPrint works as follows: the user prints the document as usual on his desktop, selecting the 'Personal Printing' option. The user can then pick any printer and scan the QR barcode affixed to the printer with his BlackBerry smartphone. When installed on a BlackBerry smartphone, the ThinPrint app ensures that the print job is sent from the server to the required printer. This ensures only an authorized user can collect the print job.
Personal Printing is based on two successful ThinPrint technologies. V-Layer™ technology decouples printing from specific printer hardware. Therefore the user does not need to know when initiating a print job, from which printer he will eventually collect the print job. Print jobs are safely stored on the server until the user decides to pick up the print job.
The second part of the solution is an app for BlackBerry smartphones that identifies the printer by allowing the users to scan the QR barcode, before initiating the printout through the Personal Printing service. QR barcodes readable by BlackBerry smartphones can be created online.
"Our solution is secure, reduces paper and toner use and ensures that printouts do not fall into the wrong hands," said Charlotte Künzell, CIO and COO at ThinPrint AG. "In contrast to other secure printing solutions, users can start with Personal Printing Essentials without investing in expensive hardware. All it takes is free QR barcodes, our solution and a BlackBerry smartphone."
Pilot projects with well-known companies are already underway. .print Personal Printing Essentials supports BlackBerry smartphones running the BlackBerry® 6 OS, such as the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780, BlackBerry® Style™ 9670 and BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphones. ThinPrint is also planning to support the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphone once the update for BlackBerry 6 is available.
Further information on Personal Printing can be found at: www.thinprint.com/PersonalPrinting
This press release and images are available online and can be downloaded at: www.thinprint.com/press
ThinPrint AG
ThinPrint specializes in mobile enterprise solutions and printing in distributed network architectures. The company's success is based on its print management solution, ThinPrint .print, which is successfully employed in companies of all sizes in all sectors around the globe. More than 500 major distributors and resellers in over 80 countries sell products made by ThinPrint AG. Thanks to numerous partnerships, client components using patent-pending .print technology have been integrated into the terminals, print boxes, PDAs and mobile phones of several leading hardware producers. Strategic partnerships with ThinPrint play a special role in this endeavor, including BlackBerry (RIM), Bluetooth SIG, Citrix Systems, Inc., Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Lexmark International, Inc., Microsoft, Nokia, Orange, Palm, Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Symbian Ltd. and VMware, Inc.
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