Welcome to Cloud 101, the first part of a new series where we’ll break down the cloud in relation to print management.

For this first entry, we thought we’d start with a simple question: why move your print management into the cloud?

It’s hard to believe it’s been over five months since we made the difficult decision to close our London, Melbourne, and Portland offices.

Here’s what we’ve been up to during the lockdown, and what it means for the future of printing.

What if I were to tell you that one PaperCut feature alone saved literally billions of pages from being printed?

Well good, because that’s what I’m here to tell you. I’ll also tell you why and how.

But first, a little about this quiet achieving feature.

On 21 November 2019, Google announced that Google Cloud Print, their cloud-based printing solution that has been in beta since 2010, will no longer be supported as of December 31, 2020.

Here’s a quick cheat sheet that will help you choose the Google Cloud Print alternative that’s right for you.

Healthe Care Australia is the third-largest private hospital operator in the country.

To cater for their geographic footprint and rapidly-evolving business needs, they needed a mobile printing (BYOD) solution.

In November 2019, one of our resident IT geeks, Alec Clews, was invited to speak at the Write the Docs conference in Sydney, Australia.

Business as usual.

But this time, there was a twist. Alec had a particular request.

What a world we find ourselves in for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

One good thing out of this lockdown is the good it’s doing the Earth. Less pollution, lower oil consumption, clearer skies.

But that doesn’t mean the fight is over.

I’ve got a riddle for you

You’re standing in your school’s print room. To your left is one brand of printer. To your right is another. In your hands is any BYOD device you can name.

Which [insert printer] will work better with your [insert device]?

On Saturday 28 March at 8.30pm AEST, all our global offices will be turning off their lights as part of Earth Hour.

Here’s a bunch of fun non-powered activities you can do during this energy-saving hour.

As we launch our new cloud platform we’ve been asked how we secure data in the cloud.

So to give you the full scoop, from the ground up, we wrote a brand new whitepaper – Cloud Services Security in PaperCut MF.

The coworking space industry is rapidly growing, but a common frustration in this area is printing.

Platypus Coworking knows this all too well.

We spoke to founder and owner Samantha Davies about how our new product PaperCut Pocket (beta) helped solve her printing woes.

Science fiction has made a lot of promises that reality has only half fulfilled.

Flying cars, AI capable of interstellar travel, hoverboards.

Perhaps the lowest bar to clear was the “paperless office”.

Yet it’s now 2020 and we’re still printing.