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DirectOffice™ Mobile Print

Description

DirectOffice™ Mobile Print is a powerful mobile printing application that provides consumers with the ability to print all common document types to their existing printers. By working with the mobile device manufacturers, printer manufacturers, and application providers, CSR is growing a mobile printing ecosystem that delivers the PC-like printing experience consumers expect.

Smartphones and tablets are increasingly replacing notebook PCs for both enterprise and consumer applications. In turn, consumers increasingly expect to be able to print complex content from their mobile devices. Mobile printing with DirectOffice Mobile Print is simple, convenient and secure.

DirectOffice Mobile Print enables consumers to print documents, presentations, spreadsheets, contracts, web pages and photos directly from their mobile device with the click of a Print button.

DirectOffice Mobile Print features advanced discovery to automatically find printers without complex server software installation or cloud printer configuration. DirectOffice Mobile Print has broad support for leading laser and inkjet printers, so consumers do not need to invest in new equipment.

The high fidelity on-device document conversion of DirectOffice Mobile Print keeps documents securely on the consumers mobile device while producing PC-like print outs. DirectOffice Mobile Print provides a no-compromise mobile printing solution.

Key features

Supports all document types—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, email, web, maps, contacts, calendars and photos
High-fidelity rendering—Document rendering designed for paper output, not a snapshot of the screen representation
Font emulation—font solution emulates more than 300 fonts in a small footprint
Broad printer support—PostScript, PCL, leading inkjet formats
Advanced network printer discovery—CIFS, Active Directory, SNMP, Bonjour, Simple Service Discovery Protocol, Web Services on Device and Cloud Service
Integration—Adds a print button to common applications: mail, web browser, office suite, calendar and photo gallery

Benefits

Simple PC-like printing
Works with existing printers
Print at home, in the office, or on the go
High-fidelity output
Custom-branded pre-loaded application

Product details

High Fidelity Prints
DirectOffice Mobile Print incorporates a high-fidelity document rendering engine specifically designed for print output and innovative font matching technology to ensure consumers get the PC-like output they expect. DirectOffice Mobile Print even correctly renders output for the most difficult free-flowing popular document formats ─ Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel. DirectOffice Mobile Print offers a dependable way to print Microsoft Office files by correctly placing paragraphs, text boxes and headers/footers; accurately drawing images, shapes, tables, WordArt and SmartArt; and retaining the line and page breaks as intended by the document’s creator.

Universal Print Client
DirectOffice Mobile Print uses existing network discovery protocols and existing print file formats to work with the consumers’ existing printers. Consumers can easily connect to printers on home networks and corporate networks using the advanced automatic printer discovery capabilities of DirectOffice Mobile Print. The automatic configuration and universal driverless print engine of DirectOffice Mobile Print allow consumers to print without the hassle of downloading and installing printer-specific drivers. In addition DirectOffice Mobile Print provides printing on the go at public locations through support for cloud-based printing services all from one unified app.

Customizable
DirectOffice Mobile Print is an OEM branded and fully customizable printing solution. An OEM may customize the UI look and feel to match their platform. The style and borders of printed photos, calendars and contacts may also be customized. DirectOffice Mobile Print has a powerful API that makes it easy for OEMs and app developers to add printing to any application with just a few lines of code. This tight integration of printing brings a new level of productivity to the mobile device experience.

Supported Android Platforms

Android 2.1 and above

Supported Document Formats

Word (.doc, .docx)
PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
PDF files
Web pages
Images (JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF)
Plain Text
Email
Contacts
Calendar

Network Printer Discovery

mDNS, WSD
SSDP
SNMP
SMB (Printer Shares)
Active Directory

Printer Capability Discovery

SNMP
RPC
IEEE 1284 Device ID

Supported Print Formats

PostScript Level 2 and 3
PCL6
PCL/GUI
ESC-P/R

Print Job Options

Number of copies
Landscape/portrait
Simplex/duplex
Collation
Page range
Page size

Subject to approval, a datasheet can be made available for this product via CSR Support.