Printing - the real product of virtual IT processes

Printing is different. A printed document is the result of an IT process. It represents the transition from the IT world into the real world. Not least for this reason, the printed document is an indispensable interface to people as IT users, as it is ultimately they that decide what is applicable.

In this context, the quantity of printed paper is continuously increasing - quite against the intention of a number of concepts designed to create paperless offices. The desire to have access to information quickly and smoothly on paper continues to be a current and natural requirement. If the requirement for printed documents is disregarded, innovations are quickly questioned. Whatever name one wants to assign to the current trend, it is a fact that IT structures continue to evolve to become increasingly shared, flexible and mobile. A constant in this process is the trend to increasingly outsource computing loads and tasks to central computers or processing centres.

With all these innovations, printing requirements often and easily fall by the wayside. But it is exactly printing in innovative, distributed architectures that is one of today's key requirements. ThinPrint has made it the company’s primary goal to address these challenges!

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Printing as the basis for mobile information distribution

The volume of information we are required to view and process on a daily basis is growing even faster than the volumes of printed paper produced. Thanks to mobile technologies, we are able to access this information from virtually anywhere. End terminals are becoming ever more diverse and smaller. While the editing of documents continues to be a primary function of PC use, read access is becoming the main function associated with Netbooks and Smartphones.

A print job contains all the required content information and is extremely platform-independent. It is thus an ideal medium for transporting information. The trends towards eBooks and ePaper are clear evidence of this development.

Cortado - The Business Class of Mobile Services

To support this trend, we established Cortado as an independently operating company unit. From its initial remit to work with mobile printing technologies, Cortado now offers much more. Cortado is the leading standard mobile solution for companies that are interested in much more than purely mobile e-mail.

As one of the pioneers in cloud computing, Cortado makes all solutions available for every user as services. Cortado's solutions provide classic PC functions for Smartphones, enabling users to partially or even fully replace PCs or laptops due to the increasing power of Smartphones and because computing loads are increasingly outsourced from the end terminal to processing centres. What remains as the last measure of differentiation is the screen size. But will it stay this way? Future mobile end terminals will allow a simple and quick switch between a small display and a large screen by means of ePaper and scrollable displays.

Our goal is to provide you with optimum support in this future world. Cortado offers you the best possible infrastructure for the 80% of cases in which you only want to read information. You can use Cortado to access information and documents, whereas the classic and full desktop can continue to be your first choice for the editing of documents and information. Wherever you are: ThinPrint .print technologies and Cortado will ensure that you can access all relevant information and documents now and in the future, as well as being able to obtain everything in printed form on demand.