Mike Schiffel – Head of Consulting, ThinPrint / ezeep

Mike Schiffel – Head of Consulting, ThinPrint / ezeep

Mike Schiffel is the Head of the Consulting Team at ThinPrint GmbH, based in Berlin. With over 25 years of experience in office and high-performance printing environments - having started his career at Kodak and Ricoh - he brings deep technical expertise in print systems.

Since joining ThinPrint in 2012, Mike has led projects focused on backend printing from ERP, CRM, and EMR systems, highly available LPD services, printer mappingin VDI environments, and secure pull-printing workflows.

He regularly shares his knowledge through the ThinPrint blog and webinars, helping IT teams tackle complex print infrastructure challenges with practical and high-performing solutions.

Written Articles

The Top 10 Printing Challenges Service Providers Face

The Top 10 Printing Challenges Service Providers Face

If service providers want satisfied customers, then they must ensure that printing simply works. They face at least 10 challenges however in doing so.
Thorsten
Hesse
Published on
December 7, 2017
Last edited on
April 12, 2024
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Best Practices: Thin Client Printing using RDP or ICA/HDX

Best Practices: Thin Client Printing using RDP or ICA/HDX

In this article we show you how to realize thin client printing with ThinPrint. We give you tons of options for the best fit into your environment.
Thorsten
Hesse
Published on
July 5, 2017
Last edited on
January 12, 2024
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End-to-End Encryption with HP Printers

End-to-End Encryption with HP Printers

Unsecured print data poses a security risk. ThinPrint clients for HP printers and other devices enable end-to-end encryption of the print data.
Herbert
Hemke
Published on
February 24, 2017
Last edited on
November 28, 2019
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VPN-Free Branch Office and Field Office Printing

VPN-Free Branch Office and Field Office Printing

This article explains how to realize branch office printing even for those printers that are hidden behind a masked network, even in locations without VPN.
Dennis
Kapfenberger
Published on
February 16, 2017
Last edited on
November 27, 2019
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How Does Rendering Work? - ThinPrint Tutorials

How Does Rendering Work? - ThinPrint Tutorials

With any printimg job, rendering the document is essential. Our tutorial video, 'Basics about printing: How does rendering work?' explains this process fully and in a way that makes it easy to understand.
Rosanna
Northcott
Published on
February 2, 2017
Last edited on
November 28, 2019
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Time to Take You to Spooling School - ThinPrint Video Tutorial Part 3

Time to Take You to Spooling School - ThinPrint Video Tutorial Part 3

This video tutorial will teach you how to troubleshoot common spooling issues, and shed some more light on the Windows printing system.
Rosanna
Northcott
Published on
January 11, 2017
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November 28, 2019
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Give Power(shell) to the Printers!

Give Power(shell) to the Printers!

How does a large organization or service provider best address massive printer queue deployments to distributed locations? ThinPrint’s Management Services provides Windows PowerShell options for your team to build powerful, fully customizable deployments to send across trusted or child domains, across networks and to the spectrum of end point workstations.
Thomas
Wade
Published on
December 14, 2016
Last edited on
November 28, 2019
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How to set up a Basic Print Network - ThinPrint Video Tutorials Part 1

How to set up a Basic Print Network - ThinPrint Video Tutorials Part 1

Setting up a network printer or wider office print network can be fraught with unexpected problems and complex tasks. ThinPrint is looking to help. Through a new series of informative, simple, and yet concise videos. This first ThinPrint Guide video will take you through the basic steps to start network printing. It shows how to add a standard printer to an existing LAN or WLAN.
Rosanna
Northcott
Published on
November 24, 2016
Last edited on
November 27, 2019
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Print Job Tracking: Monitor Printers and Print Costs

Print Job Tracking: Monitor Printers and Print Costs

If you want to lower printing costs you will need an analysis of your print environment. ThinPrint´s print job tracking will help you to get an overview,
Laura
Zagal
Published on
November 9, 2016
Last edited on
November 28, 2019
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