How to get Print Resiliency and Security Without Servers

An introduction to PaperCut’s Edge Mesh technology powering PaperCut Hive

It should come as no surprise that businesses love the cloud – the benets are clear and organizations are quickly shedding their locally hosted applications. Printing, on the other hand, is something that most businesses today still rely on “On-Premise” solutions for.

There’s really something to be said about local infrastructure. It’s great to be able to unplug the internet and still have things work for you. No matter what the application, there are still good arguments in favor of keeping things local, and good arguments for pushing up to the cloud. Despite some great features in the cloud, it isn’t always a perfect option- a solution that truly offers the best features of both cloud infrastructure and local resources.

Printing is one of those things that historically has not made technical leaps outside your local network. There are ways to get some of the awesomeness of the cloud into your printing environment, but sometimes you might find yourself missing that sweet simplicity of the local alternative. In a printing environment, we’d really like something that truly provides the best of both cloud and local infrastructure. That something exists, and it’s called Edge Mesh