Fresh from the launch of PaperCut Hive, Print IT Reseller Editor Michelle Ryder caught up with Chris Dance, CEO and Co-founder of PaperCut, to discuss print consolidation, cloud print and hybrid working.

This interview first appeared in issue 83 of Print IT Reseller.

There’s a fancy new report out from our friends at Quocirca called ‘Cloud Print Services 2021’.

The report, compiled from interviews with more than 200 organizations in the UK, USA, Germany, and France, identifies features within PaperCut Hive as key pillars of the future of print management in the cloud.

How do you know if your business is suited to cloud print management?

If you’re a smaller business, whether you want to track and manage or enable your printing, you have more options than running a print server on-premise.

You can now manage your printing in the public cloud. But how do you know you’re suited to serverless printing?

I recently had the honor of sitting down with PaperCut CEO and co-founder Chris Dance to talk about all things cloud print management in celebration of our PaperCut Hive launch.

And what do you know, but PaperCutter Al was there with a couple of cameras and his sound rig!

We have lift-off!

The PaperCut Hive rocket just launched!

Don’t take my word for it, look at our little rocket go!

Easy, secure, and reliable. That’s what you want, nay, need cloud print management to be: simple, safe, and dependable.

Three features of our new cloud-native platform deliver those needs.

True, they are specific to our cloud-native solution, but trust me, you’re about to hear them… ALL. THE. TIME.

This was a big week for PaperCut… Why? Because we launched our cloud-native print management platform to our channel partners!

Fuelled by coffee and dreams, our Melbourne, Portland, and London teams hosted a series of webinars for our ASCs and Resellers in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions.

The star of the show? We officially unveiled our cloud-native flagship product, PaperCut Hive!

A recent Deloitte survey reported 87% of global IT decision-makers agree the pandemic will cause organizations to accelerate their migration to the cloud, anticipating a decline in on-premise workloads by 2025.

So to answer the question, “When will businesses switch their printing from on-premise to cloud?” They already are.

However, not all businesses just yet.

For some workplaces, the idea of joining a product’s beta program for an entire school district would make them nervous. Not for Val Verde.

Shifting to remote working during Covid-19 made the once simple tasks of accessing files and printing unnecessarily painful and clunky.

But Val Verde’s IT wizards Matt and Brian smelled an opportunity to move everything to the cloud…

The dream of cloud print management is to outsource printing to a cloud provider without having a print server on-premise.

But here’s the catch…

Clouds can’t talk to printers. All cloud print management solutions require something on-prem in order to work.

Here are the only 3 ways to do so…

The Cannata Report recently posted an impressively detailed watchlist of 2021 trends and it got me thinking… What will I be keeping an eye on this year?

While we’re all keen to sweep the memory of 2020 under the rug, it’s pragmatic to acknowledge that its shadow is already looming over 2021.

The dream of cloud print management is to achieve a reliable, secure, and fast printing experience without any dedicated on-site infrastructure (beyond the printer of course).

But how do you print without a server?

Bringing cutting-edge IoT technology to the world of print, PaperCut Hive reimagines the local print server by creating an Edge Mesh.