New features enable printing from thousands of additional apps and improve ease-of-use
SAN RAMON, Calif.-Thursday 10 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS
WIRE) -- The Mopria® Alliance, a global non-profit organization
providing universal standards and solutions for print and scan, today
announced Android 11 includes new print capabilities and enhancements
contributed by the Alliance in collaboration with the Google Android
team.
A new “Share-to-Print” feature of the Android Default Print
Service enables users to print images and documents from thousands of
social media and productivity applications directly from their Android
device. Practically any Android app that allows users to share files
such as JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and PDF, now also includes a convenient and
simple option to print those items as well.
Additionally, the
“Share-to-Print” path for photo printing supports specific enhancements
to ensure best fit and higher resolution on the printed page. These
enhancements result in high-quality prints, regardless of aspect ratio
of the photo or size of the print.
“With this update, we set out
to integrate print features that would make the lives of mobile users
easier and continue to push the envelope of what we can provide in the
Default Print Service,” said Ingrid Kelly, Chairperson of the Board at
the Mopria Alliance. “We achieved those goals in the Android 11 update,
and we are excited to continue to invest in and demonstrate our
commitment to providing an enhanced printing experience for Android
users.”
For people wanting to maximize the features available in
their printers that may not be supported by the Default Print Service,
the update adds on-the-fly selection of other brand-specific print
services and the Mopria Print Service. Users are able to select and
install these additional print services directly in their print workflow
to enable even more print features.
To date, Mopria print
technology has been installed on more than 2 billion devices, including
Windows PCs and laptops, Android phones and tablets, FireOS tablets and
ChromeOS notebooks. Mopria print technology is designed to simplify
desktop printing and mobile printing to more than 4,000 printer models
and more than 120 million Mopria certified printers.
The Mopria
Alliance membership represents many of today’s global printer
businesses, OS providers, device manufacturers and software vendors. In
addition to the founding companies, Canon, HP, Samsung and Xerox, Mopria
Alliance members include Adobe, Brother, EFI, Epson, Fuji Xerox,
Huawei, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Lexmark, Microsoft, OKI Data, Pantum,
Primax, Qualcomm, Ricoh, Toshiba, Xiaomi and YSoft.
The new
Default Print Service features will be available to Android users who
update to Android version 11. For the latest list of Mopria certified
printers and print accessories, please visit
https://mopria.org/certified-products.
About the Mopria® Alliance
The
Mopria® Alliance is a non-profit membership organization of leading
global technology companies with the mission of providing universal
standards and solutions for print and scan. With a focus on mobility and
modern productivity trends, Mopria technology is used to allow users to
interact intuitively and seamlessly with a printer, multi-function
printer or scanner, regardless of brand. Learn more at www.mopria.org.
Print. Scan. Go.
Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
Contacts
Matthew Bryant
Tech Image (for the Mopria Alliance)
312.673.6046
Matthew.bryant@techimage.com
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