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September 1st, 2021 by Kevin Box / Glyn Morgan
Recently, one of our more tenured consultants gave an internal lunch and learn to our Sales Team on how to help our customers understand and better manage their printer fleets. This is the sort of “inside baseball”, so to speak, that organizations...
Posted in: Business Technology
July 1st, 2021 by Tom Darnall
At Function4, we have one overarching mission: to eliminate print servers. They’re a huge pain point for print environments of every shape and size, a resource vortex that devours time, money and effort with very little to show for it. IT departments...
Posted in: Document Management
March 30th, 2021 by Brian Wistisen
Print servers are the go-to choice when it comes to a corporate printing infrastructure. Conventional direct IP printing is different than server printing. With direct IP, printers are managed on a workstation-by-workstation basis. Print...
Posted in: Document Management, Business Technology
March 23rd, 2021 by Tom Darnall
You can probably imagine how eliminating print servers also helps to end single points of failure. This means increased printer availability and more printer uptime at your organization. A welcome bonus? Fewer calls to the service desk. ...
Posted in: Business Technology
March 17th, 2021 by Jacob Eskelsen
As much as some folks like to brag about their ability to multitask, we all know by now that multitasking just isn’t efficient. Our brains prefer to focus on a single task rather than be pulled in different directions. That applies to IT departments...
Posted in: Document Management
March 16th, 2021 by Steve Kelley
In 2019, the online training platform Skillbox sent a rogue print job to unsecured network printers. To do that, they relied on a search tool called Shodan that discovers vulnerable Internet-connected devices. It was the very same tool that a prankster...
Posted in: Cybersecurity, Document Management
March 11th, 2021 by Tom Darnall
When planning their enterprise print management strategies, most organizations try to take a long-term view. They look to purchase cost-sensitive workhorse printers for their fleet and printer management solutions that will support and integrate...
Posted in: Document Management
February 23rd, 2021 by Tom Darnall
At Function4, we have one overarching mission: to eliminate print servers. They’re a huge pain point for print environments of every shape and size, a resource vortex that devours time, money and effort with very little to show for it. IT departments...
Posted in: Document Management, Business Technology
January 27th, 2021 by Brian Wistisen
Contact a Solutions Expert As IT professionals are looking to move away from legacy print solutions, the idea of a serverless print infrastructure is becoming more widespread. That's true even in large enterprise organizations, where print servers were...
Posted in: Business Technology
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