Microsoft to launch Universal Print
Offered public preview of new technology on 7/21 and 7/22 during Microsoft Inspire event
- New technology advertised as eliminating need for customers to have print servers on site, and getting rid need to maintain all print drivers, print queues and firmware
o Claims it currently costs customers up to $4000 per year to deploy and maintain a print server
- Moves all of the infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud using this solution
- Customer must be subscriber/user of Microsoft Office365
- Full visibility into print environment through a centralized administration portal
- Claims to be working with all makers of printers and MFPs to develop devices that are compatible with new technology (none exist today)
- Offering the “UP Connector”, which is advertised as allowing new solution to work with non-UP ready devices
o Customer must either host on a VM in the cloud or, a local Windows 10 PC or
Windows Server machine
o Download connector at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/universal-
print/fundamentals/universal-print-connector-installation