Read on for a short interview with Jack Rieger, Director Digital Innovation from Epson discussing the value of Mopria Alliance.
Why is it important for your company to be a member of the Mopria Alliance?
Jack Rieger of Epson
Epson is diligently working with industry partners to make it easy for everyone to print and scan, no matter what devices they are using. With the proliferation of devices and platforms, it is vital that the industry collaborates to break down barriers and make our products as useful as possible for our customers.
What benefits does your participation in Mopria Alliance bring to your company?
Native printing and scanning solutions for Epson customers that use Android and Windows devices. A uniform way to print for Epson customers that use multiple printer brands.
What do you want users to know about Mopria?
Mopria has developed industry standard technology that helps users print straight from their Android devices. Most recently, Mopria has developed a scanning app that helps users scan straight to their Android devices.
How is your company advancing mobile printing and educating mobile users?
Epson supports industry standard protocols that make printing easy from any device. In the Americas, Epson has a website dedicated to mobile printing solutions, Epson.com/connect, that help our users discover Epson’s mobile printing and scanning solutions.
What are the challenges users experience with printing and how can Mopria help solve those?
- Connectivity: Mopria helps drive industry standard methods of printing and scanning to and from devices.
- Ease of Use: Mopria drives adoption of technology that enables users to print without download and installation of any special drivers.
- Interoperability: Mopria drives uniform experiences across a variety of Android and print/scan devices.
What Mopria Alliance accomplishment are you most proud of and why?
Mopria has made printing from your Android mobile device easy. Having an industry standard that spans multiple printer brands AND driving significant adoption of the service is significant.
Mopria Print technology is also installed in over 2 billion devices. Mopria is the Default Print Service for Android 8 and above, which provides convenient, intuitive printing with automatic printer discovery of more than 4,000 models and 120 million deployed Mopria certified printers.
Any additional comments to add about your organization’s membership in the Mopria Alliance?
Epson is pleased to be a member and looks forward to continued innovation in “print from” and “scan to” solutions with your mobile devices, whether they are Android, Fire, or Windows-based, and whether you are a consumer or a business professional.
