Sharp adds its weight to the Cortado Cloud Printing Alliance

‘New Age’ of mobile working gains popularity as users embrace cloud computing for effortless on-the-move printing

Hamburg, 26.10.2011

Sharp has joined the growing Cortado Printing Alliance in a move which will make its MFPs available wirelessly to smartphone and tablet users, through the free Cortado Workplace App. The solution works independently of mobile devices, printers and file-types, and is not PC-dependent.

More than 184,000 mobile workers - an increase of 84% in the last seven months - now regularly use Cortado Workplace, which is available for iOS, BlackBerry, Android and Symbian platforms.
“This is great news for mobile workers,” said Peter Plested, Divisional Manager, European Solutions Business Centre, Sharp. “It will give our customers the ability to print whatever they want, whenever and wherever they need it, without caring about printer drivers, portable storage devices or anything else which inhibits mobile working.”

To benefit from Cortado Workplace users simply download a free App, available from all main App stores, to their smartphone or tablet PC. Each user gets 2GB of free online storage in their own private ‘cloud workspace’, in which they can store documents. Once stored, the documents can be printed on supported printers and MFPs from any accessible Wi-Fi network, including thousands of models (Cortado hosts more than 5,000 printer drivers) from Sharp and ten other printer manufacturers.

“We’re very pleased to welcome Sharp into the Printing Alliance,” said Frank Hoffmann, Director Strategic Relationships, Cortado. “Every time an internationally recognised brand becomes a member we see a dramatic growth in the user base. We are witnessing the dawn of a new age of printing: a new, more convenient way of working.”

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