Pharos Cloud Printing Solutions
Cloud Printing Solutions Built for Modern Print Infrastructure
Printing may not be the most visible part of your IT stack. However, outdated print infrastructure quietly increases cost, risk, and complexity.
Pharos Cloud delivers enterprise-grade cloud printing solutions that eliminate print servers, simplify driver management, and secure print workflows across locations, devices, and networks.
Why Traditional Print Infrastructure Fails IT Teams
Traditional print environments rely on print servers, vendor-specific drivers, and VPN-dependent workflows that increase attack surfaces and operational overhead. Pharos pioneered serverless printing to remove print servers entirely and replace them with a cloud-native architecture that scales securely.
What is serverless printing?
Serverless printing removes traditional print servers from the infrastructure. Print jobs are routed securely through the cloud directly to IP printers, reducing maintenance, cost, and security risk.
What Cloud Printing Really Means Today
Cloud print management is software that centralizes print infrastructure in the cloud, replacing on-premise print servers and enabling secure, policy-driven print workflows across locations and devices.
Cloud printing allows users to submit print jobs from anywhere to network-connected printers. Modern cloud printing solutions go beyond remote access by moving the entire print infrastructure to the cloud.
This centralized approach manages authentication, routing, secure release printing, and analytics without relying on on-premise print servers.
Explore the Pharos Cloud Platform
Pharos Cloud is a cloud-native print management solution designed to modernize print infrastructure at scale. It provides centralized policy control, cost transparency, and secure print workflows across distributed users, devices, and locations. Built-in capabilities including direct IP printing, secure release printing, and analytics-driven optimization work together within one unified platform to simplify management and reduce operational overhead.
Direct IP Printing
Direct IP Printing eliminates dependency on print servers by routing print jobs directly to network-connected IP printers.
Insights & Analytics
With centralized analytics and reporting, IT teams gain visibility into usage trends, cost control opportunities, and overall print infrastructure performance.
Secure Release
Secure release printing protects sensitive documents by requiring user authentication before jobs are released at the device. This reduces unclaimed prints, strengthens data security, and supports compliance across distributed environments.
The Benefits of Pharos Cloud
Pharos Cloud print management software delivers a powerful cloud-based printing solution designed to enhance productivity, improve security, and reduce costs for organizations of all sizes.
Improved IT Staff Efficiency
Eliminates print servers, reduces driver management, and lowers help desk volume.
Enhanced Security and Compliance
Supports Zero Trust security principles with encryption, secure release workflows, and SOC attested and ISO certifications.
Improved Employee Experience
Provides consistent printing across devices and locations without complex setup.
Cost Saving
Reduces infrastructure costs by eliminating print servers and minimizing IT time spent managing drivers and help desk tickets, while enabling fleet and usage optimization.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the cloud a secure place to manage our print?
There’s a reason why some of the largest organizations in the world trust cloud solutions. Pharos Cloud uses advanced security protocols to protect data, users, and devices.
How does Pharos Cloud support printing in Zero Trust environments?
Pharos Cloud supports Zero Trust security printing by ensuring authentication, encryption, and secure release of print jobs, protecting sensitive information at every stage.
How does Pharos Cloud support local data privacy and data sovereignty requirements?
As organizations become increasingly global, protecting data and complying with local data privacy requirements is naturally of greater concern.
Pharos Cloud’s Data Privacy and Regional Storage capability provides more than 20 pre-created regions that correlate to existing secure AWS S3 repositories globally. This allows your organization’s Pharos Cloud administrators to:
- Set job storage policy (where print jobs are stored in the cloud between job submission and release) by region—users secure release jobs are stored securely in the cloud in their region
- Create and configure data collection policy (Collect, Do Not Collect, or Collect and Hide) print job information (i.e., document name, employee ID, etc.) by region for use in Pharos Insights
Are print jobs stored in the cloud?
For supported workstation printing, jobs can remain stored locally, with optional cloud backup to support availability when the originating workstation is offline or cannot communicate with the printer. Jobs submitted from certain other platforms, including supported mobile and ChromeOS workflows, route through Pharos Cloud. Storage and delivery behavior depend on the submission method and configuration.
What happens when my users or a location can’t connect to the cloud or there’s an interruption in internet service?
Pharos Cloud centralizes driver management and enables admins to manage print drivers in a single location and control user/group access to print queues. Pharos Cloud comes pre-loaded with manufacturers’ universal print drivers and our own universal print driver built on the IPP Everywhere standard. Pharos Cloud also allows administrators to upload Windows drivers into Pharos Cloud.
Pharos’ advanced IPP class driver supports printing the multivendor print fleet enabling Admins to reduce the number of print drivers that need to be managed.
Pharos Direct Print also lets IT staff automatically add and remove print queues on user workstations based on the user’s location and permissions. This makes it easier for employees to print to nearby printers without having to map to printers, helping reduce a common source of Help Desk calls.
How is the Pharos truly “universal” print driver different?
Our advanced IPP class driver is a truly universal driver that works across thousands of devices, eliminating the need for model-specific drivers and simplifying print management.
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