Secure, Cloud-Native
Print Management for
Higher Education
Pharos Cloud Education Edition is a cloud-native print management platform designed for colleges and universities. It helps institutions eliminate print servers, protect sensitive information, gain real-time visibility across campus print environments, and simplify print management across academic buildings, libraries, labs, administrative offices, and distributed campuses.
Trusted by Leading Colleges and Universities
Built for Every Higher Education Environment
From large universities and multi-campus systems to colleges and specialized institutions, Pharos Cloud provides the security, reliability, and centralized control needed to simplify printing across complex campus environments.
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Colleges
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Campus Printing Has Changed. Legacy Infrastructure Hasn’t.
Colleges and universities are modernizing the campus experience with cloud technology, digital learning, and increasingly connected environments, yet printing remains essential for students, faculty, and staff. Academic materials, research, administrative documents, and other information still need to be printed reliably across campus.
At the same time, IT teams are managing printing across libraries, labs, classrooms, administrative offices, residence halls, and multiple campuses. Legacy print infrastructure adds complexity, consumes valuable IT resources, and makes it harder to maintain consistent security, visibility, and control.
Pharos Cloud Education Edition brings print into the modern campus environment with secure, cloud-native management built for the needs of higher education.
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From Legacy Print to Modern Print
Management
| Challenge | How Pharos Cloud Helps |
|---|---|
| Legacy print servers add infrastructure and administrative overhead across campus. | Eliminate print servers with cloud-native campus print management. |
| Students need to print from Chromebooks, laptops, mobile devices, and the web. | Enable flexible print submission and secure release across supported campus printers. |
| Managing printing across labs, libraries, offices, and multiple campuses consumes valuable IT resources. | Centrally manage printers, users, and policies across campus. |
| Student, faculty, and administrative documents can be left exposed on shared printers. | Protect sensitive documents with authenticated print release. |
| Limited visibility makes it difficult to understand print activity, costs, and usage across campus. | Gain centralized visibility into print activity, costs, and device health. |
| Institutions need flexible ways to control and recover printing costs. | Manage costs with quotas, chargebacks, policies, and reporting. |
| Multi-vendor campus fleets create inconsistent workflows and support demands. | Deliver a consistent print experience across supported devices and locations. |
Protect Every Campus
Print Job
Colleges and universities handle sensitive information every day, from student and employee records to research, financial information, and administrative documents. Pharos Cloud Education Edition helps institutions reduce exposure and strengthen control over printed information with secure printing.
- Hold sensitive jobs until authorized users release them
- Authenticate users with badge, mobile, or credentials
- Reduce sensitive documents left at shared printers
- Apply consistent print policies across campus
- Strengthen audit readiness and compliance efforts
- Support Zero Trust with ISO 27001 and SOC 2® attestation
Modernize Campus Print
Infrastructure
Managing print across academic buildings, libraries, labs, administrative offices, and multiple campuses shouldn’t require legacy print infrastructure. Pharos Cloud Education Edition provides a secure, cloud-native platform that simplifies administration, reduces infrastructure, and supports broader campus IT modernization.
- Eliminate print servers and reduce infrastructure costs
- Centrally manage printers, users, and policies
- Simplify administration across campus locations
- Support multi-vendor printer fleets
- Support students, faculty, staff, and mobile users
- Reduce ongoing maintenance and IT overhead
Gain Visibility Across
Campus
When printing is distributed across departments, schools, facilities, and multiple campuses, it can be difficult to understand usage, control costs, and identify inefficiencies. Pharos Cloud provides centralized analytics that help IT teams monitor activity, uncover savings, and optimize print resources across the institution.
- Monitor usage across campuses and departments
- Understand print costs and usage trends
- Identify high-volume users, devices, and locations
- Uncover waste and potential cost savings
- Monitor trends and identify outliers
- Make data-driven optimization decisions
Keep Students,
Faculty, and Staff
Focused
Whether students are printing assignments, faculty are preparing course materials, or staff are supporting campus operations, printing should simply work. Pharos Cloud Education Edition delivers a reliable, consistent print experience across campus while reducing print-related friction for users and IT.
- Deliver a consistent print experience across campus
- Enable direct IP and secure release printing
- Support printing from laptops and mobile devices
- Simplify printing across campus locations
- Reduce print-related friction and support requests
- Keep IT focused on higher-value initiatives
Future-Ready Print for Higher Education
Campus technology continues to evolve as institutions modernize infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity, and support increasingly connected learning environments. Higher education needs print management that is secure, resilient, and built to adapt alongside changing campus needs.
Pharos Cloud Education Edition provides a secure, cloud-native foundation that helps colleges and universities eliminate print servers, protect sensitive information, improve campus-wide visibility, and simplify print operations. From supporting students and faculty to reducing IT complexity and controlling costs, Pharos Cloud helps make print a secure, integrated part of the modern campus experience.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is higher education print management?
Higher education print management is the centralized management of student, faculty, and staff printing, print infrastructure, user access, campus devices, policies, accounts, costs, and print data across colleges and universities.
How does Pharos help colleges and universities modernize printing?
Pharos Cloud Education Edition helps institutions eliminate print servers, centralize administration, enable flexible student printing, strengthen document security, recover print costs, and improve visibility across campus.
Can students print from Chromebooks and mobile devices?
Yes. Pharos Cloud Education Edition supports printing from Chromebooks, mobile devices, laptops, workstations, and the web, with secure release at supported campus printers.
How does secure release printing improve campus security?
Secure release printing requires users to authenticate at the device before a document prints. This helps protect sensitive information and reduces abandoned print jobs on shared campus printers.
Can higher education institutions recover student printing costs?
Yes. Pharos Cloud Education Edition supports quotas, chargebacks, account management, departmental cost recovery, policies, and reporting that help institutions control and recover printing costs.
Can Pharos support multi-vendor campus printer fleets?
Yes. Pharos Cloud Education Edition is designed to centrally manage users, devices, drivers, policies, analytics, and supported printers across multi-vendor campus fleets.
What is PrintOps for higher education?
PrintOps is the modern, integrated, user-centric, and cloud-native approach to managing printing and the infrastructure and operations behind it. For higher education, PrintOps helps make campus printing secure, visible, scalable, cost-aware, and easier for students and IT to use.
Ready to Simplify Campus Printing?
See how Pharos Cloud Education Edition helps colleges and universities eliminate print servers, protect sensitive information, improve visibility across campus, control print costs, and deliver a simpler printing experience for students, faculty, and staff.
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