Secure, Centralized
Print Management for
Manufacturing
Pharos Cloud is a cloud-native print management platform designed for manufacturing organizations. It helps manufacturers eliminate print servers, protect sensitive business information, gain real-time visibility across plants, warehouses, and distributed facilities, and simplify print management while supporting Zero Trust security principles and reliable printing across operations.
A Print Management Solution Built for Every Manufacturing Environment
From global manufacturers to specialized production operations, Pharos Cloud provides the security, reliability, and centralized control needed to manage printing across complex, distributed environments, from plants and warehouses to corporate offices and field operations.
Plants and Production
Warehouses and Distribution
Corporate Offices
Field Operations
Manufacturing Has Changed. Print Hasn’t.
Manufacturers are modernizing operations with automation, connected systems, and cloud technology, yet printing remains part of everyday production and business workflows. Work orders, production documents, shipping materials, quality records, and other critical information still need to be available when and where employees need them.
As manufacturing environments become more connected and distributed, legacy print infrastructure adds unnecessary complexity for IT. Manufacturers need a modern print solution that reduces infrastructure, strengthens security, improves visibility, and keeps printing reliable across every site.
Pharos Cloud brings print into the modern manufacturing environment with secure, cloud-native management built for complex, multi-site operations.
From Legacy Print to Centralized Print
Management
| Challenge | How Pharos Cloud Helps |
|---|---|
| Legacy print servers add infrastructure and administrative overhead across manufacturing locations. | Eliminate print servers with cloud-native print management. |
| Sensitive business and operational documents can be left exposed on shared printers. | Protect sensitive documents with authenticated print release. |
| Managing printers across plants, warehouses, and offices consumes valuable IT resources. | Centrally manage printers, users, and policies across locations. |
| Employees need a consistent print experience across changing sites and multi-vendor environments. | Simplify printing with direct IP, location-aware printing, mobile access, and centralized driver management. |
| Limited visibility makes it difficult to understand print costs, usage, and device behavior. | Gain centralized visibility into print activity, costs, and device health. |
| Security programs require stronger controls for operational and business documents. | Support Zero Trust principles with end-to-end encryption, ISO 27001 certification, and SOC 2® attestation. |
| Expansion, acquisitions, and facility changes can create inconsistent print environments. | Bring locations onto a centralized print platform without deploying new print servers. |
Protect Operational and
Business Documents in Print Jobs
Manufacturing employees print sensitive information every day, from production and quality records to financial documents and other confidential business information. Pharos Cloud helps manufacturers reduce exposure and strengthen control over printed information with secure, authenticated 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 facilities
- Strengthen audit readiness and compliance efforts
- Support Zero Trust with ISO 27001 and SOC 2® attestation
Modernize Print
Infrastructure
Managing print across plants, warehouses, corporate offices, and distributed facilities shouldn’t require legacy print infrastructure. Pharos Cloud provides a secure, cloud-native platform that simplifies administration, reduces infrastructure, and supports broader IT modernization.
- Eliminate print servers and reduce infrastructure costs
- Centrally manage printers, users, and policies
- Simplify administration across distributed facilities
- Support multi-vendor printer fleets
- Support office, production, and mobile employees
- Improve productivity by reducing ongoing maintenance and IT overhead
Gain Visibility Across
Every Site
When printing spans multiple sites and complex manufacturing operations, it can be difficult to understand usage, control costs, and identify inefficiencies. Pharos Cloud provides a user-friendly interface with centralized analytics that help IT teams monitor activity, uncover savings, and optimize resources across every site.
- Monitor usage across facilities and departments
- Understand print costs and usage trends
- Identify high-volume users, devices, and workflows
- Uncover waste and potential cost savings
- Monitor trends and identify outliers
- Make data-driven optimization decisions
Keep Teams Focused
on Operations
Whether supporting plant operations, preparing shipping documents, or working across facilities, employees need printing that simply works. Pharos Cloud delivers a reliable, streamlined and consistent print experience across locations while reducing print-related friction for employees and IT.
- Deliver a consistent print experience across locations
- Enable direct IP and secure release printing
- Simplify printing with location-aware workflows
- Support employees across sites and work environments
- Reduce print-related friction and support requests
- Keep IT focused on higher-value initiatives
Future-Ready Print Management for Manufacturing
As manufacturers modernize infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity, and connect increasingly distributed operations, print shouldn’t remain tied to legacy technology. Pharos Cloud provides a secure, cloud-native foundation that helps manufacturers eliminate print servers, protect sensitive information, improve visibility, and keep printing reliable across critical operations.
Built for complex manufacturing environments, Pharos Cloud helps make print a secure, integrated part of modern manufacturing IT.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is manufacturing print management?
Manufacturing print management is the centralized management of printing, print infrastructure, user access, device fleets, policies, and print data across plants, warehouses, offices, and distributed work environments.
How does Pharos help manufacturing organizations modernize print?
Pharos Cloud helps manufacturers eliminate print servers, centralize print administration, strengthen document security, improve visibility into print usage, and support consistent employee printing across distributed sites.
How does secure release printing support manufacturing security?
Secure release printing requires users to authenticate at the device before a document prints. This helps reduce the risk of sensitive production, quality, shipping, employee, or business documents being left unattended in output trays.
Can Pharos Cloud support multi-vendor manufacturing print fleets?
Yes. Pharos Cloud is designed to manage enterprise printing across multi-vendor fleets through centralized control, print driver management, analytics, and supported integrations.
Why move manufacturing print infrastructure to the cloud?
Cloud-based print management can help manufacturers reduce reliance on on-premises print servers, simplify IT operations, strengthen security controls, support distributed sites, and gain better visibility into print usage and cost.
What is PrintOps for manufacturing?
PrintOps is the modern, integrated, user-centric, and cloud-native approach to managing printing and the infrastructure and operations behind it. For manufacturers, PrintOps helps make print secure, governed, visible, scalable, and easier to support across operational and office environments.
What manufacturing environments can Pharos Cloud support?
Pharos Cloud supports large manufacturing organizations across plants, warehouses, distribution sites, corporate offices, field locations, and related operations that need secure, cloud-native print management.
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