Modernize Your Print Management With a Serverless Printing Solution
Your print infrastructure should be as modern as the rest of your workplace. If it’s currently lagging behind due to complex legacy systems and disconnected workflows, Pharos serverless printing solutions offer a way forward.
Adopt a more secure and agile way to print.
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On-Premise Print Servers
Are a Liability
Your traditional print servers are an administrative burden. They drive up costs with constant maintenance and patching, and introduce security risks that, in any other part of your IT stack, simply wouldn’t be tolerated. In fact, according to Quorica, 56% of organizations reported at least one print-related data loss in the past year.
The challenge only grows as your organization becomes more distributed. Supporting remote offices and hybrid employees often means deploying and managing multiple print servers. The result is more updates, monitoring, troubleshooting, and admin.
What should be a productivity tool is consuming valuable IT resources and expanding your attack surface.
It’s time print caught up to the rest of the modern workplace. With modern, cloud-native print management, it doesn’t have to be this complex.
Meet Serverless Printing
Introducing your smarter, more scalable print solution: Serverless printing replaces legacy print server infrastructure with a cloud-native platform that securely manages print through the cloud. Instead of relying on local servers to process every print job, organizations can centralize print management, strengthen security, and simplify operations across distributed environments.
How does it work? It’s simple. Users sign in to the print management service, choose a printer, and click “Print”. Then, the cloud securely routes the job to the right printer without requiring a physical server.
No need to use, maintain, and constantly patch print servers anymore. Updates occur automatically. Unlike your current architecture, serverless solutions offer centralized management across any location through the cloud, allowing hybrid or remote teams to print effortlessly no matter where they’re working. And, cloud-native printing infrastructure scales with your business, without the costs and labor of adding new print servers.
Experience Serverless Print Management With Pharos Cloud
Modern IT teams have moved critical infrastructure to the cloud, so why is your print still relying on outdated infrastructure?
Pharos Cloud is our cloud-native print management platform built for enterprise IT teams. It eliminates the need for on-premises print servers, simplifying operations while strengthening security.
It provides:
- Centralized management
- Seamless identity integration
- Real-time visibility
- Simple ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) printing across devices
- Open APIs for Information Technology
- Service Management (ITSM), identity, and automation integrations
- Automatic device discovery and provisioning
- Policy-based control across distributed, multi-vendor printer fleets
Designed for today’s enterprise, Pharos Cloud gives you the visibility and control you need to manage print as part of your wider IT strategy, without the cost and limitations of legacy print infrastructure.
Everything Your Workplace Needs for Simple Cloud Print Management
Direct IP Printing
Conveniently print in the direct-to-printer workflow your users are familiar with. Pharos Cloud sends print jobs directly to the right printer over your network using the printer’s IP address, rather than sending them through a traditional print server first.
This allows you to centrally manage all users, groups, print drivers, and queues from a single web console, improving print productivity with a consistent, intuitive experience.
Your users print just as they always have (select a printer and documents print immediately). But now, the behind-the-scenes process is more secure and doesn’t involve the complexity of traditional print environments.
Secure Release Printing
Does your industry have strict compliance requirements? Keep your documents secure by releasing print jobs at the printer only when users physically authenticate themselves. This helps ensure confidential information isn’t left at the printer for anyone to pick up.
Plus, Pharos Cloud helps users securely turn paper documents into digital files and share them wherever they need to go, whether that’s email, network folders, OneDrive, or SharePoint.
Insights and Analytics
Easily make smarter decisions today and connect print into the broader IT ecosystem through rich operational data, helping organizations make smarter decisions today while preparing for future AI-driven operations.
With Pharos Cloud, you receive a modern analytics dashboard with job-level drill-down. This allows you to see at a glance your real-time fleet utilization, cost drivers, and waste visibility.
And with our policy enforcement tools that influence printing behavior, you can set employee print cost targets and reduce color page volume.
Security
Enjoy serverless printing with enterprise-grade security built for modern IT. Pharos Cloud is secure by design. It supports Zero Trust principles with per-session identity and device validation and aligns print with modern enterprise security frameworks.
We’ve received the all-important SOC 2® attestation and ISO 27001 and 27017 certifications so you can be confident your information is safe, particularly as Pharos Cloud implements end-to-end encryption for print job delivery and has a rapid security vulnerability response.
We believe trust is built through transparency, which is why we built The Pharos Trust Center. This gives you direct access to our latest security resources, including real-time insights into our security posture, downloadable whitepapers, and answers to common compliance questions.
Featured Case Study
Citizens Bank Cuts Print Costs by 45%
Citizens Bank knew it needed to rethink its approach to printing, but without clear visibility into its printing habits, reducing costs proved challenging. Partnering with Pharos, they uncovered opportunities to eliminate waste and modernize workflows.
Now, they make smarter decisions about their print environment, with 45% less printing costs and 35% lower print volume.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What should I look for in a serverless printing solution?
A strong serverless printing solution should do more than remove on-premises print servers. Look for a platform that integrates with your existing IT environment, supports your current printer fleet, provides centralized management, and delivers the security controls needed for an enterprise print environment. The right solution should simplify printing without creating new complexity. Look for a solution that was built cloud-native rather than adapted from legacy print infrastructure.
How is a serverless printing solution different from traditional cloud printing?
While both approaches use the cloud, a true serverless printing solution is designed to eliminate the need for on-premise print servers entirely. Instead of moving print servers to a hosted environment, serverless printing removes that dependency by managing print workflows directly through a cloud-native platform. True serverless printing doesn’t simply move print servers to the cloud. It eliminates the dependency on print servers altogether.
How does migrating to serverless printing work?
Every organization’s environment is different, but most migrations follow a phased approach. The process typically begins with an assessment of your current print environment, including your printer fleet, workflows, security requirements, and user needs. From there, teams can run a pilot program to validate the solution before expanding to a full deployment across the organization.
How long does it take to move to serverless printing with Pharos Cloud?
Migration timelines depend on the size and complexity of your print environment, including the number of locations, printers, and users involved. A phased rollout allows organizations to transition at their own pace, minimizing disruption while ensuring a smooth adoption process.
Will Pharos Cloud work with our existing printers?
Pharos works across printers and MFDs from all major manufacturers, including:
- Canon
- HP
- Konica Minolta
- Lexmark
- Ricoh
- Sharp
- Toshiba
- Xerox
This allows you to modernize your print environment without replacing all your existing hardware investment.