A friend of mine who runs a landscaping business asked me an interesting question. Much of their office work is done in their house by her – bookkeeping, billing, accounting… You get the picture. Much of their business is run out of their shop where they keep most of their equipment. It is also the place where their crew gathers before the work day begins. Every morning, she and her husband give out the job assignments for the day, and their workers go out to the job sites and work.
There are some mornings when she would like to skip going to the shop and give out the written job schedules remotely. She wanted to know if there was a printer out there that would allow her to print from her computer or iPad at home to their shop. She had found HP’s ePrint, and the idea was born.
She was onto something, although as it stands, HP’s ePrint can’t do it alone. ePrint will let one print from anywhere in the home from any electronic device.
What she needed is Google Cloud Print. Google has technology that allows you to print from anywhere with any device to your printer at home or at the office.
One of the interesting aspects is that you don’t even have to have the printer hooked up to a PC or laptop. Google Cloud Print can work with a Cloud Ready printer – a printer that has the ability to connect directly to the Web without requiring a PC. In fact on Google’s site, they give you a list of Cloud Ready Printers by HP, Kodak, Epson, Canon, Samsung, and FedEx. The FedEx option is a whole other benefit.
It looks like these days, there is a solution for just about any option a small business might come up with that won’t break the bank.
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