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Functional Areas
Printing from mobile devices
Marketing applications
Photo products
Commercial printing
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Questions
Is mobile print useful?
Will it be more or less useful in the future?
Are these applications novelties?
Do applications make money for those
deploying them?
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Questions
Do mobile applications result in net new
printing occurring?
Do they in some way prevent print from
losing market share to e-delivery?
Who are consumers of mobile print?
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Printing from Mobile Devices
Printing documents from a post-pc device
like a smartphone or a tablet to a network-
or cloud-connected output device
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Local Network Printing
Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print
and HP ePrint
Print a Boarding Pass?
Print to your photo printer from a tablet?
Does internet capability sell HP printers?
Consumables?
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Printing to the cloud
Services like Google Cloud Print, Printme,
PrinterOn
Too much of a hassle to print
boarding passes
Printing when you are visiting someone’s
office?
Printing documents by a Print Service
Provider
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Marketing Applications
QR Codes
While 88% of smartphones have cameras,
apparently only about 13% have software
installed to allow them to read QR Codes.
Marketers need to create truly compelling
campaigns
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Marketing Applications
Non-code
Recognition methods that do not require a
code
Google Goggles “should” do this “someday”,
“Might” be built into Android OS
Using a smart phone to point at a print piece
and receive info may continue.
Seventeen Magazine August 2012 edition
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Marketing Applications
Augmented Reality
Aurasma (HP/Autonomy)
Voice Recognition – Speaking Words to
Siri (Voice Response Ads)
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Photo
Apple Cards
Sincerely
Postagram, Popbooth, Dotti
Also work with Quiption, Waddle, Picsicle, ShipMate, Filtermania,
Interlacer, Lonely Planet, I Am Awesome, Pregnancy Progress, Pic
Collage, Color Effects, Storyboarder, and Path
Gopostal
Postcardontherun
Touchnote
Pixyme – adds personalization
Instagram has 27… no, 50… no, 80+ million users!
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Commercial Printing
What needs does a buyer have for
mobile print?
Does a commercial printer need a
mobile app?
Web2Print applications
Storefront/Catalog
Re-ordering
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Commercial Printing
Wrap it with technology
Expose your capability with APIs
Applications will change
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Who are the Consumers?
Countries where print is growing, relevant
Developing countries where people are more
likely to have a cell phone than a PC
Brazil, Mexico, other Latin America
India, China?
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Trends
Mobile is exploding
Facebook appx 500M
mobile users
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Trends
iPhone– > 1 billion,
37 million new in Q4 2011
Not to mention iPads
- about 50 million will be sold in 2012
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Trends
Google Android – 300 480 million units,
850,000 1.3m activations per day
Including Amazon Kindle Fire?
Apps ecosystem a focus for Google
Only recently got Chrome browser
Nexus 7 tablet, a winner
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Trends
“Think mobile first”
Increasingly, applications are being developed
for mobile, then for the desktop browsers
Focus on what the user really needs
Critical to get the user experience right
Employ mobile device features
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Mobile = Social
How is print social?
Does a printer need to have a social
strategy?
Print is local, social is local?
Is Print Personalization dead?
Gamification?
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Summary
Print can complement mobile
But not necessarily the way it is today
Mobile and print combination more
relevant in developing countries