Mobile printing : plan it

Think about your perfect mobile printing world and make a list of the different ways you need or want to print when you are away from your desk or the office. Do you have to jump through hoops when you want to print on the road? How could you work better if those hoops disappear? For example:

• Do you regularly work at remote client or customer sites and need to print important e-mail messages or notes to take into meetings?
  
• Do you fly regularly and want to print e-mail messages or documents and jot notes about your response by hand during take-off and landing when you can't use your notebook or PDA to do so electronically?
  
• As a consultant do you want to keep an up-to-date project folder with printed copies of meeting notes, project documents, and key e-mail messages but find that by the time you finally get back to the office you are so overwhelmed with printing and filing that you can't keep up?
  
• Are you a content editor or approver who is often away from a printer but works more effectively with hard copies of documents?
  
• As a sales executive would you be more effective if you could create customized sales materials from the latest templates and information on your company intranet and print them just before you walk into a sales call?
  
• When you are finalizing deals or amending a scope of work with a client, would the process run more smoothly if you could immediately print revised documents even though you are outside of your own office?
  
• As a support technician or consultant would access to printed technical manuals make your service calls shorter and more effective? Do you need to create customized leave-behind data sheets for clients to reference?
  

While these scenarios don't address every mobile printing need out there, they should get your creative juices flowing about needs you currently have. Your perfect mobile printing world can be a reality once you know what it looks like.

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