Deploy Bring-Your-Own-Device & Mobile Printing

Mobile printing and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) printing allow users to print directly from their smartphones, tablets, or personal laptops without needing to install complex drivers or connect to the organization's internal network. MyQ X supports multiple methods to enable printing from these devices, offering a seamless and user-friendly experience.

Recommended Print Options

• Implement Secure Pull Printing for all users.

• Enable AirPrint and Mopria on your selected queues for easy, native mobile printing.

• Automate print queue delivery on BYOD Windows, macOS, or Chromebook devices.

• Consider recommending the MyQ X Mobile Client, which can be downloaded by your users individually from app stores.

• Use Email-to-Print, such as for guests and users who cannot join your network or should not have even low-level access to your org’s environment.

• Enable Web upload via MyQ X’s Web Interface for driverless print job submission.

• Set up print policies to enforce eco-friendly printing for mobile users.

By adopting these methods and configuring the relevant MyQ X features, you can create a flexible, secure, and user-friendly printing environment for all mobile and BYOD users in your organization.

When to use what?

Secure Pull Printing

With pull printing, you do not have to worry about how to deploy a large number of print queues and make devices in your environment available for printing to guests, visitors, and BYOD users. Only one pull print queue can be enough. For more flexible options, use a couple of pull print queues for different groups of users.

Read more about all the benefits of Pull Printing.

Standard IPP Printing

Standard IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) printing is a straightforward method for connecting devices to printers over a network. It allows users to send print jobs directly to a printer queue without requiring additional software or drivers. This method is particularly useful for environments where simplicity and compatibility across multiple devices are priorities. Administrators can configure IPP queues and distribute them via DNS-SD (Service Discovery), enabling seamless discovery and connection by users on the same network.

Mobile IPP Printing (AirPrint and Mopria)

Native methods enable printing access without requiring users to install applications (usually) or configure settings. The burden of setup falls on administrators, not users, who can simply start printing from their devices.

This is very helpful in environments with many unmanaged mobile devices such as:

• Employees that utilize portable devices.

• Where users come in with their own devices (BYOD).

Learn how to install the Mobile Print Agent that allows distribution of MyQ queues in your local network and makes them natively discoverable by mobile devices.

MyQ X Mobile Client

MyQ X offers a mobile app (available for iOS and Android) that enables users to manage their print jobs and perform secure pull printing from their personal devices. With the mobile app, users can:

• Upload documents directly from their smartphone for printing.

• Select a printer and release print jobs after authentication (using a QR code with the mobile app, password, or PIN).

• Monitor their print quota, remaining credits, or print history through the app’s interface.

Read about the mobile app’s features.

Web Upload

Web upload provides an easy, driverless way to submit print jobs. Users can log into the MyQ X Web Interface, upload their documents, and define print settings like color, duplex, or simplex printing. These jobs are then queued in the "Web" Pull Print queue, waiting for authenticated release. This feature is especially beneficial for users who cannot install drivers or access email printing options, offering a universal solution for any platform with internet access.

Email Printing (Jobs via Email)

Email-to-print is a versatile option that allows users to send print jobs as email attachments to a designated MyQ email address. Once received, the system queues the job under the user’s credentials for secure release at a printer. This method is ideal for guest users or those outside the organization’s network, as it requires no additional software or configuration. Users can also include specific print instructions in the email subject line to customize their print jobs.

Additional Recommendations

• Communicate the printing methods clearly to your users. Include this information in Welcome emails, print out posters and put them close to the printing corners, or create a page dedicated to How To Print in your organization’s intranet.

• Test scenarios that will be common in your organization. This applies not only to printing but the entire user path; from the user’s self-registration (if this is what they are expected to do), to obtaining the client applications, installing and connecting them. Try if you have easy access to an authentication method as such a user (e.g., an option to generate a PIN in the mobile and desktop client or on the Web, or set up a password).

• Consider various handy features, such as:

  • Self-registration methods (by submitting a job over email, or via a sign-up form on the Web Interface).

  • “Generate PIN” options on the Web Interface, Mobile Client, or Desktop Client that let the user get a new PIN when they need it.

  • Temporary PIN codes that can be sent to a user automatically, and expire after an hour, day, or week (as you wish).

  • Printing station with the Desktop Client in Public mode that ensures short sign-in validity and leaves no print data, designed to be run on publicly available computers.