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Introductions Justin Herron Inside Sales Representative Ian
Anderson Quality Assurance Engineer 2Tricerat, Inc. 2013. All
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Todays Agenda Challenges in Education Make IT Simple What Is
Simplify Printing TX? Demonstration Improve Your Student and Staff
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Challenges in Education IT Keeping up with technology, i.e.
tablets Varying device types & BYOD Thin budgets Even thinner
resources usually wearing multiple hats Balance of value to client
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Make IT Simple Lets improve the lives of administrators! We
focus on simplicity and power for the administrator experience That
power translates into simplicity for the user experience Tricerat,
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Supporting Printing is Tough Infinite combinations Dozens of
printer brands, thousands of models Printer Drivers are
problematic, hard to distribute and keep up to date Numerous client
devices and platforms Powerful new environments lead to complexity
BYOD headaches Remote printing issues Mobile printing compatibility
(AirPrint, etc) Current solutions are incomplete Dealing with
multiple vendors Each solution has no knowledge of the others Users
are confused and cant get their job done Help Desk and IT Admins
are overloaded and cant address all the needs Tricerat, Inc. 2013.
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Make Printing Simple For 12 years, ScrewDrivers has been making
Citrix, Remote Desktop, and Virtual Desktop printing support simple
Simplify Printing, released in 2005, added enterprise features to
the Tricerat printing product line And now, in 2013, we are proud
to launch Simplify Printing TX the next evolution of printing,
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Simplify Printing TX to the Rescue! Get the right printers to
the right people Discover printers based on location Print from a
guest network to the corporate printers Find a nearby printer to
use from my Windows device, and set it up without having to
download drivers Print from mobile devices Print from an iOS device
to a non-AirPrint printer Restrict AirPrint to specific client
devices Print remotely (remote locations and/or remote apps) While
using Citrix Receiver on my iPad at home, print to a home printer
While using Citrix Receiver from a Thin Client, print to locally
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Users can easily find and use any printer Uses the mechanics of
social networking Subscribe to printers that you need to access
Friend other users with whom you want to share printers or print
jobs Location-aware for intelligent printer selection and discovery
A single, easy to use App Identify printers in our App, but still
Print from the business App Available on all major platforms
Seamless User Experience Subscribe to a printer once, and it will
be available to all of your devices/apps SPTX handles all of the
printer setup and driver management in the background Tricerat,
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The admins are in control but users have the power of
self-service Force (assign) printer subscriptions to users By
location, name, type, etc.. Configure security on the printers to
restrict access Name, Group membership, etc Printer driver
management Use ScrewDrivers technology to ease driver management
Central printer driver database Cloud printer driver database
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Print Paths 1.Windows Agent to another Windows Agent Printer
2.Windows Agent to Print Server Agent Printer 3.iOS Agent
Airprinting to Windows Agent Printer 4.iOS Agent Airprinting to
Print Server Agent Printer 5.iOS Agent Airprinting to Mac Agent
Printer 6.Windows Agent logging into Citrix Server with Windows
Agent installed, printing to printer local to original Windows
Agent 7.Windows Agent logging into Citrix Server with Windows Agent
installed, printing to Print Server Agent printer 8.Windows Agent
logging into Terminal Server with Windows Agent installed, printing
to printer local to original Windows Agent 9.Windows Agent logging
into Terminal Server with Windows Agent installed, printing to
Print Server Agent printer 10.Windows Agent printing to iOS Agent
discovered bonjour printer, with iOS agent open and online
11.Windows Agent printing to iOS Agent discovered bonjour printer,
with iOS agent closed (push notification test) 12.Thin Client Agent
logging into Citrix Server with Windows Agent Installed, printing
to USB printer connected to Thin Client 13.Mac Agent printing via
AirPrint to Print Server Agent Printer 14.Mac Agent printing via
AirPrint to Windows Agent printer 15.Windows Agent printing to Mac
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Virtualizing and Securing AirPrint AirPrint uses an open
broadcast on the local subnet meaning anyone can see and access the
printer AirPrint is not supported by a large number of printers
Solution Tricerats Patent Pending Virtual AirPrint w/Directed
Multicast technology 14 Tricerat, Inc. 2013. All rights
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Demo 15Tricerat, Inc. 2013. All rights reserved.
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Requirements - Client Simplify Printing TX Agent available for
32 or 64 bit iOS 5 and later Android (coming soon) Mac OS X Windows
XP SP2, Vista, 7, 8 Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 Citrix
XenDesktop/XenApp Microsoft Remote Desktop Services VMware View 16
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Requirements - Print Server Simplify Printing TX Print Server
Agent available for 32 or 64 bit Windows XP SP2, Vista, 7, 8
Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 Runs as a service 17 Tricerat, Inc.
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Requirements - Server Requires 1 Simplify Printing TX Server
per environment Available for (64bit only) Windows 2003x64, Windows
2008 R2 SP1, Windows 2012x64 Requires Central Store which is a
MongoDB instance (can be on a separate server) Admin UI requires
IIS and Windows 2008 or greater (can be on a separate server) 18
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I know what youre thinking Sounds great, why not just let my
users figure it out with workarounds? 19Tricerat, Inc. 2013. All
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Mobility is upon us User workaround could be costly especially
considering security risks Stay ahead of the curve Gain value by
fixing other printing related issues in your environment at the
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Determining a Product Fit Do you still see issues with printing
in Citrix? Do you have a mixed environment (Citrix + Vmware, etc)?
Are your users accessing Citrix from a tablet? While on the road?
Are you allowing, explicitly or not, BYOUD? Would it make sense for
your users to have a single ubiquitous solution to printing?
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Improve your User Experience Give users what they want Self
service app Let the users have their way Support mobile printing
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Current Tricerat Customers? Upgrade paths are available Our
other printing products are still available if you dont have a need
for Simplify Printing TX If migrating, Simplify Printing TX is
capable of running side-by-side with ScrewDrivers and/or Simplify
Printing Recommendation: Begin with deployments to mobile users or
Citrix users with issues, and then migrate from the other products
Easy subscription based licensing model per user license any number
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Using another 3 rd party printing product? Simplify Printing TX
can be run side-by- side with many other products Well work with
you to migrate or integrate 25 Tricerat, Inc. 2013. All rights
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Next Steps Download the Release Candidate and give it a try
Stay in touch with your rep at Tricerat http://www.tricerat.com/ 26
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Roadmap The Plan for 2014 Printer restrictions Follow-me
Printing Auditing/Reporting Advanced Print Features Green Printing
Load Balancing/Pooling Integration with Scanners/TWAIN Tricerat,
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