According to IDC study, the increasing number of smartphone and tablet provokes a rise in demand for printing services. Employees who do not use smartphones and tablets, print less often. The proportions of those who just do not know how to print documents on mobile devices still high , other respondents are limited by the lack of technical capability .
The number of printed pages, using mobile devices in the next five years will grow in the United States an average by 12% a year. Multifunction Mono Laser and inkjet printers are often used for such problems.
The specifics of a corporate document, the need for color printing - all these factors lead to increased stress on printers from mobile devices. The study found that employees of big companies often print from mobile devices than their counterparts in smaller companies. The biggest demand in printing photos, and circulation tickets for transportation, paper copies of electronic publications or tickets to sports events, on the contrary, are falling.
Users of smartphones and tablets often retain scanned copies of the PDF document and use this built-in camera of mobile devices and cloud storage. The survey involved 800 employees of U.S. companies with different sizes.