Partner Integrations
Introduction
Solution and hardware vendors can integrate their products with Universal Print, Microsoft's built-in print infrastructure. Our partners have been instrumental in delivering solutions to satisfy diverse requirements from our customers, including industry-specific solutions that integrate valuable printing functionality.
This article lists partner providers and independent software vendors that have built products and solutions that integrate with Universal Print by Microsoft.
Universal Print ready printers
See Printer List for the list of specific models.
| Provider/Vendor | Universal Print ready models | PIN release option |
|---|---|---|
| Brother | Brother | |
| Canon US | imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX Series | |
| Canon Europe | imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX Series imageRUNNER ADVANCE III Series i-SENSYS MF832Cdw | |
| Epson | Epson | Yes |
| FujiFilm | FujiFilm | |
| HP | HP | |
| Konica Minolta | Konica Minolta | |
| Kyocera | Kyocera | |
| Lexmark | Lexmark | Yes |
| Ricoh | Ricoh | |
| Sharp | Sharp | Yes |
| ToshibaTec | ToshibaTec | |
| Triumph-Adler | Triumph-Adler | |
| Xerox | Xerox |
Partner spotlight compilation
Universal Print partners talk about how their solutions integrate with Universal Print and the value it brings to customers.
Brother
Universal Print by Microsoft is available on select Brother devices to help users manage their print infrastructure through cloud services from Microsoft. These Brother printers, which are Universal Print-ready with Universal Print-compatible firmware, eliminate the need for on-premises print servers and lower capital expenditure. They also help lower energy costs, reduce the IT administrative burden, and help reduce the operating expenses associated with on-premises servers. If users have a Microsoft 365 subscription, they can access the Universal Print console on Brother printers without the Universal Print connector.
Brother is a leading provider of office equipment technology and document management solutions, including award-winning color and black and white multi-function printers, scanners, label printers, and device-based cloud and mobile technologies. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Canon
Canon offers native support for Universal Print with imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX and third generation imageRUNNER Advance models, allowing users to print without the need for local print servers. Users control the functionality of these devices, including duplex, staple, and hole-punch. These devices include a free connection to uniFLOW Online Express and can provide device authentication, comprehensive print/copy/fax/scan reporting, and scan to myself while using Universal Print.
Native support for Universal Print is also available on selected models from the i-SENSYS, i-SENSYS X and imageRUNNER range.
Canon, which is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, was the first partner to work with Microsoft on creating a Universal Print solution. The company is a leader in professional and consumer imaging equipment, industrial equipment, and information systems. Canon’s extensive range of products includes production printers, multifunction office systems, inkjet and laser printers, cameras, video and cinematography equipment, network cameras, medical systems, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Celiveo 365
Celiveo 365 is a native Azure SaaS app that extends Universal Print by Microsoft by letting you add user authentication on printers and multi-function printers using smartphones, contactless cards, and PIN codes. Celiveo 365 adds advanced pull print and tracking over public cloud with full security and scalability, without requiring any local gateway. It is a simpler and cheaper options and automatically adapts to your printer fleet size. It also makes it possible to use MFPs even when the cloud is not reachable.
Celiveo is a printer brand-agnostic and innovative company developing solutions to better manage and secure documents, reduce costs, and right-size printer fleets in small, mid-size, and large corporations. Celiveo technology does not use any servers but instead fully runs at the printer level to scale and communicate directly with Universal Print and Azure. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmanagement
Epson
Epson's line of exceptional office printers is designed to set the new standard for image quality, productivity, affordability, and the environmental benefit of low energy consumption with Epson PrecisionCore Heat-Free Technology. Built-in support for Universal Print on selected models promotes cloud printing and contributes to sustainability.
Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to co-creating sustainability and enriching communities by leveraging its efficient, compact, and precision technologies and digital technologies to connect people, things, and information. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson will become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Ezeep Hub by ThinPrint
ThinPrint ezeep Hub brings Universal Print by Microsoft to any printer, whether the printer is at the office, on campus, or at home. It can support single printers as well as fleets of printers. ezeep Hub creates an outbound connection from its location to secure printers while avoiding complex firewall configurations. With just an Ethernet connection and power, ezeep Hub detects printers on its local network and adds them to a Universal Print account so they can be assigned to users.
The integration with Universal Print enables customers to improve security by shielding printers and the sensitive data they process from direct connections to the internet. ezeep Hub is part of the ThinPrint family of products. ThinPrint draws on more than 20 years of experience in providing print management and optimization to more than 30,000 customers in 126 countries/regions. The company’s solutions support single users as well as deployments as large as 300,000 users. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #secureprint #printmanagement
FUJIFILM
Customers with Windows Enterprise or Microsoft 365 subscriptions can now easily print to FUJIFILM printers using Universal Print, whether they are in the office, at home or on the go. People only need an internet connection and authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID, to be able to print. The network traffic will be protected, using secure HTTPS protocol. There is no need to install the corresponding printer driver for the FUJIFILM printers on the user’s device for people to print to the nearest accessible printer right away.
The printers from FUJIFILM Business Innovation support user authentication with Microsoft Entra ID so people can use Universal Print to print safely without exposing your documents to other users. Documents are stored on the printer’s storage and are released by the user thanks to the ‘Private Print’ feature of FUJIFILM Universal Print ready printers.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Gespage
The integration of Gespage with Universal Print brings support for Universal Print ready printers, and support for all other printers with the Universal Print connector. This creates a cloud-based print management environment without the need for on-premises servers. The spool files are stored in the Microsoft 365 cloud. The solution is managed from an ergonomic and secured web interface. Gespage combined with Universal Print makes your print fleet complete and efficient with Security and Optimization.
Cartadis is a company specialized in print management software and solutions. With our Gespage software Prints, Copies, and Scans are Secured, Managed, and Optimized. It is supported by Windows 10 and Windows 11, Linux, Mac, Chromebook, Android and iOS endpoints. The solution is managed from an ergonomic and secured web interface that offers access controls. Gespage is compatible with the major brands of Multi-Functional Printers.
Tags: #software #printmanagement
HP
The HP for Universal Print Workpath app modernizes the print experience to give users simple, driverless printing. Microsoft and HP have collaborated to create a print solution that takes advantage of cloud technology and seamlessly integrates HP multi-function printers with the Microsoft cloud. Users enjoy the added benefit of a basic pull-print solution that lets users authenticate and print selected jobs from a printer’s control panel. The app also helps eliminate dependency on printer firmware updates.
HP Secure Print integration with Universal Print provides a fully featured cloud native print management solution that delivers powerful real-time print analytics.
HP Inc. creates technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere. Through our product and service portfolio of personal systems, printers, and 3D printing solutions, we engineer experiences that amaze. The Workpath ecosystem is the world’s most secure app platform. With HP Workpath apps, multi-step document workflows—from expense processing to contract signing—turn into a simple tap and swipe. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Kofax ControlSuite
Kofax provides an integrated Intelligent Automation software platform, productivity tools, and solutions that digitally transform document-intensive workflows at scale, enabling organizations to Work Like Tomorrow™—today.
Kofax ControlSuite actively manages, secures, and governs virtually every aspect of document information distribution via printing, scanning, routing and storing throughout the enterprise. It works across any combination of hybrid systems, technologies, and devices, including MFPs, PC desktops, mobile, email and web capture. Combined with Microsoft Universal Print cloud services, ControlSuite delivers security, compliance and productivity through document workflow automation. Working together, the solutions provide a single, fully integrated suite that helps alleviate print administration effort and expense. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #connector #printmanagement
Konica Minolta Workplace Pure
Konica Minolta's cloud platform Workplace Pure (previously known as bizhub Evolution) offers a broad range of services that are tailored to customers' business needs, making everyday business easier and streamlining business processes. The Konica Minolta Cloud Print service integrates with Universal Print by Microsoft, providing a secure and simple way to create a corporate print environment for Microsoft 365 customers.
Workplace Pure offers many additional cloud services, automated processes and options for the customer to administrate the services, the users and MFPs. Workplace Pure and Universal Print are fully integrated with Microsoft Entra ID and supports single sign-on scenarios. Through the integration with Universal Print, customers benefit from routing their print jobs to their printers as secure follow-me jobs. On-premises print infrastructure is no longer required, freeing customers from the burden of managing their print infrastructure.
Tags: #software #printmanagement #cloudprint #cloudservices
Konica Minolta bizhub i series
Konica Minolta bizhub i series multi-function printers support Universal Print from Microsoft as Universal Print-native printers. By integrating Konica Minolta MFPs with the Microsoft 365 environment, companies can reduce print-related costs and experience an improved printing experience and increased productivity. By implementing this printing solution, IT admins no longer need to manage on-premise printer servers, and everyday users no longer need to install printer drivers as long as they’ve joined Microsoft Entra ID.
Konica Minolta is one of the leading MFP manufacturers in the world. We provide high-performance, high-quality products to offices around the world to help our clients improve productivity. We’re a business-trusted partner that supports customer digital transformation by offering the one-stop services of MFP and IT support. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Konica Minolta Dispatcher Paragon
Konica Minolta helps customers throughout Digital Transformation journey end to end from legacy on-premises printing towards Intelligent Connected Workplace, and this seamless integration of our proven bizhub iSeries MFP & Dispatcher Paragon centered around Universal Print by Microsoft takes customers onto the steppingstone into the DX journey.
At the core of the Dispatcher Paragon functionality is the central accounting of all print, copy and scan operations. Providing comprehensive information with details like job name, first page preview, date, number of pages and toner coverage, the application much facilitates and streamlines administrator tasks. What’s more, print administrators can activate pull printing, and create effective print governance policies. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmanagement
Kyocera
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. is a global leading provider of total document solutions based in Japan. The company’s portfolio includes reliable and eco-friendly Multi-function Printers and printers, as well as business applications and consultative services which enable customers to optimize and manage their document workflow, reaching new heights of efficiency.
By integrating Kyocera devices with Universal Print, organizations can address the printing needs of the hybrid workplace, providing remote workers with a secure way to submit print jobs regardless of their location. It is also a good answer for organizations that are limiting their dependency on on-premises servers (including print servers) and want a more centralized approach to print management. For more information about Kyocera Document Solutions, please visit our website linked below.
Tags: #hardware #documentworkflow #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Lexmark
Lexmark has long worked to simplify the print infrastructure of our end customers. So, when the opportunity arose to work with Microsoft on a simplified cloud-based approach to printing, we jumped in. Our current products include a Universal Print Driver, but our Lexmark Print Management on-premises and Cloud Print Management solutions also enable the printing experience that users demand with File -> Print expectations.
Lexmark worked with Microsoft to ensure compliance—integrating our printers seamlessly with Universal Print without the need for on-premises infrastructure or printer drivers. A firmware update, validated by Microsoft, enables native registration and print support without the need for a PC application to facilitate printing. Even without updating firmware, users can simply use a Universal Print Connector application to connect existing printers to Universal Print. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Lexmark Cloud Services
Lexmark Cloud Print Management gives users the ability to send documents from their computer, tablet or smartphone to any enabled Lexmark printer, without the expense and hassle of a physical print infrastructure. This means faster, more secure cloud-based printing for users, with less burden on IT resources. Plus organizations can monitor print usage and view data for better decision making, all while providing industry-leading levels of cloud security, control and performance.
Lexmark has now created an integration with Universal Print that allows for a virtual queue to be created for print job submission. This allows for Universal Print to join the client submission paths that include Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome, Email, and Portal Upload for a comprehensive solution to secure print release.
Tags: #software
MPS Monitor
MPS Monitor brings Universal Print by Microsoft functionality—including printer sharing, print queues, and pull-print—to any MPS Monitor user with a suitable Microsoft 365 subscription. MPS Monitor’s multi-tenant cloud service automatically syncs with Microsoft Microsoft Entra ID to activate the Universal Print service for select customers. With MPS Monitor with Universal Print integration, companies can enable printing from zero-trust networks via single sign-on. All print queues are stored in Office data storage, where customers’ Microsoft 365 mailboxes and OneDrive files are also stored. All data transit is encrypted.
The integration with Universal Print helps customers to move their print infrastructure to the cloud and have their entire print fleet managed by a single SaaS platform. Based in Italy, MPS Monitor is a major IoT software solution for monitoring printing devices and the provision of managed print services. The solution monitors more than 900,000 printing devices and 28 billion pages each year on over 140,000 end users. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmonitoring
MyQ
MyQ X is a next-gen comprehensive print management solution that extends the capabilities of Universal Print to older printer models and enhances it with powerful features. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, MyQ X features printer display personalization, centralized fleet management, air-tight document security, and intuitive scanning workflows. It supports multi-function printers of any age.
The integration with Universal Print enables customers to improve their document security, reduce their print service costs, and empower their remote workers with a strong print management tool. IT admins benefit from MyQ’s advanced accounting methods and highly customizable reports, which help adjust user policies for effective cost management.
In addition to its MyQ X print management solution, MyQ offers a smart assistant for the hybrid workplace, MyQ Roger. This is a public cloud SaaS platform with Universal Print fully integrated, which gives users a free choice between printing from their PC and printing on the go from the MyQ Roger mobile app. In any scenario, they only need internet connection, which makes MyQ Roger ideal for remote workers. Their files are safe at all times – they're only shared with Microsoft Azure and locked behind a dynamic QR code login at the printing device.
Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmanagement
PaperCut
PaperCut’s print-management software gives organizations improved control in their print environment — from simplified print job tracking and monitoring, to easy BYOD printing and advanced print security.
Our integration with Universal Print is driven by three goals: Help people get up and running using the printers they have today; make it simple to move from local print servers to Universal Print; and ensure that users still enjoy the benefits of PaperCut’s print management to track, control, and secure their print jobs. To make these good things happen, we’ve built native support for Universal Print into our flagship products: PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmanagement
Pharos Cloud
Pharos is a cloud services and technology company specializing in print management software and solutions. Pharos helps organizations of all sizes make their printing more secure, cost-effective, user-friendly, and sustainable.
Like Microsoft, Pharos envisions a world in which printing is simple, secure, and free of print servers. By integrating Pharos Cloud’s Secure Release with Microsoft 365 and Universal Print, organizations can add a critical layer of security and confidentiality to their printing workflows and significantly reduce print-related waste and costs. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmanagement
PriApps
PriApps is an award-winning developer of innovative print management and document capture solutions. PriApps helps its customers reduce costs, increase security and confidentiality, improve user productivity, and eliminate waste by allowing them to take control of their printing and document capture workflows, regardless of make or model of printer or MFP.
PriApps enhances Universal Print by allowing users to securely release print jobs at any printer or MFP, track usage, apply print rules and quotas, and assign Cost Account or Client Matter codes for cost recovery. Users can track Universal Print usage for accurate reporting and easily output data to Power BI for business analytics and interactive visualizations. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #secureprint
Printix SaaS
Printix SaaS is a native cloud print management solution that extends the capabilities of Universal Print. Hosted on Azure, Printix SaaS provides direct print, secure print, and mobile print from any device to any printer. It’s supported on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, iOS, and Android.
The integration with Universal Print is the latest in a long line of Microsoft integrations offered by Printix; others include Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on, Endpoint Manager to automatically deploy Printix Client, Power BI to create reports and insight into print usage, and support for Windows Virtual Desktop. As an established Microsoft ISV partner, Printix gives organizations of any size an extended print management platform and service, without compromise. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmanagement
Process Fusion UniPrint InfinityCloud
Process Fusion’s UniPrint InfinityCloud integration with Universal Print by Microsoft simplifies the secure printing experience, making it easy for users to securely print and release their print job(s) to any printing device or directly to a digital process.
The secure print release feature helps eliminate paper waste by preventing documents from automatically printing, leaving no forgotten documents left on the printer; insights into print usage regardless if users are printing in the office or at home. The innovative, secure print-to-digital feature allows the capture, auto-classification, and data extraction of a print job using Microsoft’s machine learning and AI platform. The captured print data triggers pre-defined workflow processes such as Accounts Payable automation, helping organizations reduce the errors and costs associated with manual document processing.
Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmanagement
Ricoh
Ricoh multi-function printers (MFP) offer direct integration with Microsoft Universal Print using the Ricoh PrintUP application. Printers connected to Universal Print help reduce the costs around IT infrastructure, support, and administration, by virtually eliminating the server and driver management associated with maintaining print environments. The PrintUP app can be installed using the Ricoh Application Site directly from the MFP’s smart operation panel. Using an app also helps reduce the reliance on firmware updates.
Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness their collective knowledge by connecting technology, processes, and people. Change is driven by imaginative thinking. That is the proposition of the Ricoh brand. Click the links below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Ringdale FollowMe®
Ringdale is a leading innovator in workplace technology and has established relationships with the world’s leading print manufacturers, including Brother, Canon, HP, Lexmark, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, OKI, Ricoh, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba, and Xerox.
In partnership with Microsoft, Ringdale is helping Microsoft 365 customers who use Universal Print to incorporate the latest security and data privacy protection policies when printing from both cloud-based and hybrid environments. Ringdale’s FollowMe® solution ensures that organizations can integrate their on-premises and cloud operations to provide a consistent approach for secure printing from all enterprise applications. FollowMe is vendor neutral and works with more than 15 different OEM brands. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #followmeprint
Sharp
Selected Sharp Multi-function Printers (MFPs) natively support Universal Print. By registering a Sharp MFP with Universal Print, you will experience a new printing environment that includes reduced printing and management costs. IT admins can manage MFP settings, user access control, and print job attributes from their cloud portal. Users can print from anywhere using a PC that is connected to the Internet and joined to Microsoft Entra ID.
From MFPs and information equipment to home appliances and audio-visual products and devices, Sharp offers a diverse range of products that make life richer and more convenient. What sets Sharp apart from other manufacturers is its ability to integrate unique, proprietary devices and technologies into entirely new product categories that serve to enhance the lives of customers. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
ToshibaTec e-BRIDGE
Toshiba’s e-BRIDGE multi-function printers natively support Universal Print without the need for any connector software. This native support enables customers to fully manage their print environment from Microsoft Azure. The entire print infrastructure resides in the Microsoft 365 cloud. Toshiba’s built-in device security features coupled with Microsoft Entra ID authentication and user-based reporting ensure that customers’ print environment is fully secure. Users can print securely anytime and anywhere from their Windows devices to Toshiba multi-function printers without needing to install a print driver. IT admins can remotely deploy and fully manage printer settings, user access control, and print job attributes from their cloud portal.
Toshiba is a global leader with a broad range of products and solutions for various markets and industries. Our workflow solutions include an extensive portfolio of industry-recognized workflow and document management products for businesses of all sizes. With more than 140 years of experience in products, technology, and customer experience, we are committing to helping clients reach their goals. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
Triumph-Adler
TA Triumph-Adler is your partner in the digital office. With us, you get everything that is required for the workplace of the future, and all from a single supplier. We develop and deliver holistic solutions that cover all document handling processes in the networked and mobile office. We are the experts when it comes to digitally editing, managing and archiving documents.
By integrating TA Triumph-Adler devices with Universal Print, organizations can address the printing needs of the hybrid workplace, providing workers with a secure way to submit print jobs regardless of their location. It is also a good answer for organizations that are limiting their dependency on on-premises servers (including print servers) and want a more centralized approach to print management. If you would like to know more – please contact us or visit our website linked below.
Tags: #hardware #UniversalPrintreadyprinter
uniFLOW Online
uniFLOW Online is developed by NT-ware, a leading software company for print and scan management products made for businesses, as well as educational and healthcare facilities. The products and services are available globally via Canon Inc. and authorized resellers. uniFLOW Online is a 100% cloud-based solution that enables organizations to manage their entire print and scan environment so they can improve document security, control printing costs, and increase employee productivity.
uniFLOW Online further extends Universal Print by Microsoft, creating a holistic cloud solution that combines powerful features with straightforward administration. No server, connector, hubs, or client software is needed. Users can print from their PC to a single print queue and securely release their print jobs at any device, after authentication, regardless of the network configuration. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmanagement
Xerox Workplace Cloud
The cloud-to-cloud integration of Xerox Workplace Cloud seamlessly connects to your team’s technology and unlocks advanced print management capabilities, including comprehensive security, access control, and usage tracking. Register your Microsoft 365 tenant ID with Xerox Workplace Cloud and all your printers are instantly connected to your account. IT admins can set print rules with Microsoft Entra ID groups to enforce cost-saving measures. Data visualization tools from Workplace Cloud Analytics makes it easy to see all the ways to fine tune the print ecosystem for more time and cost savings. Generate reports with cost accounting and project codes to charge back to departments or projects.
Xerox Corporation makes everyday work better. We are a workplace technology company that builds and integrates software and hardware for enterprises large and small. As customers seek to manage information across digital and physical platforms, Xerox delivers a seamless, secure, and sustainable experience. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #hardware #software #printmanagement
YSoft OMNI Bridge
Y Soft helps companies focus on their core competencies by providing versatile print-management and document-capture solutions that minimize IT costs and increase user productivity.
In keeping with Y Soft’s mission to “Build Smart Business,” Y Soft OMNI Bridge, a serverless edge device, instantly and cost-effectively connects in-market printers to Microsoft’s Universal Print. In addition, we’re excited to take our partnership with Microsoft a step further by seamlessly integrating Universal Print into our versatile Y Soft SAFEQ solution family. Both solutions help businesses get the best possible value by adopting Universal Print as part of Microsoft 365, all while protecting their existing investments. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #connector #serverlessprinting
YSoft SAFEQ
Y Soft helps companies focus on their core competencies by providing versatile print-management and document-capture solutions that minimize IT costs and increase user productivity.
Y Soft has partnered with Microsoft to natively integrate Universal Print with our Y Soft SAFEQ Cloud and Y Soft SAFEQ on-premise solutions. SAFEQ extends the benefits of Universal Print in pure cloud and hybrid scenarios, as well as across on-premises and edge devices, reducing the IT costs that come with managing print drivers and print queues. In addition to SAFEQ, we’ve taken our partnership with Microsoft a step further by integrating Universal Print into our Y Soft OMNI series solutions. Both offerings help businesses get the best possible value by adopting Universal Print as part of Microsoft 365, all while protecting their existing investments. Visit our website at the link below to learn more.
Tags: #software #printmanagement