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Business of Tech | Cloud Printing Gains Traction Yet On Premise Tech Persists

According to Quocirca’s Cloud print services 2023 report, 31% now manage printing fully or mostly in the cloud, and more than half (55%) expect to do so by 2025.

Despite the adoption of cloud-based services, many users continued to invest in on-premise technology, with only 13% of respondents reducing or completely removing servers from the print environment in the past year. Almost half (48%) have increased the number they use, particularly those using mixed vendor fleets or managed print services.

Why do we care?

Obviously, they’re invested in managed print, but I found the adoption numbers and pattern insightful.   Printers are on-premise for a portion regardless – of the actual printer.    It’s the support infrastructure around it to consider.    I offer this for consideration for those both in and exploring that market.  

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