Samsung and Sharp join the Cortado Cloud Printing Alliance and user numbers jump 84 percent in seven months

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Twelve printer manufacturers now support Cortado Workplace as the world's leading mobile printing solution for iOS, BlackBerry, Android and Symbian, with over 184,000 customers benefitting from the cloud service.

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Cortado, a leading innovator of the business class of cloud desktop services, welcomes the positive growth of its Cloud Printing Alliance (CPA) since its launch in March 2011. Now with two additional printer manufacturers – Samsung and Sharp - the CPA can boast a total of twelve leading brands with world class printing products, including: Brother, Dell, Develop, Funkwerk, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita, Lexmark, OKI and Toshiba.

Furthermore, user numbers have jumped 84 percent in seven months from around 100,000 to 184,000 supporting positive growth of smartphone and tablet markets in line with enterprise mobility. The aim of the Alliance is to provide smartphone and tablet users with seamless, true mobile printing and access to virtually any printer, anywhere and at anytime. At the heart of the partnership is the free Cortado Workplace solution, which is available for iOS, BlackBerry, Android and Symbian. With 2 GB of free online storage users can store documents in their own private cloud workspace and can print documents on demand in any accessible Wi-Fi network and via Bluetooth. Cortado Workplace is the only cloud printing solution that works independently of mobile device, printer, file type, or a switched on PC. Cortado supports thousands of printers by hosting more than 5,000 printer drivers. The enterprise version Cortado Corporate Server guarantees network printer availability.

The Cloud Printing Alliance ensures that newly introduced printers from Alliance partners are available as soon as possible, therefore optimally supporting mobile printing with selected printer drivers. Devices from members of the Cloud Printing Alliance are certified “Cortado Cloud Printing Ready”.

Cortado Workplace is available as a free app in all main app stores. More information is available at:www.cortado.com/workplace.

More information on the Cloud Printing Alliance can be found at:www.cloudprintingalliance.com.

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