Print Geeks assemble! To celebrate the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, PaperCutter Kieron forms a panel of PaperCut Allstars for this bumper annual special! Kieron is joined by his co-host PaperCutter Jamie McClunie and they invite back regulars Matt Coad and Lucas Randall to look back at the trends that defined 2022: cloud, security, sustainability, hybrid working, and more. As this is our last episode for the year before we go on break, we’ve also compiled some clips of this year’s best moments on the podcast. Our resident doctor Doc Ballje also drops by for a quick end-of-year checkup. And to make this episode even more special, we’ve compiled some clips which you can find on our YouTube Shorts channel.

PaperCutter Kieron is joined by who is now becoming his partner in crime, PaperCutter Jamie, to explain the only 3 ways you can print in the cloud. Leaving off from their previous episode on “serverless printing”, the pair are joined by special guest, Mark Hart of ACDI, one of PaperCut’s Authorized Solution Centers. Mark taps into his 25 years of experience in the print industry to discuss the 3 primary types of cloud print deployments he sees when talking to customers. If you’ve ever wondered how cloud computing is similar to real estate, this is the episode for you.

After an unexpected and unintentional hiatus, PaperCut's favorite (and only) Doctor, Doc Ballje, returns with another installment of his monthly check-up. Your go-to segment for a spotlight on our products and features. In this installment, Doc waxes poetic about: Find-Me printing, Print Logger, PaperCut Hive embeddeds, and our recent PaperCut World conference for partners. Happy Doc's back? Let him know by flicking an email to [email protected]. 

Even if you've only just discovered PaperCut software, you'll soon discover that we're all about thoughtful printing. But... what does that term actually mean? We often talk about "printing essential documents only" without actually explaining what the heck is an essential document and what print jobs are thoughtful print jobs. So in this episode, Print Geeks regulars Kieron and Jamie break down the philosophy behind thoughtful printing and propose a formula/checklist for how to know when your print job just simply must be printed. They also spend too long talking about Valentine's Day for some reason. No birthday cards were harmed in the making of this podcast.

The world is (slowly) moving past COVID-19. Yet the global pandemic appears to have changed the working world forever. At least for some industries. Office workers had to move to working from home overnight and this instantly changed the way businesses and employees print.

Even now that workplaces are transitioning to hybrid working models, printing still hasn’t resumed to its pre-pandemic levels. But did office workers forget how to print? Or just adapt to not printing?

In our third installment of our mini-series on Managed Print Services (MPS), Print Geeks is joined by two former guests, PaperCutters Lucas Randall and Matt Coad, who our listeners will remember from our previous episodes on MPS. The two tap into their combined decades-long experience in the print industry to scrutinize this hybrid working era, and what it means for printing, scanning, and copying.

PaperCutter Kieron is joined by PaperCut Strategic Vertical Lead and "healthcare captain" Mat Buttrey to talk about everything faxing. That's right, faxing is still a thing in 2022 and it isn't going anywhere any time soon. Mat talks us through why faxing is still used by billions of people the world over, what faxing looks like in today's modern workplace, and how PaperCut integrates with fax service providers.

PaperCutter Jamie returns to the show to demystify “serverless printing” and explain how cloud print management services actually work. What’s a print server anyway? Why isn’t direct printing a suitable alternative to maintaining a print server? Why is it that printers need a print server?  If you don’t have a print server, what does the servering? What’s the best form of cloud print management? What does “serverless printing” actually mean in the first place? All those answers and obligatory Game of Thrones analogies inside!

In the second installment of our mini-series on Managed Print Services, PaperCutter Lucas joins the show to answer the question, ‘Does your business still need a photocopier today?’ 

As we touched on in episode 19 with PaperCutter Matt Coad, the COVID-19 pandemic changed business printing, copying, and scanning overnight. Lucas, another PaperCutter with years of print industry experience, delves deep into how instant change impacts business practices. 

While printing volumes have declined, scanning volumes indicate that even if you’re downscaling, it’s not as simple as getting rid of your photocopiers…

The end of life for Google Cloud Print impacted thousands of users and organizations across the globe. Including Google! The tech giant themselves needed an alternative for Google Cloud Print. PaperCut Principal Product Manager Willem Groenewald joins the show to talk about why and how Google solved their printing problems with PaperCut MF. Willem is a key figure behind PaperCut solutions Mobility Print and Print Deploy who has been working closely with Google since before Google Cloud Print was deprecated. He shares his experiences and insights in helping Google find the print solution for their enterprise needs. If you enjoyed this chat, you can read more about Google and PaperCut in their customer story and on our blog.

The Doctor's monthly check-up takes a look at:

Listen to this episode to dive a little deeper into the what and why of our new and improved print management features.