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Mopria Alliance

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Formation
  
2013 (2013)

Location
  
San Ramon, California

Type
  
Trade association

Website
  
www.mopria.org

The Mopria mobile printing alliance was formed in September 2013, with the four founding members all among the world's largest printer manufacturers, including Canon, HP, Samsung, and Xerox. According to their mission statement, "the Mopria Alliance is a non-profit membership organization of leading global technology companies with the goal of providing simple wireless printing from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

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Member companies have published certifications for mobile devices; mobile print accessories and 1,500 printers from 20 brands, representing over 88 million print devices in customer use today.

Mopria Member Companies

There are 21 member companies, which account for more than 98% of the worldwide printer business, as well as from software companies, engineering and consulting firms, semiconductor companies and typeface designers.

  • Canon (founder)
  • HP (founder)
  • Samsung (founder)
  • Xerox (founder)
  • Adobe
  • Avision
  • Brother
  • Dell
  • Epson
  • Fuji Xerox
  • Konica Minolta
  • Lexmark
  • Kyocera
  • Toshiba
  • Pantum
  • Primax
  • Qualcomm
  • Ricoh
  • Sharp
  • YSoft Corporation

    • Mopria Print Service

    The Mopria Print Service for Android was released in the Google Play store during October 2014. It is a plug-in that enables printing from Android devices (4.4 or later) to Mopria-certified printers and MFPs.

    Mopria Print Service uses mDNS to automatically discover your printer through the local 802.11 wireless network. The printer must be either wirelessly connected to the network router or with an Ethernet cable.

    Mopria Organization

    The Mopria Alliance was formed as a Delaware non-profit membership corporation and operates as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit corporation advancing the common business interest of promoting simple, convenient, widespread use of mobile printing by removing the lack of interoperability and confusion in the market—all benefitting the end user. Representatives from member organizations can serve on the Board of Directors and the three primary working groups.

    The Mopria Alliance has a Steering Committee to address the daily affairs of the Alliance and to provide oversight and direction to the three Working Groups: Technical, Certification, and Marketing:

  • The Technical Working Group is responsible for the selection and development of the technologies to enable the Mopria Alliance vision of interoperability (all apps, any device, OS, printer and ecosystem) and simple, intuitive user experience.
  • The Certification Working Group is responsible for developing testing and compliance policy, and interoperability requirements.
  • The Marketing Working Group is primarily responsible for building equity in the Mopria brand to support vendor communications of their Mopria Certified products. The Marketing committee also provides customer insights and product marketing support for the Mopria Alliance standards roadmap, supports member communications and manages marketing funds in furtherance of the Mopria Alliance’s goals.

    • Mopria App Developer Support

    Customers want to print from their mobile devices. Unfortunately, today's methods to print are frequently too complicated for the user, offer limited business IT support, and are difficult for mobile device manufacturers and software application developers to adopt. Driving a single standard solves these problems and creates a baseline experience that allows for new innovation at the intersection of mobile and printing devices.

    Software application developers do not need to join the Mopria Alliance to benefit from or use the standards. Currently, the Mopria Alliance encourages the use of Google's Application Programming Interface (API) to deploy print in Android applications while the Alliance works with handset providers and print manufacturers to complete the print experience through membership and certification of hardware compliant with the Mopria standards. Software application developers are welcome to join the Alliance if they would like to participate and influence the technology selections.

    References

    Mopria Alliance Wikipedia
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