The mobile division of ThinPrint, a German developer of print technology for thin client environments, was set up in March this year when the Berlin-based ISV split out its Content Beamer server and renamed it the Cortado Corporate Server and put all its mobile activities into the new business unit.
ThinPrint comes form the server-based computing world, where it addresses the need to manage print jobs in large networks with lots of client-server implementations, said Jen Groth, business development manager for mobile network operator relationships at Cortado. It has clients that are pre-integrated into thin clients from companies like Wyse and Igel.
Work on a client for mobile devices began in 2003, initially on Nokia’s S60 version of Symbian OS, and there are now also clients for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile, he said. We put our server alongside a BlackBerry Enterprise Server and it talks to the client on the device, enabling it to sent print jobs to a Bluetooth-enabled wireless printer and printed in the original format.
However, each client currently requires a dedicated Corporate Server, and this is something Cortado plans to change in January at its first user conference as a separate division.
