If you’re digitising or automating business processes, printing will still be a crucial part of the way you work.

Paper is still important for certain customer interactions and work processes, but with digital playing such a pivotal role in modern life, how can print shape the digital office?

Connecting two worlds with printing apps

To see how print can make time consuming work processes easier by connecting physical devices with the digital world, look no further than Xerox’s impressive range of apps.

Developed for general business use and the education sector, they significantly assist with digital transformation by turning ConnectKey-enabled printers into devices that are just as happy operating in the digital world as they are the physical.

The workplace assistant

If you have a cloud-connected, mobile-ready multifunction printer (MFP), you’ll gain access to a workplace assistant that moves far beyond traditional print functions.

For instance, by integrating your printer with a customer relationship management (CRM) platform, you can upload and share sales data about clients to their records within the system when you scan documents.

You can even use printing apps to transform hard copy documents into audio, enabling staff to listen rather than read and potentially consume far more content than they might otherwise.

These productivity boosting benefits of printing apps extend further. Expense reimbursement can be made far easier with multi-receipt scanning and MFPs are now capable of reading QR codes in order to automatically direct scanned documents to the correct destination.

Paper and digital together

Physical paper documents are still a must-have for most businesses and organisations, but they haven’t historically played particularly well together.

By using MFP devices that sit at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds, this challenge can be addressed and results in a far more productive workplace.

The content is this blog is based on a piece originally published by Xerox: Printers Can Hold the Key to the Digital Workplace