Solutions for Faculty and Administration
For a growing number of higher education of higher education institutions, budget constraints and security are constant challenges to achieving an ideal learning environment. Canon delivers solutions to help colleges and universities lower costs, and improve efficiencies without sacrificing the quality of education.
Managing Faculty Printing
Managing and reducing printing costs on campus can be a real challenge. Universal Login Manager (ULM) and uniFLOW are just two of the serval Canon solutions that can help influence responsible print behavior. Offering user authentication, usage tracking, and utilization reporting, these Canon solutions can encourage and promote cost-conscious printing practices.
Managing Student Printing Costs
Educational institutions need simple and efficient ways to manage student printing costs throughout the campus. With integrations to leading campus management systems, such as Blackboard and CBORD, uniFLOW enables printing costs to be deducted directly from student accounts, making it easy to independently manage a declining balance program.
Integrating devices with existing cost-recovery systems
Thanks to embedded applications that leverage the Canon MEAP platform, you can easily link your devices to Pharos and Equitrac cost recovery systems. Your students can then use their campus ID cards to access devices and print documents. Integration with cost recovery solutions, such as Blackboard and CBORD, allow the cost to be deducted from student accounts.
Convenient and Secure Access from Virtually Anywhere
Google Drive™
Educators now use Google Drive™ continuously to course documents and Canon has multiple ways to use the imageRUNNER ADVANCE system to interact with Google Drive. From the touch-screen of the MFP, faculty, staff and students can retrieve saved course materials directly from their Google Drive folder using uniFLOW. In addition, uniFLOW allows users, through their Google accounts, to store their documents in the cloud on Google’s servers and print to Web-connected printers from any Web-enabled device, from phones to tables to Chromebooks to PCs.
Canon Mobile Print
Instructors that need to print hard-copy versions of their course documents in a hurry can print them through a suite of Canon mobile printing solutions. With peer-to-peer, and cloud-based mobile print and scanning solutions, such as Canon Direct Print and Scan from Mobile, the Canon Mobile Print app and EFI™ PrintMe®, instructors can send course materials from their smartphones or tablets in minutes and retrieve hard-copy versions of the document from the device output tray.
uniFLOW Mobile Printing
With concerns regarding unauthorized access or distribution of confidential student information, educators also need the ability to print sensitive information directly from their mobile devices with confidence. With uniFLOW Mobile Printing –a server-based mobile print and scan application that runs on tablets and smartphones-documents are printed securely and actions are easily tracked for overall reporting.
Boost Accessibility and Improve Productivity for All
Supporting Sustainability Initiatives and Environmentally Conscious Behavior physical challenges.
An overview of top 100 Universities reveals that 100% of the universities have marketed some sort of sustainability initiative.* Universities seek solutions that boost sustainability efforts and simultaneously help maintain their budgets. Canon strives to achieve the highest environmental standards, with features that benefit schools, by reducing costs and minimizing the time necessary to manage devices. As an ENERGY STAR® partner since 1993, Canon has qualified more than 200 products that incorporate original and advanced energy-efficient technologies without compromising features or performance.