PaperCut launch Channel revenue opportunities. By Michelle Ryder on 17th July 2026 A new tool kit from PaperCut is set to unlock growth opportunities for its channel partners, by providing them with the solutions and support needed to resolve the print crisis created by the increasing number of ARM64-powered laptops. Working in conjunction with PaperCut's established cloud and on-prem solutions, the tool kit - which comprises a number of high-impact sales assets - makes it easier for PaperCut's partners to identify, pitch, and sell the most appropriate solution relative to each customer's print environment and needs. ARM64 is a completely different processor design. Therefore, many companies and educational institutions planning to roll out the new wave of ARM64 consumer hardware - or who already have users with ARM64 laptops - struggle to get their existing printers to work with ARM64- equipped client devices. PaperCut resolves this issue simply, using software that provides customers with an at-a-glance single pane of glass solution for deploying print queues to Windows-powered ARM devices and MacBooks. Cloud-based PaperCut Hive offers Print Queue Deployment, and on-premise PaperCut MF offers Print Deploy; both are easy ways to deploy a printer driver that works on traditional x64 laptops, ARM64 and Apple Silicon devices. The system administrator uses the PaperCut admin console to manage printer drivers across different client architectures, which avoids manual administrative workarounds. PaperCut's client software identifies the end-user client's architecture and automatically deploys and installs a compatible printer driver. This provides sysadmins with a seamless printer driver deployment experience when administering a mixed fleet of end-user computer architectures. Matt Lee, Product Marketing Manager at PaperCut said: "We're already seeing customers introducing ARM64 devices to their fleets. In anticipation of an upsurge in demand, we've worked to support our partners through the changes ARM64 has brought to the print landscape; while equipping them with the tools they now need to support managed and previously unmanaged print devices." Views: 122 Published in News

Canon uniFLOW vs PaperCut: which print security platform is right for your office? Kevin Bowden Managing Director, Bowden Digitec Walk into any decent-sized office and you can usually find a document on the printer that should not be there. A payroll spreadsheet someone forgot to collect. A confidential HR letter sitting in the output tray. A draft contract printed by mistake and left for an hour. These are not edge cases. They are the daily reality in offices without secure print release, and they are exactly the kind of thing that turns into a data-protection incident or worse. If you have decided to do something about it, the two platforms you will end up evaluating are Canon uniFLOW and PaperCut. Both do the same core job: hold print jobs at the server until the user authenticates at the device, then release them. Both add user-level reporting, cost-recovery features, and granular control over who can do what. But they are very different beasts under the bonnet, and the right choice depends on your fleet, your IT setup and what you actually need to prove to auditors. What both platforms do well. Before Bowden Digitec LTD get into the differences, the bits that are essentially the same: Secure print release. Send a job, walk to any enrolled device, tap your card or enter your PIN, and the job prints. Nothing sits in the tray for someone else to pick up. User-level reporting. You can see who printed what, when, in mono or colour, double-sided or single-sided. Useful for chargebacks, useful for sustainability reporting, useful for catching the person printing 400 pages of holiday brochures. Rules and quotas. Force mono by default, force duplex by default, block colour for certain users, set monthly page quotas. All standard on both. Mobile and guest print. Submit jobs from a phone, from email, or via a guest portal. Both handle it, though uniFLOW's mobile flow is slightly tighter if you are all-Canon. Where they diverge. Canon uniFLOW is built by Canon, for Canon-led fleets. It integrates deeper into Canon devices than any third-party platform can. The capture features (where the MFD scans direct to SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, or a custom workflow with OCR and metadata applied) are noticeably more sophisticated. If you have a multifunction-heavy fleet doing serious document capture as well as print, uniFLOW pulls ahead. It also handles invoice processing, contract scanning and forms capture as part of the same platform. uniFLOW Online (the cloud version) is a real strength. No print server to maintain. No driver pain. Authentication via Azure AD or Google Workspace out of the box. For organisations that have gone cloud-first on everything else and do not want to run a Windows print server just for this, it is a clean answer. The downside of uniFLOW is mixed-vendor fleets. It supports non-Canon devices via the embedded uniFLOW SmartClient, but the experience is best on Canon hardware. If half your fleet is Canon and half is something else, you will feel the seams. PaperCut is genuinely vendor-agnostic. This is its big strength. It works equally well across Canon, Konica, Sharp, Develop, Ricoh, HP, Lexmark, Xerox and Brother. If your fleet is mixed (and most mid-sized businesses have ended up mixed over the years) PaperCut treats every device the same way. PaperCut MF adds embedded software to each MFD for native secure release without an external card reader. It is cheaper per device than uniFLOW for the same feature set, particularly at scale. Where PaperCut is weaker is in the deeper capture and workflow features. It does scan-to-folder, scan-to-email, scan-to-OneDrive properly, but the more advanced metadata-driven document workflows are not its strongest suit. If you are doing genuine document capture at volume, uniFLOW is the better tool. What this means for different sectors. Legal firms with mixed fleets and heavy bundle-printing requirements tend to land on PaperCut. Cost-recovery features (charging print costs back to matter numbers) are excellent, and the vendor-neutrality matters because law firms inherit mixed fleets through mergers and acquisitions. Financial services and accountancy lean either way. PaperCut for mixed fleets, uniFLOW if they are Canon-led and need the deeper capture features for client onboarding documents and audit trails. NHS trusts and education often use PaperCut because of its strong quota and cost-recovery features and because the procurement framework supports it. uniFLOW does feature in some trusts, especially those with strong Canon device deployment. Corporate Canon-led fleets at enterprise scale are nearly always uniFLOW. The integration with the [Canon imageRUNNER and imagePRESS range](/products/canon) is genuinely best-in-class, and the cloud version takes away the print-server headache. Canon's AI reliability layer. One thing worth flagging if you are evaluating Canon uniFLOW alongside Canon hardware: the AI-assisted reliability features built into the newer Canon MFDs (predictive maintenance, automatic toner level monitoring, anomaly detection on usage patterns that hint at compromised credentials) integrate directly into uniFLOW. If a device starts behaving oddly, uniFLOW flags it. If toner is going to run out in three days, the order is placed automatically. That feedback loop is tighter on Canon-uniFLOW than it is on Canon-PaperCut, simply because both halves are made by Canon. That does not mean PaperCut cannot do supply monitoring (it does, well) but the predictive side and the security-event integration is currently a uniFLOW advantage. The honest recommendation. If your fleet is 80%+ Canon and you need serious document capture and workflow on top of secure print, go uniFLOW. The deeper integration earns its price. If your fleet is mixed, or you suspect it will become mixed as you grow, go PaperCut. The vendor-neutrality is genuinely valuable and the per-device pricing is lower at scale. If you are not sure, run a proof-of-concept on both. Both vendors offer trial licences. Six weeks of real-world use on your actual fleet will tell you what a spec sheet cannot. How Bowden Digitec LTD help. Bowden Digitec LTD supply, configure and support both. As an [authorised Canon partner](/products/canon), Bowden Digitec LTD can deploy uniFLOW and the underlying Canon hardware as one project. As a multi-brand managed print provider, Bowden Digitec LTD also run PaperCut deployments across [Epson](/products/epson), [Sharp](/products/sharp) and [Develop ineo](/products/develop) fleets routinely. If you are evaluating either platform, Bowden Digitec LTD is happy to talk through what suits your setup without pushing one over the other. Its job is to get your fleet secure and your costs predictable, not to flog you the platform with the highest margin. Ring Bowden Digitec LTD on 0800 009 6770 or fill in the contact form. Bowden Digitec LTD will sit down with your IT lead and walk through both options properly. Bowden Digitec LTD is happy to chat through your options. No obligation, no hard sell. Just honest advice from people who do this every day.

CISA adds 8 Exploited flaws to KEV, sets april-may 2026 federal deadlines. 2026-04-21 09:04 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including three flaws impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2023-27351 (CVSS score: 8.2) - An improper authentication vulnerability in PaperCut Compliance consulting Read the original article: