HP
The idea of a walk-up printer may seem like a throwback to the sneakernet days before we had ubiquitous Wi-Fi, fast Ethernet, mobile devices, and Bluetooth. But it s actually an amazingly helpful little productivity feature, which is why we ve called it out for a number of our printer nominations. The idea of a walk-up is that you don t need to have a computer connected. You don t even need to have a smartphone-linked via Wi-Fi direct wireless printing. All you need is a USB thumb drive with an Office document. Just plug in the USB drive and print.
The time savings in an office environment can be quite considerable, especially if you realize you don t need to spend a half-hour with each new user helping them reconfigure their phones to talk to the printer. Just tell them to copy their file to a thumb drive and print. Even though all my printers are networked, I find walk-up printing can often reduce the friction between needing a document and printing it. In