Mopria Print Service Overview

The Mopria Alliance is a non-profit membership organization of leading global technology companies with the shared goal of providing intuitively simple wireless printing from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

The goal of the Mopria Alliance is to bring together the entire industry to drive selected standards adoption, support mobile software application providers to deploy print functionality in their applications, develop experience guidelines in the interaction of mobile and print devices, certify products which will carry the Mopria mark and educate consumers and business customers about the ability to easily print from mobile devices. The idea resembles Apple® AirPrint™ technology, however, Mopria is intended to work with any mobile operating system.

Mopria printing does not require any driver installation or software download on these devices. The founding members of the Mopria Alliance are Canon, HP, Samsung and Xerox.

Mopria Print functionality will be embedded in phones, tablets or other mobile devices and there is no set-up required.

When mobile device users have access to a Mopria-certified printer, they will be able to effortlessly discover and print to this printer.

The Page Description Languages (PDLs) currently supported by the Mopria Alliance include: PCLm (from the Wi-Fi Alliance), PWG Raster (from the Printer Working Group standards body) and PDFon. Printer manufacturers must support one of these PDLs to be compliant with the current Mopria Alliance standard.

The Mopria-enabled mobile device needs to discover Xerox multifunction printers in order to present it to the application as a printing destination. Mopria implements discovery following the procedures defined in the Bonjour Printing Specification 1.2, which specifies the use of Multicast DNS for service discovery.