If you’ve purchased a printer within the past 8 years, there’s a good chance that you own a Mopria certified printer. The technology behind Android DPS was developed by the Mopria Alliance which was founded in 2013 by Canon, HP, Samsung, and Xerox and today has more than 20 member companies with more than 120 million Mopria certified printers in use around the globe.
With the introduction of Android 8, Google incorporated Android’s Default Print Service into the mobile platform for the first time, giving users the ability to print content directly from their smartphones or tablets without needing to install individual printer drivers. While our Android smartphones and tablets are quite a bit different from computers printing files, photos and web pages is incredibly simple and a lot easier than you might think. Simply plug your printer into your computer or connect them both to the same Wi-Fi network and you can print to your heart’s content. Printing files or photos from a computer is incredibly simple these days.
