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Xerox Mobile Link is an app available for Android or iOS that enables users to print, scan, or even fax using their Xerox multifunction printer right from their mobile device.

And it’s wonderful.

In this post, we’ll explore a few ways this surprisingly powerful app can extend the capabilities of your Xerox MFP and grant you access to a world of convenience and efficiency you probably didn’t even think was possible.

(Yes, it’s that good.)

Let’s dive in:

Capturing Documents With Your Smartphone Camera

Sure, it’s neat to be able to print from your mobile device—below we’ll discuss some scenarios where it’s actually really useful—but the real star of the show we’d like to discuss first is this app’s document capturing feature.

In a nutshell, you can use your mobile camera to scan a document and send it to your Xerox MFP no matter where you are. What makes this so impressive is that the resulting document can be fully manageable, just like if you had scanned it using your printer. In other words, you’re doing more than simply taking a picture of the document.

The camera capture feature even auto adjusts for parallelism and skew. Translated into non-techie, that means your documents won’t be at an awkward angle.

Being able to scan a document, bounce it to the cloud server of your choice, and print it out all on the fly with your mobile phone is a pretty amazing time saver.

Xerox Mobile Link Document Management Features

This powerful little app gives you a ton of flexibility insofar as document management options are concerned.

Let’s imagine that you used your smartphone’s camera to capture/”scan” a document. You can use the Mobile Link management feature to do really nifty things like…

Convert to PDF
Add a document password
Merge two documents together
Append the document with text or images

It really is outrageously useful to be able to do all of this from a mobile device—your lunch meetings have never been more productive.

One Touch Workflow Solutions

Remember how we waxed poetic about the convenience superpowers of this app? One of the reasons why is the one-touch workflows that you can quickly and easily set up.

For example, you can configure Xerox Mobile Link to send documents to multiple places with a single touch.

Here’s an example:

You scan a document using your smartphone’s camera and the Mobile Link capture function.
With a single touch, the document can be sent to…
…Dropbox, to be archived and shared with your team on the cloud
…Your email account for convenient viewing later
…Your Xerox MFP to be printed so that you have a hard copy waiting for you when you return to the office

In a matter of quite literally seconds, you can get your document exactly where it needs to go—no matter where you are.

If You Think Xerox Mobile Link is Cool, Wait Until You See This…

Xerox products have so many time-saving, efficiency-boosting features it can be (somewhat ironically) hard to know where to begin. Don’t worry—you’ll discover everything your MFP can do over time. To speed things up, you may want to check out some of these other informative posts from our blog:

If you’d like to learn more about what Xerox office equipment would be best to help your business grow, the team at Preferred Document Solutions would love to start a conversation with you.