Why Use It

Things to Consider

Customer Benefits

Your customers using the print4mobile™ solution can benefit in several different ways, including:

• Ease of report design modification and greater flexibility.

• Interactive report design and preview to quickly verify that a new report is aligned with the business objectives.

• Ability to respond faster with report modifications to meet changing business needs.

• Proven reporting engine with reliable portable printer control.

Partner Benefits

Our partners also benefit in additional ways, including:

• Eliminate often changing, custom, hard-coded report logic in your mobile software applications.

• Improve application quality by avoiding report related source code changes that require updated application retesting.

• Transparent support for printing to print4mobile™ compatible portable printers.

• Offer your customers a higher value solution that enhances the competitive position of your mobile software application.

• Offer your customers print4mobile™ related interactive report design and training services.

• Save time in creating and reworking reports for your customers.

• Protect your standard report specifications and license them separately to your customers.

Other Technical Features

These are some of the additional features of the print4mobile™ solution that will benefit mobile software developers and their customers.

• Report definitions saved to separate files, making it easy to deploy to handheld computers.

• Interactive visual report design layout and preview makes it easy to see if a report looks and works as needed.

• Provide multilingual support for on-demand reporting and printing using a single report specification. (Unicode and Style Definitions)

• Use Microsoft SQL Server CE schema and data for desktop PC based report design and preview.

• Use standard SQL syntax for record selection and functions for running calculations.

• Format each field independently based on field type. For numeric fields define rounding method.

• Create your own variable report parameters to control selection of records from the database.

• Output generated reports to a device display, formatted text file or portable printer.

• Directly control the Engine from your mobile software application by using the Engine API.

• Use the Viewer to quickly test your reports on the handheld, and make the reports easily available to your users.