Mopria Alliance
The Mopria Alliance is an association of printer and scanner manufacturers and producers of related software, that develops "universal standards and solutions for scan and print". The alliance was formed in September 2013 by Canon, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, and Xerox.
Member companies have published certifications for mobile devices, mobile print accessories, and 8,500+ printer models from 24 brands, representing more than 120 million print devices in use today. There are more than 5 billion Android devices with Mopria print technology including the Android Default Print Service.
Organization
The Mopria Alliance was formed as a Delaware non-profit membership corporation and operates as a 501 nonprofit corporation. Representatives from member organizations can serve on the board of directors and the three primary working groups: technical, certification, and marketing.Member companies include leading mobile device providers, software application vendors, printer and scanner manufacturers and OS providers:
- Adobe Inc.
- Alps Alpine Co.
- Brother Industries
- Canon Inc.
- Cirros Document Solutions
- DEX Imaging
- Epson
- Fiery
- Fujifilm Business Innovation
- HP Inc.
- Katun
- Konica Minolta
- Kyocera
- Lexmark
- LRS
- Microsoft
- OKI Data
- Pantum
- PaperCut
- Primax
- Qualcomm
- Ricoh
- Riso
- Samsung Electronics
- SOFHA
- Toshiba
- Tungsten Automation
- Vivo
- Xerox
- Y Soft
Universal standards
Mopria Print Service
The Mopria Print Service for Android was released to the Google Play Store in October 2014. It is a plug-in that enables printing from Android devices to Mopria certified printers and MFPs.A client uses mDNS to automatically discover a printer through the local 802.11 wireless network. The printer must be connected to the network either wirelessly or with an Ethernet cable. Mopria Print Service also supports printer connection through Wi-Fi Direct.