MEAD & CO. LIMITED

Name

MEAD & CO. LIMITED

Legal name

Mead & Co Limited

Website

https://meadco.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Mead & Co Limited, based in Saffron Walden, UK, develops ScriptX, a legacy software component for controlling printed output from web browsers. The company has transitioned its brand to Meadroid, with its original product line now superseded.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Browser Print Control Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Support Activities for Printing (323120)

SIC

Service Industries For The Printing Trade (2790)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAEAHAL

Printing & Document Infrastructure (MFP fleets, Print Servers, Managed Print)

Education/Education Facilities & Support Services/IT Infrastructure & AV Classroom Install/Support (Non-EdTech)

Keywords

• Browser print control
• Print automation software
• Web printing components
• Print SDK
• ScriptX software

Headquarters

HQ city

Saffron Walden

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel

Core offering

Mead & Co Limited develops ScriptX software components for controlling printed output from web browsers. The ScriptX legacy product line has been superseded by the company's current offerings available via the Meadroid brand (meadroid.com), to which the legacy meadco.com domain redirects visitors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ScriptX ScriptX is a software component for controlling printed output from web browsers, referenced via the legacy meadco.com documentation. The product line is noted as superseded by current Meadroid offerings accessible at meadroid.com.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Aspose: Broad document-processing API suite that includes print and rendering capabilities; overlaps with ScriptX's print-control functionality but as part of a much wider document SDK portfolio.
• PrinterLogic (Vasion): Enterprise print-management vendor with direct-IP and driverless printing capabilities, addressing parts of the same controlled-print-output-from-anywhere problem with a much broader portfolio.
• Apryse (formerly PDFTron): PDF/document SDK vendor with print and rendering features that intersect with ScriptX's browser-print use case, but operates at a much larger scale across a broader document workflow.
• iText: PDF generation and manipulation library used in web applications; competes for some of the same developer mindshare and workflows as ScriptX, especially for server- and browser-generated print output.
• PaperCut: Established print-management software provider for SMB and enterprise, offering print control, quotas, and secure release — operating in an adjacent print-control category with far broader scope.

Direct peers

• PrintNode: Cloud-based print API that lets web applications send jobs to remote printers; competes in the same 'print from the browser' problem space with a more cloud-native delivery model.
• Meadroid: Listed as a DBA of Mead & Co Limited and the destination of the meadco.com redirect; appears to host the current product line that supersedes ScriptX, making it the closest direct comparator (and possibly the same operating business under a new brand).
• ePRINTit: Cloud printing platform enabling mobile and web users to print documents to nearby printers — overlapping with the browser-to-printer control niche that ScriptX addresses.
• QZ Industries: Provides JavaScript-based raw printing components (QZ Tray) that enable browser-based printing of receipts, labels, and documents — directly addressing the same browser-print-control developer use case as ScriptX.
• JSPrintManager: Offers JavaScript print components for sending raw data to client-side printers from any web browser, mirroring the developer-tool, browser-print-control category served by ScriptX.

Market position

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mead-co-ltd

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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