Gathered from Print4Pay Hotel Members from around the world and a few moles in very good places!- The Business Equipment Research & Testing Laboratories (BERTL) announced it has given its highest award, 5 Stars, to the new integrated eCopy solution offered by Konica Minolta, where the solution can be accessed right from the color LCD control panel of the bizhub MFP.
- Mail Boxes Etc. aka The UPS Stores, gave out its annual outstanding Sales Support Award to Konica Minolta, for the second time in last 3 years.
- Kyocera Mita, which leases 300,000 square feet of commercial space in South Carolina for its toner plant, recently sublet 27,000 square feet to another firm, as the space was vacated due to downsizing.
- Samsung of Korea filed a lawsuit on 12/2/09 against Sharp regarding alleged patent infringement in regards to LCD HDTVs.
- eCopy and EMC won a bid for document management at Easton Vance Corp., an investment management firm. The customer plans on scanning 200,000 records per month into the Documentum application.
- A dealer in Georgia wins a document management bid. Computer Troubleshooters NRD, using Cabinet NG software and Kodak scanners won bid from National EMS, an ambulance service company. The company claims it will save the customer 80 labor hours per week with the new solution.
- Lexmark announced that LG Electronics (based in Korea) will relabel some of its inkjet and laser printer/MFPs.
- Lexmark won a managed print services contract from The Rexel Group. Details:
- headquartered in France
- distributor of electrical supplies
- has 30,000 employees
- 2,300 offices in 34 countries
- 5 year contract
- Will reduce costs 20% to 60% depending on country
- Reduced number of devices by 20%
- Hewlett Packard claims that the country of India is a huge growth market for printers and MFPs. Apparently for every employee that an IT firm takes on in India, generates 2,500 pages of printed material during the recruitment process. The company also claims to sell 70,000 devices per month in the country.
- Hewlett Packard announced it has sold two of its Indigo production color systems to Datamail Group, a print for pay in New Zealand.
- Hewlett Packard announced it won a managed print services contract from CZ Insurance of The Netherlands. Details:
- 3 year contract
- has 3,500 employees
- has 3.3 million customers in Europe
- Covers 60 million prints per year
- New hardware installed includes LaserJet M5035XS MFPs and LaserJet P4515x printers
- Hewlett Packard hired QualityLogic to perform tests of print quality and reliability on several desktop color laser printers. The test results revealed:
- Kyocera product had 2.5 times more unacceptable print quality pages as compared to HP
- Kyocera unit had to have its amorphous silicon ceramic drum cleaned every 2,600 pages, and took up to 15 minutes
- Kyocera unit had to have its waste toner container replaced every 2,650 pages
- Ricoh product had 3.5 times more unacceptable print quality pages as compared to HP
- Dell product had 3.5 times more unacceptable print quality pages as compared to HP
- Gartner Inc., a leading research firm that monitors the printer/MFP industry, announced it will spend $64 million in cash to acquire one of its competitors, AMR Research.
- Gartner also stated that computer server shipments are down 17% and server revenue is down 15%.
- According to Gartner, providing data storage as a service is on of the top 10 technologies that solutions providers cannot afford to ignore in 2010.
- Fuji of Japan announced it has hired a champion Sumo wrestler, Hakuho, to promote its printers and MFPs (which are sold under Xerox name in U.S.) The company wants to promote the products strong reliability to the Asian markets.
- Wayne Prinkey, a 79 year old man in Springfield, PA, was arrested for making fake $20 bills with a color copier and attempting to use them at a local store.
- Sharp named Rich Boomsma Senior Vice President of U.S. Sales. In his previous 9 years with Sharp, he worked with Government and Major Account Sales and Dealer Sales. Prior to Sharp, Rich spent 28 years with Xerox.
- Three men were arrested in Bensalem, Pennsylvania after they were caught ordering $90,000 worth of Xerox Phaser color printer supplies, and never paying for them using three shell companies.
- Google is about to launch its first computer operating system, called “Chrome”, which it hopes will compete with Microsoft Windows. Google stated that one of the reasons it will be more reliable is; “We want to get out of the business of printer drivers. All the problems related to drivers we want to go away.” This quote comes from Linus Upton, Google’s engineering director who has a new “wonderful printing solution”.
- Forrester Research gave out its rankings on leaders in enterprise content management:
- Leader in traditional ECM suite providers:
- IBM
- EMC
- Oracle
- OpenText
- Strong Performers, but lack breadth and sophistication of above:
- Hewlett Packard
- Hyland Software
- Microsoft
- Innerworkings Inc. of Chicago, won a print management contract from Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, headquartered in Marysville, Ohio.
- According to RMG Enterprises, the image capture software market appears to be bouncing back from the recession. Three vendors, Datacap, Top Image Systems and Kofax, all reported revenue growth during the last quarter.
- According to Kodak, in regards to color inkjet printer usage:
- Average consumer prints 1,500 pages per year
- Kodak shipped 800,000 printers in last three quarters
- Last year, during same time period, shipped 400,000 units
- In contrast, HP shipped 18.4 million units
- Electronics For Imaging(EFI), maker of Fiery print controllers, announced it won a patent litigation case against Durst Fototechnik of Germany, over EFI’s white ink technology used in its VUTEK large format color inkjet printers.
- Toshiba announced it has hired a former DANKA executive as VP of Operations. Jim Hawkins, formerly Senior VP of Field Operations for DANKA, will now report to Wayne Wilkinson, Senior VP and GM of Toshiba’s copier division in Irvine, CA.
- Have customers who wish to print from their Apple iPhone? As you may know, this cell phone does not offer Bluetooth technology for remote printing. Instead, an application named “Print Magic”, was launched, and sells for $6.99 and supposedly allows customer to print via WiFi to a printer connected to a Macintosh.
- In an effort to drive down the value of the Japanese yen, and help many Japanese equipment providers who rely on U.S. sales, the Japanese government announced it would make available $115 billion in three year loans at 0.1% interest to Japanese firms. (Japan’s companies lose a combined $369 million in annual operating profit for each 1 yen appreciation against the U.S. dollar according to Daiwa Research)
- IDC reported worldwide printer/MFP shipments for third quarter:
- B/w laser printer and MFP unit shipments were up 14%
- MFP units shipped were 17 million, representing 63% of all devices (laser and inkjet)
- Color laser MFP units up 1.3%
- Laser units trail inkjet by 42%
- Laser MFP market value of $2.8 billion
- Laser MFP units represented 11% of total market
- HP was top brand in units, followed by Canon, Epson, Brother and Samsung
-=Good Selling=-
- Mail Boxes Etc. aka The UPS Stores, gave out its annual outstanding Sales Support Award to Konica Minolta, for the second time in last 3 years.
- Kyocera Mita, which leases 300,000 square feet of commercial space in South Carolina for its toner plant, recently sublet 27,000 square feet to another firm, as the space was vacated due to downsizing.
- Samsung of Korea filed a lawsuit on 12/2/09 against Sharp regarding alleged patent infringement in regards to LCD HDTVs.
- eCopy and EMC won a bid for document management at Easton Vance Corp., an investment management firm. The customer plans on scanning 200,000 records per month into the Documentum application.
- A dealer in Georgia wins a document management bid. Computer Troubleshooters NRD, using Cabinet NG software and Kodak scanners won bid from National EMS, an ambulance service company. The company claims it will save the customer 80 labor hours per week with the new solution.
- Lexmark announced that LG Electronics (based in Korea) will relabel some of its inkjet and laser printer/MFPs.
- Lexmark won a managed print services contract from The Rexel Group. Details:
- headquartered in France
- distributor of electrical supplies
- has 30,000 employees
- 2,300 offices in 34 countries
- 5 year contract
- Will reduce costs 20% to 60% depending on country
- Reduced number of devices by 20%
- Hewlett Packard claims that the country of India is a huge growth market for printers and MFPs. Apparently for every employee that an IT firm takes on in India, generates 2,500 pages of printed material during the recruitment process. The company also claims to sell 70,000 devices per month in the country.
- Hewlett Packard announced it has sold two of its Indigo production color systems to Datamail Group, a print for pay in New Zealand.
- Hewlett Packard announced it won a managed print services contract from CZ Insurance of The Netherlands. Details:
- 3 year contract
- has 3,500 employees
- has 3.3 million customers in Europe
- Covers 60 million prints per year
- New hardware installed includes LaserJet M5035XS MFPs and LaserJet P4515x printers
- Hewlett Packard hired QualityLogic to perform tests of print quality and reliability on several desktop color laser printers. The test results revealed:
- Kyocera product had 2.5 times more unacceptable print quality pages as compared to HP
- Kyocera unit had to have its amorphous silicon ceramic drum cleaned every 2,600 pages, and took up to 15 minutes
- Kyocera unit had to have its waste toner container replaced every 2,650 pages
- Ricoh product had 3.5 times more unacceptable print quality pages as compared to HP
- Dell product had 3.5 times more unacceptable print quality pages as compared to HP
- Gartner Inc., a leading research firm that monitors the printer/MFP industry, announced it will spend $64 million in cash to acquire one of its competitors, AMR Research.
- Gartner also stated that computer server shipments are down 17% and server revenue is down 15%.
- According to Gartner, providing data storage as a service is on of the top 10 technologies that solutions providers cannot afford to ignore in 2010.
- Fuji of Japan announced it has hired a champion Sumo wrestler, Hakuho, to promote its printers and MFPs (which are sold under Xerox name in U.S.) The company wants to promote the products strong reliability to the Asian markets.
- Wayne Prinkey, a 79 year old man in Springfield, PA, was arrested for making fake $20 bills with a color copier and attempting to use them at a local store.
- Sharp named Rich Boomsma Senior Vice President of U.S. Sales. In his previous 9 years with Sharp, he worked with Government and Major Account Sales and Dealer Sales. Prior to Sharp, Rich spent 28 years with Xerox.
- Three men were arrested in Bensalem, Pennsylvania after they were caught ordering $90,000 worth of Xerox Phaser color printer supplies, and never paying for them using three shell companies.
- Google is about to launch its first computer operating system, called “Chrome”, which it hopes will compete with Microsoft Windows. Google stated that one of the reasons it will be more reliable is; “We want to get out of the business of printer drivers. All the problems related to drivers we want to go away.” This quote comes from Linus Upton, Google’s engineering director who has a new “wonderful printing solution”.
- Forrester Research gave out its rankings on leaders in enterprise content management:
- Leader in traditional ECM suite providers:
- IBM
- EMC
- Oracle
- OpenText
- Strong Performers, but lack breadth and sophistication of above:
- Hewlett Packard
- Hyland Software
- Microsoft
- Innerworkings Inc. of Chicago, won a print management contract from Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, headquartered in Marysville, Ohio.
- According to RMG Enterprises, the image capture software market appears to be bouncing back from the recession. Three vendors, Datacap, Top Image Systems and Kofax, all reported revenue growth during the last quarter.
- According to Kodak, in regards to color inkjet printer usage:
- Average consumer prints 1,500 pages per year
- Kodak shipped 800,000 printers in last three quarters
- Last year, during same time period, shipped 400,000 units
- In contrast, HP shipped 18.4 million units
- Electronics For Imaging(EFI), maker of Fiery print controllers, announced it won a patent litigation case against Durst Fototechnik of Germany, over EFI’s white ink technology used in its VUTEK large format color inkjet printers.
- Toshiba announced it has hired a former DANKA executive as VP of Operations. Jim Hawkins, formerly Senior VP of Field Operations for DANKA, will now report to Wayne Wilkinson, Senior VP and GM of Toshiba’s copier division in Irvine, CA.
- Have customers who wish to print from their Apple iPhone? As you may know, this cell phone does not offer Bluetooth technology for remote printing. Instead, an application named “Print Magic”, was launched, and sells for $6.99 and supposedly allows customer to print via WiFi to a printer connected to a Macintosh.
- In an effort to drive down the value of the Japanese yen, and help many Japanese equipment providers who rely on U.S. sales, the Japanese government announced it would make available $115 billion in three year loans at 0.1% interest to Japanese firms. (Japan’s companies lose a combined $369 million in annual operating profit for each 1 yen appreciation against the U.S. dollar according to Daiwa Research)
- IDC reported worldwide printer/MFP shipments for third quarter:
- B/w laser printer and MFP unit shipments were up 14%
- MFP units shipped were 17 million, representing 63% of all devices (laser and inkjet)
- Color laser MFP units up 1.3%
- Laser units trail inkjet by 42%
- Laser MFP market value of $2.8 billion
- Laser MFP units represented 11% of total market
- HP was top brand in units, followed by Canon, Epson, Brother and Samsung
-=Good Selling=-
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