- Hewlett Packard announced that over 2,000 printshop personnel attended the Dscoop Annual Conference in Orlando, FL, which is a gathering of HP Indigo production color users.
- Hewlett Packard gave out details of its Imaging & Printing Group’s (IPG) last quarter’s financials:
o revenue up 7%
o 17% operating margin
o 33% increase in commercial printer hardware units placed
- Hewlett Packard announced it sold an HP T350 production color inkjet system to Griffin Press of Australia.
- Lexmark announced a new option for some of its desktop color printers and MFPs called SmartSolution Weather App, which lets users check weather forecasts directly on the color LCD panels of the devices, and print out weather reports for selected zip codes.
- Oce’, a division of Canon, announced it won a world-wide managed print services contract from GDF SUEZ:
o 9,000 devices
o Offices in more than 20 countries
o Contract worth 55 million euros
- UDOCX, a company in the Netherlands, announced that its new product will extend any browser-embedded MFP with mail, print, store and fax features without need to install any additional software or hardware:
o Cloud-based document processing service
o Direct access to MS Outlook Contacts stored in MS Exchange
o Documents stored in predefined places
o No unauthorized access
o Printing of stored document initiated from MFP
o Fax with fax board
o No software maintenance
o Administrative control from web interface
o Pay as you go subscription fee
- After a year of speculation, Heidelberg finally announced which company it decided to partner with to sell digital production color systems.
o The company chosen was Ricoh
o Will develop a connector to the Ricoh Aficio Pro C901 production color system for its digital offset press Prinect workflow
o Will resell the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition
90ppm unit with PxP polymerized toner and 2 bits per pixel output
Ricoh will provide service via IKON or dealers
- Ricoh announced that its planned launch of a new 47ppm and 52ppm b/w A4 MFPs has been delayed until 7/1/2011.
- Cornell University’s Hoe Lipson and colleagues are working on “bio-printing” technology, using a converted inkjet printer to grow human tissue, such as skin, bone and cartilage.
- Intel announced it is pushing to sell its Atom processor to printer and MFP makers for their print controllers, as it is now available with a built-in high speed PCI Express Interface, meaning devices can connect directly to the chip without a separate I/O controller.
- The Canadian federal government awarded its printer contract to:
o Hewlett Packard
o Okidata
o Kyocera
o Xerox
o Dell
o Vendors on contract last year that did make cut were Lexmark, Samsung, Sharp and Ricoh
- A report issued by Morgan Stanley predicts:
o sales of tablet computers will cause 1-2% decline in spending on toner and ink due to less printing in 2011
o will decline 2.4% in 2012
o tablet users print 20-35% less inkjet pages and 8-15% less laser pages
- A report by GAP Intelligence states:
o In last 2 years, the average color click charge for office-class color A3 MFPs has dropped by over 10% to $0.0658 in government contracts
- Toshiba announced it will provide turbines for a geothermal plant in New Zealand.
- Toshiba announced that it is now selling used/refurbished HP LaserJet printers that it sources from Global Printer Services of Wisconsin.
- In a study conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review gives more proof of value of printed page:
o Reader of printed version of the New York Times newspaper spend on average 30 minutes per day reading newspaper
o Reader of on-line version spend only average of 14 minutes and 29 seconds reading
- Sharp launched the PN-L601B-PKG, which includes:
o 60” color LED backlit touch panel display
o Compact PN-TPC1W whiteboard PC
o SR-560M rolling cart floor stand
o “a well designed, comprehensive and highly performing interactive whiteboard solution” said Steve Brauner, Senior Product Planning Manager
- Sharp gave out details on 4 future b/w A3 laser MFPs, called the MX-M282N, 362N, 452N and 502N featuring:
o Top speeds of 28, 36, 45 & 50ppm respectively
o All made by Sharp
o Based on “Jupiter III” platform
o 7” color touchscreen LCD display
Do not have retractable keyboard
o Optional document feeder holds up to 100 originals, but does NOT scan both sides of original at same time
o Comes standard with two 500 sheet paper drawers and 100 sheet bypass
o 500 sheet internal exit tray with offset stacking
o Optional internal stapling finisher
Optional external stapling finisher or bookletmaking finisher
• Requires bridge unit
• Optional hole punching
o Built-in print controller
Actual maker unknown (most likely Zoran)
576MB RAM for copier memory and 1GB RAM for printer memory
Optional data security kit (but it is not Common Criteria certified)
800MHz processor
80GB hard drive
10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
PCL print driver standard
- Kodak announced that its NexPress production color system won 8 awards for Superb Printing from the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen (IAPHC)
- President Obama announced the appointment of Kodak CEO, Antonio Perez, to the President’s Council of Jobs and Competitiveness, along with Xerox CEO, Ursula Burns, and GE CEO, Jeffrey Inmelt.
- Secret Service agents arrested Paul Rickett of Mountain View, California for filling a minivan with $30,000 worth of fake cash, made with a color copier.
- Okidata announced it will use environmentally-friendly bioplastics for some of the parts in its LED color printers and MFPs. The bioplastics will contain 25% plant material.
- Zoran, maker of print controllers, announced it is being acquired by CSR, maker of wireless chips, for $679 million
- Conexant Sytems, maker of print controllers, announced it is being acquired by SMSC (Standard Microsystems Corporation) of Long Island, NY for $284 million. (this company has technology from former companies; Rockwell Semiconductor, Oasis Semiconductor & SigmaTel)
-=Good Selling=-
1 comment:
Just to let you know, Angela Ceaser and Brian Mathew Garcia did not fill up a van with $30,000 worth of counterfeit money. Paul Rickett, (as stated in many other newspaper articles) was making counterfeit in the back of his van. Written in the newspaper on February 24, 2011 in the San Fransisco Chronicle states, "The creator of the fake cash, Paul Rickett of Mountain View, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for producing $30,000 in counterfeit bills in the back of his 1996 Ford Aerostar. The minivan was equipped with a computer and a Canon printer."
The article also says, "Federal prosecutors in San Jose have dropped charges against a woman who had been accused of passing fake money that a counterfeiter cranked out in the back of a minivan, court records show."
Please read this article and update your blog post. Thank you. If you would like to view the article that was written in the SF Chronicle, here is the link.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-02-24/bay-area/28623669_1_counterfeiting-charges-counterfeit-money-counterfeit-bills
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