Toshiba scandal results in record fine

The Tokyo Stock Exchange announced that it has levied a 91.2 million yen fine on the company for its accounting scandal

Also placed its stock on alert, compelling it to file a report outlining the ways it intends to improve its internal controls and wide corporate governance

Failure to comply would result in the company being delisted from stock exchange

Toshiba stated it found earnings before tax overstated by 224.8 billion yen ($2 billion), worse than an earlier announced 213 billion yen

For fiscal 2014, reported a net loss of 37.8 billion yen

“Because of the lawsuits filed by the various shareholders, the company will certainly be adding to its accounting woes.”; stated Hiroyasu Nishikawa of IwaiCosmo Securities Co.

Company will hold an extraordinary general shareholders meeting on 9/30/2015

The company ended up in the red despite selling off the Kone Lift manufacturing division for $946.2 million

Company is selling all the shares it owns in optical equipment maker Topcon Corp. for $496 million to raise cash

New CEO, Masahi Muromachi, announced; “Toshiba’s overall sales may decline, but we believe we will become a leaner organization. We will go back to our starting line in regards to big target we have set.”

Toshiba wins managed print contract

Award from Messiah College of Mechanicsburg, PA

Includes new A3 MFPs made by Toshiba, and new A4 MFPs and printers from Lexmark

Desktop printer and MFP fleet was reduced by 75%

Included a “follow me” printing solution with bar code readers

Each department billed for usage

output from desktop devices reduced from 38% of total to 11%

Muratec launches new b/w A4 MFP

Announced the new MFX-3535 system

Based on the MFX-3530 model

Made by Muratec

Base MSRP of $5895

Top speed of 37ppm

Document feeder holds up to 80 originals

oNew Feature- Auto detect and remove blank pages when scanning

oScans in color or b/w

5.8 monochrome LCD touchscreen control panel

Comes standard with 500 sheet paper drawer and 100 sheet stack bypass

oCan add up to three more 500 sheet paper drawers

Optional 2 bin output tray system

Comes standard with fax board

Built-in print controller

oScan to cloud/Dropbox/Box/Evernote/Google Drive

o 10/100BaseT & USB ports standard o Scan to USB/email/SMB

o 512MB RAM

o PCL print driver standard

o PostScript print driver optional

Sharp launches new production units

unveiled the new MX-1055 and MX-M1205 production b/w units

top speeds of 105ppm and 120ppm respectively

offer optional EFI Fiery print servers

15.4” color touchscreen LCD control panel

No more details yet announced

Sharp makes moves to raise cash

In negotiations to sell part of its 1.27 million square meter LCD manufacturing site in Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Looking to sell a 21 story research and development facility in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Hopes to raise tens of billions of yen in the sale

Sharp to launch new TV technology

Company to launch new color LCD TV with 8K resolution

Base MSRP of $133,000

Model LV-85001 will be 85” wide

Actual resolution is 7680×4320 or 104 pixels per inch

Xerox wins CRD contracts

award from Western & Southern Financial Group of Cincinnati, Ohio o supports 160+ field offices

o has 23 FM people working one shift per day

o includes RSA WebCRD web-to-print storefront solution o includes XMPie variable data printing solution

o equipment includes Xerox iGen4 and Versant 2100 production color systems

o offline finishing equipment includes MBM Aerocut G2 and Morgana DigiFold Pro

award from UNLV of Las Vegas, NV

o CRD is named “Rebel Copy and Send”

o Has 2.5 full time employees and 8 students

oEquipment included Xerox Color J75 production color system and Xerox 4112 production b/w system

award from Mesa College of San Diego, CA

oserves needs of 25,000 students and 1000 faculty and staff

oEquipment included Xerox DocuColor 560 production color system and Xerox 4110 & Nuvera 120 production b/w systems

o Included the EFI DigitalStoreFront web-2-print solution

Xerox official comments on non OEM toner

In article written by Julian Patel in Channel Partner magazine describes difference between using factory original toner cartridges and remanufactured or clone cartridges

Using factory original toner cartridges are “the highest quality option specifically engineered to match the printers or MFPs they were designed for”

When using non-OEM toner, customers should “ask where and how were these cartridges built”

o “any toxicity issues with the toner or component parts that could cause potential health issues”

o “bargain brand toner cartridges often infringe OEM patents, and if you sell them you are breaking the law and can face prosecution”

o “clone may infringe on OEM’s intellectual property which is also illegal and a criminal offense”

o “can damage printers, and you may be liable for repairs, replacement or even loss of productivity or business”

o Some clones are made with “environmentally hazardous toxic chemicals which could damage the user’s health”

Xerox wins production contracts

Award from Asset Print of Cape Town, South Africa

o Installed a Xerox Color 1000 production color system

oWill be used to produce business cards, flyers, leaflets, books, posters and banners

oReasons given for choosing the Xerox 1000 were “2400x2400dpi, and support for media up to 350gsm at speeds up to 100ppm”

Award from Pitt State University of Pittsburg, Kansas

oeliminated free printing program on campus and replaced with program called

“Gus Print”

o uses student Gorilla Cards for printing purchases

o university now charges 10 cents per b/w sheet and 45 cents per color sheet

Xerox suing over lost contract

Company announced it is suing the City of Cleveland, OH

The city ended its 3 year contract with Xerox to manage its traffic cameras

Xerox claims there are 29 months left on contract and is seeking millions of dollars in damages

Xerox launches new color wide format

Announced the new Xerox IJP 2000

Comes with Xerox 7742 scan solution, scanning up to 1200dpi, up to 42” wide

Printer uses page wide color inkjet technology

Top speed of 13 inches per second or 4,520 square feet per hour

Up to 42” wide printing

Holds up to 4 rolls of paper

Optional output stacker

Pricing not announced

Xerox announced partnership with Lions

Announced it is the official print services provider for the Detroit Lions football team of the NFL

Will provide copiers and printers for use in Ford Fields stadium

Sponsorship through its Global Imaging division location in Detroit named, Michigan Office Solutions

Xerox invents new computer chip

Xerox’s PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in Northern California, created a new computer chip that self destructs

Made of Gorilla Glass, and has resistor attached

When resistor gets electric signal, it overheats, and causes glass to shatter, rendering the chip useless

Xerox signs up new dealer

Company announced it has appointed Edwards Business Systems as an authorized dealer for its MFPs and PPS devices

Edwards is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Already an authorized dealer for HP, Ricoh and Konica Minolta

Xerox wins production print contract

Award from House of Print, a commercial printers in Johannesburg, South Africa

Installed a new Color 1000i production color toner system

Included the silver, gold and clear toner option

Will be used to produce invitations, certificates, business cards, photo applications, posters, direct mail, etc.

Canon launched new high speed inkjet

Announced the new Canon Oce’ ColorStream 3000 Z production color inkjet system

Top speed of 417 feet per minute (3 other slower versions also available, as slow as 157fpm)

Uses rolls of paper

Built-in simplex z-fold stacking

Supports stacks up to 300mm

Canon launched new production system

Announced the new imagePRESS C10000VP production color system

Top speed of 100ppm

Engine has black plastic exterior, but optional paper feed units and finishing pieces have off-white plastic exterior

4 tandem OPC drum design

Monthly duty cycle of up to 1.5 million letter images per month

Maximum paper weight on 350gsm, and runs all media at full speed

“the output quality is the best image quality I have ever seen from a dry toner color printing system in my 25 plus years in analyzing digital printing technology”; stated

Marco Boer, VP of IT Strategies, Inc.

Advertised as offering 2400x2400dpi

Inline spectrophotometric sensors

Gloss optimization technology

Dual fixing technology (double fuser)

Optional PRISMAsync or EFI Fiery print servers

Also announced the imagePRESS C8000VP, an 80ppm version of the above

Pricing not announced

Canon unveils new camera technology

Announced it has developed a sensor that can capture 250 million megapixels

Sensor is only 35 millimeters in size

This resolution is 125 times greater than a full HDTV image of 1920×1080

Company claims it can distinguish lettering on the side of an airplane flying 11 miles away

Canon wins production print contract

Award from OneTouchPoint , a commercial printer in Illinois

Installed a new Canon Oce’ VarioPrint i300 sheetfed production color inkjet system

Will be used to produce variable data direct mail pieces

Canon shows future print technology

Advertised at recent Canon 2015 Expo in New York

“super creative print technology” samples shows with colorful, deeply textured image with high touch surfaces, using new UV-cured piezo printhead color inkjet technology

Also shown was a future UV-LED roll-to-roll wide format color inkjet system

Other future technology discussed was a liquid-toner, roll-fed system for printing up to 7 colors on folding carton stock, up to 20’x28” sheets per hour

Canon now shipping new A4 MFPs

Launched the Color imageCLASS MF729Cdw ($599 MSRP) and MF726Cdw ($549 MSRP)

Replaces the MF8580Cdw and MF8280Cw models

3.5” color touchscreen LCD display

21ppm top speed color or b/w

4 tandem OPC drum design

Scan/copy/print/fax standard

Auto duplex

Document feeder holds up to 50 originals

Comes standard with 250 sheet paper drawer and 50 sheet bypass

Built-in print controller

o Scan to email/shared folder/USB

o Mopria and Google Cloud Print support o Near Field Communication technology

o MF729dw model has PCL and PS print drivers standard

oWireless direct connection mode

Also launched are the MF628Cw and MF624Cw models which are 14ppm versions of the above models

MSRPs of $399 and $349 respectively

Ricoh wins production contracts

Award from Abbey Marketing Communications of Great Donmow, Essex, England o Installed a Ricoh Pro C9110 production color toner system

o Will be used to produce variable data direct mail pieces

o Reasons for choosing the C9110 was ability to run at 130ppm, and handle media up to 400gsm

Award from MGX Copy of San Diego, CA

o Installed a Ricoh Pro C9110 production color toner system

oWill be used to produce VDP direct mail, booklets, catalogs, magazines, postcards and brochures

oReasons given for choosing the C9110 included 130ppm speed, 4800dpi, and support of 400gsm stocks

Ricoh launches new A4 color laser printer

Unveiled new SP C440DN desktop color printer

Top speed of 42ppm

1200x1200dpi

Maximum paper size of 8.5”x14”

Advertised as offering color cost per page of 5 cents

Handles up to 140lb. index from bypass

Designed for average volumes of 3200 pages per month

Maximum duty cycle of 20K/month

Base MSRP fo $1499

Ricoh released results of study of workers

88% of all workers from all generations believe that having a workforce of different ages is an asset to company

54% say their company does not adapt its working practices to suit new generations of employees

65 say there are clear differences in how people from different generations work

73% of Generation Z believe that future employers will cater to their needs

48% of other generations believe that employers will cater to their needs

Most agree that face-to-face communication is in decline

77% of Baby Boomers prefer face to face communication

58% of Generation Z people prefer face to face communication

Ricoh unveils new A4 strategy

Launched the “Ricoh Quality Pledge” program for those that acquire a Ricoh A4 printer or MFP

Customer must take delivery between 9/1/2015 and 3/31/2016

The pledge states; “If you are not 100% happy, we will refund you”

Plan is to boost comfort level in Ricoh A4 products and increase unit sales

Ricoh launches new b/w production unit

Announced the new Ricoh Pro 8100e series production b/w toner system

Top speed of 135ppm for Pro 8120e, 95ppm for Pro 8100e and 110 for Pro 8110e

Advertised as offering 1200x4800dpi resolution

Monthly duty cycle up to 3 million pages per month

Pulverized toner technology

o Holds up to two toner cartridges at same time

o82,000 pages per cartridges based on 5% coverage per page

Offwhite plastic exterior with dark grey accents at bottom of system

Uses VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting laser) technology

Comes standard with two 1,100 sheet letter size paper drawers and two 550 universal paper drawers

oMaximum of 9 paper drawers with capacity of 12,650 sheets total

o Optional vacuum paper feed system

oHandles up to 350gsm, up to 13”x19.2” sheet size

oAuto duplex up to 256gms

oCapable of printing on coated, textured and specialty stocks such as envelopes

10.4” full color touchscreen LCD control panel on armature

New Ricoh Peripheral Interface Port for third party in-line document finishing options

oCP Bourg

o Duplo

oWatkiss

Comes standard with document feeder that scans both sides of original at same time

oHolds up to 200 originals

oTop speed of 110opm at 600dpi

oScans in color or b/w

Has received Gold level for EPEAT (electronic product environmental assessment tool)

Finishing options include:

oCover inserter

o Stapling finisher o Booklet finisher o Hole punch

oRing binder unit

oPerfect binder

oGBC StreamPunch Ultra

oPlockmatic booklet maker with 3 side trim

oHigh capacity stacker with roll away cart

oMulti fold unit

oDecurl unit

o550 sheet stack bypass

Built-in print controller

o500GB hard drive includes data security kit

o2GB RAM

oPCL print driver standard

oOptional PostScript print driver

oOptional EFI Fiery server

Ricoh to showcase 3D printing technology

Company announced it will have booth at upcoming EuroMold 2015 trade show in Messe Dussldorf, Germany

Will showcase additive manufacturing capabilities

Will start reselling a range of 3D printers in Germany, Italy and England

Ricoh starts forest conservation project

Company announced it will start a forest ecosystem conservation project

Located in the Encrucijada Biosphere Reserce and Mar Muerto Lagoon in Mexico

Conducted in cooperation with BirdLife International

Ricoh launches TotalFlow BatchBuilder

New, enhanced version of software solution to automate batching and scheduling of short-run digital work for centralized job control in production print environments

Add barcodes to batch tickets around shipping

Status and location update tracking throughout process

New user interface for manually scanning barcodes

Dashboard with enhanced instant views of jobs being batched

Alerts around due times for orders, mismatches for specific filter requirements, duplicate orders and low disk space

Vendor agnostic, with 3rd party integration of imposition capabilities

Ricoh wins production print contracts

Award from Kube Print of Bermondsey, England

o A commercial printer focused on financial services vertical

oInstalled a Ricoh C5100S production color system

Award from Lola Print of Aldermaston, Berkshire, England

oInstalled a Ricoh Pro C7100 production color system

oIncluded the white and clear toner options

oWill be used to produce business cards, training materials, etc.

Award from OSG Billing Services of Tempe, AZ

oA commercial printer focused on transpromo output

o Took delivery of a Ricoh Pro VC60000 continuous feed color inkjet system

Apple launches iPad Pro tablet computer

Available in 64GB or 128GB versions

Will run iOS 9.1 operating system

Will be available in gold, silver and space grey variations

Built-in LTE chips

Will support optional Bluetooth keyboard

12.9” color touchscreen LCD display

Has a landscape split-screen mode to allow two full-sized portrait iPad apps to be displayed

Will use an A9X chip

Has 4 stereo speakers

Has single Lightning port on bottom

Optional Pencil stylus

Apple wins court ruling

Federal Circuit Court ruled that a California federal judge should have issued an injuction on certain patent infringing features of Samsung smartphones

Apple had appealed to the court after the federal judge in question denied a bid for an injunction following a $120 million jury verdict against Samsung for violating Apple’s patents

Apple wins large contract

General Electric, aka GE, announced that its 305,000 employees now have option to use Apple devices at work

So far, 20,000 iPads and 60,000 iPhones are now in use at GE

Samsung working on foldable phone

Reportedly developing a new smartphone with a flexible, bendable screen

May launch in spring of 2016

Powered by a Snapdragon 620 or 820 processor

microSD card slot

3GB RAM

Code-named “Project Valley”

Samsung to lay off thousands to cut costs

Will cut 10% of its headquarters staff, or 10,000 people to lose their jobs

As reported in Bloomberg News

As a result of company’s worth declining by $44 billion

Mostly due to lost sales of mobile devices to Apple products

Police seize fake toner

Police officers in Bogota, Columbia seized 1 metric tons of what was advertised as black toner to refill printer and MFP cartridges

Instead, it was actually cocaine that was discovered by a drug sniffing dog

Avery launches new product for MFPs

Avery is manufacturer of labels for various applications

Launched new product called “AveryPRO” which is line of products designed for dry toner production print systems

Up to 12”x18” sheets

Lay flat properties for optimal performance in diverse printer paper paths

Available in permanent adhesive, water-resistant and tear-resistant materials

Also available as FDA-compliant for indirect food contact

Copier dealer robbed

Orange County Sheriff’s Office reported that an employee was tied up and robbed last week in Florida

Incident occurred at Midwest Copier Exchange, and two gunmen were caught on video surveillance footage but are still at large

Copier dealer owner arrested for fraud

The FBI arrested Michael Conway, owner of Choice Office Solutions of New York

Allegedly defrauded $3.5 million from De Lage Landen Leasing and other investors

Apparently he submitted copier leases from 58 different companies to receive $3.1 million in funding

In reality, most of the leasing agreement were fraudulent, including one purportedly from the New York Mets

He faces a possible sentence of 22 years in prison

Copier dealer in New York wins case

A New York federal judge has nixed the “Act of God” defense invoked by the National

Electronic Transit Corp. to account for the damage to copiers owned by TGI Office Automation of New York

The copiers were stored in NETS warehouse in New Jersey and damaged as a result of Hurrican Sandy

U.S. District Judge Allyne R. Ross ruled that NETS owes the copier dealer $735,000 plus interest of 9% per year

Hewlett Packard launches new PageWides

Introduced new production color inkjet presses that use HP’s PageWide HDNA inkjet printhead technology, which won a “MUST SEE –EM” awards from Graph Expo show

Launched the T470HD and T480HD

42” wide web presses, using rollfed paper

Advertised as offering 2400x2400dpi

Printheads have 2400 nozzles per inch

Dual drop weight architecture

Can print banners up to 108” long

Top speed of 400 feet per minute for high quality mode, and higher speeds for

“performance mode”

o 600 feet per minute on T470 o 800 feet per minute on T480

Optional “Duplex Priming Solution” to allow printing on to 22” wide coated media

HP now offering leases up to 84 months long

Announced that first sales of T480 was to Rotomail Italia SpA, a commercial printer in Italy, and will be used to produce variable data direct mail pieces

HP wins production color contract

Award from Blooming Color, a commercial printer in Lombard, IL

Formerly an International Minuteman Press franchise

Installed an HP Indigo 10000 production color system

Hewlett Packard announces massive layoff

Company plans on cutting 28,000 to 33,000 employees to cut costs in preparation of company splitting into two

Has already laid off 52,000 of its 302,000 employees worldwide

Hopes to reduce costs by $2.7 billion

Hewlett Packard wins production contracts

Award from Tobe Direct, a commercial printer in Bolingbrook, IL o Installed an HP Indigo 10000 production color system

o Will be used to produce variable data direct mail pieces

Award from Cavanaugh Press of Baltimore, Maryland

oInstalled an HP Indigo 10000 production color system

oWill be used to produce short to medium sized runs

Award from Bennett Graphics of Tucker, Georgia

oInstalled an Indigo WS6800 production color system

oWill be used to produce labels for packaging

Microsoft to allow others to sell tablet

In order to boost lackluster sales, Microsoft announced that starting 10/1/2015, both Dell and Hewlett Packard will begin selling the Microsoft Surface Pro

The Surface Pro is a tablet PC designed to replace a laptop computer and has detachable keyboard

Pitney Bowes to launch production unit

Unveiled the new AcceleJet production color inkjet system

Is a relabeled product made by Domino aka Graph Tech of Switzerland

Uses piezo crystal inkjet printhead technology

Top speed of 246 feet per minute

Uses rolls of paper

Max duty cycle of 10 million letter images per month

Designed for transpromo market

MSRP of $850,000

Staples now offering 3D printing

Announced launch of an online 3D printing platform

Enables business to upload 3D designs, and order output

3D Systems has new way to sell to feds

Company announced that it signed a 20 year contract with Phillips Electronics

This will allow 3D Systems printers to be offered to federal agencies using Phillips GSA contract

MakerBot announced contest winners

Had a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts & match) contest, with the winners receiving a free MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D printer

Lincoln Park High School of Chicago, Illinois

Citrus Hills Intermediate School of Corona, CA

Almaden Country School of San Jose, CA

Illinois School for the Deaf of Jacksonville, IL

Georgia Connections Academy of Duluth, GA

Kodak launches new option for NexPress

Unveiled the new TPF-550 Feeder option

Designed for use with NexPress production color toner presses

Allows sheets up to 39.37” longs to be fed through digital press

Supports media weights from 60gsm to 352gsm

Will also handles plastics, magnetic and coated stocks

Kyocera buys software company

Has acquired Ceyoniq Group of Germany

Maker of document management system software

Purchase price of $41.1 million

Kyocera hopes to grow its solution software business from 40 billion yen per year to 100 billion yen per year by 2018

PSI Engineering new color envelope printer

Launched the Laser Mail DPT-2432 system

Apparently uses a relabeled Okidata color LED printer

Print on media from 3”x5” to 11.6”x52”

Tabletop design

Top speed of 20 envelopes per minute in full color

Users can load up to 500 envelopes at a time

Pricing not announced

Survey of packaging printers

What application is source of revenue? o 43% = labels

o 32% = folding cartons

o 13% = flexible packaging o 6% = corrugated

o 7% = other

What technology is used?

o 54% = offset press o 47% = flexo press o 39% = digital press

World’s largest production print show

Officials are reporting that hotel rooms are already becoming scarce in preparation for DRUPA 2016

Drupa is the world’s largest trade show for printing technology

Held on 5/31-6/10 in 2016 in Dusseldorf, Germany

MGI wins JETvarnish system install

Award from Marrs Printing and Packaging of City of Industry, CA

Implemented system to provide spot varnish and hot metallic foil on its products

Will be applying the effects to output from its HP Indigo 3000 production color system

Adobe Corp. report record revenue

Record quarterly revenue of $1.22 billion, up 21%

Digital media annualized recurring revenue up to $2.65 billion

Cloud revenue of $368 million

Operating income grew 232%

Net income up 96%

Landa appoints new executive

Landa Digital Printing of Rehovot, Israel, announced it has hired Nachum Korman as new VP and GM for North America

Mr. Korman previously worked for HP Indigo

Move made in preparation of launch of new production color systems in 2016

Epson wastes ink?

Belluvue Fine Art of Seattle, WA, is claiming that the Epson 9900 color inkjet wide format printers wastes nearly 20% of ink cartridges

The company made a video showing that when the printer says it is time to change the ink cartridge, the 700ml cartridges had an average of between 100ml and 150ml of ink left inside

The 9900 uses a set of eleven ink cartridges, and cost around $100 each

EFI wins wide format contract

Award from Sir Speedy location in Raleigh, North Carolina

Installed an EFI H1625 hybrid color inkjet wide format printing system

Alfresco wins ECM contract

Award from County of Tulare, California

3 year contract for software and support

Simplifile wins ECM contract

Award from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Web based system

Value of contract is unknown

OpenText wins ECM contract

Award from FWD Insurance with locations in Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines

“Working together with OpenText gave us the platform to significantly enhance our customer documentation in a way which allows for simplicity, transparency and ease of understanding, which will lead to an improved customer experience.”; stated Tim Oliver,

CMO

IDC report on security solution revenue

Security appliance vendors had a 9.6% YOY revenue growth in first half of 2015, reaching $5 billion globally

Volume shipments grew 8.8% reaching 1.1 million units

For 2nd quarter, revenue up 12.2% to $2.6 billion

Shipments grew 10.6% in 2nd quarter

Cisco had 17% of market

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