MFP Industry Notes

-       Bankers taking over Sharp?  According to Reuters News Service, Sharp is reluctantly agreeing to allow executives from two major banks to help manage the financially struggling company.  Details:

• Sharp is being forced into this move, as it has apparently suspended talks with Hon Hai Precision for a cash infusion, as the Taiwanese company also wanted more control of Sharp.
• The two banks involved are Mizuho Corporate Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, according to Kyodo News.

 

-       Xerox rethinking its color wax technology?  Xerox announced that is has acquired Impika  Corp. of France.  Details:

• Impika is a manufacturer of digital color presses that use water-based inkjet technology
• Xerox already attempted to enter the production inkjet market with the “CiPress” line of color presses, using “solid ink” technology, which uses heat to melt wax chunks, and then spray the melted ink to create image.  This technology came from acquisition of Tektronix, and its “Phaser” product line. (but end users are apparently concerned with image quality)
• Impika was founded by Paul Morgavi, who is CEO of the company
  • will report to Jeff Jacobsen, President of Xerox’s Global Graphic Communications division
  • uses piezo crystal print head technology(similar to Epson)(instead of HP’s thermal bubblejet)
  • Up to 28” wide print path
  • up to 1200x1200dpi
  • top speed of 127 meters per minute (rollfed)
  • up to 6 colors
  • optional MICR inks

 

-       Xerox announced it sold a 770 Digital Color Press and a Color 1000 Press to JMD Colour Scan of Mumbai, India.

 

-       Toshiba announced that it replaced its President.  Details:

• new president is Hisao Tanaka, 62
• “I will turn Toshiba into a more globalized corporation and solidify its profitability”
• will abandon company’s current approach of emphasizing a few core sectors, and focus instead on expanding overseas markets and developing new divisions
  • candidates for new division are; renewable energy, healthcare and electric vehicles
• “What is important is to draw a new picture by discussing from scratch how things should be done and whether conventional methods are correct.”
• the new president’s tasks will include; “expanding the company’s energy and chipmaking operations, while cutting costs to increase profit”

 

-       Toshiba’s lawyers argued last week that an expert witness used “shoddy science” during a court case in Oklahoma federal court, in which a Toshiba laptop computer is allegedly to blame for a massive fire that destroyed a man’s home.

 

-       Toshiba announced it won bid to build a 1600 megawatt nuclear reactor for Fennovoima Power of Finland.

 

-       Toshiba and Hewlett Packard are being sued in Delaware court for alleged patent infringement, by Maz Encryption Technologies, which is claiming the company is illegally using its data encryption technology.

 

-       Lexmark announced it won a RFP from Ann Arbor School District of Michigan.  Details:

• includes 103 MFPs
• 39 month lease
• $385,242

 

-       Canon announced it has agreed to be a sponsor of the Asia Golf Tour.  Cost not announced.

 

-       Canon launched two high speed desktop scanners, the DR-G1100 and DR-G1130 featuring:

• scans both sides of original at same time
• scans in color or b/w
• 1130 scans up to 130ipm or 65opm
• 1100 scans up to 100ipm or 50opm
• document feeder holds up to 500 originals
• automatic double feed detection
• base MSRPs of $6675 and $9975

 

-       Canon focused on selling solutions.  Dennis Amorosano, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing, stated; “While we operate in an environment of increase hardware commoditization and declining overall page volumes, this year we expect increased customer demand for solutions that streamline workflows, optimize business processes, connect mobile employees and integrate cloud services.”

 

-       Canon announced it will diversify into the security camera business.  “The future of IP security lies with intelligent cameras and HD quality images.  We see a huge demand for security products….and by being so strong in the imaging business, foraying into the surveillance camera market was only a natural progression for the company.”; stated Hendrik Verbrugghe, Canon Marketing Director.

 

-       Lexmark’s Brian Hendersen, said this about solutions:

• “The short term direction of the day, is of course mobile printing and the cloud.  Most vendors are providing solutions, or moving in the direction of being able to provide support for these technologies”
• “Lexmark’s focus will be on software and solutions enabling the MFP to be not a mere commodity, but an enabler of people’s business, so they can more easily operate and accomplish their objectives.”

 

-       Brother drops color laser printer price even lower?  Brother launched the HL-3000 series of desktop color LED printers.  Details:

• base MSRP of only $249.99 for HL-3140CW and $279.99 for HL-3170CDW
• top speed of 23ppm for HL-3170CDW and 19ppm for HL-3140CW
• 600x2400dpi (interpolated)
• A4 design for letter/legal size paper
• 250 sheet paper tray
• color toner cartridge yield of 2,200 pages (based on 5% coverage per page)
• auto duplex standard on the HL-3170CDW model, but not on the HL-3140DW

-       Another management shakeup at Ricoh.  The company announced that:

• Masamitsu Sakurai will resign as chairman of the board
• Shiro Kondo will move from President and CEO to chairman of the board
• Zenji Miura, currently CFO, will become new President and CEO

 

-       Heidelberg announced it sold a Linoprint C901 (relabed Ricoh Aficion PRO C901) to Doveton Press of Bristol, England.

 

-       Xeikon of Belgium announced it sold a Xeikon 6000 production color system to VXP Direktmarketing KG of Germany for direct mail printing.

 

-       Hewlett Packard announced it sold three Indigo WS6600 production color systems to Geostick of Uithoorn, The Netherlands.

 

-       Hewlett Packard announced it sold the webOS software it acquired, when it bought out Palm Computing, to LG of Korea, who will use it to make smart HDTVs.

 

-       Hewlett Packard announced that its Indigo production color systems can be integrated with the XMPie USTORE web-2-print system from Xerox.

 

-       Info-Market released survey results regarding office color printing:

• 44% do not know how much they pay for color printing
  • 44% are very interested in reducing cost of color printing in they could
  • color printing page volume up 14%
• How much color printing do you do per month?
  • 36% don’t know
  • 17% = more than 20K/mo
  • 9% = 16K-20K/mo
  • 8% = 10K-15K/month
  • 30% = under 10K/month
• What type of machine does your color printing?
  • 77% = color MFP
  • 71% = color laser printer
  • 46% = color inkjet printer
• How is color printing organized?
  • 54% = predominantly large centralized printers or MFPs with few personal printers
  • 25% = only centralized devices
  • 13% = each department
  • 6% = personal printers

 

-       According to I.T Strategies, production color inkjet systems will experience a 21% annual compound growth in market revenue through 2015.

 

-       Can a copier rep sell solutions?  “It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”, said Charles Darwin.

 

-       Nuance (make of eCopy and Equitrac) announced it has lease 28,000 more square feet of office space in Cambridge, MA to accommodate addition of 175 employees.

 

-       Intellichief LLC announced it won a document management system solution contract from Polaris Industries of Medina, MN for use in accounts payable department.

-       Education vertical study results published by Coleman Parkes Research:

• 88% of those surveyed within educational institutions said the way they work is out of date and prevents them from being as effective and efficient as they could be, which could have a significant impact on their ability to effectively deliver high quality education services
• 89% are being impacted by mobile working, the sector is under pressure to adopt new technologies to support this
• 77% said that while they have access to some of the latest devices their use is being hindered by back end legacy systems, meaning they may not be able to fully embrace mobile technologies like smartphones and tablets to improve document workflows
  • unable to share information effectively on the move, update student records in real time or securely submit information back to the network, resulting in potential duplication of effort and security breaches.
• 73% are investing in new technologies before fully realizing the functionality of existing devices

 

-       Mobile World Congress published results of study of mobile device customer loyalty:

• 38% are considering leaving their mobile device/smartphone service operator in next 12 months
• 12% have loyalty to protect them from competitive offers
• 67% would switch if monthly usage price increased by 10%
• 85% would switch if there was a privacy breach

 

-       MaxxVault announced that Aztec Equipment (CT, NY, MA & RI) it now an authorized dealer for its enterprise document management system solutions.

 

-       KeyMark Inc., a dealer headquartered in Liberty, South Carolina, announced it won contract to supply two solutions to the State of Carolina Housing Department:

• Hyland Software’s OnBase electronic content management
• Kofax Software’s data capture/OCR solution

 

-       Yahoo Corp.’s Jackie Reses, VP of Human Resources, sent out a memo to all employees, stating that the company is terminating its work from home program, and requiring all employees to report to a Yahoo office:

• “It is critical that we are all present in our offices.  Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people and impromptu team meetings.”
• Yahoo made it decision after its own internal research revealed that employees who reported to the office were more productive than those working from home.

 

-       Copier catches fire, and burned down an office in San Gabriel, CA last week, according to Fire Chief Christopher Gray.  No injuries reported.  Brand of copier was not released.

 

-       According to recent CHIME survey, the average base salary for a hospital CIO is $208,417/year.

 

-       AllScripts announced it won a Sunrise EHR contract from ResoluteHealth of new Braunfels, Texas.

 

-       Patient Logic announced a solutions contract from Rockcastle Regional Hosptial of Mount Vernon, KY.

 

-       Streamline Health Solutions announced it won an AccessAnyWare electronic content management solution contract from PeaceHealth, a large IDN in Oregon, Washington & Alaska, integrated into its Epic EHR system.

 

-       Ingenious Med announced it won solutions contract from Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center of Showlow, Arizona.

 

-       McKesson announced it won contracts fromL

• o   Saint Vincent Health Partners of Bridgeport, CT
• o   Northeast Georgia Health System
• o   Bread of Healing Clinic of Wisconsin won a free EHR as part of McKesson’s “Gives Back” promotion

 

-       Greenway announced contract from St. Luke’s Cornwall Medical Group of New Yokr

 

-       Epic announced it won EHR contract from Shands HealthCare at the University of Florida-Gainesville.

 

-       Hyland Software announced it has validated the integration of its OnBase electronic content management system with Nuance eCopy ShareScan, to improve integration of MFPs with healthcare EHRs.

 

-       Cerner announced it has acquired PureWellness, which makes a health and wellness platform for corporate wellness programs and insurers.

 

-       QuadraMed announced it won EHR contract from Avita Health System and Galion Community Hospital of Ohio.

-       InteliChart announced it won contract from Alegent Health of Nebraska.

 

-       CompTIA released results of doctor’s views on their EHRs:

• o   58% = needs to be easier to use
• o   57% = must be faster
• o   55% = must be designed with needs of doctor in mind
• o   55% = greater interoperability with other systems
• o   45% = need more training

 

-       Standard Register, which is a large provider of paper forms for the healthcare vertical, gave out information on its last quarter’s financials:

• o   revenue down 11% from $161.4 million to $143.6 million
  • §  healthcare division revenue down 11% to $52.5 million
• o   net loss of $0.2 million

 

-       HIPAA/Data Security Breaches:

• o   Floyd Healthcare System of Rome, Georgia notified 1,800 patients that their PHIs were exposed when a laptop computer was stolen from an employee’s car.
• o   Iron Horse Bicycle Classic in Durango, CO notified 24 participants that their PHIs were exposed due to a computer hacker.
• o   Central Hudson Gas & Electric of New York notified 110,000 customers that their info was exposed due to a computer hacker.

 

 

 

-       Feds are hiring HIPAA police.  The Department of Health & Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, announced it is hiring full-time “Health Information Privacy Specialists”.

• o   pay range is $89,033 to $136,771 per year salary
• o   part time positions also available
• o   requirements include:
  • §  ability to educate stakeholders about privacy and security requirements
  • §  must have experience in providing oversight and coordination to process and resolve complaints
  • §  must be able to determine compliance
  • §  must be able to enforce regulations

 

-       Ricoh announced the solutions they will be displaying in the company’s upcoming HIMSS show booth in New Orleans, LA:

• o   Drawings for Apple iPads daily
• o   Health Information Management (HIM) Workflow Solution
  • §  relabeled DocuWare of Germany electronic content management system
• o   Pharmacy Order Manager Solution
  • §  relabeled DocuScripts electronic prescription software from DocuWare of Germany
• o   Healthcare Forms Management Solution
• o   Point of Care Data Capture Solution
  • §  badge scanned with a Ricoh G700SE wireless camera
  • §  picture taken by camera and linked to meta data
  • §  data is sent to EHR wirelessly
  • §  patient then receives personalized wrist band
• o   New Ricoh VP of Healthcare is Patrick Braun
  • §  Director of Strategic Marketing is David Winckler
  • §  National Director of Healthcare Solutions is Dennis Hicks
  • §  Senior Manager of Healthcare Marketing is Mike Campana

 

-       American Journal of Infection Control released results of study:

• o   70% of infection preventionists have access to EHRs
• o   20% are involved in selection and implementation of EHRs
• o   50% are unaware of their organization’s involvement in data exchange

 

-       ScImage of Los Altos, CA announced it won a clinical data management solution contract from Tucson Medical Center of Arizona, integrated with its Epic EHR.