- Xerox announced a new optional solution that can be integrated into its “ConnectKey” equipped MFP LCD control panels. The new solution is from Foxway Software:
- Called “Foxway Pro Scan”
- Workflow scan solution
- Audit scan to server catalogues
- Template based preconfigured API (application protocol interface)
- Will soon enable scan to DropBox, MS Office 365 or other cloud directories
- Xerox gave out more details of its last quarter’s financials:
- Total revenue down 1.9% to $5.1 billion
- Printer/MFP hardware sales down 8% to $748 million
- Sales of high end color systems down 24%
- Annuity revenue down 1% to $4.4 billion
- Gross margin down 700 basis points to 30.8%
- Research and development is now only 2.7% of revenue
- Net income fell to $266 million from $286 million
- Operating margin of 9.5%
- Xerox launched new options for its CiPress, a production color liquid melted wax inkjet system:
- MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) output
- Prints up to 500 feet per minute for check production
- MEGTEC In-line aqueous coating system
- High gloss overlay
- Ink Measurement and Proofing Tool
- Pre determines cost of color wax usage
- MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) output
- Xerox predicts that in 2014, digital color output will account for 459 billion pages:
- 37% = inkjet
- 63% = toner
- Xerox announced it place a Color 1000 production color system in the CRD at the City and County of San Francisco, CA government offices.
- EFI (Electronics For Imaging, maker of Fiery print controllers), gave out news of its 3rd quarter financials:
- Record total revenue of $197.7 million, up 11%
- Net income of $20.6 million, up from $18.7 million
- Plan to achieve $1 billion in revenue by end of 2016
- EFI was ordered by the U.S. Department of Labor to pay $40,156 in back wages to employees who had allegedly received as little as $1.21 an hour, according to the San Jose Mercury Newspaper.
- EFI announced it installed a Digital StoreFront web-to-print solutions at the CRD at the City of Boise, ID.
- Canon’s 3rd quarter financials, according to Forbes magazine, will show:
- Revenue down 10% to $8.44 billion
- Net income up 8%
- Canon announced it placed an Oce’ VarioPrint 6160 Ultra+ production b/w system at Page International Communications of Houston, TX.
- Canon announced it will have a booth at the American Records Management Association (ARMA) International Conference & Expo in San Diego, CA.
- Canon announced it placed a new imagePRESS C800 production color system and an Oce’ VarioPrint VP6250 production b/w system in the CRD at the State of Montana government offices.
- Kodak announced it placed a PROSPER production inkjet system at Continental Web Press of Chicago, IL.
- Hewlett Packard launched “Latex Mobile”, which allows users of its Latex 300 color inkjet wide format printers to remotely monitor their devices, track job status and receive printer alerts.
- Barron’s Magazine announced that 5 Hewlett Packard executives unloaded $12.3 million in stock. HP recently announced it is splitting into two companies.
- HP’s CEO, Meg Whitman, during an interview stated the following about its Laserjet division headquarters in Boise, Idaho:
- “As we separate HP into 2 companies, we will be consolidating sites. Boise is a site we want to build on. We want to bring people from other parts of the U.S. to Boise.”
- In order to reign in its distribution of printers & MFPs (and supplies), Hewlett Packard again changed the rules for its resellers and distributors:
- “Effective October 20, 2014, all HP Authorized Partners buying through HP Authorized Distributors will be required to report the following information to their distributor at the time of order placement”
- “End customer entity name”
- “End customer entity street address, city, state and zip code”
- “Effective October 20, 2014, all HP Authorized Partners buying through HP Authorized Distributors will be required to report the following information to their distributor at the time of order placement”
- Gartner Research published its Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2015:
- Computing everywhere (mobility, multiple screens, sensors, etc.)
- The Internet of things (everything is networked)
- 3D printing
- Advanced, pervasive and invisible analytics
- Context rich systems
- Smart machines
- Cloud/client computing
- Software defined apps and infrastructure
- Web scale IT
- Risk based security and self-protection
- Ricoh announced it will resell Plus Technologies “OM Plus Fleet Manager” managed print services software in Mexico.
- During the recent SGIA (sign graphics) show in Las Vegas, Ricoh announced it will resell Mimaki flatbed large format color inkjet printers, as part of its production print portfolio.
- Ricoh announced it sold an IP5000GP continuous feed production inkjet press to Service Bureau Jensen or Eindhoven, The Netherlands, to be used for variable data direct mail printing.
- Ricoh announced it sold a Pro C901 and a Pro C5100 production color system to The Carly Press of Somerset, England for variable data direct mail printing.
- Ricoh introduced a new desktop A4 b/w laser MFP, the RP 213S series:
- 23ppm
- 27 second warmup time
- 1200x600dpi
- Document feeder holds up to 35 originals that scans in color
- 200dpi fax board comes standard in the “FNw” version
- Comes standard with 150 sheet drawer and single sheet bypass
- Built-in print controller:
- PCL print driver standard
- 128MB RAM
- Ricoh now shipping three new A3 b/w MFPs, the MP 2554, 3054, 4054, 5054 & 6054 series featuring:
- 25ppm, 30ppm, 40ppm, 50ppm and 60ppm respectively
- Off-white plastic exterior
- Comes standard with a 9” touchscreen color LCD display, but if users want an “iPhone” like display with gesturing features, this is an expensive upgrade option to provide 10.1”
- 14 second warmup time
- First print out time is 2.9 seconds
- 1200x1200dpi
- Fax board option
- Maximum paper capacity with options of 4,700 sheets
- Handles up to 300gsm
- Choice of either a reversing document feeder (80opm), or a document feeder that scans both sides of originals at the same time (90opm)
- Finishing options include:
- Stapling
- hole punch
- booklet making
- Optional staple-less stapling of 5 sheets without staples
- Built-in print controller
- Comes standard with 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
- Can add second Ethernet port for users who need two networks; an open network, and a closed one, but do not want to install two MFPs
- File format converter option required for scan to email
- 2GB RAM
- 320GB hard drive
- Certified data security is an option
- PCL print driver standard
- PS print driver option
- XPS print driver option
- Ricoh announced that it has expanded its relationship with Fujitsu. In addition to reselling Fujitsu’s line of high speed scanners, Ricoh will now also resell Fujitsu’s tablet PCs, storage, servers and end-user devices, through its managed IT division.
- Ricoh claims to have Fujitsu technologies installed in 900 customers in the U.S.
- Comes standard with 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
- Sharp announced a new optional connector for its OSA equipped MFPs, allowing them to scan directly to the XMediusFAX Cloud from Sagemcom, a leader in fax server technology.
- Screen announced it placed a Truepress Jet W3200UV wide format color inkjet press at Digital One Color of San Diego, CA.
- Samsung publishes more details on its new A4 b/w MFP, the M4580FX
- 47ppm top speed as a printer, but only 36cpm as a copier
- 5 second first print out time
- 1200x1200dpi
- Fax board standard
- 1” color touchscreen LCD control panel (running Android OS)
- Document feeder scans both sides of original at same time
- Scans in color and b/w
- Holds up to 50 originals
- Comes standard with 500 sheet drawer and 100 sheet bypass
- Maximum paper supply with options of 2,300 sheets
- 200K/month maximum duty cycle
- Built-in print controller
- Uses the end user’s PC to process the image
- USB port standard
- Optional 10/100/1000BaseT port
- 1GB RAM, can upgrade to 2GB RAM
- Samsung publishes more details on its new A4 b/w MFP, the M5270LX
- 55ppm top speed
- 5 second first print out time
- 1200x600dpi
- 600dpi fax board
- 1” color touchscreen LCD control panel (running Android OS)
- Document feeder scans both sides of original at same time
- Scans in color and b/w
- Holds up to 100 originals
- Comes standard with 520 sheet drawer and 100 sheet bypass
- Maximum paper supply with options of 3,240 sheets
- 300K/month maximum duty cycle
- Optional stapling finisher
- Built-in print controller
- PCL & PS print drivers standard
- 1GHz processor
- USB port standard
- Optional 10/100/1000BaseT port
- 2GB RAM
- 320GB hard drive
- Samsung publishes more details on its new A3 color MFP, the X4250LX
- 30ppm top speed
- 5 second first print out time
- 1200x600dpi
- 600dpi fax board
- 4 tandem OPC drum design
- 1” color touchscreen LCD control panel (running Android OS)
- Document feeder scans both sides of original at same time
- Scans in color and b/w
- Holds up to 100 originals
- Comes standard with 1,140 sheet drawer and 100 sheet bypass
- Maximum paper supply with options of 2,180 sheets
- 85K/month maximum duty cycle
- Optional stapling finisher, hole punch and booklet making
- Built-in print controller
- PCL & PS print drivers standard
- 1GHz processor
- USB & 10/100/1000BaseT ports standard
- 2GB RAM
- 320GB hard drive
- NewField IT, maker of managed print services software, announced a new User Analytics module for its CompleteView business analytics platform:
- Present a visual approach to following up on implemented MPS strategies and print policies
- Data collected from cost recovery solutions (i.e. Equitrac, SafeCom, etc.) can be securely packaged and uploaded and viewed as dynamic charts
- “allowing customers to manage data error, understand behavior & workflow processes and reconcile the difference between service provider billing and what print management software has monitored”
- DocuWare launched version 6.6 of its document management solution software featuring:
- Web based solution
- Windows Explorer Client App, offers familiar folder structure of MS Windows Explorer
- Users can now either store an invoice by clicking down into the folder of choice or move a document by drag and drop into central document pool
- Part the target folder will automatically be used as one of the index terms
- Direct storage in an electronic archive, such as an A/P invoice from ERP
- Connect to MS Outlook
- Access to store/search configurations
- Connect to Mail
- Email from Google Mail may be optionally stored in original EML format or PDF
- Workflow Manager
- Detailed rules can be configured for document based processes
- Takes can be assigned to employees of departments
- Electronic stamping of documents for automated authorization processes
- HotDocs announced it won a document management system contract from King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin, a global law firm.
- Lexmark’s CEO, Paul Rooke, gave out details of the company’s last quarter’s financial performance:
- Total revenue grew 3% (if excluding the closed inkjet division, revenue was up 6%)
- Managed print services contract revenue up 12%
- $700 million in long term debt
- Solution software revenue from its Perceptive division up 46%
- Solution software revenue expected to exceed $1 billion by end of 2014
- Acquisition of ReadSoft Software added $16 million in revenue
- 4% gross profit margin
- 8% operating income margin
- Laser printer/MFP division revenue up 3%
- Hardware revenue up 7%
- Large workgroup hardware revenue up 7%
- Supply revenue for laser printers/MFPs up 2%
- 38% gross profit margin
- Believes that the total worldwide market in 2013-2017 by category is:
- $10 billion = Content and process management solutions (10% CAGR)
- $70 billion = Output management market (laser hardware, supplies & service) (10% CAGR for MPS)
- Annuity revenue up 7%
- MFP/printer up 6%
- Software up 51%
- Claims to have contract with the following F1000 customers:
- Avon
- Cemex
- ING
- Toyota
- Audi
- ThyssenKrupp
- Sandvik
- Porsche
- Lego
- Volkswagon
- BMW
- Citibank
- ABB
- Siemens
- Pepsi
- Schneider Electric
- Adidas
- HSBC
- Volve
- Lockheed Martin
- Whirlpool
- RBS
- National Semiconductor
- Lexmark launched a new optional solution that can be integrated into its MFPs, called AccuRead Automate:
- Enables Lexmark MFP to capture, automatically classify and route documents
- Extract key info for file naming and indexing
- Identifies and sorts scanned images
- Locates and extracts up to 4 individual fields of data on a page
- Sends images of documents to pre-defined network folders
- Users can verify and edit extracted data at the MFP prior to routing
- Creates dynamic file names using extracted data and time stamp
- Automatically classifies new documents without requiring samples
- Built-in OCR to create searchable PDFs
- Sears announced that it will close 100 stores, and layoff 5,400 jobs before Christmas to cut costs.
- Amazon posted a loss of $544 million in the 3rd quarter, primarily due to the failure of its first cell phone, the Amazon Fire. It has $83 million of inventory still on hand.
- ARC Document Solutions announced it won a managed print services contract from Parson Brinckerhoff, an infrastructure consult, which is headquartered in New York, and has over 60 locations in the U.S.
- Harris Poll published survey of working adults:
- 69% say younger workers are frustrating when it comes to work ethic
- 48% say younger employees usually have to help older ones use technology
- Consumer Electronics Association released study showing that 76% of 3D printer owners are using the devices daily or several times per week.
- 3D printers will bring in $76 million in total revenue in the U.S. in 2014, up 44%
- Double digit growth in sales through 2018, up to $175 million
- 23% of adults are familiar with 3D printing
- Wohlers Associates predicts that the sale of 3D printing products and services will approach $6 billion worldwide in next 4 years.
- Calalys, a business analysis company, predicts the global 3D printing market will grow to $16.2 billion by 2018.
- 2014 forecast of $1.3 billion for services and $2.5 billion for materials
- Baylor University of Waco, Texas announced that it has purchased a 3D printer for its Theater Department to produce accessories for costumes.
- Yoshitomo Imura was found guilty by the Yokohama District Court in Japan for making two functional handguns with his 3D
- Intel announced that it plans on releasing a new type of tablet PC in 2015, that will have a built-in 3D scanner, so that users can print it out on a 3D printer.
- Brother released results of a survey regarding worker productivity
- Employees at offices with centralized MFPs, spend on average, an additional 3 minutes each day on printing.
- Over the course of a year, this means an extra 13 hours spent at the MFP.
- For a company of 500 employees, this translates to 6,500 wasted hours
- 61% of employees stated that they have conversations at the MFP
- They are 4 times more likely to always engage in conversations
- 31% have conversations at the water cooler
- 98% of people who have conversations at the MFP are more likely to stop by other colleagues’ desks to chat about personal things
- 42% are more likely to get intercepted by those wanting to chat as well
- Using centralized MFP means users are more likely to forget to pick up printed jobs from MFP
- 5% of employees would rather have a device closer to their desk
- Karen DeSalvo, who was the National Coordinator, for the Obama administration’s EHR program, announced she is moving to the office of Assistant Secretary for Health, for Ebola threat.
- Her replacement is Lisa Lewis, who has no healthcare background.
- Deputy National Coordinator, Dr. Jacob Reider, announced his resignation.
- President Obama named Ron Klain to the newly created position as the Ebola Response Coordinator. Mr. Klain has absolutely no healthcare experience.
- The S. Department of Homeland Security announced it is reviewing possible cybersecurity flaws in medical and hospital devices (including IV pumps and cardiac devices) that could make them vulnerable to hackers.
- Samsung launched a new ultrasound emergency wireless app, sending ultrasound images to emergency departments from ambulances.
- Epic announced it will integrate into its EHR, templates from The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Chemotherapy Order System.
- Epic announced it won EHR contract from Jamestown Family Health Clinic of Sequim, WA.
- eClinicalWorks announced that it has embedded Nuance’s Dragon speech recognition into its mobile EHR.
- Medsphere announced it won an OpenVista EHR contract from Valley General Hospital of Washington.
- Practice Fusion, which makes a free cloud-based EHR, raised $2.5 million, according to a filing with the SEC.
- Athenahealth, maker of EHRs, announced it is adding another 40,000 square feet to its Ponce City Market office in Atlanta, GA.
- Cerner, maker of EHRs, gave out details of its last quarter’s financials:
- Bookings hit all-time high of $1.1 billion
- Backlog increased to $9.34 billion
- Expect earnings growth of 27%
- HIPAA/Data Security Breach news:
- Ponemon Institute published if 5th annual study of cyber crime:
- $12.7 million = average annualized cost of cyber crime incurred, up 96%
- Time it takes to resolve a cyber attack is up 33%
- $1.6 million = average cost incurred to resolve a single attack
- Organizations experienced a 176% increase in number of attacks
- Average of 138 successful attacks per week, up from 50
- 170 days = average time to detect attack
- 45 days = average time to resolve attack
- Symantec, maker of Norton security software, published results of survey:
- 63% of mobile device owners are likely to be victims of cyber crime
- 68% of those on public WiFi networks are vulnerable
- 63% of Social Network users are vulnerable
- 65% of parents of children 8-17 are vulnerable
- 38% of people have experience mobile cyber crime in past year
- 27% have lost/stolen device in past year
- 41% of online adults were victims
- A woman is suing USC Medical Center of Los Angeles, CA, claiming that a nurse took a picture of her in the ER and then posted it on the Internet. The woman was in the ER, as she tried to kill herself by gouging out her eyes with a pencil.
- Dallas Fire-Rescue Emergency Medical Services of Texas admitted that an un-specified number of laptop computers were stolen from ambulances in the past year, which may have exposed PHI for 3,397 patients.
- Oregon’s ObamaCare website had 18 security breaches in past year, which may have exposed patients’ PHI.
- Penn Highlands Brookville of Pennsylvania notified an unknown number of patients who had their PHI exposed after a computer server was hacked.
- Hope Pharmacy of Michigan is in trouble for placing boxes full of paper medical records outside the building it occupies, as they belonged to a former occupant of the building, the now deceased Dr. Pramod Raval. They were supposed to be shredded.
- Staples contacted law enforcement officials to investigate a potential breach, that would expose the debit/credit card information of its customers.
- Ponemon Institute published if 5th annual study of cyber crime:
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