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Toner prices increasing

  • Report from GAP Intelligence
  • Laser supplies at Office Depot on average up 8% YoY
  • HP toner cartridge pricing up 10.2%
  • Brother laser supply pricing up 5.4%
  • Canon laser supply pricing up 5.2%

Brother updates Refresh EZ Print program

  • Customers who buy a Brother printer or MFP can get a free trial of the program
  • Customers must register with a Refresh-ready starter ink or toner cartridge
  • Can receive 4 months of free service, plus 2 additional months with promo code 2MORE
  • Extends free trial offer from 2 months to up to 6 months
  • MFC-L2750DWXL and HL-L2370DWXL models are excluded from offer
  • B/w toner plans offered:
    • $0.89/month for 25 pages and pay $1.00 for each 10 pages of overage
    • $3.49/month for 100 pages and pay $1.00 for each 20 pages of overage
    • $8.99/month for 300 pages and pay $1.00 for each 25 pages of overage
    • $15.99/month for 700 pages and pay $1.00 for each 40 pages of overage
    • $24.99/month for 1500 pages and pay $2.00 for each 60 pages of overage

Fujifilm gives more details on new PPS

  • Fujifilm is actual manufacturer for almost all Xerox branded devices
  • (unknown if Xerox will relabel future models)
  • Launched the new Revoria Press EC1000, SC170 and SC180 production color laser systems
  • Top speeds of 100ppm, 70ppm and 80ppm respectively
  • 1200x1200dpi
  • Advertised as offering 10 bit gradation
  • EC1000 includes inline spectrophotometer for automatic color calibration and front/back registration
    • EC1000 also offers air suction paper tray
    • Supports banner sheets up to 47” long
    • Max of 400gsm media handling
  • SC170 and SC180 includes SIQA technology, which prints out a test chart, which is then scanned by device, allowing for image quality correction and front/back registration adjustments
  • Optional finishing features include; cover inserter, hole-punch, stapling, saddle stitch, bi-fold, z-fold, tri- fold, incision, 3 side trimming, and square back booklets

Canon ships new production color unit

  • Introduced new imagePRESS V1000 production color laser system
  • Top speed of 101ppm
    • Maintains top engine speed on stocks up to 150lb. cover
  • 11,100 maximum sheet supply with options
    • The multi-drawer paper deck includes:
      • Three 5000 sheet trays
      • Air assist
      • Air separation
      • Supplemental purge tray when multiple sheets detected during feeding
  • Advertised as offering 2400x2400dpi
  • Document feeder scans both sides of original at same time
    • Top scan speed of 135ppm or 270opm
  • Auto duplex up to banner sheets of 51.2” long
  • DITT (dynamic image transfer technology)
    • Variable secondary roller pressure optimizes paper path
  • Sensing Unit
    • Inline spectrophotometer
    • Color toner correction and back/front registration
    • PRT (precision registration technology)
  • POD-SURF (print on demand surface rapid fusing) technology
  • VCSEL (32 beam red vertical cavity surface emitting laser) technology
  • Paper conditioning technology
  • Multi DAT
    • 20 multi-gradation density patches are measured and corrected
  • Uses translucent CV polymerized toner
  • Print server options include:
    • Canon PRISMAsync
    • EFI Fiery imagePRESS Server D3000
  • Finishing options include:
    • Cover insertion
    • Hole punching
    • Creasing
    • Perfect binding
    • High capacity stackers
    • Ring binding
    • Z-fold, C-fold, accordion fold, double parallel
    • Booklet trimming
    • Square bound booklets

Canon wins large format contract

  • Award from University of New Hampshire print shop
  • Installed new Canon Arizona 1360 GT LED flatbed color inkjet printing system

Canon to resell security solutions

  • Announced agreement with Anomali Software, headquartered in Redwood City, CA
  • Will be offering ThreatStream, which offers actionable intelligence on cyber attackers, trending tactics and information based security measures

Working from home may not be option?

  • Elon Musk issued new policy to employees of Twitter Corp.
    • After noticing that the headquarters in San Francisco was half empty, now stated that employees must work out of office, or they will lose their jobs
    • Reporting to “office is not optional”
  • Apple is now tracking employee attendance via badge records
    • Employees now receiving escalating warnings if they do not come in to office at least 3 days per week

Managed print services market growth

  • Research published by Allied Market Research
  • Global managed print services market was $27.5 billion in 2017, but will reach $59.7 billion by 2025
  • CAGR (cumulative annual growth rate) of 10.3%

Report on role of office environments

  • Research published by Economist Impact
  • 88% of those surveyed state that they are motivated by workplaces that provide technology to learn new skills
  • 70.8% express confidence that their organization would provide the technology infrastructure to facilitate greater productivity within next 5 years

Signs of recession?

  • National Association for Business Economics published results of survey:
    • 58% of economists expect a recession to start in 2023
    • 24% expect recession to start in 3rd quarter of calendar year 2023
      • 16% expect it to start in 2nd quarter
      • 13% expect it to start in 4th quarter
    • 5% believe already in recession
    • 34% expect recession to start in 2024
    • 69% are not confidant that the Federal Reserve’s plan to raise interest rates to reduce inflation without causing a recession
    • 71% expect inflation to remain above 4%
  • Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari stated:
    • Current banking crisis “definitely brings us closer to a recession”
    • Could lead to a credit crunch and decrease amount of money banks have to lend
  • Ford Motor Corp. announced that it expects to lose $3 billion in 2023 trying to market electric vehicles
    • Stated that America “cannot continue to import” batteries and rare earth minerals
    • Had $2.1 billion in losses in 2022
  • Economist Peter Schiff interviewed on One America News:
    • Current banking turmoil is “financial crisis”
    • “both the borrowers and the lenders are broke”
    • The Fed “created another financial crisis”
    • “the media is reluctant to call this a financial crisis, they keep calling it a banking crisis”
  • Burger King announced it will close 26 more locations, laying off 424 employees.
  • PYMNTS Inc. is reporting that 62% of U.S. adults are living paycheck to paycheck.
    • 48% are high income customers
    • “Inflation has made life more and more expensive”
    • “pulling back on discretionary expenses”
    • Average consumer has credit card debt totaling 35% of their savings
  • Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week” interviewed Harvard professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers:
    • stated that the amount the FDIC spent recently on bailing out banks is “stunningly” high and that taxpayers will ultimately bear the cost.
    • “I’m surprised by how much the FDIC has had to spend on these resolutions relative to the things that were being said earlier.”
    • “They were hoping to sell SVB as a whole entity and then, in order to get somebody to buy it, they had to chip in a set of stuff that was cumulatively worth $20 billion.”
    • “The arithmetic is similar relative to the scale of the bank at Signature Bank. There are a lot of questions about those transactions.”
    • “But these were stunningly expensive transactions. Ultimately, everybody’s going to say, it’s not coming back to taxpayers, but banks are taxpayers on behalf of people, their depositors, their customers, their people they lend to.”
    • “we are still a substantially unsustainable inflation country unless the economy turns down fairly hard”
    • “And the $23 billion the FDIC has spent is $100 per adult American”
  • NPR News reported on status of Social Security program and Medicare:
    • The Social Security program is expected to run short of cash to pay promised benefits in about ten years
      • Unless changes are made before then to shore up the program, 66 million Social Security recipients would see their benefits cut by 23-25%.
    • Key trust fund for Medicare will run out of funds by 2031
      • could result in an 11% pay cut to health care providers unless changes are made by 2031

Toshiba update on its acquisition

  • Total buyout value by JIP of 2 trillion yen
  • Will make the company a wholly owned subsidiary, and will go private, no longer will be listed on Nikkei stock exchange
  • Will focus on:
    • Renewable energy (nuclear power generation, etc.)
    • Defense related businesses
    • Infrastructure (railway projects, etc.)
    • Digital data
    • Quantum cryptographic communications

Toshiba former executives blamed for fraud

  • The Tokyo District Court ordered 5 former executives of Toshiba to pay compensation in a case involving accounting fraud that was first exposed in 2015
  • Two former Toshiba presidents, Norio Sasaki and Hisao Tanaka, were part of group
  • “failed to perform their duties”
  • “overstated profits”

Toshiba wins large university MPS contract

  • Award from University of Massachusetts
  • Includes locations in Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, Mount Ida and Worcester
  • Also includes Medical schools
  • Includes 900 new eSTUDIO MFPs and the Encompass MPaaS (managed print as a service) platform
  • Claims that one of the reasons Toshiba was chosen is due to FERPA compliance with the MFPs offering data encryption on hard drives and BIOS protection

HP updates its dealer/reseller program

  • Unveiled two new elements in the HP Amplify program
    • “Fast Lane” joint demand generation process for reimbursement of marketing development funds
      • Automated process for claims and payments
    • “More for More” benefit and compensation program
      • Leverages a rate multiplier to boost compensation for qualified dealer partners

HP to launch new laser MFPs

  • Claims that 91% of small businesses still rely on printed documents to run their business
  • HP Inc. soon will offer the Color LaserJet 4200 and 4300 series of A4 devices:
    • Come standard with “Wolf” security features
    • 4 tandem OPC drum design
    • Top speed of 35ppm
    • Claims that 80% of the parts are able to be replaced in less than 5 minutes
    • White plastic exterior with blue plastic front panel, device has sharp corners
    • 4200 series is print only
    • 4300 series is MFP with small color LCD touchscreen and document feeder that scans both sides of original at same time
  • Also offering the Color LaserJet Enterprise 5000, 6000, X500 and X600, and are A4 devices:
    • Max duty cycles range from 80K/mo to 100K/mo
    • Recommended max volumes of 10K/mo to 14K/mo
    • Top speed of 55ppm
    • White plastic exterior with blue plastic front panel, device has sharp corners
    • 4 tandem OPC design
    • 6.5 second first color print time
    • 1200x1200dpi
    • Document feeder scans both sides of original at same time
      • Top scan speed of 40opm or 80ipm
      • “EveryPage with Reverse and Retry” reduces misfeeds with autorecovery
  • All use new “TerraJet” toner, advertised as need 27% less energy to melt and 78% less plastic packaging

Screen wins production print contract

  • Award from Walker360, a commercial printer in Montgomery, Alabama
  • Installed new Truepress Jet520HD+ production color inkjet system
  • Will be used to produce books, magazines, transactional documents, direct mail pieces, etc.

Dealer acquisition/merger update

  • Advanced Office, headquartered in Irvine, CA, announced it has acquired LaserCare Managed Print Experts, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA
  • Advance Office currently serves Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and the Inland Empire
  • LaserCare is advertised as one of HP’s largest dealers in the US.

Sharp accused of labor violations

  • Article published by Press Reels News
  • Labor advocacy groups are investigating working conditions at Sharp/Foxconn plants in China
  • Apparently some claim that company is forcing workers to work overtime without pay, providing inadequate safety measures, and discriminating against pregnant women

CYBERSECURITY & HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS


Healthcare vertical hires more employees

  • Recent report from Altarum
  • Added 44,200 jobs in February, 2023
  • 1.3% more jobs than in February, 2020
  • Average of 49,100 added per month during past year:
    • 19,400 jobs = hospitals
    • 13,700 jobs = extended care
    • 11,100 jobs = ambulatory care
  • (since the healthcare industry is the largest vertical market in the U.S., and is a massive user of paper, does your sales force have a strategy to win net new healthcare customers in 2023?)

Canon makes healthcare acquisition

  • Announced it has acquired Kyoto Seisakusho Corp. of Japan
  • Maker of technology for mass production of cells
  • Used in treatment and other clinical applications
  • Has 957 employees with annual revenue of 40.9 billion yen ($308 million)
  • Purchase price not announced

Fujifilm to open new healthcare tech company

  • By end of 2025, will open new $2 billion plant in Holly Springs, North Carolina
  • Will manufacture end-to-end cell culture biopharmaceuticals
  • Will employ $275 people

MEDITECH wins EHR contract

  • Award from Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers of Morris, Illinois
  • Total cost of $12 million

Medsphere wins EHR contract

  • Award from Catholic Care Center of Bel Aire, Kansas
  • Installed new Wellsoft EHR as well as RCM Cloud revenue cycle management solution

eClinicalWorks wins EHR contracts

  • Award from Fairview Community Health Center of Bowling Green, KY
    • Implemented cloud version running on Microsoft Azure platform
  • Award from Surgical Care Specialists of Pennsylvania

Epic wins EHR contract

  • Award from Perry County Memorial Hospital of Perryville, Missouri
  • Total cost of $6.5 million

Epic to use AI?

  • Epic CEO Judy Faulkner reportedly told attendees of recent healthcare convention that the company is testing the use of ChatGPT to create draft provider responses to patient emails.
  • She said ChatGPT is less terse than doctors.

Streamline wins EHR contract

  • Award from Outagamie County Health of Wisconsin
  • Installed new SmartCare EHR

Oracle Cerner wins EHR contract

  • Award from Coryell Health of Gatesville, Texas

MHS wins EHR contract

  • Award from Fort Belvoir Community Hospital of Virginia
  • Installed new Genesis EHR to replace TRICARE system

Cost of handling paper in healthcare

  • Research from Interlace Health
  • average health organization spends approximately $20 in labor to file each paper document
  • spends average of $120 in labor searching for each misfiled document

Hyland OnBase use in healthcare

  • Hyland Software of Ohio will showcase its comprehensive suite of content services and enterprise imaging solutions at this year’s Health Information Management System Society’s (HIMSS) annual conference April 18-20
  • 65% of health systems lack medical images and other unstructured patient information at the point of care
  • 72% of unstructured patient data is inaccessible and unavailable for analysis within the organization
    • Only 25% of all patient info is structured info accessible in the EHR
  • 29% of payers find it easy to access unstructured content or documents while viewing the member record.
  • Hyland OnBase, an enterprise content management solution, now offers optional integration with: o etherFAX o eFax Corporate
  • Has also added robotic process automation (RPA) to automate manual and repetitive tasks.

HIPAA/cybersecurity breaches in the news

  • The FBI 2022 Internet Crime Report states:
    • 800,944 complaints logged for hacking
    • $10.3 billion in losses in 2022, up 49%
    • Healthcare again was number one target of attacks
  • Associates in Dermatology, with locations in Kentucky, Indiana and New York, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • Atlantic General Hospital of Berlin, Maryland, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • Twitter Corp.’s source code was apparently published on the Dark Web by a hacking group named “FreeSpeechEnthusiast”
    • GitHub was hit by lawsuit to reveal who is behind this group
  • Over $1 million in prizes was handed out to hackers who were able to compromise a Tesla, MS SharePoint, Adobe Reader, Oracle VirtualBox, Apple MacOS, MS Windows 11, etc. during recent Pwn2Own hacking convention in Vancouver, Canada.
  • Lumen Technologies, headquartered in Monroe, LA, notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
  • Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach Law Firm of New York paid $200,000 to settle allegations of negligence regarding breach that exposed PHI of 115,000 clients.
    • Also paid $100,000 to hackers after ransomware attack.
  • DC Health Link is being sued for negligence regarding breach that exposed the PHI of 56,415 patients in Washington DC.
  • GuidePoint Security is reporting that the U.S. experienced a 51.5% increase in ransomware attacks in 1/2023 and a 15.8% increase in 2/2023. – NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital disclosed that its website used analytics tracking technology that resulted in the personal health information of 54,396 patients to be disclosed to its third-party technology service providers.
  • Encore Support Services of Brooklyn, NY notified 47,000 special needs students that their info was exposed after FERPA breach.
  • SundaySky Software of New York notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after cyber attack.
  • Healthy Options Inc., aka Postal Prescription Service, notified 82,466 patient customers of Kroger Pharmacy stores in the U.S. that their PHI was exposed after breach.
  • Texas Medical Liability Trust notified 625 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
  • Orlando Health of Florida is being accused of patients of exposing PHI on its website.
  • Johnson Memorial Health of Franklin, Indiana notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of California has notified 63,341 patients that their PHI was exposed after hacking incident.

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