Here is the latest company news from your friends at Copitex.
– Xerox announced it signed a lease for 4,000 square feet of space for new Global division office in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and will be a part of Michigan Office Solutions, whose president is Ralph Slider.
– Xerox announced that last week a water main break shut down most of its Webster, NY operations for a couple of days.
- also announced it would sublease some of the office space in Webster to TUV Rheinland of Germany.
– Xerox announced that Robert Stabler has been named as senior vice president and general manager of Xerox’s graphic communications business.
– Xerox announced it won managed print services contract from Pittsburgh Public School District of Pennsylvania.
- 25,000 students
- K-12
- 3,900 employees
- 1.875 teachers
- replaced 6,000 desktop printers with 500 MFPs
- district services units themselves
– Xerox announced it installed three Nuvera 120 production b/w toner systems in the CRD at Integrys Energy of Green Bay, WI to produce bills and letters for its customers.
– Xerox announced it installed a J75 production color toner system in the CRD of Regional Health of Rapid City, SD, to produce letterhead, business cards, patient care forms, etc.
– Lexmark announced it won managed print services contract from Rosauers Supermarkets, which has 21 grocery stores in the northwest U.S.
– Ricoh announced it won contract to install a PRO C751EX production color system in the CRD at Pima County government offices in Tucson, Arizona.
- also installed is Neopost DS-200 inserter/folder system and Morgana AutoCreaser Pro 50
- replaced Xerox DocuColor 260
– Ricoh announced it sold a PRO C651EX production color toner system to Azo Print, a commercial printer in London, England.
– Ricoh announced it installed an InfoPrint 5000 production color inkjet system in the CRD at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio.
– Ricoh announced it will have a booth equipped with a video wall displaying product/solutions, at the upcoming 2014 National Postal Forum on 3/16-19/2014 in Washington DC.
– Ricoh announced it will be a platinum sponsor of the upcoming Interquest 2014 Digital Printing Forum on 3/18/2014 in Brussels, to promote its InfoPrint 5000 production color inkjet system.
– Kodak announced it installed a third PROSPER production color inkjet system, using rollfed paper, to Mercury Print Productions of Rochester, NY, to produce full color, personalized direct mail pieces.
– Kodak announced it has installed a PROSPER 5000XL production color inkjet system at Webcrafters of Madison, WI to produce books on demand.
– Kodak announced it completed installation of a NexPress SX3900 production color LED toner system to Watt Printers Mail Marketing of Cleveland, OH. The system included the 5th imaging unit, allowing ability to add a 5th toner color, such as red fluorescing, clear or gold.
– Kodak announced it has replaced former CEO, Antonio Perez, with Jeffrey J. Clarke, who previously was a managing partner of Augusta Columbia Capital.
– Kodak received a setback when a federal judge in Ohio barred the company from charging customers more for refurbished print heads for production color inkjet system if they bought their ink from Collins Ink, then instead of buying ink from Kodak.
– Adrian Clemons of Rochester, NY was found guilty of making more than $10,000 of fake money using a color copier, and now faces up to 20 years in prison.
– Canon announced it completed installation of an Oce’ ColorStream 3900 production color inkjet system to IWCO Direct of Hamburg, PA to produce full color, personalized direct mail pieces.
– Canon announced it installed an Oce’ ColorStream 3500 production color inkjet rollfed system to Universal Wilde, a commercial printer in Massachusetts to produce personalized direct mail pieces.
– Canon’s VP, Mal Baboyian, stated following in interview in Inkjet’s Age magazine:
- production inkjet output from Canon Oce’ customers was 70 billion pages in 2013
- believes that this accounted for 25% of all production pages in U.S.
- sold 176 Oce’ branded rollfed inkjet systems in 2013 in U.S.
- projects to sell 200 in 2014 in U.S.
- inkjet print is 30% of Canon’s total U.S. revenue
- projects a 144% increase in cut sheet inkjet revenue in 2014
- will launch a new cut sheet production color inkjet system, code-named “Niagara” in May, 2014
- beta site for the Niagara is RevSpring, a transpromo printer, to install in Phoenix, AZ
- is B3 sheet size, meaning 14”x20” sheets
- top speed of 3800 duplexed sheets per hour (8500 duplexed letter-sized sheets)
- maximum monthly volume of 10 million letter sized sheets
- selling price and operational cost unknown
– Canon announced it installed the following at the Office of State Publishing, owned by the State of California, in Sacramento:
- imagePRESS C7010VP production color toner system
- two Oce’ VarioPrint 6320 production b/w toner systems
– Canon was downgraded by Zacks Investment Services from a “neutral” rating to an “underperform” rating.
– Canon launched two new A3 color MFPs, the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5235A and C5240A featuring:
- C5235 is 35ppm b/w and 30ppm color for base MSRP of $11,970
- C5240 is 40ppm b/w and 35ppm color for base MSRP of $13,020
- have off-white plastic exteriors (called “cashmere beige” by Canon)
- 4 tandem OPC drum design
- document feeder scans both sides or original at same time
- 60opm top scan speed
– The 40-40-20 rule for direct mail was developed by direct marketing maven Ed Mayer. It divides direct marketing success into three segments as follows:
- 40% to using the right mailing list
- 40% to who the mailer is and what it has to offer
- 20% for everything else – postage rate, format, paper, stock, color, copy, graphics, etc.”
– Heidelberg of Germany and Fuji of Japan announced that they will partner to produce future production color inkjet presses.
– Heidelberg announced it sold a Linoprint C751 (relabeled Ricoh Pro C751 production color toner system) to Swan Press of Northampon, England.
– Heidelberg announced that it has replaced U.S. division president, Harald Weimer with Juergen Grimm.
– Hewlett Packard announced it installed a T230 production color inkjet press at Centro Stampa Quotidiani of Italy to produce on demand newspapers.
- claims to now have 1,100 production color inkjet web presses installed worldwide
– Hewlett Packard announced it installed a T410 production color inkjet web press to Rotolito Lombarda, a commercial printer in Italy.
– Hewlett Packard, in a regulatory filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said that it will eliminate 34,000 employees by fiscal year end to cut costs.
– Hewlett Packard announced that SyndicIT Services of Kensington, New Hampshire, will market HP’s managed print services contracts to the commercial real estate vertical in the U.S.
– Hewlett Packard announced it hired former global sales chief of Alcatel-Lucent Corp., to be its new head of enterprise sales in the U.S.
– HP announced that its Australian division lost $270 million last year.
– InfoTrends reveals following about production color inkjet market:
- at end of 2012, installed base worldwide of rollfed units was 800 systems
- U.S. had 250 systems
- By 2015, 40% of all digital color pages printed will be from inkjet presses
– IT Strategies is projecting that by 2017, nearly all toner-based b/w continuous feed pages remaining will have been replaced by inkjet systems.
- projecting demand for nearly 600 billion continuous feed inkjet pages by 2017
- 40% of pages will be sourced from new applications
- applications are apt to include a high degree of personalized data
- examples are loyalty reward coupons, personalized wealth management reports, etc.
– Toshiba announced that Yoshitaka Sugita was arrested by Japanese police for selling Toshiba imaging technology secrets to Hynix Inc. of South Korea.
– Toshiba announced it has signed a contract to be headline sponsor of the Toshiba Classic golf tournament through 2017 in Newport Beach, CA.
– Muratec launched the MFX-3510 and MFX-3530 offering:
- base MSRPs of $3495 and $3995
- A4 b/w MFPs
- top speed of 37ppm
- document feeder holds up to 80 originals
- scans in color or b/w
- the 3530 model allows for duplex scanning at same time
- 5 line LCD display on 3510
- 5.8” monochrome touch screen LCD on 3530 model
- comes standard with one 500 sheet paper drawer and 100 sheet bypass
- can add up to three more 500 sheet drawer
- no optional finishing
- fax board standard
- built-in print controller
- actual maker unknown
- 10/100BaseT and USB ports standard
- 512MB RAM
- PCL print driver standard
- optional PostScript print driver
- scan to folder/email/FTP standard
– Okidata announced it sold one of its desktop color LED devices, with the optional white and clear toner features to Ditto 4 Design, a commercial printer in England, to complement the shop’s existing three Xerox DocuColor 5000 production color toner systems.
– Okidata announced that its Teletype Model 55 device, launched in 1953, was awarded a “Information Processing Technology Heritage” distinction.
– Fuji announced it sold a DocuWide C842 production color inkjet wide format system to Nulab Group, a commercial printer in Braeside, England.
- Top speed of 152.4mm per second
- uses Memjet stationary inkjet print heads
– ECi Software Solutions, which most copier dealers use to run their businesses (i.e. FMAudit, OMD, Lacrosse, Nextgen, e-Automate, etc.), announced it was acquired by The Carlyle Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
– Samsung of South Korea launched a new feature on its smartphones called “Samsung Cloud Print” that can connect up to 20 Samsung NFC equipped printers or MFPs, and allow user to:
- choose which printer to print to
- send scheduled print jobs
- register for printing just by using the smartphone’s phone number
- encrypts user data sent from device to printer
– Kyocera (aka Kyoto Ceramic Company of Tokyo, Japan) announced that the TASKalfa 5551ci won BLI’s “Winter Pick 2014” award for the 51-60ppm A3 color MFP segment.
– Newsweek magazine’s new owner, IBT Media, announced it will start printing the magazine again, after its move to online only content, lost many subscribers.
– According to MPH Online, in last 20 years, power outages in the U.S. have increased by 124%. (more reason to sell benefits of ESP Power Filters)
– GreatAmerica Leasing announced it will hold a seminar to help copier dealers get into the managed IT services business on 4/22-23/2014 in Cedar Rapids, IA.
– Rochester Software Associates launched a new option to drive business to a customer’s CRD, called QDirect.SCAN featuring:
- uses iOption feature of Konica Minolta bizhub MFP LCD control panel
- enables ticketing directly from MFPs
- leverage paper stock and finishing options not on available MFP
- end user scans copy job using the MFP, and then copy job is sent with ticket to the CRD and output on RSA equipped Konica Minolta production print equipment
- confirmation page printed at the requestor’s MFP with thumbnails or sent to the requestor’s email account
– Adobe Corp. announced it won 3 year Adobe Creative Cloud contracts from:
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Air Force
- $40.5 million contract value
– B2B Marketing’s Lead Generation and Nurturing Benchmarking Report shows survey results for answer to question; “What is Most Effective Tactic For Generating High Quality Sales Leads?”:
- 43% = live events
- 40% = telemarketing
- 34% = email
- 16% = direct mail
- 7% = online ads
- 5% = print ads
– Casio announced it has launched a tablet PC for the healthcare vertical, called the V-T500 featuring:
- 10.1” color LCD touchscreen
- runs Android operating system
- authentication using a contactless smartcard
- hot-swappable battery pack
- purchase price not announced
– PriceWatersCoopers published results of survey of healthcare CEOs:
- 94% plan to alter their customer growth and retention strategies
- 84% believe that demographic shifts will significantly impact operations
- 33% think that their current customer service, sales and marketing programs are on track
- 31% think their R&D teams are well prepared for upcoming shifts
- 40% believe their IT is capable of handling future
- 70% are planning some sort of joint venture or alliance
- 28% plan on outsourcing some business functions to save money
- 50% plan on boosting talent pool in 2014
- 63% are concerned about finding qualified candidates
- 60% are worried that rapid pace of tech change may slow down their growth
- 89% are taking action to become more innovative
– SK&A Research reveals that now more than 10% of all physicians in the U.S. use Epic EHRs.
– Janet Dillione, head of the healthcare division of Nuance Corp, announced her resignation, after company reported a 7% decline in total revenue last year.
– The Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) announced that it recommends reducing the scope of the upcoming Stage 3 Meaningful Use EHR rules from 19 measures instead of 26.
– Economist magazine reported the following survey results of healthcare executives:
- 51% predict that over next 3 year, technology platforms will have biggest impact on their business models
- 71% believe their organizations need to change faster over next 3 years if they are to be ready for future
- 78% are feeling pressure to change
- when asked where adapting to change is most crucial:
- 34% = improving core business practices
- 34% = attracting and retaining customers
- 34% = optimizing supply chain
- 32% = adopting new technologies
– The State of Illinois admitted that three people in Chicago posing as patients have been indicted for allegedly cashing in on $2.98 million in fraudulent reimbursements for healthcare services that were never performed.
– The Center For Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) announced it will select 32 healthcare facilities in July, 2014 to participate in testing of their deployment of ICD-10 coding system.
– Researchers from the University of Illinois in Chicago, IL announced results of study that show that transition to ICD-10 leads to significant reduction in income and loss of important patient information.
– Canon announced that its new digital x-ray systems are now on the HealthTrust GPO contract.
– Cerner agreed to pay Trinity Medical Center of North Dakota a total of $106.2 million to settle a financial dispute.
– The Federal Defense Health Agency of the Pentagon, announced it plans on spending a total of $1.5 billion to produce new EHRs from 2017 through 2019.
– HIPAA/Data Security Breach news:
- The Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration plans to fine Triple-S Salud $6.8 million as a result of the exposure of PHI for 13,300 patients.
- AHMC Healthcare of Los Angeles, CA notified 729,000 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after two laptop computers were stolen.
- University of California- San Francisco Family Medicine Center at Lakeshore notified 9,986 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after several computers were stolen.
- Cornerstone Health Care of High Point, NC notified 548 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after a laptop computer was stolen.
