Print IT Reseller - issue 48

01732 759725 4 BULLETIN Competition to find coders of the future KYOCERA Document Solutions has launched the second annual KYOCodes competition. The contest, which is expanding for 2018, aims to find the app developers of tomorrow and help address the UK’s software development shortage. Entrants will compete over the 10 week coding challenge, where they’ll be asked to design a brand new app for KYOCERA’s suite of application software, powered by HyPAS. The winning team will be the one that designs the app which best meets a real business need and challenge and will be assessed by a panel of industry experts from across the field. www.kyocodes.co.uk Sharp first to achieve new international security standard Sharp’s digital colour multifunction printers with an embedded data security option are the first to have been certified for Common Criteria, conforming to the Protection Profile for Hardcopy Devices v1.0 (HCD-PP v1.0). This represents the latest security standards of government and military offices. www.sharp.eu Reseller event day Brother UK hosted a reseller event day at its Manchester HQ on January 17. Around 70 of its channel partners are registered to attend the event, which is designed to enable resellers to get hands-on experience across the firm’s MFP, labelling and mobile print solutions. Security was a hot topic on the day, Brother showcased the security features in-built in its devices, highlighting how the channel can help their SME customers leverage the value-add to assist them in compliance. www.brother.co.uk Lexmark picked as supplier of choice Lexmark has been chosen by Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation as its supplier of choice for managed print services. The company will implement a flexible smart MPS platform to enable future digital transformation strategies. This will further aid the NHS's drive towards interoperability and paperless working environments, whilst supporting the need to use resources efficiently and effectively. The first stage of the 'paperlite' journey is to implement a robust MPS framework, whilst ensuring this investment is future-proofed to allow more strategic workflow optimisation and digitisation initiatives to be deployed, either in combination from the outset or in the future. Lexmark's MPS platform will provide Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with an additional layer of transparency and control across its document environment. www.lexmark.co.uk RISO unveils new-look MF and SF duplicators Riso’s new twin colour MF9350 and the single-colour SF9390 introduce fresh contemporary designs with a premium feel and many innovative features. Both feature true 600 dpi print resolution but also include enhanced image processing resulting in even higher print quality than previously achieved. With a top speed of 190 spm, Rio says the SF9390 is the fastest duplicator ever. Two-colour duplicating can be achieved at speeds of up to 150 spm on the MF9350. In addition, master making times compared to previous models have been reduced. Both duplicators are the compatible with RISO’s new sustainable rice bran-based ink, the base product of which is harvested near the point of manufacture, reducing impact on the environment. Additional features include a paper memory print function, where an encoded image can be printed off on a laser printer, scanned in by the RISO and translated back to the original, thus ensuring confidentiality. www.riso.co.uk NHS Trust expects to reduce printing costs by up to 40% Following a competitive tender under the NHS London Procurement Partnership Clinical and Digital Information Systems framework, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) has selected Capita Managed Print Services to provide MFDs as part of a managed print service. The three-year contract with Capita will enable a complete refresh of the Trust's 130 multifunction devices, bringing the latest in technology to staff. The new service will operate across more than 35 Trust sites and is expected to reduce printing costs by up to 40%. www.capita-dis.co.uk Synertec chooses Canon Canon has secured its largest order of imagePRESS C850 digital production presses with investment in 85 units by Synertec, a fast-growing consultancy which is now the world’s single biggest user of the Canon imagePRESS C850 system. One device has been installed at the company’s headquarters in Wellington, Somerset with the further 84 split between its production sites in Bristol and Warrington. Experts from the UK, Europe and Canon’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, joined forces for the complex technical evaluation and negotiations over 15 months, to help Synertec invest wisely in a deal that will be worth around £5 million over three years. Synertec, with a turnover expected to grow in excess of 20% annually, currently produces around 14 million impressions per month on the imagePRESS C850s. Synertec cited equipment capabilities and performance, project team expertise and responsiveness alongside a sound financial proposition for its reasons behind appointing Canon as its new business partner. www.canon.co.uk