Print.IT Reseller - issue 59

01732 759725 12 BULLETIN : PEOPLE Hat-trick for Brother UK 2018 saw Brother UK secure some of the country’s most prestigious business awards, including a Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development for the second time, and a Princess Royal Training Award for its learning and development programme. The company also picked up three awards from its reseller partners, each recognising the vendor’s commitment to supporting the IT channel. It was voted Manufacturer of the Year by members of business solutions group Integra and was awarded Brand of the Year by office supplies specialists Superstat, in recognition of its marketing activity and CSR credentials. Brother’s VC-500W, new full colour label printer also won Office Friendly’s Best Product Award. Sara Diggle, Head of Reseller Sales, said: “We’re incredibly proud to receive this recognition from not one but three dealer group partners. We’re committed to working side by side with our resellers to help them grow their business. Accolades such as these help to demonstrate we’re doing just that – both in terms of our solutions and our customer service.” www.brother.co.uk Xerox enhances AltaLink workplace assistants Xerox has made security and productivity top priorities with new software enhancements to its AltaLink workplace assistants. The latest AltaLink enhancements enable companies to meet NIST 800-171 standards, which govern the security of data in non-federal information systems and organisations. With AltaLink’s new Configuration Watchdog, IT administrators can ensure devices stay within their defined security policies to safeguard critical business data and infrastructure, without external monitoring. Administrators can monitor compliance requirements of up to eight security settings. When unauthorised changes are detected, Configuration Watchdog will remediate them to their compliance state; unapproved changes are notified and logged for further response. “Cybersecurity threats are becoming more sophisticated and so is Xerox’s response,” said Chief Information Security Officer, Dr. Alissa J. Abdullah. “We take a proactive approach to device, data and document security that puts organisations on the offensive when it comes to threat detection and response.” For additional protection, the AltaLink MFPs include support for ThinPrint print management software, featuring end-to-end encryption, as well as efficient compression and streaming of print data, delivering faster output speeds. www.xerox.com Quocirca recognises Lexmark Lexmark has been positioned as a leader in managed print services by industry analyst firm Quocirca for the seventh consecutive year. The Quocirca Managed Print Services Landscape report , an independent vendor analysis of the global enterprise MPS market, highlights Lexmark’s 2018 investment in ‘expanding its MPS offer across infrastructure management, to include responsibility for print servers and print queue management, cloud-enabled services, print-as-a-service, mobile capture and print, sustainability and analytics’. “Lexmark is proud to be named an MPS leader by Quocirca for the seventh straight year," said Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, Brock Saladin. www.lexmark.com Ricoh named leader in IDC MarketScape IDC has named Ricoh a leader in its IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Contractual Print and Document Services 2018 Vendor Assessment . “Ricoh’s customer-driven approach, which is based on a high-touch client engagement process, enables the firm to stay in front of evolving customer needs and provide custom solutions to address business demands efficiently and consistently for local, regional, and global deployments,” said Robert Palmer, Research Vice President, Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions, IDC. “When business large and small are seeking a partner that can design and develop a programme intended to evolve with future business needs, Ricoh should be in the running.” Earlier this year, Ricoh unveiled its Ignite global growth strategy which outlined its approach to expanding relationships with existing customers and growing relationships with new customers. One aspect of this strategy is to deliver higher value services to existing customers that help connect office and frontline business applications. IDC states that: “Ricoh has established one of the industry’s more feature-rich programmes with a highly efficient and integrated global service delivery model.” This attribution is just one successful attribute of Ignite.” www.ricoh.co.uk Canon partners with hybrid-mail provider CFH CFH Docmail Ltd (CFH), a provider of transactional print and mail, has awarded Canon a five-year contract to supply an Océ ColorStream 6000 Chroma continuous inkjet web press. The move will enable CFH to offer high quality, competitive colour products at speed and volume. The contract, worth an estimated £3 million, is the result of a competitive two-year RFP led by CFH Group Production Director, Steve Cray, supported and endorsed by Adam Harwood, Managing Director of CFH Radstock. Harwood said: “As a major player in the transactional print and mail industry, we needed to find a solution that would allow the company to evolve alongside industry demands, while demonstrating a clear return on investment. We were impressed with the versatility, efficiency and sustainability of the Océ ColorStream 6000 Chroma and, having enjoyed a long partnership with Canon Océ, which supplies our VarioStream continuous toner and VarioPrint cut sheet printers, we are confident we have made a strong decision.” www.cfh.com