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Uniprint has enhanced its
Infinity print management
solution with useful new
reporting and archiving
functions.
To enable users to be more
proactive in how they manage
printer deployments, Infinity 8.1
features a Statistics Module that
captures all information about
a print job, such as the user,
the application they are printing
from, how many pages are
output, whether they are B&W or
colour etc..
The second enhancement
is a print job archiving feature
that, when turned on, captures
all print jobs as PDFs and
stores them in a directory for
later analysis. At this stage,
functionality is limited: you can
search PDF Tags and Indexes,
but can’t yet apply rules to
automatically flag up certain
types of document.
However, Arron Fu, VP of
Software Development at
Uniprint, expects this to change.
“Our next release might have
a rule stating that if there is
a print job with VISA number
characteristics, say, it would
automatically be flagged and an
alert sent to an administrator,”
he said.
Konica Minolta has won the BLI A3 MFP Line of the Year Award
for the third year in a row.
BLI Managing Editor Daria Hoffman said: “What Konica Minolta
has achieved with a third consecutive A3 MFP Line of the Year Award
is nearly unprecedented. In the 26-year history of the award, Konica
Minolta is one of only two vendors to earn the award three years in a
row and it is the only vendor to do so in the past decade.”
Other BLI 2013 Line of the Year Award winners include Lexmark for
its Monochrome Printer/MFP Line; HP for its Colour Printer/MFP Line;
and Canon for its Document Imaging Solutions Line.
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Epson has launched a three-
year service and supplies
package for its inkjet, laser
and large format printers that
is claimed to be more cost-
effective than buying service
and supplies separately.
Epson Print and Save gives
customers a pre-arranged
number of printing supplies for
the duration of the contract,
online ordering whenever new
supplies are needed and a
3-year on-site warranty for
service and repairs – all for a
fixed monthly fee.
There is a choice of
packages with different
supplies volumes based on a
business’s printing habits (e.g.
light, medium and heavy use).
Epson Print and Save can
also be used to spread the
cost of new printer purchases
through monthly rental
payments.
Uniprint enhances
Infinity with print
archiving and
reporting tools
BLI announces Line of the Year
award winners
Epson supplies and service package
claimed to save customers money
Making life easier for people who have to work on the move Sharp has
launched a new App, reinforcing its campaign to create a wide portfolio
of tools focused on making workflow easier.
Sharpdesk Mobile
, which is available free of charge from Apple’s App
Store and Google’s Play Store, wirelessly connects Smartphones and Tablet PCs
with the printing and scanning capabilities of Sharp’s MFP’s.
Sharpdesk Mobile
addresses three key requirements: printing, scanning
and sharing.
Printing
– users can print PDF, JPG and TIFF files from a Smartphone or
Tablet PC directly to any supported Sharp MFP.
Scanning
– users can scan documents from any supported Sharp MFP
directly to their mobile device.
Sharing
– once a document has been scanned to the Smartphone or Tablet
PC it can be emailed to other users and shared with other mobile applications.
“Our aim is to make all of our Apps easy to use. Some of them will be
developed by our technology partners and others will be written in-house,” said
Chris Hale, Software Solutions Product Manager. “All of them will make life a lot
easier for mobile workers.”
To download the free app
go to the Apple’s App Store
or Googles Play Store and
search ‘Sharpdesk Mobile’
and look for the icon.
For further information on this or
any Sharp products please email
One to Watch:
Watch out for our recently
launched light production colour
and mono devices –
both available with innovative
Image Consistency Systems
ensuring the same high quality
printing from your first print to
your last.
www.sharp.co.uk
This is Why
Funai to buy
Lexmark inkjet
business
Lexmark is to sell its inkjet
business to Japanese
consumer electronics firm
Funai. The $100 million
deal includes inkjet-related
technologies and assets
including more than 1,500
patents and Lexmark’s
manufacturing facility in the
Philippines.
Paul Rooke, Lexmark
chairman and chief executive
officer, said: “This transaction
essentially completes our exit
from the ownership of inkjet-
related assets, although we
will continue to support our
existing customer base with
the sale of inkjet supplies.”
Funai has manufactured
inkjet hardware for Lexmark
since 1997 and now plans
to launch hardware and
consumables under its own
brands, as well as supplies
for existing Lexmark devices.
Lexmark will continue to
provide customer, technical
and warranty support.
www.funaiworld.com
Digital filing
Filing specialist Docudex has been made a Xerox Business Innovation
Partner (XBIP). Docudex solutions enable users of Xerox’s DocuShare
content management system to connect with hard copy retrieval
systems, such as the Kardex Lektriever vertical carousel, bringing all
the benefits of digital information storage to the hard copy world.
Balreed to sell Xerox
Independent print technology
and managed print services
provider Balreed has become
a Xerox Authorised Service
Provider and Reseller,
allowing it to offer an even
broader range of products
and services to its customers.