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01732 759725 30 PRINTIT AWARDS 2020 PRODUCT AWARDS MFP Line of the Year Sponsored by Westcoast HP A3 LaserJet and Pagewide Managed MFPs and Printers Desktop Printer Line of the Year Sponsored by VOW Wholesale HP Desktop Range Scanner of the Year Sponsored by Kofax Kodak Alaris INfuse Smart Connected Scanning Solution Best MFP Business App Sponsored by ISL Kofax ControlSuite Solution of the Year Sponsored by Apogee perform IT – mysalesdrive.com Covid-19 module ERP/Device Management Solution of the Year Sponsored by Sindoh ECI Solutions Cloud Print Management Solution of the Year Sponsored by Pelikan Canon uniFLOW Online GENERAL AWARDS PrintIT Award for Marketing Campaign of the Year Sponsored by PCL Direct Kyocera Connected App PrintIT Award for Sustainability Sponsored by Toshiba TEC PaperCut PrintIT Award for Security Sponsored by Kyocera HP Inc. PrintIT Award for Mobility Sponsored by Sharp EveryonePrint Mobile Print PrintIT Award for Best Partner Programme Sponsored by Ingram Micro Sharp Business Systems UK PrintIT Award for Innovation Sponsored by HP Inc. Epson PaperLab SPECIAL AWARD Editor’s Choice Sponsored by Brother Ingram Micro PEOPLE AWARDS Industry Leader of the Year Sponsored by Westcoast Phil Jones, Managing Director, Brother UK Channel Leader of the Year Mark Davitt, UK&I Print Channel Manager, HP Inc. Account Manager of the Year Sponsored by Develop/DSales Dwayne Cowans, Strategic Partner Manager, Lexmark Distribution Marketing Team of the Year Sponsored by Epson Westcoast OEM Marketing Team of the Year Sponsored by VOW Wholesale Brother UK Service Team of the Year Sponsored by Develop ASL Dealer Service Team of the Year Epson OEM Service Team of the Year CORPORATE AWARDS Vendor of the Year Sponsored by Ingram Micro HP Inc. Hardware Distributor of the Year Sponsored by Lexmark Ingram Micro EOS Distributor of the Year Sponsored by ECI VOW Wholesale Reseller/Dealer of the Year (Turnover up to £5m) Sponsored by Lexmark Highland Copiers Reseller/Dealer of the Year (Turnover in excess of £5m) Sponsored by Ingram Micro Aura Online Reseller of the Year Sponsored by Ingram Micro Box Best Apprenticeship Programme Sponsored by HP Inc. Brother UK We are delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural PrintIT Awards given by Technology Reseller sister publication PrintIT Reseller PrintIT Awards 2020 Winner snapshot Innovation Award: Epson Epson PaperLab, for which Epson has just won the 2020 PrintIT Innovation Award, is a product of the company’s ambition to keep driving down the environmental cost of its products, as James Goulding finds out from Epson UK Head of Business Sales Richard Wells. “We spend around $1.2 million a day on R&D in Japan,” he said. “We are constantly looking at how we can drive things down further – how we can use less energy in the production of print on our devices; how can we ensure there are fewer materials needed in the machines.” Such is the success with which Epson has already reduced the impact of its products that Wells likens the process to the difficulty of shaving more and more off what are already very thin slices. To support his argument, he points to the famously energy- efficient, heat-free printing technology used in Epson printers and MFPs. “At trade shows we used to connect a bicycle to a printer that people could power and print from just by pedalling. It’s pretty difficult to shave much off power consumption when you are already that far ahead of the curve, so we will look at other aspects to see how we can improve on those,” he said. One of these is the ink itself – how it is applied to the page and especially how it is delivered, which on some models includes large ink packs with page yields of up to 86,000 pages. As well as producing up to 96% fewer used consumables than laser printers, having such high yields significantly reduces the number of supplies deliveries that are needed over the course of a printer’s lifecycle. For small office and home office users, Epson has introduced what it calls the Just Add Paper option, which bundles new printers with enough ink to last three years, so that over that period there is no need for additional deliveries and packaging. Considering the broader impact of printing in this way also led Epson to address paper recycling and re-use, which fed into the development of the PaperLab system. This innovative on-premise solution takes in used printer paper at one end