West Caldwell, NJ and Foster City, Calif. – May 26, 2010 – Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, and EFI™ (Nasdaq: EFII), a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced that Fiery® technology is powering Ricoh’s new Aficio® MP C6501SP/C7501SP digital imaging system. This pairing brings nearly one-and-a-half times faster performance than the previous generation, built-in production and publishing support with Fiery VUE, and many tools that guarantee color quality and increase productivity for high-volume corporate environments.

“This launch marks the latest in a long-standing collaboration with EFI, whose Fiery technology contributes to the efficiency and quality of several Ricoh systems across our portfolio,” said Shun Sato, senior vice president of marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Partnering with EFI supports Ricoh’s commitment to offer customers of all types and sizes a powerful MFP that enables them to produce professional-looking, color-rich documents in-house.”

“Our high-performance Fiery E-7200 controller together with the unique features of the Aficio MP C6501SP/C7501SP digital imaging system allow corporate users of all experience levels to easily produce documents from presentations to brochures, finished booklets, and everything in-between,” said John Henze, Fiery vice president of marketing, EFI. “Besides unmatched performance, Fiery technology is synonymous with intuitive workflows, easy to use job management features, and accurate color reproduction that meet the demanding needs of Ricoh customers every time they print.”

The Fiery controller is one of the first to support Fiery VUE, the desktop application that makes publishing of professional-looking finished documents fast and simple for all office workers. Fiery VUE allows users to interact with a document on-screen in 3D to sculpt and then preview exactly how the finished document will look when printed. This creates better looking documents, reduces waste and lowers overall cost.

CALGARY, ALBERTA - May 25, 2010 – For the third time in the past year, Print Audit® has received acclaim for its flagship software, Print Audit 6, which allows office equipment dealers to increase profits and reduce their customers’ costs. This time, the recognition came in the form of a prestigious industry award. On May 5, Print Audit was honoured to receive the 2010 MPS Leadership Award in the Infrastructure Component Provider category.

The award was presented at the 2010 North American MPS Conference in San Antonio, Texas and was bestowed by the Managed Print Services Association (MPSA). The MPS Leadership Award recognizes organizations that demonstrate leadership in implementing, supporting or providing Managed Print Services and focuses on four categories: MPS Implementation, MPS Vendor, Infrastructure Program Provider and Infrastructure Component Provider.

By taking top honours in the Infrastructure Component Provider category, Print Audit 6 was recognized as the industry leader in providing MPS software solutions. Print Audit was acknowledged for providing a solution that allows dealers and customers to enforce industry best practices and to develop their own standards with a rules-based printing approach. Furthermore, Print Audit 6 was lauded for the strength of its money back guarantee and its modular approach to enable customers to customize a solution that best suits their particular situation.

Having a high level of national and international recognition, CES University’s academic focus includes medicine, dentistry, biology, veterinary medicine and zoology, as well as law. It also offers postgraduate courses such as clinical medicine and clinical dentistry, including master's degrees and doctorates. Since the second semester of 2008, applicants have been able to enroll via the university's website. The university's main campus is in Medellín, Colombia, where all of its academic services are based. Branch campuses are located in Sabaneta, Envigado, Girardota and in other parts of the country.

Documents
For each student enrollment, the system generates a form. Documents like reports, ICFES certificates (entrance exam, etc), qualifications and so on are attached. These documents then become part of the student's record or résumé. They are stored at the university and are active while the student remains at the institution and become inactive or withdrawn once they have graduated or leave the institution.

Work Process
Before DocuWare was installed, applicants wishing to register and enroll for classes stood in line for hours at the campus Admissions and Registrations office. Two staff members spent an average of six hours a day registering students. With this constraint, new applicants often had disappointingly, long wait times.

The documents submitted by each applicant were stored in physical folders and sent to the assigned staff interviewer as the final step to enrollment. Following the interview, they were stored at the Admissions and Registrations office. As an applicant becomes a student, additional documents were generated and added to their folder increasing the University’s liability due to physical manipulation, alterations, lost documents or unauthorized access. Eventually all documents were sent to the Centro de Administración Documental or document administration center responsible for record keeping.

Solution Requirements
The university was allowing students to enroll via its website but had difficulty managing the different documents since it had no control over their method of capture, quality or size. It needed a solution that would simplify the process, allow for the different document types and could be easily integrated into its website.

By Dmitry Sheynin, Research Editor, May 24, 2010

Building on its April 15th launch of the OKI Printing Solutions C610 and C711, OKI Data Americas continued its A4 lineup refresh today with the announcement of two more color printers and a pair of monochrome models.

At 25 ppm and 30 ppm, respectively, the color C330dn and C530dn deliver the fastest print speeds in their class, according to OKI’s competitive analysis of select models from HP, Brother, Lexmark, Dell and Samsung. Meanwhile, the monochrome B411 and B431 boast higher monthly duty cycles, at 80,000 pages, and higher toner capacities, at 4,000 and 10,000 sheets, respectively, as well as a more compact design, than the models they replace. All four models were designed with an eye toward increasing workplace productivity.

“One of the things we strive to do at OKI is help increase efficiency in SMBs,” said Carl Taylor, director of marketing for OKI Data Americas. “We do that in a variety of ways: by offering highest-in-class print speeds and duty cycles; decreasing the need for user intervention with higher-capacity toner cartridges; and incorporating a number of power-save features, cutting energy costs.”

The C530 can be put into sleep mode instantly with a dedicated button on the control panel and has a deep sleep mode that drops energy consumption to 1.1W. Both color printers also work with OKI’s Color Access Policy Manager, which allows administrators to further limit the cost of color printing by setting permissions and disabling color output for certain users or job types.

The C330 and C530 utilize a single-drum assembly that incorporates the drums for all four colors, meaning whenever one color reaches end of life, all four must be replaced, resulting in waste. Despite this, OKI claims the devices’ cost-per-page will compare favorably to other units that utilize separate drums.

SECAUCUS, NJ and WINTER HAVEN, FL – May 20, 2010: Panasonic System Networks Company of America (PSNA, www.panasonic.com) and DocuLex, Inc. (www.doculex.com) announce compatibility of the Panasonic KV-S1045C document imaging scanner with DocuLex Archive Studio content management software. The product combination creates an affordable workgroup system for entities to manage all forms of paper and electronic document’s contents via automated and distributive means, providing secure, permission-based accessibility. The products are available from participating Panasonic authorized resellers.

Panasonic KV-S1045C

The KV-S1045C is an affordable high-output, full-duplex, full-color document scanner optimized for high-volume front-office deployment in vertical markets such as health care, insurance, transportation, government and financial services. The KV-S1045C provides today's front office with a decentralized workhorse solution, rated for 40 pages per minute/80 images per minute with a 75-sheet automatic document feeder, ultrasonic double feed detection and auto image orientation.

Mixed documents and multiple ID card feeding allows multiple cards and documents with thicknesses ranging from 11 lbs bond to 110 lbs index and up to 3 hard ID cards, such as driver's licenses and medical cards, can be scanned at the same time. The inherent design of the KV-S1045C allows both documents and hard cards to be scanned in a single batch, even as part of the same document.

The scanner’s long paper mode provides the highly reliable paper feed mechanism quickly and accurately scans long documents. This function boosts work efficiency by smoothly scanning long monitoring sheets, like those used for EKG documents. Documents up to 100" can be scanned as a single image.

Venlo, The Netherlands, 19 May 2010 - Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, and Docapost, a European leader in document output management, today announce their new OEM partnership with Sefas Innovation. Océ PRISMA®designer, powered by the new Open Print technology from Sefas Innovation, is an exciting new document design and composition solution which is extremely innovative in the area of collaborative workflows, object oriented design and enrichment of legacy applications. Océ PRISMAdesigner is the leading solution for direct mail, TransPromo and transactional printing applications in the professional printing environment.

Leading the document industry in document composition and enrichment

Océ and Docapost are proud to announce a far-reaching OEM partnership. Sefas Innovation, subsidiary of Docapost – the operational holding company of French Groupe La Poste, expert in workflow management and business process optimization – is the Océ’s software technology provider for a new ground breaking high-end document design and composition solution called Océ PRISMAdesigner. A sneak preview of the new technology can be seen at IPEX, 18th – 25th May 2010.
The design environment of Océ PRISMAdesigner is built around a central repository that allows any document stakeholder to share resources in real-time, regardless of location. Data is separated from design and design from output. This provides the flexibility to use any type and number of data files in the design process and to render documents in any output format, including electronic formats and delivery. Due to the browser based architecture all Océ PRISMAdesigner functionalities can be accessed via integrated web portals.

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., May 19, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital document management and image capture solutions, today addressed the growing need for on-the-go image capture solutions among Mac users with the introduction of the imageFORMULA P-150M "Scan-tini" personal scanner. Utilizing the same precision technology and compact footprint in the original P-150 scanner, the new imageFORMULA P-150M personal scanner brings the latest in mobile image capture solutions to Mac-based environments.

"Since introducing the original imageFORMULA P-150, we have received tremendous feedback regarding the versatility of this on-the-go scanning solution, resulting in increased demand from several market segments, including Mac users," said Jim Rosetta, vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Groups, Canon U.S.A. "For mobile workers, on-the-go company representatives or the traditional 'road-warriors', it is essential to have a reliable and precise imaging solution to help streamline and conduct business – and the imageFORMULA P-150M is an ideal device to meet that need among Mac users."

With many computer users drawn to the intuitive functionality of the Mac operating platform, the P-150M allows for quick connectivity and minimal set up time via a single USB port that also serves as a convenient electrical source from the attached computer. The embedded Canon CaptureOnTouch software lets Mac users easily start scanning without installing drivers or additional applications while also routing scan information directly to Evernote™, a service for saving and organizing content across desktop, mobile and web devices. Additional functionality is provided by a TWAIN driver for easy hardware integration with third-party Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. Technology features such as Color Dropout, Auto Color Correction and Advanced Text Enhancement II, allow the imageFORMULA P-150M to quickly and smoothly capture original hard copy documents with precision and exceptional image quality.

Colortrac will be demonstrating some new products on their booth #112 at the IRgA 2010 Convention & Trade Show being held at the Palm Springs Convention Center, California, USA, (May 19th - 21st, 2010).

Visitors to the booth will see an advanced high performance A1 / D-size flatbed color scanner.  Using CCD optical imaging technology to capture high quality images at high speed, a scan of an 24" x 33" document is saved in less than 20 seconds at 400dpi optical resolution via a high speed Gigabit Ethernet interface. Capable of great accuracy, it is perfect for fragile or uneven materials, like very thick or heavy media, wood grain, fabrics and framed art.

Also debuting at the show is a new and fully-adjustable Universal Repro Stand (URS) that creates an operator-friendly, high productivity, multi-function system.

The ability of the new URS to unify a large format scanner and printer in a single, more productive MFP solution allows reprographics and other wide format scanning professionals to maximize their investment in individual large format scanners and printers. The URS enhances the ease with which large format scanner operators work by allowing the height at which the scanner sits above the printer to be adjusted to that which is most comfortable.  Also, the operator can adjust the height and position of the keyboard and mouse and the position and angle of the monitor on the URS in order to create a personalized MFP workstation for maximum man/machine interaction and professional reprographics and other scanning productivity.

Also on display will be the SmartLF Gx+ 56, the world's widest large format color graphics scanner. At the other, shorter end of the scale, Colortrac Inc will be demonstrating two A1 / D-size large format scanners, the 28" wide, CCD-based SmartLF Gx+ 28 and its latest scanner, the new 24" wide, CIS-based SmartLF Ci 24 which uses exactly the same design as the award-winning SmartLF Ci 40. As a desktop scanner, the SmartLF Ci 24 offers the smallest footprint of any similar device. This, coupled with its unique and sensible front exiting media path, offers users with limited space a huge space-saving advantage over rival 24" desktop scanners with much bigger footprints and the disadvantage of desk-disrupting rear exiting media.

HP today expanded its graphic arts portfolio to help its customers print top-quality, high-value materials and capture a larger share of a $124 billion global digital printing market.⁽¹⁾

Delivering on its strategy to drive the analog-to-digital print transformation, HP introduced digital presses, large-format printers, finishing and workflow solutions, services, and business-development programs, while also announcing significant progress in reducing the environmental impact of printing.

The company’s broad portfolio helps print service providers grow their businesses through new high-value digital applications ranging from publishing and transpromotional statements to marketing collateral, packaging and large-format signage.

HP is demonstrating its new solutions at Ipex 2010, the major graphic arts tradeshow of the year. HP has the largest stand and display of digital printing technologies at the show, including a simulated production floor and customer presentations that showcase HP’s extensive range of real-world applications.

Highlights include:

• the HP T200 Color Inkjet Web Press, the company’s first extension to the high-volume inkjet portfolio, which offers a lower-cost⁽²⁾ and smaller, 20-inch solution for print service providers seeking to adopt full-color inkjet web printing
• the HP Indigo 7500 Digital Press, a top-of-the-line, highly automated press designed to replace small and midsize offset presses for high-quality color applications such as photo books, marketing collateral and personalized direct mail
• the entry-level HP Indigo 3550 Digital Press that offers proven HP Indigo quality at a more affordable price
• four new HP Scitex large-format printers, including the first HP Scitex systems to offer odorless HP Latex Inks and two UV-curable printers, significantly reducing environmental impact compared to solvent inks while also delivering superior quality for high-profit signage applications
• the HP Designjet Z5200 Printer for copy shops, quick-printing firms and other small commercial print businesses interested in entering the large-format market
• new HP SmartStream workflow solutions and a range of finishing systems from HP and its partners, which improve productivity by up to 20 percent for commercial print jobs
• the HP Color Print Module, available for the first time in the new Pitney Bowes Envelope Messaging System, for high-value direct mail with color text and graphics personalization