Foster City, Calif. - Jan. 31, 2012 - EFI^™ (Nasdaq: EFII), a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, marked its 20-year anniversary as a NASDAQ-listed company by ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square last Friday, January 27. EFI CEO Guy Gecht and the participating EFI executives wore suits with sneakers to bring awareness to Coaches vs. Cancer^®, an American Cancer Society^® event that took place this past weekend.

In his welcoming remarks, executive host David Wicks, vice president of NASDAQ, said: "Congratulations on your twenty-year listing anniversary on NASDAQ. When we look at EFI, we see a company that is driven by the entrepreneurial spirit, as EFI helps drive their customers' business success with a scalable digital product and service portfolio that increases their profits, cuts costs and improves productivity on every job from creation to print. Just three days ago, EFI announced fourth quarter results. EFI saw record revenue up twelve percent year over year and the eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth. The stock is up over nineteen percent year to date. EFI represents a visionary, a game changer, and an innovator."

HP today announced that Seattle-based PEMCO Mutual Insurance Company has upgraded its customer communication management solution to HP Exstream to improve the customer experience it offers through personalized policies, invoices, renewal letters and privacy notices.

HP Exstream enables PEMCO to more quickly communicate new insurance offerings and easily scale to meet the requirements of its growing customer base.

In addition to support for multiple customer communications channels such as web, text and email, PEMCO will use HP Exstream to provide consistent branding, reduce print and postage costs, and decrease its environmental footprint. Due to the low total cost of ownership for HP Exstream, PEMCO is aiming to achieve 100 percent return on investment within 24 months.

Jan 30, 2012 Amstelveen, The Netherlands – Ricoh Europe (Netherlands) B.V. today launched the Aficio™SP 300DN, an A4 laser printer for small offices. This compact device prints at a fast 28 pages per minute and is easy to use and maintain. It is network-ready as standard, offers versatile printing, and is available at an affordableprice.

“The Aficio™SP 300DN is designed to meet the everyday personal document production needs of busy small offices,” says Chi Chung Man, Senior Product Manager at Ricoh Europe. “It only takes 20 seconds to warm up and the first print is ready just eight seconds later. With its continuous print speed of 28 pages per minute, standard duplex printing, and maximum capacity of 550 sheets, the Aficio™SP 300DN will significantly enhance office productivity. The all-in-one cartridge means users don’t need to store or handle various consumables for the printers, and easy front access saves time in maintenance.”

LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Bringing high-quality color printing and workgroup reliability to a larger base of business customers, Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) today introduced the new robust, high-performingOfficeEdge Series of multifunction products (MFPs). These MFPs are built upon Lexmark’s new business inkjet platform and engineered with enterprise-caliber components to deliver the long-lasting, reliable performance of a laser with the color quality and affordability of an inkjet. A workhorse for small workgroups within the enterprise and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Lexmark’s OfficeEdge Series includes two new models equipped with business-class features and laser-quality color printing at a 50 percent lower cost¹.

The Lexmark OfficeEdge Series integrates seamlessly into most business IT environments, making them enterprise friendly for IT administrators tasked with implementing and overseeing the MFPs. Support for PCL and PostScript through the Lexmark Universal Print Driver increases enterprise compatibility, and monitoring and administering multiple devices from a central location are also simplified through the Embedded Web Server and award-winning fleet management tool Markvision Enterprise.

For the second consecutive year, Konica Minolta Business Solutions has won Buyers Laboratory LLC’s (BLI’s) most coveted award—A3 MFP Line of the Year. Once each year, Buyers Lab, the leading global provider of information and testing services to the digital imaging industry, acknowledges the vendors whose product lines are determined to be the best overall in their respective categories based on the cumulative results of models tested in BLI’s rigorous two-month laboratory evaluation. By assessing reliability, image quality, ease of use, productivity and a range of other criteria, the tests reveal the products that deliver customers the best value and most trouble-free performance. Also considered are the breadth of the vendor’s line and the vendor’s ability to provide quality products suitable to a broad spectrum of customer needs, from low-volume to high-volume.

“The Konica Minolta line continues to impress, currently including 14 A3 “Pick” winners—more than any other MFP vendor,” said George Mikolay, senior product editor, A3/Copier MFPs. “It’s a remarkable achievement that among all 14 ‘Pick’ winners, not a single malfunction occurred,” said BLI Managing Editor Daria Hoffman, pointing out that the only service required was for routine scheduled preventive maintenance. “When all currently available tested A3 models are considered, Konica Minolta has the best reliability record of all eligible vendors, proving that it offers the quality buyers consider more important than any other.”

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., January 30, 2012 – Canon U.S.A., a leader in digital imaging solutions, unveiled the imageFORMULA ScanFront 300/300P CAC/PIV, the latest additions to its award-winning lineup of network scanners that combine Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identification Verification (PIV) card support with networked document scanner functionality. The ScanFront 300/300P CAC/PIV network scanners are secure, full-featured and compact devices designed to improve the security of information being shared across federal government networks, while maintaining information quality, increasing manageability and lowering costs.

"With good reason, the government sets an extremely high bar regarding the security, effectiveness and efficiency requirements its image-processing solutions must meet," said Sam Yoshida, vice president and general manager, Business Imaging Solutions Group, Canon U.S.A." The ScanFront 300/300P CAC/PIV network scanners meet and exceed those standards, with the ability to digitally send documents without compromising the security of the documents and information they are processing."

While both print and document management services can lead to savings within your office, combining the two services will maximise savings, waste reduction and productivity. These simple steps can lead to many new productivity-enhancing methods within your business as well. Simply enhancing the productivity of your employees will increase the quality of work and the quantity of work that is completed, meaning that you have higher savings that are not reflected directly by your annual budget.

Print Management

Your print management program is the key to reducing waste and saving from your annual printing budget. While many companies spend upwards of 3% of their annual budget on printing, your business does not have to be caught in the trap of unnecessary printing. From your print audit to the implementation of your print reduction plan, your office will be able to optimise the way that you approach printing.

Jan 27, 2012 London, Ricoh Europe, a specialist in office solutions, managed document services, IT services and production printing today announced the company has, for the eighth year in a row been rated one of the “Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World”. The 2012 Global 100 was unveiled during the annual World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.

Dr Terry F. Yosie, President and CEO of the World Environment Center, and speaker at a recent Ricoh event for clients to share best practice approaches to sustainable business, said, “Ricoh demonstrates an excellent and long-term approach to sustainability in the way it conducts its business, and also sets a best practice example for its customers and peers. Global recognition is well-deserved for Ricoh, with the company going beyond legal obligations by proactively looking for ways to reduce its impact on the environment and promote biodiversity through innovative business services.”

Irvine, CA.- Kofax plc, a leading provider of capture enabled business process management (BPM) solutions, recently announced that Spectrum Health, a leading not-for-profit healthcare provider system based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has selected Kofax for its enterprise capture solution. The value of the contract to Kofax exceeds $300,000.

Spectrum Health provides healthcare services through a system of nine hospitals, two physician groups and a member health plan. It will be implementing Kofax Capture, Kofax Transformation Modules and Kofax Monitor to automate the processing of over 600,000 medical claims, human resources forms and accounts payable related documents annually. The combined solution will capture and process documents as diverse as more than 200 human resources department types and patient medical charts of up to 2,000 pages each. The documents will be routed to the customer’s Hyland OnBase repository for easy access by employees. As a result, Spectrum Health will lower costs, reduce manual tasks and improve efficiencies.