Konica Minolta listed among "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World"
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that parent company - Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. - has been listed among "2011 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" ("Global 100"), a global list of corporations that excel in sustainability.
Corporate Knights, the magazine for clean capitalism, in cooperation with its partners has announced the annual Global 100 list since 2005. Focusing on sustainability of corporations, the Global 100 analyzes a number of companies and their activities on a global scale based on environmental, social, governance and financial data. After multiple layers of a strict review process, the Global 100 were selected from approximately 3,500 corporations around the globe.
Toby Heaps, Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Knights Magazine, says, "The Global 100 are charting out a new prosperity agenda reconciling the megatrend of sustainability with the mega-institution of the corporation. The kicker: sustainability can be a market-beating strategy, as the Global 100's substantial outperformance demonstrates."
New MFDs improve functionality, reduce energy use
Ricoh new multifunction devices, the powerful MP C2051 and MP C2551, have been released, offering industry leading productivity and functionality, while offering reductions in energy use.
These models not only offer key specification improvements, they also now offer many former options as standard as well as some new accessories.
Key improvements
- RAM capacity increases from 768MB to 1.5GB, HDD from 60GB to 160GB.
- Faster warm up time and quicker recovery from sleep mode with leading Energy Star TEC levels.
- Can now PRINT PDF/JPEG/TIFF files from USB/SD card (Requires USB print/scan option).
- Scan from the device directly to web mail (SMTP over/with SSL encryption).
Kyocera Expands SMARTtech MFP Series; Introduces Two New TASKalfa Color Products
FAIRFIELD, N.J. -- On the heels of fulfilling a growing business imaging need by launching the extremely well-received Black and White TASKalfa 305 / 255 last month, Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today introduced two new color counterparts, the TASKalfa 255c and TASKalfa 205c Color Multifunctional Products (MFPs). These new MFP devices offer efficient, business color with core functionality including the features businesses require most, with highly simplified operation. Kyocera’s SMARTtech, Simple Management and Replacement Technology, continues to put the customer in command of their business by increasing productivity, and overall ease of use.
“SMARTtech innovation gives Kyocera the ability to expand the market for customers wanting to add color to their office by lowering the entry price for our highly-reliable products”
.In support of today’s launch, Kyocera has expanded its broad, nationwide advertising and marketing campaign supporting the new SMARTtech products under the banner of “Innovation Made Simple”. The campaign boasts the unique TCO benefits of Kyocera’s award-winning technology these MFPs will deliver, according to company executives.
Out of the Box: Samsung’s A3 Venture
By Carl Schell, Associate Editor, February 16, 2011
BLI recently spoke with Ken Colby, Director of Printer Products for Samsung Electronics America, about the company’s foray into the A3 market. The journey took time, years, and as Colby detailed the process had obstacles, but “the message surrounding the devices has always been simplicity and consistency,” he said.
While they were announced last year in Korea and Europe, today Samsung released the 35-ppm color/black CLX-9350ND and 25-ppm color/black CLX-9250ND, as well as two monochrome devices, the 40-ppm SCX-8040ND and 30-ppm SCX-8030ND. Going back to mid-2008, though, when BLI traveled to South Korea as part of a private press tour, the company’s eventual entry into the A3 space was a much-discussed topic. So the arrival of this series is significant, representing a big and bold step for Samsung in its quest to not only build a more complete portfolio, but compete with traditional copier manufacturers, too.
The Process
“The A3 line started with an investigative process approximately four years ago,” Colby said. “From there, we dove into research and development, which led to preproduction in late 2009.” He then explained that once Samsung felt comfortable with what it had, it put the devices through even more internal testing, with a variety of material and media types, for instance. The company also enlisted BLI to do a private, prelaunch evaluation of the devices, “which certainly helped shape the way they were formed,” he said. “It’s safe to say we learned from past mistakes, and every step we took was there to ensure that we addressed all the issues.”
Nuance and 3M Team to Deliver Next Generation ICD-10-Ready Clinical Documentation Solutions
Burlington, MA. and Salt Lake City, UT. – February 16, 2011 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) and 3M Health Information Systems, two leaders in healthcare IT, today announced a broad, strategic partnership in which the companies are working together to deliver a suite of next generation, ICD-10-ready clinical documentation and coding solutions. As part of the collaboration, the companies will introduce Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation™ (CAPD), technology that will provide breakthrough advancements in clinical document improvement (CDI). Powered by Nuance’s advanced speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technologies, and integrating 3M’s extensive CDI content and expertise, the use of CAPD will become a core component to provider organizations’ clinical documentation workflow.
CAPD is designed to accelerate healthcare organizations’ transition to ICD-10, a new medical coding standard that will be mandated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in October 2013. By combining Nuance’s speech recognition and CLU capabilities with 3M’s experience in developing and implementing ICD-10 coding products and services around the world, the companies will deliver solutions to empower healthcare organizations to create and use high-quality clinical documentation to optimize the accuracy and efficiency of their coding.
“High-quality clinical documentation is a driving force behind clinical, business and compliance decisions. By transforming healthcare organizations’ clinical data into actionable information, we are delivering a new level of medical intelligence that, in the case of Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation, will not only bring substantial improvements to physician workflow; it also will facilitate more precise and complete coding and more accurate claims,” said Janet Dillione, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Healthcare. “The combined capabilities of Nuance and 3M will uniquely enable clinical documentation improvement at the point-of-dictation. Our shared focus is on helping healthcare organizations create ICD-10-ready clinical documentation that will streamline coding, reimbursement and drive financial performance.”
New HP Data Center Service Streamlines Design, Build and Project Management
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 15, 2011 - HP today announced a comprehensive service that simplifies the process of designing and building data centers by offering design, construction and project management from a single vendor.
The new HP Critical Facilities Implementation service (CFI) can lower clients’ cost of ownership by providing a single integrator that delivers all the elements of a data center design-build project from start to finish. An extension of the HP Converged Infrastructure strategy, HP CFI is an architectural blueprint for the data center of the future that allows clients to align and share pools of interoperable resources.
A recent Gartner survey(1) indicated that “a total of 46 percent of our respondents report that they will build one or more new data centers in the next two years, and 54 percent expect that they will need to expand an existing data center in that time frame.” Using HP’s turnkey offering, clients can realize faster implementation times and lower costs to expand their computing capacity.
BÖWE BELL + HOWELL Wins STC Award for Technical Documentation
Durham, N.C., Feb. 15, 2011 – BÖWE BELL + HOWELL’s (BBH) Technical Communications Department has won an Excellence Award from the Carolina Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). STC chapters award three levels of honors to entries in ascending level: Merit, Excellence and Distinguished. In the eight years BBH has participated in the competition, they have earned 26 awards, including an Excellence and Merit Award at the international level.
The stringent requirements rate entrants on content and organization, copyediting, visual design, and how well the technical communication met the end users’ needs.
OKI Printing Solutions Showcases its Groundbreaking Graphics Arts and Production Product Line at Graphics of the Americas 2011
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., February 15, 2011 - OKI proColor™ Series gives users unprecedented power to perform short-run jobs on demand, with consistent color accuracy and variable data capabilities at affordable operating costs.
OKI Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI® Printing Solutions brand, will showcase the OKI proColor™ Series, an innovative line of products for color-critical applications in graphic arts and production environments, at Graphics of the Americas, February 24-26 in Orlando. Powered by embedded EFI Fiery® and PANTONE® calibration on select models, the OKI proColor Series is a breakthrough in color technology, making short-run jobs faster and more affordable than ever before with the pro810 Series, pro910 and pro930 cut-sheet printers, pro900DP and pro905DP digital envelope presses, and pro510DW digital web press.
“The OKI proColor Series defines a new segment in the graphic arts and production market – never before could you print a short-run job in just minutes, with variable data output and guaranteed color accuracy,” said Randy Rickert, Director, Graphic Arts & Production, OKI Data Americas. “These revolutionary products open up the market for customers who can now equip themselves with short-run capabilities, without the significant investment that is required with competitive products.”
Konica Minolta Introduces the bizhub 652/552 Series of Monochrome MFPs
Ramsey, NJ – February 15, 2011 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced the availability of the new bizhub® 652/552 Series of Monochrome Multifunctional Products (MFPs – print, copy, scan and fax all in one system) with standard color scanning capabilities. With print and copy speeds of 65 and 55 pages ppm, respectively, the bizhub 652 and bizhub 552, are ideal for mid- to high-volume office workgroups that require a reliable monochrome MFP with network capabilities and flexible document finishing and distribution functionality.
bizhub 652/552 Series Highlights include:
- Standard Color Scanning: Scan to multiple destinations at up to 78 originals per minute (opm)
- Mobile printing via Bluetooth: Print and save files to a box directly from a Smartphone
- Production-quality finishing: Choice of modular finishing options including up to 100-sheet stapling, two- and three-hole punching, saddle-stitch for creating 80-page booklets, Z-folding and even tri-fold
- Ease of use: Large 8.5” full color touch screen; simple and straightforward operation with animated help and guidance features; optional USB keyboard
- High quality images: 1800 x 600 dpi copy/print resolution producing clean text, sharp edges and smooth halftones for professional looking documents
- PageScope Enterprise Suite: a cost recovery solution that enables you to better manage print output, track costs and accounts, authenticate users and customize individual preferences at multiple MFPs
KODAK Dimensional Printing Proves a Commercial Hit with Fotlito73
ROCHESTER, N.Y.; , February 15 -- Italian prepress and digital print company Fotlito73 has created new commercial opportunities after adding KODAK Dimensional Printing to its KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Production Color Press. The Borghetto Lodigiano-based company installed the revolutionary solution when it upgraded from the NEXPRESS 2100 Plus to the NEXPRESS S2500 and purchased a second KODAK DIGIMASTER Printing System.
“As soon as we installed Dimensional Printing, we produced some samples and sent them to existing clients and prospects,” says Juri Ferrario, co-owner and marketing manager of Fotlito73. “The response was astonishing—some clients immediately postponed jobs so they could take advantage of the striking effects that can be achieved with Dimensional Printing.”
Fotlito73 uses digital presses to produce high-quality materials, direct mail, books, magazines, catalogues and transactional documents, and is always looking for new technologies that can set the company apart from its competitors. Fotlito73 was immediately won over by the potential of KODAK Dimensional Printing, and quickly added another fifth imaging unit solution to its NEXPRESS Press for gloss applications.
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