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GRAPEVINE, TX and FAIRFIELD, N.J. – April 9, 2013 – KYOCERA Document Solutions America, one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today officially renewed the company’s commitment to its dealers and end-user customers. Speaking on the 40th anniversary of Kyocera’s presence in the Americas, company executives addressed more than 1,000 attendees from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Latin America, Mexico, Europe, and Japan, to unveil its focus on a 360-degree approach to a total document solutions company, new document imaging devices, advanced business applications, and marketing programs at the Company’s FY14 Pan-American Dealer Meeting.

Under the theme Resolution 360, Kyocera executives shared key growth initiatives designed to help its independent dealer channel better compete and strategically expand their businesses, leveraging Kyocera’s powerful document imaging technology, business applications and customized services.

Sydney 25 March 2013-Today KYOCERA Document Solutions, one of the world’s leading document solutions companies, announced its FS-4300DN and FS-C8650DN printers have earned Buyers Laboratory's (BLI) coveted Pick of the Year and Highly Recommended awards.

BLI bestowed its Pick of the Year award on Kyocera's FS-4300DN printer as best of the best in the A4 Monochrome Printers for Large Workgroups category. The FS-4300DN also received BLI's Highly Recommended rating.

 FAIRFIELD, N.J. – March 27, 2013 – KYOCERA Document Solutions America, one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced that Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) certified Kyocera’s FS-C8650DN color laser printer and FS-4300DN monochrome laser printer as “highly reliable” print devices. BLI, a leading provider of product intelligence for the imaging industry, went on to “highly recommend” the FS-C8650DN for environments with monthly print volumes of up to 35,000 impressions; it did the same for the FS-4300DN for medium to large workgroups with monthly volumes of up to 15,000 impressions.

When reporting lab results for the FS-8650DN, BLI cites “class-leading performance in BLI’s real-world job stream test with the PCL driver,” and reports that the device rated “among the fastest tested speeds when printing multiple sets.” The powerful color laser printer also showed “faster than average first-page times from ready mode and from overnight sleep.” BLI was equally impressed with the FS-4300DN, reporting that the monochrome device displayed “faster than average job stream speeds with both drivers,” offered “fast first-page times,” and boasted “faster than average speeds when printing multiple sets.”

Today, NSi updated the Kyocera capture component for use with AutoStore 6.0 service pack 1, the latest released version of AutoStore.

This build provides support of new Kyocera A4 and A3 devices and addresses several specific fixes regarding image and format processing:

1. Kyocera A4 Models Supported

– A4(low resolution – 480 x 225 pixels, small 4.3” panel)

Birmingham City Council is the largest local authority in the UK and the largest council in Europe.

The sustainability strategy for the city as a whole involves the council in scrutinising all of its own activities but also working in partnership with others to work towards sustainability.

Birmingham City Council is currently addressing the national sustainable agenda and is using KYOCERA multi-function devices to help reduce its carbon footprint, its paper consumption and the volume of consumables used in its printing equipment. They were also keen to reduce the amount of waste generated as there is a lack of landfill around the Birmingham area, highlighted in their sustainability policy. 

Savings

KYOCERA is one of four suppliers that supplies Birmingham City Council – the majority of the machines supplied being MFDs (multifunctional devices). The Council chose KYOCERA because of price and superior back-up service and support. In terms of MFDs, KYOCERA’s green credentials all ticked the right boxes.

Councillor Paul Tilsey, Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council said: “Birmingham City Council has a wide array of printing machines all taking cartridges at a considerable expense. Since installing the KYOCERA multifunctional devices, we have not only saved in procurement, but also in running costs. The devices have also helped us in reducing our energy consumption so choosing KYOCERA was a win, win, win situation.” 

South East London Shared Services Partnership provides ICT services to Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham GP practices. 70 GP practices use EMIS PCS Enterprise under one managed contract. South East London Shared Services Partnership Programme Manager Bruce Young explains how he has worked with Kyocera to ensure that its print network is always in peak condition…

In late 2003 SELSSP decided to look into improving the quality of its printer fleet to make it more efficient and reduce running costs: "We had suffered from reliability issues and needed to offer our users more robust and easy to use printers. The printers we had been using broke down frequently and used flimsy materials. We were aiming to cut down on the amount of support time we had to dedicate to resolving printer issues." Explains Bruce. A search of the internet led him to the Kyocera website, where he found details of the company's ECOSYS range of mono and colour laser printers. "The emphasis on reliability and low cost of ownership certainly resonated with what we wanted to achieve." Says Bruce. "We decided to evaluate the FS- 010 mono desktop printer for use in our 167 GP surgeries." 

Across Lewisham, Lambeth and Southwark PCTs surgeries use EMIS clinical systems software, so it was essential that the products selected were compatible: "At the time we tested, Kyocera printers weren't officially listed as compatible with EMIS," explains Bruce, "so we wanted to be certain that they could do the job before deploying them." 

Background

WorkCoverSA manages the South Australian WorkersRehabilitation and Compensation Scheme, which provides protection to workers and employers in the event of workplace injury. WorkCoverSA has close to 300 staff working across nine floors and prior to arrangements with Kyocera Mita Managed Print Services (MPS), was equipped with a printer fleet that incorporated 12 Multifunction Devices (MFDs), standalone copiers and 40 printers. While the MFDs and copiers were maintained under a service contract, the printers had been purchased outright and demanded ongoing costs for toner and maintenance.

The Challenge

WorkCover’s varied fleet of MFDs, copiers and printers, presented a series of operational challenges and with the MFD devices fast approaching end- f- ife and the associated service contract due to expire, it was apparent that new devices would need to be purchased and deployed as replacements. 

“One of the consequences of having such a diverse fleet of MFDs, copiers and printers was the burden of having to purchase and manage 20 different types of toners, with two to three pieces each for buffering, in the inventory room,” said Mr Chris Osborne, Manager ICT Operations WorkCover.

“This also meant that every time a toner needed to be replaced, people had to go from their respective floor to the inventory room. This, combined with manual ordering errors and poor toner management, sometimes resulted in a printer being down for days before the replacement toner was available and installed.”  

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. announces its inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services , Worldwide 1. The Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services is published annually and evaluates companies on their completeness of vision and ability to execute Managed Print Services. Kyocera has been building up the Managed Document Services(MDS) business for the last few years and now meets all of the inclusion criteria.

1 Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services, Worldwide, Ken Weilerstein, Cecile Drew, October 24, 2012

MDS stands for Managed Document Services. It is superior to Managed Print Services (MPS) because where MPS only focuses on output, MDS optimizes your entire document output process – from capturing to archiving, workflows to security and environmental impact.

OCM is an International Company specialising in bespoke end to end output cost management business solutions. Using KYOCERA’s HyPAS™ embedded device architecture, OCM was invited to develop a KYOCERA specific user friendly document output and cost management solution delivering embedded functionality and performance to KYOCERA customers offering a turn key secure print, cost recovery solution that simply offers its users the advantages of ease-of-use, productivity, efficiencies and increased savings in ways that no other can match.

“We are very excited about delivering our embedded business solutions for KYOCERA’s range of HyPAS™-enabled devices”said Mr Peter O’ Farrelly Chief Executive Officer of OCM International. O’ Farrelly also went on to say “By utilising OCM’s embedded business solutions KYOCERA’s end users will regain control and transparency against assigned values for all document workflow; printing, copying, faxing and scanning. Key benefits include cost reductions, increased efficiencies and increased productivity and the ability to turn cost centres into profit centres. Here at OCM we continue to demonstrate our market deliverables through our understanding of user experience requirements at an affordable cost, where the end user can purchase OCM’s software on a per KYOCERA device license (inclusive of all OCM core features including central management, secure print and cost recovery features) ”