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Going the extra mile
Throughout 2013, staff at DMC will be undertaking a variety
of fund-raising events for the Starlight children’s charity, from
a 9-day trek in Peru to a 114-mile bike ride around Yorkshire.
The Croydon-based copier sales and solutions company already
donates 25p to the charity for every planitgreen cartridge sold
and is committed to raising additional funds through its own
activities. Starlight brightens the lives of terminally ill children
by granting them a once in a lifetime wish and helps entertain a
further 500,000 hospitalised children.
www.myplanitgreen.co.uk/blog
Diary Dates
30 April-May 2
Sign & Digital UK 2013
Birmingham
The UK’s premier sign making and digital
printing exhibition.
14-16 May 2013
North Print & Pack 2013
Harrogate
An essential exhibition for commercial
printers and CRDs, their suppliers and
their customers. A great chance to see all
the latest print, finishing and packaging
technology, plus associated services, under
one roof.
www.printandpack.co.uk
25-29 June 2013
FESPA 2013
ExCeL, London
The largest event focused on the wide
format print industry, FESPA provides a
platform to see the latest equipment and
consumables in digital printing.
www.fespa.com
25-27 June 2013
European Sign Expo
Running alongside FESPA, this new
three-day event organised in association
with the European Sign Federation
highlights innovations in architectural and
informational signage.
www.fespa.com
A new study by Altodigital, the independent supplier of digital print and
document solutions, underlines the potential that exists for increased sales of
document security solutions to small and medium-sized businesses.
Its survey of 500 decision-makers in businesses with 20-500 employees reveals the
extent to which SMEs continue to play fast and loose with data security: 45% of businesses
fail to lock away laptops at night; 20% fail to use firewalls; 27% leave important
documents un-shredded; and 34% neglect to change passwords on a regular basis.
Altodigital uncovered widespread ignorance of the security risks posed by printer/
MFPs with internal hard drives. A majority of business owners (54%) said they took no
measures to protect data stored on such devices; and one in six fails to wipe internal hard
drives when devices are given away, dumped or sold, meaning that potentially millions of
sensitive documents could end up in the wrong hands and be used for fraudulent activity.
More than half of businesses regularly scan private documents, including passports
(56%), birth certificates (44%), utility bills (38%), bank statements or financial records
(44%). Under EU proposals any company that holds personal information could be fined
2% of their annual turnover if they are found to be in
breach of data protection laws.
One third said they had had their IT systems hacked at
some stage in the past.
Tony Burnett, group sales director at Altodigital, said:
“It’s concerning to see so many businesses showing such
a lack of awareness to document security. We have been
shocked by how many businesses are failing to protect the
hard drives in their printers and photocopiers. Handling
sensitive data is a serious responsibility and one that should
be managed right from the very top.”
Innovation Award
PrintIT Reseller
is pleased to give an Editor’s Choice
award to Brother’s J-4510DW A3-capable printer,
already the recipient of an iF Product Design Award
2013 and EOPA New Product Innovation
Award. The clever combination
of an A3 bypass tray and
landscape printing has
enabled Brother to offer
occasional A3 output from an
A4-sized device. Brother owns
79% of the A3 inkjet market
and earlier this year sold its
millionth A3 printer in Europe.
Poor document security highlights
opportunities for resellers
Uniprint adds to Infinity with
‘unique’ print archiving and
reporting tools
The new version of Uniprint’s print management solution,
Infinity 8.1, includes new reporting and archiving
functions that could be used by resellers to provide
customised solutions.
One of the highlights is a Statistics Module that captures all
information about a print job, such as the user, the application
they are printing from, how many pages are output, whether
they are B&W or colour etc.. This will allow users to be more
proactive in how they manage printer deployments, for example
by identifying under- or over-used printers.
The second advance is a unique print job archiving feature
that, when turned on, captures all print jobs as PDFs and stores
them in a directory for later analysis. At this stage, functionality is
fairly rudimentary: you can search PDF Tags and Indexes, but can’t
yet apply rules to automatically flag up certain types of document.
Arron Fu, VP of Software Development at Uniprint, told
PrintIT Reseller
that he expects this to change: “Our next release
might have a rule stating that if there is a print job with VISA
number characteristics, say, it would automatically be flagged and
an alert sent to an administrator,” he said.
For the time being, Uniprint is leaving this kind of
customisation to the channel on the basis that resellers will have
a clearer understanding of the needs of individual customers and
vertical markets.
Uniprint has added print archiving and statistics modules to
the Infinity secure print and print management solution.