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Printer wonderland
Robert Fulton has won the
‘Take a view’ Landscape
Photographer of the Year
competition organised by
Bayeux and sponsored by
Network Rail and Epson. Limited
edition Digigraphie prints of the
fnalists’ work, including Robert
Fulton’s winning Winter Field,
Stirlingshire, Scotland can be
seen at a free exhibition running
at London’s National Theatre
from 5th December 2011 to 28th
January 2012. The Digigraphie
prints were output on an Epson
Stylus Pro 9900 large format
printer using Epson UltraChrome
HDR ink.
MPS grows by 27% in 2010
The worldwide market for Managed
Print Services grew 27% in
2010, despite diffcult economic
circumstances, according to the 2011
MPS Market Size, Share and Forecast
Study from the Photizo Group.
Ed Crowley, Photizo founder and CEO,
said: “The MPS growth premise that the
tough economic climate is one of the main
drivers continues to hold true. Companies
are forced into more effective cost measures,
while simultaneously increasing productivity
and effciency. MPS closes this value gap.”
Photizo forecasts a 20% CAGR from
2010-15, with Latin America and Asia Pacifc
being the fastest growing areas.
Xerox/Fuji Xerox, the leader in Asia
Pacifc and Latin America, and HP, the leader
in the US, both increased their global share
in 2010. Xerox is 1% ahead of HP, followed
by Ricoh, Canon and Lexmark.
Data from the 2011 MPS Market Size,
Share and Forecast Study indicate that
average revenue per device will surge after
2013 due to more effcient deployment and
service revenues growth. Photizo expects
nearly half of printing revenue to be under
MPS contract by 2014.
www.photizogroup.com
MPS drives transition to
colour
A new report from IDC into colour
printing habits confrms that print
volumes are migrating from mono
to colour devices. The survey of
1,480 colour device users in the US
found that almost half their weekly
output had colour on the page
(47% rising to 50% in the largest
businesses).
Hardcopy Device Usage – Color
Usage Trends also found that companies
undergoing initiatives to reduce print
costs reported a higher colour usage
level than both the survey average and
companies that aren't reducing costs.
This fnding is consistent with other IDC
research showing that managed print
environments result in higher colour
use, as pages from other print service
providers or parts of the company are
brought under contract as part of a cost
reduction strategy. www.idc.com
Stay safe with Cortado Instant Printer
The hot topic of IT consumerisation has been given a
printer-related angle with the launch of Cortado Instant
Printer.
Cortado quotes a Cisco-commissioned international study
by the U.S. market research institute, InsightExpress, showing
that half of all data loss in enterprises is related to installing
unauthorized software on computers or visiting unwanted
websites.
One solution to this problem, it says, would be to make laptops
so secure that it would be impossible for users to install any
software or drivers. Unfortunately, this would mean that users
could only print to devices pre-installed by their IT department.
Cortado Instant Printer gets around this problem by allowing
organisations to operate centrally managed desktops and laptops
without printer drivers, while still allowing users to print to
network printers and wireless printers in the same Wi-Fi network,
such as in a home offce.
When a user selects Cortado Instant Printer as a printer, the
software searches the network for available printers and presents
a list of suitable models. Once the user has chosen the printer
and driver he wants to use, the print job is sent encrypted to the
Cortado server, where it is rendered and sent back to the user’s
workstation. www.cortado.com/instantprinter
Diary Date
ReMan Expo EU/
Paperworld
Frankfurt, Germany
28-31 January 2012
Running alongside offce supplies
exhibition Paperworld, ReMan Expo
EU is a great opportunity to catch up
with all that's new in the cartridge
remanufacturing industry. An added
attraction this year is the opportunity
to see Seine Technology's Pantum
laser printers and MFPs, the frst to be
developed and made in China. The new
devices are designed to offer customers
better value through longer-lasting
engines, metal frames and high capacity
cartridges. In a classic case of poacher
turned gamekeeper, the leading toner
remanufacturer is aiming to guarantee
supplies revenue by protecting its
cartridges with sophisticated chip
technology. www.therecycler.com
Small businesses waste £1,000 a year
on print
Online cartridge retailer CartridgeSave has calculated that one
third of small businesses with fewer than 50 employees spend
almost £1,000 more on printing each year than they need to
and just one in ten research the market to ensure that they
are getting the best deal. Its survey of 1,194 business owners
revealed that a majority of the 89% of businesses that didn't
monitor print costs output 500 sheets of paper unnecessarily
each week, at a cost of £962 a year.
www.cartridgesave.co.uk
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©Robert Fulton – Winter Field, Stirlingshire, Scotland