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In the news
New head of
marketing
James Lawton-Hill has been
appointed as the new Head
of Marketing for Brother UK
as the company prepares
to launch a series of new
technology products and
online business support services in 2013.
Lawton-Hill joined Brother UK in 2010 with
responsibility for developing key customer accounts and
marketing intelligence. He has implemented a new market
development strategy for the company and managed
its channel marketing team, which provides support to
distributors and resellers of Brother products. He has also
successfully introduced a new social media strategy for the
company to increase engagement with channel partners
and Brother’s end users.
www.brother.co.uk
Five year print partnership
Balreed has been chosen by the organisers of
The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship played at
St Andrews, as the official supplier of print and
document technology.
This is the fifth year the event will rely on Balreed
throughout the four-day tournament to provide and support
print, copy and scan devices to media tents, European tour
offices and tournament offices across all three courses that
the event plays on.
www.balreed.com
Platform of choice
Synaxon has selected Level Platforms’ Managed Workplace as the exclusive
remote monitoring and management platform of choice for its expanding
membership community. It has signed a formal agreement with the Canadian
company and will be encouraging resellers to deploy the Level Platforms
Managed Workplace platform to extend their opportunities in the growing
UK market for remote managed services.
Designed specifically for IT service providers, Level Platforms’ Managed Workplace
delivers a comprehensive and easy to use set of features that enable service providers
to see everything happening in the customer’s network, proactively manage issues and
deliver highly profitable support services to help generate new
recurring revenues, increase sales and significantly lower
operating costs.
www.levelplatforms.com
Environmental programme fifth anniversary
A pioneering world-first Carbon Positive
Plus+ environmental programme
launched by Océ UK for the printing
industry, driven by customer demand has
celebrated its fifth anniversary.
Océ and Shining Earth developed the
Carbon Positive Plus+ scheme for the Océ
VarioPrint 6000 series of printers, which
involved benchmarking the printing systems’
energy consumption and operational CO2.
Five years on, Shining Earth has facilitated
procurement of verified carbon offsets for
every Océ VP6000 machine installed since
the scheme was launched. The total carbon
offsets placed under the scheme equate to
12,175 tonnes of CO2. This is the equivalent
of filling the O2 arena more than twice over,
2,709 Olympic swimming pools or driving
from Land’s End to John O’Groats and back
27 times or 7,609 passengers flying from
London Heathrow to New York.
www.oce.com
New printing innovations
HP has announced new HP Officejet Pro and HP LaserJet printers
and content management solutions designed to redefine business
and government printing by enabling customers to reduce costs,
increase efficiency and digitise the office.
HP Officejet Pro X Series, powered by HP Pagewide Technology offers SMBs, remote offices and branch
offices high quality documents at up to 70 pages per minute. The HP LaserJet Enterprise flow MFP M525c and
HP LaserJet Enterprise colour flow MFP M575c offer higher performance document processing and sharing.
This provides an ideal on-ramp to the digitised world with premium dual-head scanning, HP everypage
technology that ensures that pages are picked up one at a time and data entry that speed the transition from
a paper to digital office.
HP flow MFPs can be integrated with content management solutions based on software from Autonomy,
either on-site or via the cloud while the cloud-based HP Flow CM Professional increases collaboration and
productivity by easily capturing, indexing, storing, searching, retrieving and printing documents through a
unique user-friendly interface designed with the customer in mind.
The new offerings represent the largest upgrade to HP’s commercial printers in almost a decade, signifying
the integration of intellectual property and innovation from across the organisation.
www.hp.com
Kyocera new
recruit
Kyocera Document Solutions has
appointed Michael Curtis in a new
field-based role as IT Channel
Document Solutions Specialist.
Previously with Samsung and Sharp,
Curtis will work with Kyocera’s seven-
strong IT Channel Team to provide
resellers with additional support to grow
their Document Solutions capabilities.
A dedicated print technology specialist,
his experience spans the spectrum of the
document production and management
market.
www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.
co.uk