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Balreed was the sole print partner at London Calling Rocks event, which took
place at the British Music Museum in London’s O2 arena on 6 and 7 November.
Now in its fourth year, London Calling is a very popular print and finishing event,
featuring new products, technologies and applications from Duplo, Balreed, ESKO,
Fastback, Fujifilm and Vpress.
Specialists from Balreed’s Digital Print & Production Systems team were onsite to
deliver a key component of the end to end workflow demonstrations, with their high
performance digital print engine showing web to print function live at the event while
pre-sales production specialists and account managers explained how Balreed can help
customers grow their businesses.
www.balreed.com
PrintFleet Inc has announced the formation of the PrintFleet European
Advisory Board, comprising executives from PrintFleet’s OEM, distribution
and dealer partners which represent critical stakeholders in its European
business community.
The EMEA Board will help ensure that PrintFleet solutions remain aligned with the
strategic goals of PrintFleet partners and is relevant to the issues facing their businesses
and the industry as a whole.
Board Members include: Simon Wallis, Business Development Director, Spicers Ltd,
UK; Dave Collinson, GM Product Planning, OKI Europe, UK; Christian Gauss-Kuntze,
Manager OPS Business Development, Konica Minolta Europe, Germany; Chris Tito,
General Manager OSN, Netherlands; Hakan Lindgren, CEO TDO, Sweden and Chris
McFarlane, President & CEO PrintFleet, Canada.
www.printfleet.com
Secure pull printing
solution
Carolina Container has selected UniPrint
Infinity, the industry’s first printer-vendor
independent managed print solution
for any computing environment, as its
enterprise-wide managed print solution.
Based on UniPrint’s patented PDF-based
Universal Printer Driver and powered by its
Virtual Print Infrastructure, UniPrint Infinity
solves Carolina Container’s printer driver
incompatibility issues and helps the company
reduce costs by providing a secure, fully
virtualised printing environment for its largely
remote employee base.
The company chose UniPrint Infinity to give
employees an anywhere, anytime, any device
solution to print bar codes, quotes, invoices
and project data with special font embedding
directly from their email programs to any
printer. Converting print jobs to PDF, UniPrint
gives users the option to print, e-mail as an
attachment or archive the documents in one
simple step, significantly lowering costs, saving
time and optimising bandwidth.
www.uniprint.net
Lantronix’s award-winning, patent-
pending xPrintServer family is
fully-compatible with Apple’s new iPhone 5 and
iOS v6 without the need for users to download any
software or update their device.
The company also announced the availability of a
new xPrintServer diagnostics app on Apple’s iTunes App
Store. This free app enables IT professionals to monitor
performance of all xPrintServers from a single, simple
user interface. The app expands upon the xPrintServer’s
current built-in diagnostics, enabling users to locate and
manage all of their xPrintServers, as well as provide a
quick and easy view of the configuration of all accessible
xPrintServers. Additionally, users can test network speed,
view a list of printers, monitor print jobs, view log files, and
submit diagnostic reports either to Lantronix
directly or via email to other users.
www.lantronix.com
PrintFleet European Advisory Board
Sole print partner
Cura Technical expands MPS team
Cura Technical has appointed Mark Hubbard as Head
of Managed Print Services. In this new role, he will be
responsible for working with channel partners, resellers
and system integrators to increase sales for Cura’s range
of managed print services, helping users to achieve
significant saving and efficiencies in the use of print
devices across the enterprise. He will also be recruiting
additional specialists to further strengthen the team.
Hubbard has over 24 years’ experience of the IT and print
marketplace and joined Cura Technical in 2010 as Business
Development manager. Prior to this, he was a director of F.A.F
Ltd, a Ricoh and Toshiba dealership that he founded in 1999. He
has also held senior sales positions with Interfax and Alto Group.
www.curatechnical.com
xPrintServer
Support for iPhone 5