Category: Europe

Xerox buys a UK company and HP stalks in the US to expand their respective managed print services On May 27, 2011 by Nathan Eddy eWEEK USA 2012. Ziff Davis Enterprise Inc. All Rights Reserved. 0 Both Hewlett-Packard and Xerox have made acquisitions on both sides of the Atlantic in an effort to bolster their managed print services. Xerox announced its acquisition of a UK-based print services company, just as technology giant HP revealed that it sig

This is achieved through Ricoh's expertise in Managed Document Services, Production Printing, Office Solutions and IT Services. By working with Ricoh, organisations can streamline the way they work, become more efficient and profitable ...

"We believe that businesses will be more process-orientated,requiring critical information to be more centralised in that data can be received, stored and retrieved by employees. Such transparency means decision making becomes less hierarchical and allows employees who are collaborating directly with customers to make important business decisions without delay," says Chas Moloney, Director, Ricoh UK.

Lexmark is ditching its three year old ValuePrint channel programme and replacing it with a solutions-focused set-up dubbed Business Solutions Dealer, which it claims will be have a tighter fit with its "high-value approach". The new programme has been designed to include fully managed print services and work-flow enhancing solutions, and will also offer new software and dedicated support designed to help partners take a more solutions-focused approach, Lexmark said. "[This is] an important evol

But as service providers have developed managed print services over the last few years, certain market influences have recently begun to impact their further development. Increasingly, what is termed convergence has seen network enabled print and imaging devices come under the remit of the IT department, with all that that entails. High profile incidents have occurred where MFDs have been targeted for attack, as they not only have network interfaces, but browsers that can be leveraged to gain in

The Government plans to save of up to €22m a year by reducing the one-to-one ratio that exists between staff and printing devices in some public sector offices.

Building on its joint success in North America, today EFI™ (Nasdaq: EFII) and Epson have launched new Designer Edition product bundles in Europe, bringing a unique and complete proofing solution to creative professionals. Combining award-winning Epson Stylus Pro printers with an industry-leading EFI eXpress for Epson Software RIP, these bundles are engineered to deliver powerful yet easy-to-use solutions for professional graphic designers and photographers, enabling them to print their creative visions with unsurpassed color accuracy.

MANAGED print services leader Bryan S Ryan hosts a major convergence conference next month to show Irish businesses how they can slash IT costs by 40 percent and more while also maximising workplace efficiencies and improving network security. The objective of the March 8 event at the national Convention Centre is to show companies how powerful a tool managed print services (MPS) can be for organisations striving to do more with less on reduced budgets and less manpower. The event is called Conv

The European managed print services market is a huge opportunity, positioned to overtake North America as the largest MPS market in the world by 2013. But exactly what does that opportunity look like? This year, Photizo estimates there will be 5,000 new MPS contract opportunities across Europe. New engagements are prolific within Europe as MPS evolves and is increasingly adopted by smaller businesses. While the opportunity is large, many vendors aren’t even aware of all the new MPS opportunities that come into market and as MPS penetrates further into the SMB market, these potential engagements may become more ...

Print Audit®, the preeminent provider of MPS tools, has followed up its best revenue month ever with the launch of a disruptive new business model. In the past, print management solution sales have greatly benefited end-user organizations and software vendors, but they have put little into the pocket of the office equipment provider. Print Audit is changing that with the launch of Print Audit Premier. Print Audit Premier is a new subscription plan that gives dealers access to all of Print Audit'

-->-->LONDON, February 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Canon Europe, world-leader in imaging solutions, has strengthened its offering in the Medical maging arena by acquiring Netherlands-based Medical solutions specialist Delft Diagnostic Imaging (Delft DI).

Delft DI specialises in two business areas. The first area is innovative
medical software solutions for sharing digital images and medical records. This business will become a future platform for the development of new Healthcare ICT solutions including Cross Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDSI)
solutions.

The boom in Internet-enabled mobile devices (IEMDs) is reshaping the European printing industry, offering new challenges and opportunities for hardcopy vendors, with analysts predicting a slow decline in future demand in print volumes for the traditional hardcopy vendors. In its latest report on the print market, analyst firm IDC says that, after a flat trend in 2010, it now expects home and office print volumes in Western Europe to slow down even further, declining at a CAGR of 0.6 percent from

Louella Fernandes examines the future of Nuance offerings in the printing and imaging market Nuance is a company with a plethora of products covering voice recognition, document capture and print management. As Nuance has largely grown through acquisition (about 50 in the past 10 years) it is probably better known by its product names, which include established brands such as PaperPort (desktop productivity), OmniPage (OCR), Dragon Dictate (voice recognition), eCopy (document capture and workflo

(Gloucestershire United kingdom) – In–Map Ltd , the leading developer of automated sales proposal software have announced the launch of a new Cloud based software which combines fleet management functionalities along with sales analysis and reporting on one platform under a common user-interface dashboard . A graphical map display of the printer environment for any company is the easiest and most informative way to provide an overview of the print assets onsite.

Date: January 26, 2012 New York, NY -- In the latest chapter of MPS success stories for Xerox, news comes from the United Kingdom where the Newport City Council (NCC) reports substantial savings, thanks to Xerox. The move towards MPS came as part of an overall re-structuring of the IT infrastructure in Newport. By using Xerox’s expertise, the council was able to reduce the amount of IT resources needed as well as lower the cost of printing pages. With the system in place, the 3,000 employees of

UXBRIDGE, U.K. Jan. 24, 2012 – Newport City Council (NCC) has cut its print-related costs by more than 25 per cent, resulting in nearly £90,000 savings, by applying the same Managed Print Service (MPS) tools and techniques Xerox uses to save millions for large enterprises.