Katun Unveils Katun Business Color Toner for Konica Minolta bizhub C452/C552/C652 Applications
April 2, 2014 – Katun Corporation has introduced Katun Business Color toner set for use in Konica Minolta Bizhub C452/C552/C652 applications. This color toner set provides a reliable alternative for Konica dealers looking to boost profitability of their C452 series machines. The addition of these new toners to Katun’s comprehensive product line represents another active month introducing new imaging supplies.
Among the other products being introduced in April are the Katun Performance toner for use in Kyocera Taskalfa 3500i/4500i/5500i series applications, toner for use in Sharp MX-M182/232 digital copier/printers, and toner for use in Toshiba E-Studio 205L/305/455 MFPs. These products provide performance, life/yields and image quality that are comparable to that of the equivalent OEM products.
Katun products may be ordered by phone, fax or email, or via the Katun Online Catalogue – the one-stop Internet resource that allows registered customers to locate and order thousands of Katun products while viewing real-time information about their orders and accounts. Customers can access the Katun Online Catalogue, or find Katun customer service contact information, at www.katun.com.
Nuance Power PDF Frees Organizations from the Compromises of Traditional PDF Solutions
April 2, 2014 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a provider of speech and imaging solutions, has announced Nuance Power PDF, which offers the PDF software features that business users need to be productive at a price that supports deployment across the entire enterprise. Power PDF delivers high performance, an intuitive user experience, and value, freeing users from the compromises of traditional PDF applications, according to a Nuance press release.
With Power PDF, business users get all the tools they need to create, manage, share, and secure PDF files plus additional features only available from Nuance for document conversion, search, connectivity and more. Power PDF has powerful features to accurately convert PDFs to editable Microsoft Office documents, combine and assemble documents from many sources into a single PDF, and collaborate on PDF files with a powerful toolset.
With its Microsoft Office-style ribbon user interface, Power PDF reportedly minimizes the learning curve and maximizes productivity by enabling users to transition effortlessly between word processing and PDF publishing. The software makes it easy to share and collaborate on work seamlessly across an organization as well as externally – all while providing document control and security. Power PDF is priced to be affordably deployed to all business users in an enterprise, enabling all employees to assemble, compare, convert, create, dictate, edit, read, redact, scan, search, secure, sign, print and validate PDF documents and forms with unprecedented ease and speed.
Key new features in Power PDF, according to Nuance, include:
Combine and assemble documents with ease. Combine files and remove or replace pages in complex documents with drag-and-drop ease. For instance, in maintenance manuals or government regulation documents, users can update content without losing links to other parts of the document. For review use cases, they can utilize batch tools to automate repetitive tasks and improve efficiency throughout the workplace.
Side-by-side document comparison. Quickly identify differences between two versions of a document with a side-by-side comparison tool that accurately highlights changes in text and visuals, and provides a summary report of all changes.
Commenting and review. Nuance Dragon Notes voice recognition capabilities are integrated into Power PDF enabling users to dictate text quickly and accurately into notes within a PDF – increasing productivity.
Easily manage batch workflows. Create workflows to automate large-scale PDF creation or conversion, stamping, watermarking, OCR, redaction, inserting or deleting pages, and Bates numbering tasks. For example, an organization can quickly look through 1,000 or more files to find number or word patterns, such as social security numbers, invoice IDs, phone numbers, dates and email addresses, to identify and locate relevant information for editing or redaction.
Power PDF enables users to quickly and easily create 100 percent industry-standard PDF files with security options that are fully compliant with all PDF viewers. Users can generate PDFs directly from the authoring tools – with Microsoft add-ons to Office and Outlook – with all tags, bookmarks, links and references intact. The software also faithfully converts PDF files – even with complex layouts such as columns, tables and graphics – to Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect and other authoring formats – saving users valuable time.
Nuance Power PDF has secure delivery, document inspection, redaction, encryption and digital rights management capabilities to control access to documents, inside and outside of the enterprise. The software can deploy PDF files in read-only mode to enforce compliance with SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, eDiscovery and other internal control best practices and regulatory mandates.
Power PDF also integrates with many third-party applications, enabling organizations to incorporate PDF into existing workflows, increasing organizational, operational and worker efficiency. For example, small offices can connect to popular cloud-based collaboration sites, such as Box.net, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Docs™, Office 365TM and Windows Live SkyDrive®. Large-scale organizations can connect with enterprise-class content management systems, including Autonomy, Documentum, SharePoint and NetDocs.
Nuance Power PDF Advanced is offered for $149.99 with volume discounts available. Power PDF Standard for individuals, home offices and small workgroups is offered for $99.99. For additional information on features, free evaluation software, pricing and volume licensing programs, visit http://www.nuance.com/go/powerpdf.
OKI Data Americas Welcomes Akio Samata as Executive Vice President and CFO
April 1, 2014 – OKI Data Americas has announced the appointment of Akio Samata to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. In this role, Samata is responsible for Finance, Human Resources, Legal Affairs, Facilities and Information Systems at OKI Data Americas based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Also a member of OKI Data Americas, Inc. Board of Directors, Samata replaces Kazutaka Onodera, who returns to OKI Data Corporation in Japan after having served as CFO for OKI Data Americas since July 2009.
Most recently, Samata held the position of General Manager of Corporate Services for Oki Data Americas, Inc. In the four years prior, Samata served as the General Manager for the Finance and Control divisions of OKI Data Corporation within Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China. Samata also served as the General Manager of Accounting for OKI Data Manufacturing in Lamphun, Thailand for six years. Samata joined Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. of Japan in April of 1985, and has more than 28 years with the Oki organization.
Document Systems Joins Print Audit Premier to Provide Customers with Proactive Support and Lower Printing Costs
April 1, 2014 – Document Systems, an office solutions provider based out of California, has joined Print Audit Premier to provide customers with proactive support and lower printing costs. Premier is a subscription program that gives office equipment dealers virtually unlimited access to all of Print Audit’s products for one low monthly price.
“After extensive research I found that the people behind the Print Audit ‘curtain’ were just as passionate as I was in helping my sales team become a true valued partner to our clients,” stated Joe Escamilla, CEO and COO of Document Systems. “If we can teach our team to ask the right questions and provide them with the same high level of support that Print Audit does, then we will become a more trusted resource to our customers.”
Print Audit Premier provides Document Systems with access to a full suite of print management capabilities including remote meter reading, cost recovery, rules-based printing, in-depth print assessment, as well as secure print release and pull-printing. Document Systems sees the ability to offer print management tools to their customers at a monthly, per page cost as a key reason for joining the program. “It gives us an opportunity to offset the declining profits we are realizing as our industry is quickly going in the direction of who has the lowest cost,” explained Escamilla. “It is exciting to see the potential in monthly recurring revenue we can achieve as we grow with the Premier program.”
The fact that the Premier program can provide detailed insight into user printing behavior will also help Document Systems play a more consultative role with their customers’ printer fleets. “Premier will allow us to become a trusted advisor in helping our clients understand the true costs associated with documents, whether they are paper or digital,” stated Escamilla. “It will encourage our sales team to follow a process to truly understand our clients’ environment, rather than simply trying to sell a standard Cost-Per-Click MPS contract.”
Integrated Scanning Of America Joins Crowley Imaging
April 1, 2014 – Christopher Crowley, owner and president of The Crowley Company, a provider of imaging equipment and conversion services, has announced that the company has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Integrated Scanning of America (ISA) for an undisclosed amount.
“Our two companies have been long-time business partners, working together on imaging projects for geographic and other purposes,” states Crowley. “This next step was an easy decision as we know and respect company principal Manuel Bulwa and have long been looking for the right opportunity to expand our conversion services to the West Coast.” The Crowley Company has had a California presence in manufacturing since Crowley purchased Mekel Technology of San Dimas in 2003.
In operation since 1993, ISA is a certified WBE-MBE 8 small business enterprise that performs on-site, near-site, facilities management and off-site document capture and conversion services.
For the short term, the entity will be known as “ISA, A Crowley Company.”
Ricoh Unveils Enhancements to InfoPrint Manager
March 31, 2014 – Ricoh has announced enhancements to its InfoPrint Manager enterprise output management (EOM) solution, which enables employees in enterprises of all sizes to centrally manage printed output, reportedly simplifying the entire output environment, improving information delivery, reducing risk and removing unnecessary costs. In addition to AIX and Windows, InfoPrint Manager now supports Linux, giving organizations the ability to shift between these environments, ultimately generating increased performance. These enhancements allow enterprises to vastly improve the efficiency of their operation by streamlining everyday print tasks while increasing security and control of the overall print process.
With the latest InfoPrint Manager updates, print and enterprise application Ricoh says administrators can:
- Work faster:
- InfoPrint Manager can deliver up to 50 percent faster server response times than previous versions.
- Keep systems clean during updates and move with an official uninstall process for InfoPrint Manager for AIX.
- Streamline:
- Combine email and fax support. Fax jobs can be printed or sent to an email destination where they can be converted to PDF and sent as emails.
- Simplify naming and file retrieval by using up to 64 characters (instead of the previous limit of eight) for actual and logical destination names.
- Add more flexibility:
- Convert Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™) documents to PDF format for easy viewing, archiving emailing or printing.
- Expand the types of barcodes you can use with Point Services Facility (PSF) and the Printer Control Language (PCL) Secondary.
- Elevate managed print services to Enterprise Output Manager (EOM) level via:
- Consolidation of all Windows print servers,
- Increased availability of the office print management solution,
- Automated processing, formatting and routing,
- Use of one job management tool for all output devices.
- Enhance security and savings in distributed environments:
- Utilize the Optional Pull Print Feature to allow employees to securely print critical information by authenticating themselves when they submit a job and re-authenticating when they pick it up.
For more information about InfoPrint Manager, click here.
Compass Sales Solutions Announces ezMPS
March, 31, 2014 – Compass Sales Solutions has announced a brand new product – ezMPS. ezMPS is a cloud product that handles every element of the MPS selling process and is so easy anyone can sell profitable MPS contracts, according to Compass.
ezMPS allows users to perform simple assessments that have all costing pre-loaded. Simply update toner costs and let ezMPS do all the work or create a more sophisticated assessment with in-depth cost analysis such as invoice cost, IT labor, future capital cost, etc.
ezMPS is fully mobile and includes selling tutorials, a resource center, MPS wizard, floor plan mapping, management controlled margin, reports, proposals, and contracts.
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