Exhibition

For two weeks in June... 14 major manufacturers and suppliers to the UK printing industry, representing more than 37 leading product brands, are combining to present live demonstrations of cutting-edge solutions 'from-file-to-finish' in every area of on-demand printing. To reserve your opportunity to visit this unique event

Visitors will be able to 'walk the workflow' through five process zones –

The PrePress, MIS, Workflow and web2print zone...includes sector-leader Shuttleworth's groundbreaking MIS software, Kodak's outstanding Prinergy Connect workflow solutions Horizon's unique pXnet bindery manager and Kodak's InSite PrePress Portal solutions ...
The Computer-to-Plate and Litho Print zone... See Komori's new 5-colour B2 Enthrone 29 with SAPC, automatic cleaning , one-touch sheet caliper presets and 13,000 sph production speeds, Kodak's 38 plates/hour Magnus 400 III with Squarespot imaging technology, Pomeroy inks and pressroom consumables and a selection of substrates from Vision Paper and Board...

The Digital Print zone... features the fast-evolving Kodak NexPress – constantly driving production and application parameters to bring on-demand short-run quality print to ever more applications and sectors. See, too, how Airtec's versatile humidification systems can help improve the working environment and productivity...
Finishing Solutions Galore...No area has benefited more from new technologies in recent years than finishing and the PostPress & Mailroom zone shows more than 30 systems from Horizon, Renz, Kern, Perfecta, Foliant (and more) that can help revolutionise your production and rewrite your costings...

In the Photobook and Value-Add zone... you can see the brilliant Kodak PictureKiosk, Horizon's Casemaking and binding system, Renz wirebinding solutions, Busch's ram punches and banders, specialist stocks from Vision Paper & Board and the unique MagneCote magnetic paper...

WHEN*
Tuesday 7 June 10 am - 5 pm
Wednesday 8 June 10 am - 8 pm
Thursday 9 June 10 am - 5 pm

Tuesday 14 June 10 am - 5 pm
Wednesday 15 June 10 am - 8 pm
Thursday 16 June 10 am - 5 pm

WHERE
At the 785m2 showrooms of Intelligent Finishing Systems Ltd
11 Aintree Road
Perivale
Greenford
Middlesex UB6 7LE

HOW
Register via printefficiently.com

PaperCut Return on Investment Calculator claims 10% - 20% reduction by monitoring

Return on Investment (ROI) is an important consideration in most network technology procurements and print, copy, fax and scan business processes are no exception. Calculating the return in financial terms can be tricky for IT projects because the benefits and savings are often difficult to quantify. You will not have these problems if you calculate the ROI with the PaperCut system because the savings are clear and direct. The savings are implementation dependent, but simply monitoring printing will normally yield a 10% - 20% savings over an unmanaged print environment.
PaperCut have made it easy for you to calculate your ROI by developing this calculator. It will highlight the payback time for your PaperCut purchase, and calculate your environmental impact savings.
http://www.papercut.com/tools/roi/

The University Print Managers’ Group (UPMG)

The University Print Managers’ Group (UPMG) exists primarily to promote and advance best value and good practice within the higher education (HE) reprographics, print and design environment. It encourages more coherent resourcing models for reprographics, inplant lithographic printing and digital printing. It also discusses technological developments in the context of their intelligent application and management.

The UPMG membership consists of a group of professional people working in the HE sector, dealing specifically with their institutions’ print, design and print related services. Some members serve their local authorities and other businesses to generate external income for their HEIs. The UPMG has over 100 members from

around 80 HEIs throughout England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The aims are

• improve the standards of communication amongst our member institutions;

• address strategic issues regionally and nationally;

• find and promote better training and promotional opportunities for our members;

• encourage more coherent and comprehensive resourcing models for inplant printing;

• discuss and advise on technological developments and encourage their take-up in a practical way;

• help our members manage their Units more effectively.

They examine and discuss:

• processes that give value for money;

• environmental issues;

• disability and equal opportunities;

• Health & Safety and COSHH;

• Copyright;

• Data Protection Act;

• VAT;

• purchasing and procurement;

• facility management.

The UPMG cover:

Digital and networked printing systems

Distributed and central photocopier management

Document management

Graphic design

Inplant printing

IT in print

Lithographic printing

Paper procurement

Print finishing

Print purchasing

Reprographics

Staff management

Web design and systems

Print Manager Plus Client Billing & Authentication

The Print Manager Plus Client Billing & Authentication Option is a software only print management product. It is licensed per a single print server running Windows Server or Workstation. The product install changes nothing in the Windows infrastructure and relies only upon the standard Windows print subsystem.

Larger organizations running Windows Clustered servers, and Terminal Services or CITRIX based networks are also fully supported!

The scalability of Print Manager Plus has been engineered for any size Workgroup, Network, or Enterprise. If you are a small business with only 2 printers or a business with 100 users, or an entire enterprise with multiple locations and thousands of users and printers, Print Manager Plus can be easily installed and administered. Scalable to any size, it will audit, track, restrict, and secure your printing infrastructure.

Administrators hold on because Print Manager Plus will do the work for you. Product usability is way in the future, with an easy installation and setup, and complete integration with Windows Server, Print Manager Plus will literally run itself.

The software allows for Client Name, Account, or Matter Codes to be billed back to a central database each time a user prints from their workstation. Keeping track of all print job characteristics such as; Date/Time Printed, User, Document Title, Pages, Copies, Duplex, Nup, and the cost of the print job.

You can have the user authenticate their print job by Verification only or Full Authentication. The product can use variables of network Usernames and Passwords, Account Passwords, and even designated Usernames and Passwords assigned through Print Manager Plus.

The complete data and control provided by the product will save you thousands of dollars in printing.

With over 15 years of experience in the Print Management arena and by surveying and listening to our customers it has made Print Manager Plus the #1 Print Management software in the world, which is used in thousands of Schools, Universities, Libraries, Corporations, Governments, and Individual consultants.

Supporting our customers is our #1 priority, and to do this we have through the years created a network of over 165 resellers and distributors in over 65 countries. Our own internal sales and support staff is offered in 13 languages fluently, which gives us one of the highest customer maintenance renewal retention rates in the industry.

Which system do you use for managing your print and copy usage?

In October 2010, most UK Universities were asked if they had a system for effectively managing their print and copying. 72 universities replied. The following systems where used:

PCounter                   19 institutions.

GPAS                         11 institutions. 

Pharos Uniprint        17 institutions.

Papercut                   10 institutions.

SAFECOM/HP             8 institutions. 

Equitrac                      5 institutions.

Ringdale                     1 institution.

In House                     1 institution.