Solid Ink Printing Sustainability Advantages: Xerox

Deb Koehler, director of sustainability at Xerox, explains the sustainability advantages of solid ink printers vs. traditional laser printers. Deb addresses the impacts of waste reduction on environmental concerns such as carbon footprint, energy conservation and environmentally friendly manufacturing that Xerox practices, indicated by the Energy Star certification on various printers

Canon extends uniFLOW to mobile devices

Canon Europe is announcing the launch of uniFLOW version 5.1, extending the industry's first single platform to manage print and scanning processes to mobile devices including smartphones, tablets and netbooks.

Do they hold the key to printing and copying sustainability?

Do suppliers hold the key to sustainable development management information in printing and photocopying for an organisation?
Logically if suppliers of printing management systems (like Pcounter, Uniflow, papercut, etc.), were to count power consumption (uptime, running and standby) for , every machine and for every image produced and sheet of paper, used they could assign a carbon value to each factor* and this would show the whole life carbon footprint of the machine and the amount of paper used.
These factors* could be assigned a cost and from that a cost of ownership and idea if costs are getting higher or lower over time, so if the machine is becoming more or less efficient and effective.
This would clearly show the paper purchased, that is actually used by that printing system and the leakage.
Then we will be able to show the efficiency, actual paper use, by the printing system, carbon savings and the leakage of paper that is used on other printers.
Even if we just put in the paper as A4 & A3 80gsm white paper, we would all get a much clearer picture of printing across our organisations and times of peak demand.

HEIST Award Nomination for “Build Your Own Prospectus” Innovation

The innovative personalised prospectus jointly developed by the Digital Media Team and Print Services, of the University of East London’s Corporate Marketing; and on-demand digital print experts KnowledgePoint has already scooped two major national industry awards.


The project has been further nominated as a finalist for a prestigious HEIST Award – the premier event for Higher Education Marketing. It is being considered for the“Best use of Innovation and Creative Thinking” award. The judges will announce the awards at The Queens Hotel in Leeds on 26th May 2011.


Last year, at a gala event on the 11th of November 2010, it received a medal at the prestigious UK IT Industry Awards 2010, the Project Excellence Awards category for ‘Revolutionising Variable Data Print in the Education Sector’.


A week later on the 17th of November UEL’s personal prospectus building toolkit then took the Digital Printer Awards 2010 for its outstanding use of digital printing technology.


UEL’s ‘Build Your Own Prospectus’ system creates and sends a personalised printed prospectus to potential students based on their choices. As the personal prospectus is self-selected by the user it is naturally more relevant, making it a far more effective marketing tool.


The system also provides a profile for further communication and future evidence-based marketing, whilst also being greener and more cost effective.


“Jonathan Stephenson, Head of Digital Media at UEL, said: “These awards confirm our leading position in the development of user-focused marketing solutions based on an understanding of the expectations and objectives of the online prospect, linked to an on-demand digital print output.”


“The outcome is exactly what the potential customer wants. It is their own prospectus in every sense and we are finding that their further actions towards applying to study with us are much higher as a result than are obtained from more traditional approaches.”


He added: “It has been an interesting project to direct and is a triumph for the talented teams involved both at the University of East London and at KnowledgePoint. There are many more ways in which this technology could support our future strategies and it is good to know that UEL is ahead of the field.”


Steve Marlow, Head of Print Services at UEL said: "To be nationally recognized by different industry sectors at the same time is a remarkable achievement. These awards prove that the efforts we are making to develop technology and use it in new and exciting ways to improve user experience are working." For more information about this pioneering new service visit uel.ac.uk/myprospectus/


For further information visit the HEIST website http://www.eurorscgheist.com/events/awards.html or for details of last years awards follow this link.
http://www.eurorscgheist.com/events/winners.html

Kindle and Paper Paradox

Informal poll suggests nearly 70% of Kindle owners are over 40 http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/informal-poll-suggests-nearly-70-of-kindle-owners-are-over-40/ and paper is still preferred by young people http://www.twosides.info/video.asp?videoID=51

Xerox videos

Below are a number of Xerox videos that highlight the following topics. These include, change management, optimising the office environment and continuous improvement.
Assessment
http://www.xerox.co.uk/assets/motion/xgs/minitour_assessments.html

Change management
http://www.xerox.co.uk/assets/motion/xgs/minitour_changemanagement.html

Continuous improvement
http://www.xerox.co.uk/assets/motion/xgs/minitour_continuousimprovement.html

Optimising the office environment
http://www.xerox.co.uk/assets/motion/xgs/minitour_xos.html

Xerox Sustainability Calculator

The Xerox Sustainability Calculator can help you quantify your whole life costing and cost benefit analysis when considering changing printing systems. This calculator is very simple to use and useful for quantifying your financial and environmental sustainability. My one criticism of the calculator is that the actual cost and type of paper substrate impact is not in the calculation.
http://www.consulting.xerox.com/flash/thoughtleaders/suscalc/xeroxCalc.html

Ricoh Managed Document Services

Managed Document Services enables your employees to get access to the right information at the right time in the right form, no matter where they are. http://www.ricoh-europe.com/services-solutions/mds/

Ricoh House Interactive Virtual Tool

The Ricoh House is a virtual building that is set out the different areas (reception, meeting room, mailroom, print room ...) and departments (HR, Marketing, IT ...) as you can find in a company.

As a virtual visitor, you can select the place you want to explore and discover as we highlight some issues which you may be facing and why Ricoh offers solutions. In each room you will find a situation, the proposed solution and the benefits thereof.
http://www.ricoh-house.info/