Digital Printer - Fiery controllers released for Ricoh Aficio MFPs:
EFI has introduced Fiery colour controllers for the Ricoh Aficio MP series of multifunction products (MFPs). The Fiery E-3200 and Fiery E-5200 controllers are available for the Aficio MP C3001/C3501 and MP C4501/C5501respectively.
‘The new Aficio MFP Series together with the industry-leading Fiery technology from EFI make it affordable for businesses to bring colour into their workflow, enabling them to complete more jobs in-house while actually reducing paper usage and waste,’ said Shun Sato, senior vice president of marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. ‘Fiery controllers also provide exceptional colour output and must-have security features.’
The Aficio MP models also support Fiery VUE, EFI's desktop printing application intended to make publishing of professional-looking finished documents fast and simple for office workers. Fiery VUE is a free download, allows users to interact with a document on-screen in 3D to sculpt and then preview how the finished document will look when printed.
The standard Fiery ColourWise colour management technology is also designed to help office users to achieve accurate, consistent colour. It handles Pantone colours and standardised corporate colour palettes, to help ensure brand identities.
For the security requirements of enterprise environments, the Fiery Secure Erase feature automatically removes all traces of deleted print files stored on the hard drive.
Contact: www.efi.com"
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Will Ebooks Jeopardize the Carbon Reduction Goals of the Book Industry?
The shift towards ebooks is having a significant influence on every part of the printing book industry, from publishers working to reinvent their value proposition to brick and mortar bookstores fighting for their future. But what about the carbon footprint of the book industry? Does this shift represent an opportunity for the industry given the growing number of books sold without even one tree falling down? Or, maybe it is also a potential risk as ebooks can actually hurt the efforts of the industry to reduce its footprint? Well, apparently it can be both.
Raz Godelnik summises that, whether we like it or not, e-reading is becoming the key that will determine if the book industry will meet its carbon reduction goals. It can help the book industry to move ahead even faster, but it can also become an obstacle that will delay the 20% reduction benchmark in 5-10 years. Publishers and other parties in the book industry that are involved in the efforts to reduce its carbon footprint should do whatever is in their power to get e-reader producers to get greener. It’s not an easy task as e-reader producers like Amazon and B&N don’t seem to be too interested in their footprint right now, but it’s a one we can’t avoid on the path to make the book industry greener.
Raz Godelnik is the co-founder and CEO of Eco-Libris (http://www.ecolibris.net), a green company working to green up the book industry in the digital age. He is also an adjunct professor in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics.
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Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Xerox "Green Dallas" Initiative
This is the Xerox Managed Print Services helps with "Green Dallas" Initiative, but any machine provider could support moving green.
Xerox Provides Money-saving Strategy
This Xerox strategy at Rochester NY city could reduce the number of devices from 459 to 168 multifunctional devices, saving $2,000,000 over 5 years as phase one of a plan. Costs and sustainability savings that cannot be ignored
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
m3i Maestro
m3i, is a complete software platform for Ricoh machines. Via a solution developed using m3i, m3i Maestro, it does link to PaperCut MF which is a competitor to Pcounter, Safecom etc.
m3i Maestro is actually is a single sign-on, integrated UI (copy,scan,print etc) which does not require use of the standard ricoh UI and is customisable.
Other m3i developments include the m3i Access Module which allows remote control of Ricoh MFDs via anything with a browser e.g. PC, laptop, Smartphone.
http://www.selectec.co.uk/
Friday, 4 February 2011
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