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FujiFilm Australia Considering Consumer 3D Printer Market

According to Gizmag, which interviewed Fujifilm Australia’s Michael Mostyn, Fujifilm Australia  is considering entering the consumer 3D additive printing market. Mostyn discussed the idea at The Digital Show in Melbourne, where FujiFilm had a 3D additive printer from 3D Systems on display.   Mostyn discussed possibly setting up 3D printer kiosks that would be similar to photo-printing [...]

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Printer, MFP Market in India Rebounds with Strong First-Quarter Shipments

While shipments of printers and MFPs in developed countries were sluggish in first-quarter 2012, the printer/MFP hardcopy market in India achieved a significant recovery according to market research from IDC. For first-quarter 2012, some 834,134 units were shipped in India, up 12.6 percent versus the previous quarter, and up 7.4 percent versus first-quarter 2011. The ink-jet hardcopy [...]

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PrintFleet Launches Next-Generation PrintFleet Enterprise

PrintFleet, a Canadian developer of software for managing enterprise’s print and MFP fleets, today released its next-generation of PrintFleet Enterprise (PFE) software, which it says adds new functionality over the previous version, PFE 3.0. PrintFleet President and CEO Chris McFarlane says the new version, v3.1,  has already been installed on a number of customer pre-production servers and is [...]

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HP Appoints Kadifa to Head Software Unit

Hewlett-Packard has appointed George Kadifa to head its Software unit. Kadifa takes over from Bill Veghte, who was previously vice president of HP’s Software unit, and is now chief operating officer. Kadifa, who is now VP for the Software unit, is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry. He’ll report to HP President and CEO Meg Whitman, [...]

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Epson Adds Business Scanners with Scan to Cloud

Epson has expanded its lineup of business-class scanners with two new sheet-fed color additions, the WorkForce Pro GT-S55 ($499.99) and WorkForce Pro GT-S85 ($999.99), both of which include scan-to-cloud-capability and Epson’s new Document Capture Pro software. Document Capture Pro Software With Epson’s new Document Capture Pro Software, users can route scanned documents with a touch of a button to [...]

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FujiFilm to Launch New Company, FujiFilm Global Graphics Systems

FujiFilm is establishing a new company, FujiFilm Global Graphic Systems (FFGS), which will provide sales, marketing and technical services for Fujifilm printing products for the graphic-arts and commercial-printing markets both in Japan and overseas. The new business unit will begin operation in October. FFGS will integrate FujiFilm Graphic Systems Co., Ltd. a sales, marketing and technical services subsidiary for the Japanese market, and FujiFilm [...]

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$15 Scanbox + Smartphone = Instant Scanner

Three developers have come up with a unique new product, Scanbox, that used with a smartphone’s camera, enables you to take high-quality scans. Scanbox, which is made of durable laminated card stock, is designed to optimize nearly all lighting conditions for best-quality scans. Unlike an electronic scanner, it doesn’t require a power source, software or [...]

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Fuji Xerox Fills Out Lower End with DocuCentre S2010/S1810

Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific added two new A3 monochrome MFPs to the lower end of its lineup, the DocuCentre S2010/S1810, both for small and home office users. Only limited information on the new units is available at this point. The DocuCentre S2010/S1810 print at up 20 and 18 ppm respectively at 600 dpi resolution, and include 110-sheet duplexing automatic document feeder with [...]

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iPhone Printer Prints Photos Directly from your iPhone

We recently came across an interesting color photo printer that prints 300 dpi  4″x6″ photos in less than a minute from a docked Apple iPhone or iPod touch. After downloading a free app at the iTunes Store to their iPhone or iPod, the user selects a photo and then docks their iPhone or iPod touch [...]

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10 Percent of Printing Is Now Web Content, Reports Print Audit

According to an interesting new report from Print Audit, a Canadian developer of print-management software, 10 percent of pages printed in large organizations now originate from the World Wide Web. The findings are gleaned from reports generated by Print Audit’s Assessor print-management solution deployed in some 75 large organizations across a wide variety of industries. [...]

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