The U.K. Cabinet Office’s Government Procurement Service has selected Xerox U.K. as its sole supplier for MFP hardware and as a preferred supplier for Managed Print Services. The contract is worth an estimated £150 million for Xerox U.K. (approximately $237 million U.S.). The agreement is split into several categories covering MFPs, technology services, Managed Print [...]
Managed Print Services Market Growing at 11.7 Percent
The combined worldwide Managed Print and Basic Print Services market is projected to grow from $23.3 billion in 2010 to $40.5 billion in 2015 at a combined annual growth rate of 11.7 percent, according to a new report from International Data Corporation, IDC Worldwide and U.S. Managed Print Services and Basic Print Services 2012-2015 Forecast [...]
Ringdale’s FollowMe Printing Now Available for Sharp OSA MFPs
Ringdale has announced that its FollowMe Embedded solution is now available for use with Sharp MFPs equipped with Sharp OSA (Open Systems Architecture) open-development platform. Ringdale’s FollowMe Embedded provides integrated Single Sign On (SSO) user authentication, and secure pull printing (users enter their password at any networked device to release their job for printing). It also enables administrators to [...]
Preo, NewField IT, FM Audit Offer MPS Solutions with User-Reporting
A new partnership of MPS solutions and consumables suppliers - Preo Software, Supplies Network, FM Audit, and NewField IT – have come together to offer new cloud-based solutions that promise to take Managed Print Services to the next level by offering solutions that take into account not just printer and MFP data, but crucial end-user data. As Doug [...]
Toshiba Releases Preo’s Next-Generation Printelligence v4
Toshiba will be making Preo Printelligence version 4, a cloud-based print-management and cost-reduction solution, available through its authorized dealers for use with Toshiba MFPs. Toshiba is offering Preo Printelligence version 4, which Preo introduced earlier this month, in two configurations: a data-only product for those requiring end-user and device data reporting, and a full-version that includes print rules and user [...]
Konica Minolta Adds NSi’s AutoStore for Automated Medical Document Capture and Routing
As part of Konica Minolta’s targeting of the healthcare vertical market – part of its EnvisionIT strategy - the firm will be marketing Notable Solutions, Inc.’s flagship AutoStore software for use with bizhub MFPs for streamlining document capture and workflow in healthcare. With NSi’s AutoStore, typical tasks such as sending a prescription to a pharmacy or to an electronic medical record application can be performed [...]
Sharp Teams up with Agiliant to Provide Managed IT Services
Sharp Imaging has formed an alliance with managed-services provider Agiliant, Inc. that will enable Sharp’s independent dealer network to provide managed IT services. Under the agreement, Sharp’s imaging and technology products will be offered as a standard brand of the MITOS (Managed Information Technology and Output Services) solution marketed and delivered by Agiliant and across the entire [...]
Print Audit Launches Software Subscription Plan for Dealers
Print Audit has launched Print Audit Premier, a new subscription plan that provides office-equipment dealers access to all of Print Audit’s print-management products for one monthly fee. Under the program, dealers can then charge their customers for Print Audit’s software by per page or per device, while paying a fixed cost to Print Audit. According [...]
Lexmark Lands MPS Deal with Anheuser-Busch
Lexmark has just signed a five-year agreement with Anheuser-Busch, a subsidiary of brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev, to provide managed print services. Lexmark will supply printers and MFPs to the brewing company, as well as print-fleet management, to Anheuser-Busch locations across the United States, including corporate offices and breweries, and Labatt Brewing Company locations in Canada. As part of the contract, Lexmark will [...]
New Managed IT and MPS Programs for Konica Minolta Dealers, bizhubs with 9″ Color Swipe Touch Screen, New Color Line
At its annual dealer conference (“Inspire Customer Passion”), this year held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, and attended by Wirth Consulting, Konica Minolta previewed new bizhub MFPs that incorporate a new 9″ color swipe touch screen called Info-Palette, new business apps accessible from the touch screen of an Internet-connected bizhub, and rolled out new programs designed to [...]











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