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3D print an opportunity
to diversify
A traditional reprographics firm in Italy
has breathed new life into its business
by enhancing its existing 2D printing and
binding offering with low-cost, full-colour,
desktop, paper-based 3D printing from Mcor
technologies.
The adoption of Mcor’s SDL (Selective
Deposition Lamination) 3D printing technology
has enabled Digicopy to offer new products and
services to a broader customer base, helping it to
develop new sources of revenue and expand its
operations.
Eugenio Costa, Digicopy Marketing and
Development, said: “We believe 3D printing will
enable us to offer entirely new products and services
to an expanded customer base. We selected Mcor
3D printers because of their professional quality,
superior full-colour capabilities and eco- and office-
friendliness compared to other 3D printers.”
Now, the Mcor Technologies Certified Reseller
doesn’t just sell Mcor 3D printers, it also offers
full-service 3D printing and scanning services,
enabling customers to 3D print objects right in
the store.
“We mainly 3D print models developed by
university students for their thesis work – 1,000
students 3D printed a variety of models last
month alone – as well as prototypes for designers
and stylists, including some famous fashion firms,”
said Costa.
Under the group name Ethesis srl, Digicopy
now has shops near each of Milan’s three
universities (Cattolica, Bicocca, Statale) plus a
production centre close to Bicocca University.
Mcor Technologies Ltd manufactures the only
3D printers to use ordinary office paper as the
build material.
Prostate awareness
Following a successful Movember, when a majority of Balreed’s
male employees grew moustaches to raise awareness of
prostate cancer, the company has arranged for a prostate
cancer roadshow to visit each of its UK offices. From January,
all staff and their families will be invited to learn more about
prostate cancer and take a PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) test.
UTAX (UK) Ltd threw its weight behind
Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper
Day on Friday, December 12th, when
its 47 employees each paid £2 to ‘help
make the world better with a sweater’.
Staff are building on this initiative by
volunteering to wear ‘onesies’ to work on
the Friday before Christmas. Supporters can
contribute £2 to UTAX’s fund-raising effort
by texting TEAMUTAXMAS to 70050.
UTAX (UK) MD Shaun Wilkinson said:
“Christmas is a time to reflect on those who aren’t
as fortunate as us and when you think that just £1
could buy antibiotics to treat three new-born babies
with potentially deadly infections and £2 could
buy 18 sachets of oral rehydration treatment for
children suffering from life-threatening diarrhoea,
this is an important campaign to support. And with
match funding from the Government, the donations
could help twice as many children.”
Kofax acquires SignDoc
Kofax, a leading provider of smart process
applications for customer interactions,
has acquired Softpro GmbH, a provider of
signature verification, fraud prevention and
electronic signature software and services.
The acquisition will enable Kofax customers to
implement streamlined, fully digital end-to-end
processes using e-signatures instead of ‘wet ink’
signatures on printed documents.
SignDoc, Softpro’s electronic signature
software, offers click-to-sign and physical
signature capture, signature verification and fraud
detection. It is available for on-premise or cloud
deployments and processes over 200 million
electronic signatures annually.
Reynolds C. Bish, Chief Executive Officer of
Kofax, said: “Softpro has established itself as a
trusted solution provider with many of the world’s
largest banks, leading financial institutions,
retailers and government agencies in more
than 50 countries. Its software offers enhanced
capabilities to Kofax customers who want to
embed it within their smart process applications.”
Forrester Research says electronic signatures
are gaining momentum as prices fall and
businesses seek to reduce transaction costs and
speed up processes. In its report,
The Forrester
Wave: E-Signatures
, it states: “Enterprise
architects should include e-signature as part
of an overall enterprise content management
(ECM) and business process management (BPM)
strategy, making it a foundational technology
along with records management, eDiscovery and
other content services used across all lines of
business.”
Personal touch drives
growth of lettrs
Combining the benefits of digital messaging
with the personal touch and longevity of a
handwritten letter, social messaging platform
lettrs has raised $1.5 million of private
funding, opened a Brooklyn HQ and released
free iPhone and native iPad applications as
an extension to its established Android app.
The platform for mobile-to-mobile letter writing
boasts the market's first ‘social signature’, which
enables writers to hand-sign their messages, select
writing filters and attach photos and tags.
The iOS app includes a collection of designer
themes; geo-location stamping of signed lettrs,
including photo attachments; a one-stop letter
centre for organising personal and public letters;
a tagging system for easy searching and sorting;
and internal advertising space to promote in-lettrs
events and personalities.
Within three months of launching the Android
app, lettrs had achieved close to 1 million downloads.
Lettrs co-founder and CEO Drew Bartkiewicz
said: “The disposable messaging apps today are a
joke, nothing more than digital crack for society’s
youth. Our company is committed to transforming
the future of written communication and to power
the lasting mobile letters we knew the world
could write, even in a fully mobile network. lettrs
is engaging the permanent words in social, with
a wildly popular response to counter secret and
superfluous messages.”
SignDoc on a Samsung tablet
Christmas jumpers for good
