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Last month, Canon UK marked its 40th
anniversary with a birthday celebration
in Belfast. Canon Business Machines was
established in the UK on 21st June 1976 when
the key focus was on sales of calculators,
micrographic equipment and photocopiers.
In 1982, it merged with a separate camera
sales operation to create Canon UK. Today,
Canon UK has a head office in Reigate, Surrey
and regional offices in London, Birmingham,
Livingston (Scotland) and Belfast.
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Canon UK celebrates
40th anniversary
Apogee completes first
German acquisition
Apogee Corporation Ltd has completed
the acquisition of BAS Burosysteme GmbH,
a privately-owned
and independent
managed print services
dealership based in
Hanover, Germany.
Established in 1984
by Managing Director
Karl-Heinz Witscher, BAS has more than 1,000
network MFDs and document workflow systems
under contract. It is a long-standing Canon
partner and also supplies and supports HP, UTAX
and OKI technology.
Jason Collins, Apogee Joint CEO, said: “This
is Apogee’s first acquisition in Germany and is a
significant step in our European expansion. We
already have a large client base across Northern
Europe and the acquisition of BAS gives us a
well-established hub from where we can co-
ordinate our European operations and manage
service delivery locally.”
Cartridge World sees
potential in mobile
printing
Cartridge World
has launched
a new mobile
printing app
and announced
plans to create
a network of
public print
stations in
conjunction with
Samsung.
The PrintWorld
app, initially
available in the US,
gives consumers
the ability to print
and scan from/to
a smartphone, tablet or laptop when away from
the office.
In the future, mobile workers will be able to
use the app to make use of thousands of printers
placed by Cartridgeworld and Samsung in rail/
bus stations, retail outlets, shopping malls and
educational establishments across the US and
then globally.
Cartridge World franchisees will maintain the
printers and provide support to PrintWorld mobile
print locations.
Cartridge World has nearly 400 stores in
North America and over 1,000 in 55 countries
worldwide. It plans to open an additional 3,000
stores by 2019.
HP introduces new management tools
HP has introduced new software to help
IT managers make their print environment
more mobile, secure and productive.
New offerings encompass mobile print
solutions that simplify printing from mobile devices
to printers on a corporate network and business
intelligence tools that help MPS customers
understand and optimise their printer fleets for
better performance.
New HP mobile print solutions include:
•
HP JetAdvantage Connect, which enables
Android and iOS mobile devices to print to printers
on the corporate network with a simple, PC-like
print experience. There’s no need to open a print
app or send an email to the print queue, and print
job rendering takes place on the mobile device, so
there’s no need for a dedicated server;
• HP Access Control Secure Pull Print, which
makes the print authentication capabilities of HP
Access Control available as a stand-alone offering
at a lower cost, with the same monitoring and
protection for print jobs coming from mobile
devices as PCs; and
•
The HP Print for Chrome App for local printing
from Chromebooks has been updated to support
use with the Google admin console. This update
gives IT a streamlined way to deploy and manage
the app across large fleets of Chromebooks.
For HP Managed Print Services customers, HP is
introducing a set of business intelligence tools that
give customers a transparent view of their printer
fleet, along with predictive modelling to help
prevent potential problems before they occur.
These include HP Device Control Center, which
offers interactive fleet management with real time
device status and location information, and HP
Instant Fleet Insights, which delivers enhanced
reporting and analytics capabilities.
Update printer fleets to make
most of BYOD, says Annodata
Annodata is advising schools to update their printer
estates to secure the full benefits of bring your own
device (BYOD) schemes.
Its recommendation follows a recent survey by RM Education,
which found that 29% of UK secondary schools have already
opted for some form of BYOD, with a further 26% considering a
policy.
Annodata Marketing Director Joe Doyle said: “BYOD and
mobile devices have the potential to significantly increase
engagement and make it easier for students to transfer work,
collaborate and, ultimately, learn. But in our experience many of
these mobility drives are being hamstrung by a lack of mobile
printing. It’s all very well equipping students and staff with new
devices, but unless documents can be accessed efficiently, when
and where they need them, any productivity gains to be had from
mobility and BYOD schemes will be lessened.”
