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PrintFleet announces
strategic alliance
PrintFleet Inc and Preton, a provider of toner optimisation
and user metric solutions, have announced an agreement to
supply a joint solution that will give managed print service
providers a complete view of clients’ print activities.
Combining both companies’ areas of expertise, the joint
solution will enable dealers to manage a client’s print hardware
devices and oversee their user environment, with end user and
device information displayed in a single user interface.
Future developments might include a common installer,
enhanced reporting and in-depth toner optimisation, leading to
greater profits and more proactive consumables management.
Preton CEO Ori Eizenberg said: “By combining the capabilities
of Preton and PrintFleet we will be able to provide dealers with
new cost management capabilities that bring value to customers,
offer differentiated services and maintain margins in the
increasingly competitive managed print market.”
PrintFleet CEO Chris McFarlane said: “This alliance is
consistent with our commitment to continual improvement of our
solutions and to enabling our customers and partners to choose
other great businesses with whom to work.”
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Synaxon partners with Smithie
Channel services dealer group Synaxon has signed an agreement to offer a wide range of
products from UK distributor Smithie UK through its EGIS platform. The agreement gives
resellers and dealers access to LED lighting, lifestyle and white goods through the platform.
The start of the new academic year saw an important
first for the communications and content industries with
the opening of the Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy in
Greenwich. Sponsored by the Stationers’ Company, the new
Academy is the first in the UK to specialise in digital media,
preparing generations of young people for the digital age.
The Stationers’ Company is investing time, money and
resources to implement the new digital media curriculum and
help drive the Academy to an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating.
Counterfeiting costs
The Imaging Supplies Coalition marked its 20th anniversary with an anti-
counterfeiting conference at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las
Vegas on September 14-16.
The non-profit coalition, which includes Brother International, Canon USA, Epson
America, Lexmark International, Oki Data Corporation, Samsung America, Toshiba America
and Xerox, estimates the annual cost of counterfeiting to be in the region of $3.5 to $5
billion globally.
The Imaging Supplies Coalition says printer supplies are targeted by counterfeit
distributors because ‘fake’ toner is often indistinguishable from the real thing until it is used
and is rarely scrutinised by the consumer.
Bar Hill-based reprographics and
print solutions company Automated
Systems Ltd (ASL) has lent its support
to the government-backed National
Apprenticeship Scheme.
Since April 2012, ASL has recruited
new apprentices on average every six
months, offering training in all areas of its
business and enjoying enhanced business
performance as a result.
Sales Director Paul Derry said:
“Apprenticeships enable our business to
grow its skills base because the range of
courses available is vast. Not only are we
recruiting apprentices to help business
growth, our current employees are
embarking on higher level apprenticeships
to develop their skills and gain further
qualifications.”
ASL commits to Apprenticeship Scheme
Successful ASL apprentices Charlie Fordham, Slavka Stofova, James Paterson, Jordan Avis
and Samuel Hinchliffe
Stationers’ Company
supports Academy
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