This stuff comes from a “Case Study” posted on Bluebeam’s web-site.  All reprographers should be interested in knowing about stuff like this! “(The) Challenge: In order to meet the Owner’s IPD goals, HKS needed to digitize and streamline the flow of information to all team members. In the past, the firm had used a combination…

PRESS RELEASE Iron Mountain Enters Middle East with Purchase of Controlling Interest in Endless Document Storage Services LLC Company continues execution of strategy to expand emerging markets presence BOSTON, Jan 05, 2017 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Iron Mountain Incorporated®, the global leader in storage and information management services, today announced it has entered the Middle Eastern…

The title of this post was the title of a post this morning on the popular web-site www.p4photel.com, a web-site devoted to imaging equipment dealers. (Mr. Art Post owns and operates that web-site; he is a  long-term veteran of the imaging equipment business and industry.) I don’t know whether it’s true, or not true, that…

Announcement date was 22nd December 2016 Apogee Corporation has completed the acquisition of the CityDocs group of companies, one of the UK’s leading specialist providers of in-house and outsourced print and digital document services. Based in the City of London with additional operations in London SE1 and Manchester, CityDocs delivers digital document scanning, processing, hosting and…

During October/November 2016, Reprographics 101 conducted a survey in the reprographics community, and two of the questions asked related to a) how the A/E/C “plan printing” business faired in 2016 vs. 2015, and b) how reprographers feel about “the future” of their business. This morning (Jan 6, 2017) the APDSP (formerly the IRgA) published the…

You in the market for a previously-owned wide-format printer or multifunction system? OCE on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/Business-Industrial/12576/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=oce&_sop=16 KIP on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/Business-Industrial/12576/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=kip&_sop=16 I was unable to find any eBay listings for used HP PageWide XL systems 0 0 1 83 475 Proactive Management 3 1 557 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style…

Blog Publisher’s Comment: I absolutely loved the Brother Dominic Xerox advertisement in 1977; that took place around the time when we had acquired, and were running hard, our Xerox 9200 systems. Xerox, having just split-off its Conduent enterprise into a separate company, is calling itself the “new” Xerox and is working hard to ensure that…

The other day, I put up a blog-post about reprographics companies active in the Tampa Bay Area.  Some are over or approaching 50 years in business.  Interestingly, though, the three oldest companies in the Tampa Bay Area are among the smallest in that area (in terms of number of employees and in terms of annual…

Blog Publisher’s Comments: Evidently, “historic days” include the day when a big non-core-business acquisition “gets done” AND the day when that same non-core-business acquisition gets “undone.”  I guess it’s a matter of perspective; one can put a positive spin on anything, even on something that deserves no positive spin, at all. In early 2010, Xerox…

By my count, there are, today, approximately 20 print-center locations in the Tampa Bay FL market area that provide “blueprinting” (or, I should say “plan and spec” printing) services to customers in the A/E/C Industry.  (I am not including shops like Fedex Office and other office-print service providers, such as Staples and Office Depot, since…