Blog Publisher’s comments: a)    I have no interest in Illinois politics b)    Rauner’s investment firm, GTCR, was an investor in Lason, a company that purchased one sizeable “reprographics” enterprise years ago.  That company was Consolidated Reprographics, then one of Orange County, CA’s two largest reprographers (OCB Reprographics being the other.)  After Lason purchased CR Reprographics…

PPoP = “plans printed on paper” About the Repro 101 Blog Repro PPoP Index; what we’ve been saying all along about this Index:  – This index does not attempt to track “total sales” of A/E/C reprographers. It attempts to track only sales of “plans printed on paper”.  – And, by “plans printed on paper”, I…

I learned today that AIR Graphics, based in Quincy, MA, is the Xerox-appointed dealer for the Xerox IJP 2000 (wide-format, Memjet-powered printer) for the six New England States.   For those of you who are geographically-challenged, that territory includes:  Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. For information contact Leo Ladas, AIR Graphics, at…

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As one of my long-time industry friends put it, “the end of an era”. I kind of wonder who’s been ordering diazo paper, anyway. Here’s the announcement from National / Azon: Diazo Coating came to an abrupt halt  recently at our coating facility in Detroit.  Our remaining R&K Coater was unable to operate unless major…

Art Post, publisher of the popular copier-industry blog / web-site known as p4photel.com, put up a blog post, yesterday, titled: “5 Reasons Why You Should Dump Ricoh Wide Format Business” Art Post’s blog-post starts off like this….. “Let me first state that the current line of Ricoh wide format LED systems are excellent when it…

THIS PRESS RELEASE WAS RECEIVED BY REPROGRAPHICS 101 ON OCTOBER 9th. By Hakan Usakli Toronto, Canada October 8, 2014 PDF Magick – New High Performance PDF Manipulation and Printing software available. This software will be of great interest to Reprographics shops or anyone else that is serious about manipulating or printing PDF files in a…

 This info comes from from BBC News: 6 October 2014 Last updated at 02:26 ET Hewlett-Packard ‘to split into two companies’ Technology giant Hewlett-Packard, known as HP, plans to split itself into two companies, reports say. The US firm will separate its better-performing computer and printer business from its corporate hardware and services operations. HP…

SOURCE Ricoh Americas Corporation Partnership addresses students and educators’ concrete ‘wish list’ for information capture, transformation and management MALVERN, Pa., Oct. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced a partnership that will streamline the movement of educational materials, tests, assignments and other content into and out of Blackboard’s market-leading teaching and learning environments. The…

News Advisory HP Delivers Fast, High-quality  Image Reproduction with New  Designjet SD Pro Scanner Expanded scanner portfolio seamlessly  integrates with HP Designjet printers to  accelerate the design process PALO ALTO, Calif., October 1, 2014 — HP today announced the new HP Designjet SD Pro Scanner, delivering image reproduction of large-format prints at high speeds without compromising image accuracy. For…