Following demos at FESPA Digital 2014, RTI Digital signs multiple new reseller agreements – Vortex 4200 wide format digital printer RTI Digital, Ltd., part of the Reprographic Technology group of companies, has announced four new reseller agreements to support RTI Digital’s global brand awareness and to grow sales of its Vortex 4200 wide format printer…

Blog Publisher’s Comment: Isn’t it “wonderful” that our taxpayer-funded Federal Government has sooooo much extra money on hand that the GPO can fund buyouts and early-outs?  If the GPO was a non-government-owned entity, I seriously doubt that there would be any payments for buyouts and early-outs.  There’d be a note – in one’s final paycheck…

PPoP = “plans printed on paper” In January 2014, I posted what I thought was going to be the final reading for the Repro PPoP Index.  But, because Ed Avis (Managing Director of the IRgA) undertook the effort to conduct a survey of reprographers and publish an index reading – what he calls the IRgA…

SOURCE: LANDA CORPORATION JUN 25, 2014 The specialty chemicals GroupALTANA and Landa Corporation have concluded an equity financing agreement under which ALTANA will invest €100 million (~US$135 million) for a minority stake in Landa Digital Printing. Both companies see the agreement not only as a financial investment, but also as a starting point for a long-term strategic…

PS&S validates single Newforma Project Center server indexing all content on distributed Panzura file systems Manchester, N.H., and Campbell, Calif., U.S.A.—24 April 2014—Newforma, a project information management (PIM) software company integrating people, projects and processes to transform building and infrastructure project delivery, and Panzura, the only provider of global locking file systems, today announced customer…

Blog Publisher’s Comments: On June 8th, I noticed a press release (see link below) published on the IRgA web-site, subject above. This morning, June 29th, I visited the web-sites of two of RSA’s most influential member-companies, Alabama Graphics and Jiffy Reprographics.  I did not find, on either company’s web-site, any mention of Zebra Imaging or…

Kind of old news by now, but I’m just coming across this news. I had the pleasure of doing business with Brian when he was with KIP and when I was with NGI.  Based on my own dealings with Brian, he is an extremely knowledgeable person and a terrific guy.  Back when I was with…

Three fairly recent Press Releases about Memjet-enabled wide-format printers (these press releases were found on Memjet’s web-site): On June 12th, 2014 – PR issued by RTI to announce that Alpha Imaging will become a reseller of the RTI Vortex 4200. On May 9th, 2014 – PR issued by Memjet indicating that three of Memjet’s wide-format…

THIS POSTED UPDATED A SECOND TIME, THIS SECOND UPDATE is being POSTED ON MONDAY, JUNE 30th: Today, via e-mail, Memjet proactively confirmed that XEROX is still a Memjet wide-format partner. The only reason why Xerox isn’t listed as a wide-format partner on Memjet’s web-site has to do with Xerox branding issues. (This post updated on June 29th, see…

Do the impacts (on the reprographics business and industry) of previous technology changes provide us any insight into the potential impact that HP’s PageWide wide-format print systems may have on the reprographics business and industry?  I think so.  But, admittedly, I’m often wrong about what I think.  (And, according to my close friends, “what I…