The 21st Annual Canstruction NYC Design/Build Competition was held in NYC from October 31st through November 13th in the Winter Garden and lobby of 200 Vesey Street, Brookfield Place (formerly known as World Financial Center).  Canstruction is an international charity competition that showcases colossal structures made entirely out of full cans of food.  The winners…

 Bluebeam gave AU Attendees First-Hand Look at Anywhere, Anytime Digital Document Management and Collaboration Conferences were held in Pasadena, CA and Las Vegas, NV (December 3, 2013) This week, Bluebeam® Software, leading developer of PDF-based markup, measurement and collaboration solutions for design and construction professionals, will be showing Autodesk® University (AU) 2013 attendees how to…

Ahh, life was so simple, back in 1970, when there was only one copier manufacturer (Xerox), no copiers dealers (there weren’t any, because Xerox was the only copier company), and nothing called MPS! Industry consolidation continues and the big manufacturers and dealers continue to vie for market share in the copier/printer business and, of course,…

We previously reported on Reprographics 101 that The Color Company (via its U.S. subsidiary, The Color Company 1, Inc.) purchased the assets of Service Point USA, Inc. Here’s a press release from 2009 that talks about another acquisition completed by the entity (Printing Investments Limited) that owns The Color Company. “FedEx Kinko’s sells UK locations…

Last week, I attended a two-day conference in California, and, on the second day of the conference, a gent by the name of Brian O’Leary presented information about “power conditioning” and about Innovolt devices that do that.  Power conditioning goes beyond surge-protection; power conditioning preserves the life of electronics equipment!  After listening to Brian’s presentation,…

I think most are aware, by now, that four different manufacturers are offering Memjet-enabled wide-format printers: Oce CW 900 Xerox IJP 2000 Vortex 4200 Excelagraphix 4200 Have you acquired one of these printers? And, if so…. Which printer did you acquire? What price did you pay? Did you order your unit with a folder?  And, if so,…

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What rights does a customer have when its vendor, with whom it has a valid contract for services, abruptly shuts down its business and, because of that shut down, immediately discontinues providing the services required by the contract?  Add to that, the customer did not receive any advance notice from the vendor of the impending…

I received an e-mail, this morning, from Robert Feld of The Color Company, and he provided me a copy of the Press Release you’ll read below. So, The Color Company has, in fact, purchased the assets of Service Point USA, Inc.  And, The Color Company has also purchased CFI (Chris Fowler International), the “financial printing”…

First, let me point out that, when Service Point USA was purchased by Service Point Solutions (SPS), SPS was known as Gruppo Picking Pack.  And, back then, SP USA was known as Charrette.  And, at the time the purchase was completed, Charrette operated two different business segments, supplies (Charrette) and reprographics services (Charrette ProGraphics). I…