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  • Canon Solutions America Announces New Direction for its Enterprise Managed Services Division

    Press Release from CSA, February 10,
    2015:
    Broader, more strategic services
    offering to be reflected in new name
    MELVILLE, N.Y.,
    February 10, 2015 – Canon Solutions America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of
    Canon U.S.A., Inc., today announced the launch of a new corporate name for its
    Business Services Division: Enterprise Managed Services Division. The new title
    is effective immediately and was created as a way to best represent the
    division’s ever-evolving portfolio of solutions and services offered to its
    unique customer base.
    The change comes
    at a particularly compelling time for Enterprise
    Managed Services     as the division,
    which specializes in designing, implementing and managing services that support
    essential business functions of enterprise organizations, is expanding its
    reach throughout various vertical industries.     As the business world
    continues to rely on expert providers, Enterprise Managed Services Division is
    poised to enhance its arsenal of transformative solutions that can address
    financial, operational, and environmental goals.
    “While our name
    has changed, our mission will not,” said Valerie Belli, vice president of
    Enterprise Managed Services Division, Canon Solutions America. “We will
    continue to offer premier fully managed solutions that can support the
    implementation and management of complex services operations.”
    As the newly
    renamed division broadens and redefines its market approach, Enterprise Managed
    Services Division will continue to offer current customers the same loyal,
    reliable, and earnest support they receive now, but with an even larger set of
    solutions scalable to support a single, local operation, or hundreds of
    locations within a global enterprise. Additionally specializing in improving
    workflow, processing, and output solutions, Enterprise Managed Services
    Division will continue to offer both existing and new customers a platform for
    continuous measurement of the implemented program against their goals to create
    success and lasting partnerships.
    “We are always
    trying to improve the services we offer our customers so that they fully
    understand our commitment to enhancing their businesses,” said Toyo Kuwamura,
    president and CEO, Canon Solutions America.

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    “Enterprise
    Managed Services Division is ready to take its business to the next level with
    great leadership, quality solutions, and dedicated employees.”

  • Openings and Construction Starts Planned for 2015

    From the A/E Graphics, Inc. Blog:

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    http://aegraphics.com/index.php/2015/01/16/openings-and-construction-starts-planned-for-2015/

  • HP PageWide Wide-Format takes on LED and Memjet Wide-Format

    “The large-format technical production printing market has
    traditionally relied on monochrome toner-based LED technology. Conventional
    inkjet printers have typically been used to produce color documents at
    considerably slower speeds. Memjet technology has been incorporated in several
    recently announced products. It can produce color output at higher speeds than
    conventional inkjet printers, but still cannot meet the same productivity
    levels or output durability of LED printers.”

    Link to full HP
    note about HP PageWide wide-format vs. LED and Memjet wide-format:

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    http://tinyurl.com/qblbtmu

  • ABC Imaging: We Want to Level the Playing Field

    Check this one out on the IRgA.com web-site.  

    Ed Avis, Managing Director of the IRgA, did
    an excellent write-up of Medi Falsafi’s plans to grow ABC’s reach throughout the reprographics industry.
    Link:

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    http://www.irga.com/abc-imaging%3A-we-want-to-level-the-playing-field/

  • A Newcomer’s Guide to Wide Format Markets – check it out, it's free

    Hi Joel,

    I
    sincerely appreciated your kinds comments about my online guide to wide format
    last summer on easywider.com
    I have
    just taken the entire guide and published it as a free eBook (PDF format). I
    figured it was a more useful tool as a PDF than a bunch of online pages to
    wander through.
    If you’d
    like to send others to get their copies (it’s free) – they should go here: http://www.easywider.com/newguide
    Best
    regards,
    John
    Switzer
    EasyWider

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    585-329-9948

  • Central Reprographic Association won’t be supporting Romney this time around (just an assumption on my part)

    From a report filed with the Federal Elections Commission
    ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT INC.
    585 COMMERCIAL ST.
    BOSTON, Massachusetts   02109
    FEC Committee ID #: C00431171
    Report type: April Monthly
    For election on 11/06/2012
    This Report is an Amendment
    Filed 12/04/2013
    And, look who contributed!
    CENTRAL REPROGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION
      2,500.00
    Link to where I found this report:

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    http://docquery.fec.gov/pres/2012/M4/C00431171/A_EMPLOYER_C00431171.html

  • Planning to attend the IRgA/ERA Convention in Atlanta in April?

    Being held
    April 9-11 at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, it is “    the
    show    ” for reprographers to network with each other.
    For registration
    information, visit www.irga.com.

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    If you have
    to travel to the IRgA/ERA convention with your non-reprographer-spouse, keep in
    mind that the Buckhead area of Atlanta is one of the best shopping areas in the
    United States.

  • On making assumptions!

    Classic stuff!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvTwv5o1Qs

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  • February 27th will mark the sixth anniversary of Reprographics 101 (Blog statistics mentioned)

    Well, don’t let that influence you to send me
    a congratulatory e-mail on this historic (err, hysterical) achievement, for I
    already get a lot of useless, mindless e-mails in my inbox every day.
    When I first set up the Reprographics 101
    Blog, I managed to figure out (with some help from a Google support person) how
    to set up Google- Analytics to track blog-visitor activity.      I
    don’t profess to be an expert in Google Analytics – how it works, how it
    captures information, and whether that information is reliable, or not
    reliable. But, it’s free to use, so I use it.      Since
    first setting-up Google-Analytics, Google’s made several changes, so, the
    information I used to get isn’t the same information I now get.  (I do not like “progress”, inasmuch as
    “progress” always seems to results in changes that are less than desirable.)
    When you read the statistics I’m going to
    show below, keep in mind the following:
    During 2011, Google-Analytics’ tracking of my
    blog stopped working for a period of 4, 5 or 6 months.      (I
    don’t know, exactly, how long “tracking” was off, but I do know that it was off
    …. and that was totally aggravating, if not thoroughly annoying.  I managed, somehow, to get it turned back on.)
    Beginning on August 1, 2012 and running
    through about May 25th, 2013, Reprographics 101 was published on the
    IRgA web-site instead of on its own.      (I was the Managing Director of the IRgA
    during that period and volunteered to publish the blog on the IRgA web-site in
    an attempt to held rebuild interest in visiting the IRgA web-site.)
    Blog Statistics, so far….
    “PAGEVIEWS” (snapshot on
    Feb 6, 2015)
    Pageviews today
    587
    Pageviews yesterday
    769
    Pageviews last month
    17,448
    Pageviews all time
    history*
    370,218
    *The number
    of PageViews reported by Google does not
    include     (a) the number of pageviews that occurred during the period
    Google-Analytics was turned off or (b)
    the number of pageviews that occurred during the eleven month period Repro 101
    was published on the IRgA web-site. 
    Considering the latter, I’m going
    to guess that Reprographics 101 has had at least 500,000 PageViews since it was
    first founded.
    “POSTS”
    Per Google, I’ve put up *1,809 posts on
    Reprographics 101.
    This does
    not include approximately 200 posts that were published during the time that
    Repro 101 was published on the IRgA web-site. 
    (I’m too lazy to go back and count the number of posts that were on
    Repro 101 when it was published on IRgA.com). 
    But, if I added those posts to
    the posts that were published directly on Repro 101, the total number comes to *over
    2,000 posts since Repro 101 was first founded.
    So, over 2,000 posts and around 500,000
    pageviews.      (As many of my friends would put it, BFD.)
    “BLOG-VISITORS”
    Earlier on,
    Google-Analytics, before some of Google’s aggravating, annoying changes were
    made, used to report which countries blog-visitors came from, and, from the
    earlier-on reports, I am aware that Reprographics
    101 has been paid visits by people from over 75 different countries    .  It’s now impossible for me to tell where
    Repro 101 visitors are coming from, since Google-Analytics now only reports the
    top 10 countries.  The heaviest traffic
    is (obviously) from visitors in the U.S. Second is traffic from the U.K.  Followed by countries in Western, Eastern,
    and Central Europe and Scandinavia.
    “POSTs OF NOTE” (as best I
    can recall)
    Reprographics 101 “broke the news” of Xerox’s
    decision to discontinue selling wide-format equipment in the U.S.      (Of
    course, that was before Xerox got back into the wide-format equipment business
    with its Memjet-enabled IJP 2000.)
    Reprographics 101 “broke the news” that
    ServicePoint US had shut down.      Right after that news broke, we collaborated
    with the Boston Business Journal on the story the Journal wrote about the
    ServicePoint US shutdown.
    Reprographics 101 was one of the first
    reprographics-industry news sites to cover the introduction of HP PageWide
    wide-format technology.      (HP invited me to attend the unveiling.)  Since then, Reprographics 101 has had the
    widest (and, IMHO, the most interesting) coverage of HP PageWide wide-format,
    and, we’ve done that because we think HP’s PageWide wide-format systems are
    going to be a game-changer in our industry.
    Reprographics 101 extensively covered the
    collapse of ServicePoint’s business in Europe, the resulting bankruptcy, the
    spin-off of its business units and about the entry of The Paragon Group into
    the reprographics business.      (SP was the 2nd largest
    reprographics company in the world, prior to the ___ hitting the fan.)
    Reprographics 101 conducted reprographics-industry surveys;
    this, to fill in when the IRgA was reeling and basically inactive.
    Reprographics 101 published the PPoP Index (plans printed on paper) in an effort to
    enable reprographers to track how they were doing vs. the index.  (Virtually no one pays any attention to that
    index, even though all should.)
    Blog Publisher’s comments:
    As I mentioned a few months
    ago, Reprographics 101 is slowing down. 
    With the rebirth of the IRgA (thanks to Ed Avis, who’s doing an
    absolutely marvelous job with the IRgA web-site), I’m not posting everything
    that I come across; I’m referring stuff to Ed to post and write about.  It’s my way of supporting the IRgA.

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    Finally, on the
    occasion of the 6th anniversary of the Reprographics 101 Blog, I
    would like to thank all of you – who’ve been visiting the Blog – for taking the
    time to do that. And, I would also like to thank those of you – and there have
    been many of you – who’ve reached out to me with news to put up on the blog.

  • What's the most boring business?

    Killing a bit of time late this afternoon, I typed into Google Search “most boring
    business    ,” and, believe it or not, there’s an imaging equipment enterprise whose name is “Boring”.  Gotta love it!
    “With multiple product lines, Boring creates a customized solution for
    each business we work with. Boring only partners with the leading manufacturers
    in their respective industries, including Canon, Konica Minolta, Hewlett
    Packard, and Lexmark. In addition to copier and printer sales, Boring
    provides comprehensive service, support, and training for every machine we
    sell. Our goal is to find the best product to fit your specific needs at the
    most competitive cost. Our customers don’t have to settle for
    one brand of copier or printer, like most single-line vendors sell.”
    And, they’re a KIP dealer as well.

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    http://boring.com