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  • INDOX Services' Denver Operation sold to ABC Imaging

    “To Our Valued
    Customers:
    On January 6, 2015, INDOX Services’
    Denver Operation was sold to ABC Imaging.
    We are proud to
    announce the Acquisition and Merger of INDOX Services/Colorado into the
    existing operations of ABC Imaging
    The combined
    management teams have taken extra effort to ensure that there is no change in
    ongoing operations. You, our customers can expect and will receive the same
    level of quality and service that you have been receiving. Both ABC Imaging and
    INDOX Services share the same business philosophy that is built on trust,
    respect and commitment to excellence.
    ABC Imaging has been the leader in the AEC
    industry for over 30 years, providing one stop solution with state of the art
    technology, personalized and customized services to its valued clients.
    ABC Imaging provides complete range of services
    from Business cards to Reprographics, Scanning, CAD printing, 3D Modeling, IT
    support and MPS (Managed Printing Solutions) for our clients World Wide. Visit
    our website at www.abcimaging.com
    The synergy between the combined entities, ABC
    Imaging     and INDOX Services/Colorado, results in having additional capable
    and dedicated staff, increased production capacity and global reach of ABC
    Imaging    . This enables us to provide superior and expanded services to our
    valued clients in the greater Denver metro Area.
    We are honored
    to have the opportunity to continue serving you as our valued and loyal clients
    in our newly combined operations are confident that we will earn your trust. We
    appreciate your business and thank you for your patronage and loyalty.”
    Best regards,
    Medi Falsafi
    President &
    CEO
    ABC Imaging
    John Wilmsen,
    Jr.
    General Manager
    INDOX Services

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    Link to the
    complete announcement:

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    http://portal.abcimaging.com/files/Indox%20Letter.pdf

  • Cirrato One – Complete WAN Printing Solution

    Blog
    Publisher’s comment:
    Before
    I received an e-mail from Cirrato this morning (about the release of a new
    version of Cirrato One), I’d not heard of this company or product. 
    Sounds
    interesting, read on:
    What makes Cirrato One™ different?
    Not just a print management system, but an entirely reimagined printing
    infrastructure.
    Don’t add additional functions on an already cluttered and outdated print
    spool server environment. Instead, remove your print spool servers and
    print traffic and reimagine printing. Take control of all your printers and
    printer drivers with ONE Cirrato server.
    With Cirrato One™, infrastructure and network teams don’t have to deploy
    and manage multiple print servers. Instead, existing server capacity and
    bandwidth can be used for other applications.
    “Cirrato One™ Single
    Server Printing is not just ‘added functionality’ on top the 25 years old print
    spool server technology, but an altogether smarter, more flexible and more
    robust printing infrastructure.”
    Established in 2002, the founding Cirrato team developed and patented
    Cirrato Single Server Printing, a decisive new way to print that consolidates
    print servers and provides total control of printing in global environments.
    Cirrato has offices in Sweden, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United
    States
    How it
    works:
    http://www.cirrato.com/how-it-works/
    Reporting and Accounting:
    http://www.cirrato.com/features/print-cost-and-waste-control/print-reporting-accounting.html
    About Cirrato:

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    http://www.cirrato.com/about-us/about-us/

  • PacBlue Reprographics is now ARC Document Solutions

    On January 24th, I
    received an e-mail from someone at PacBlue (Vancouver, BC, Canada), and that
    e-mail said:
    “PacBlue Reprographics
    is now ARC”
    “Hello,
    The Reprographic Divisions of PacBlue Printing have joined forces with ARC
    Document Solutions, the world’s leader in Reprographics, Managed Print and
    Document Technology Solutions.
    This exciting collaboration will enable us to continue to provide the
    excellent service, commitment and quality that you have come to expect from
    PacBlue, while adding the industry leading technology and global production
    that ARC offers.  ARC’s acquisition of PacBlue Printing provides you with
    document delivery to over 200 locations worldwide. 
    ARC has Canadian facilities in Victoria, Nanaimo, Vancouver, Burnaby,
    Calgary, Ontario and Quebec.”
    Previous
    PacBlue News, 10.31.14
    THE PORTABLES EXHIBIT SYSTEMS LTD. DBA XIBITA ACQUIRES SPECIFIC ASSETS OF
    PACBLUE DIGITAL IMAGING INC. – LARGE FORMAT DIVISION

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    THE PORTABLES EXHIBIT SYSTEMS LTD. DBA XIBITA, the national leader in
    custom and portable tradeshow exhibits and graphic environments, announces the
    acquisition of the specific assets of PacBlue Digital Imaging Inc.- large
    format division. This acquisition solidifies Xibita’s position as the leading
    producer of large format graphics in Western Canada. The resulting increase in
    production capabilities will allow Xibita to continue growing its graphic
    product lines. Under the terms of the agreement between PacBlue and Xibita,
    Xibita acquired assets of PacBlue’s large format print division and PacBlue’s
    brand identity. Xibita will retain the employees of PacBlue’s large format
    division. These employees possess local expertise that will be integrated into
    Xibita’s national organization and will allow Xibita to increase its graphic
    product offering across Canada. “Xibita chose PacBlue due to its similar
    culture of innovation and expertise and looks forward to exceeding the
    expectations of its clients. We will be able to offer PacBlue’s clients a host
    of POS and display products while at the same time more than doubling our
    capacity to address the needs of Xibita’s clients. Xibita is now truly a
    one-stop-shop for all visual marketing needs.” stated Hanif Muljiani,
    President, Xibita

  • Thomas Reprographics is NOW Thomas Printworks

    Here’s their
    “name-change”-announcement-video on youtube:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q1UGmP3ZPg

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  • Staples Enhances its Retail Signage Offering with HP Scitex FB10000 Industrial Press

    Staples Print Solutions adds a very serious, expensive
    large-format color printing device
    Press Release
    from Staples Print Solutions, Jan 16, 2015
    Staples Print Solutions, the printing division of Staples Advantage, has added an HP Scitex FB10000
    Industrial Press to its Cincinnati, Ohio facility, providing enterprise
    customers a larger variety of signage and banners, retail graphics and display
    applications. The press also enables Staples to bring its own retail signage
    production in house, reducing turnaround time and costs.
    Read more:
    http://bigpicture.net/content/staples-enhances-its-retail-signage-offering-with-hp-scitex-fb10000-industrial-press
    Link to youtube video showing an HP Scitex FB10000 Industrial
    Press:

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    http://www8.hp.com/h20621/video-gallery/us/en/products/2593579464001/hp-scitex-fb10000-industrial-press/video/

  • SGIA is conducting a survey

    Read about
    it here:

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    http://whattheythink.com/news/72003-share-your-industry-knowledge-sgias-annual-benchmarking-survey/

  • Large Format Review interviews Thomas Valjak of HP about HP PageWide wide-format technology

    In this interview, Thomas Valjak talks about HP’s plans for PageWide
    technology.
    You can read the complete interview by clicking on the “read more”
    link immediately below, but, before you bother to do that, read my comment
    below.
    Link:
     Read more…
    Blog Publisher’s comment:
    The entire
    interview, what Tom explained and shared, was basically a regurgitation of
    information already (i.e., previously) published by HP (and by others) about HP
    Page-Wide wide-format print technology.
    The only
    word I want to mention, not that it is brand new, but all the same, it does
    point to something I’ve said before …. that
    it’s highly likely that, when HP releases the its new PageWide stuff, there
    will be more than one model    .  Note the use of “the plural” in the following
    paragraph that appeared in the Interview:

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    “The wide format PageWide printers will be
    commercially available in Q3, 2015, but HP plans to showcase the technology at
    Sign and Digital UK in March this year – as well as at FESPA in Germany. 
    HP said that     models
    will be priced competitively in comparison to other wide format production
    devices currently available on the market.”

  • Current Issue of AECBytes Magazine released today – includes article about Digital Signing in AEC

    Today, AECBytes released its
    latest newsletter.  One of the interesting
    articles in this issue AECBytes newsletter was this one:
    (Here’s just the beginning of the
    article):
    Digital Signing in AEC
    Movies, medical
    images, telephony and more have gone digital— but the human signature primarily
    remains a hand-scrawled vestige of our paper-based past. Even as the AEC
    industry works to add efficiency and security with digital workflows, the
    process of applying signatures, seals, and stamps remains paper-bound. Printing
    a page each time a signature is needed, then converting back to a digital file
    to send it, clearly is inefficient and impractical for many large- scale
    documents.
    Fortunately,
    digital signatures have become the virtual equivalent of wet ink signatures,
    legally as well as in practice.


    Later on in the article, this heading
    appears (and it is followed by a lengthy discussion):


    Why Go Paperless? 



    The business benefits to moving away
    from paper-based workflows are compelling.
    You can access the AECBytes newsletter, and you
    can, if you want, download a free copy of the newsletter (in the form of a pdf
    file) by visiting this web-page:

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    http://www.magcloud.com/browse/magazine/749580

  • Great time to go on vacation (or on business) to Western and Central / Eastern Europe!

    The
    incredible decline in value of European currencies (against the US Dollar) has
    made it very, very attractive to visit Europe.     
    Your dollars will go a long way, much further than was the case when the
    dollar was not as strong against Europe’s currencies.
    Take, for
    example, these exchange rates (which I took screenshots of today on Google
    Finance):
    The Euro
    1 EUR = $1.1653 USD
    The Czech Republic Koruna
    1 CZK = $0.0418 USD
    The
    Hungarian Forint
    1 HUF = $0.0036 USD
    Prague and Budapest are fabulous cities to visit,
    and, now, with the Koruna and Forint very, very weak against the dollar,
    Hotels, Train tickets, Restaurants are, and shopping is, basically, “on-sale”
    for people who have dollars.  You can
    also get great deals on condo’s, if you’re adventurous enough to consider
    buying real estate in a European country.

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    For reprographers who want to turn their trip
    expenses into a tax-deductible expense, I’d be happy to introduce you to my
    reprographer friends in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, France,
    The Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland.

  • Fed Beige Book Report (Jan 14th issue) on Real Estate and Construction Activity

    Federal Reserve Beige Book, published Wednesday, January
    14, 2015
    Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions

    From the “overall” summary
    section (considering the entire country):

    Real Estate and Construction
    Single-family residential real estate sales and
    construction were largely flat on balance across the Districts. Sales declined
    somewhat on a year-over-year basis in the Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago,
    Minneapolis, Kansas City, and Dallas Districts. In the Philadelphia District,
    year-over-year existing home sales finished lower in November, but pending
    December sales in some areas were up notably over December 2013. However,
    builders of new homes in the Philadelphia District reported weak traffic for prospective
    buyers and fewer contract signings. San Francisco reported that overall home
    sales picked up in December. Richmond reported a modest increase in housing
    market activity. Home prices increased modestly, on balance, in the Boston,
    Philadelphia, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas Districts. The Cleveland,
    Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Kansas City Districts all reported slightly
    slower single- family residential construction activity. However, the pace of
    single-family home construction increased in some areas of the San Francisco
    District.


    Commercial real estate activity expanded in most Districts.
    The Philadelphia District reported a modest pace of growth for commercial real
    estate leasing activity, and Boston reported improving conditions in commercial
    real estate markets overall. Commercial real estate activity in the Chicago and
    Kansas City Districts expanded at a moderate pace. The Dallas District noted
    that office leasing activity remained strong, but one contact noted a slight
    pullback in demand from oil and gas firms. Demand for apartments in the Dallas
    District also remained strong. New York City’s co-op and condo market showed
    continued strength in the final quarter of 2014; apartment sales volume was
    down from the exceptionally high levels of the prior year but still fairly
    brisk, while selling prices were up moderately. Commercial construction
    activity increased in most Districts. Activity grew modestly in the
    Philadelphia District and a bit faster in the Atlanta and Chicago Districts.
    Atlanta cited the multifamily residential segment as a source of growth, while
    Chicago credited demand for industrial and office buildings. Commercial
    builders in the Cleveland District reported a moderate to robust increase for
    projects in the pipeline. Dallas reported that overall commercial construction
    was strong. San Francisco reported that multifamily residential construction
    was strong in many areas of that District and that retail, office, industrial,
    or infrastructure projects were widespread across that District.


    Note; here’s a link to the complete Beige
    Book Report.  If you are interested in
    the comments – about real estate and construction activity – in each of the 12
    Fed Reserve “districts”, you’ll find that commentary at this link:

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    http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/beigebook/files/BeigeBook_20150114.pdf