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  • Asite’s cloud platform, Adoddle, is selected as Product of the Year

    From
    a post in the news section of Asite’s web-site:
    It’s
    official… Adoddle 17 is Product of the Year and Document & Content
    Management Product 2014!
    Asite’s
    revolutionary cloud platform Adoddle, is selected as Product of the Year. This
    was bolstered with Document & Content Management Product 2014, at an award
    ceremony hosted by the Construction Computing Awards in London last week.
    Link to complete post:

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    http://www.asite.com/newsroom/news-room-view/its-official-adoddle-17-is-product-of-the-year-and-document-content-managem

  • Newforma and NRI Partner to Promote Construction Team Collaboration

    From
    a Press Release on Newforma’s web-site:
    Project
    information management software company’s SmartUse app shows full-size plans on
    interactive touch screens from AEC tech solutions provider
    Las Vegas, Nev.,
    U.S.A.—3 December 2014—    Newforma, a project information management (PIM) software company
    transforming building and infrastructure project delivery, today announced it
    has partnered with NRI, the New York-based leader in digital, print and
    technology equipment solutions to the AEC industry, to promote construction
    team collaboration through the viewing and interactive mark-up of full-size
    plans on large, interactive screens.
    Link to Press Release:

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    http://www.newforma.com/newforma-and-nri-partner-to-promote-construction-team-collaboration/

  • Seasons Greetings to all … and predictions for 2015

    Seasons Greetings to all.


    May the year 2015 bring good health, great happiness, and, for my friends in and around the reprographics industry, great prosperity.

    My predictions for 2015 (not really!):

    The Dow Jones Index will either rise to above 21,000 …. or fall to below 14,000.  (Or, it may do both!  What do economists know that I don’t know?, and WTF do I care, anyway?)

    Sarah Palin will announce her run for President of the U.S. …and announce that Michele Bachmann will be her running mate.  We definitely need this to happen!  There’s been too little humor the past year!

    Canon/OCE will announce that it has developed its own page-wide wide-format print technology (non-Memjet) that will print b/w and color twice as fast as HP’s PageWide wide-format printers will print and do so at half the cost of HP’s PageWide wide-format printers … but that its new printers won’t be ready for release until the latter part of 2016.

    The IRgA will issue a directive to its members that no member company may any longer use the word “blueprint” or the words “blue print” in their company names.

    John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” show on HBO will become the most widely respected investigative news show on cable.  (As it so deserves!)

    Amazon.com will announce its new service – “Amazon.Amazon.Amazon.FKGeverything”, where you can buy any GD thing you want and get immediate, free delivery via drone, provided that the delivery address is not near an airport.

    Reprographers who still offer free delivery will wake up and realize that nothing in life is free (with, perhaps, the exception of air) … and begin charging for delivery.

    Apple will announce iHome.  All ya gotta do when you walk in the house is say stuff like:  a) I want dinner, b) I want the house to be cleaned, c) I want my bills paid, d) I want the lawn cut (or watered), e) I want to watch TV, f) etc., g) etc.  Couch potatoes celebrate; with Apple iHome, you won’t have to do anything yourself, at all.  Apple will guarantee that iHome will actually listen to you and react to your commands (something your spouse or significant other will never do.)

  • Germany-based go4copy.net – a reprographics "cooperative" (comments updated)

    (Note:  updated comments appear at the end of the post)


    Yesterday,
    Ed Avis, Managing Director of the IRgA, put up a post on IRgA.com announcing
    that a Germany-based “cooperative” has become a member of
    the IRgA.
    At the
    beginning of that post, here’s what Ed says:
    The German, Swiss, and Austrian
    reprographics cooperative go4copy.net has joined IRgA. The cooperative, which
    was formed by the German reprographics association Motio, is comprised of 65 members. 
    Here’s a link to the complete post:
    http://www.irga.com/blogs/Repro-Industry-News/german-group-go4copy.net-joins-irga/
    Being
    curious about a “cooperative” of reprographers – i.e., what that’s all about –
    I visited go4copy’s web-site, using Google Translate to translate German to
    English.  Below, you will find some of
    the information I found on go4copy’s web-site.
    But,
    first, a couple of comments:
    Apparently,
    this – go4copy.net – is actually a real-live cooperative, rather than just
    an association.  In the sense that even though there are 65
    member companies in the cooperative, all independently owned, the member
    companies, apparently, do not compete with each other, rather, they join
    together to serve customers whose businesses operate in and around Germany,
    Austria and Switzerland.  Apparently, for
    larger customers who may need the services of go4copy members in different
    parts of the region, go4copy will put together a “framework” agreement, and, under this sort of agreement, prices for services – ordered by any
    customer with a framework agreement – from any go4copy member company – will be the same.  That’s an interesting level of cooperation,
    for sure.  Perhaps ReproMAX and RSA Corp
    offer a similar arrangement to larger customers in the U.S. who operate in
    multiple markets?  I’ve never heard of
    that happening, but, then again, how would I know for sure.
    Here’s
    some of the  info on go4copynet’s
    web-site that I translated:
    The company go4copy.net eG
    go4copy.net stands for professional services such as digital printing,
    copying, plotting, finishing (laminating / laminating) and more.     Our operations are
    professionals in dealing with digital information.
    Acquisition and transmission of data, scanning, document management and
    archiving, as well as project-based document management, can we manage
    everything for you – with high quality, with dedicated staff and a contact
    person.
    Our company blanket
    coverage for you at over 70 operating locations in Germany and Austria.
    With the “Federation of European Reprographic Associations”
    (Eu-re) merged business colleagues in Europe, we work just as intense as the
    “International Reprographic Association” (IRGA), whose members
    execute your orders in North and South America professionally.
    Framework agreements with go4copy.net eG
    Our framework contracts offer coverage a binding description of services
    and uniform prices and a web-based 24-hour order system.
    Our strength: 70 million euro annual sales
    The combined in go4copy.net service companies have a combined annual
    turnover of 70 million euros – a sound and economically strong group!
    Over 800 professionals in 70 locations
    go4copy.net farms are run by owners. They guarantee, commitment,
    punctuality and flexibility. In go4copy.net establishments operate over 800
    trained professionals. Our members are training companies and have hundreds of
    young people as “media designer, specializing in media technology”
    enables a future-proof training.
    Certified Quality Management »REQM”
    All go4copy.net-businesses operate under the strict quality standard
    “REQM” of the trade association copy & Media Technology eV
    Compliance with this standard is monitored by the go4copy.net eG.
    Credentials
    Nationwide framework contracts
    •  Siemens AG
    •  German Railroad, Inc.
    •  Ed. Züblin AG /
    Strabag
    •  Allianz AG Germany
    •  Kaufland goods Handel
    GmbH & Co. KG
    •  Max Bögl Bauservice
    GmbH & Co. KG
    •  d & b-Bau GmbH
    Selected Projects
    •  Cologne Arena (Esch
    group)
    •  Rhein Energie Stadion
    (Cologne)
    •  Exhibition Halls
    Cologne-Deutz (Esch group)
    •  ICE line from Cologne
    to Frankfurt (German Railways)
    •  Cologne-Bonn Airport
    Terminal 2 (Cologne-Bonn airport)
    •  Media Park Cologne
    •  Nuremberg Messe
    •  Franken Stadium
    Nuremberg (proper operation Frankenstadium)
    •  Maglev Munich (German
    Railways)
    •  Dusseldorf Airport
    (airport company)
    •  MSV Duisburg Arena
    (MSV Duisburg)
    •  Stuttgart 21 (German
    Railways)
    •  New Stuttgart Trade
    Fair (Projektges. “New Mass”)
    •  Sparkassen AG v -. New
    headquarters
    •  IKEA furniture store
    Kamen (IKEA)
    •  Clinics Gelsenkirchen
    •  Air Freight
    Leipzig-Halle (Leipzig-Halle Airport)
    •  New university campus
    Leipzig (State Sächs. Immobilen- and Construction Management)
    •  State Central Bank
    BaWü
    •  Munich Airport
    Terminal 2
    go4copy.net eG
    Fürstenbergerstraße 151
    60322 Frankfurt
    Tel .: 069-95 96 36 40
    Fax: 069-95 96 36 11

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    go4copy.net

    Follow-up comments, based on input
    from someone – in Europe – who knows a lot more about go4copy.net than I do:
    Apparently, go4copy.net’s members do,
    regularly, compete with each other for business.

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    While go4copy.net may, in fact, have “framework”
    (pricing) agreements with major customers, those customers are also doing
    business with non-go4copy
    reprographers, and it may well be that the other reprographers are actually
    doing more business with those major customers than go4copy members are doing
    with those major customers.

  • HP PageWide Wide-Format Printers – HP's latest teaser e-mail …

    HP’s
    latest teaser-e-mail about HP PageWide Wide-Format is titled, “Don’t Open
    Until 2015!”
    And, when
    you open that e-mail, HP goes on to say:
    Aha! We knew you would!
    But since you did,
    being curious pays off! I wanted to make sure you know the new PageWide
    Technology set to transform the large-format printing market. To keep up with
    the latest news, use the “Register now” button at the bottom to sign
    up for the HP PageWide Technology eNewsletter.
    Anthony McReynolds |
    Presales Business Consultant Large Format Printing Solutions | HP Graphics
    Solutions Business | Anthony.McReynolds@hp.com
    Blog
    Publisher’s comment:

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    HP’s teaser e-mail invites you to sign up for the
    HP PW Technology eNewsletter and provides a couple of videos for you to
    watch.  The first time I saw an HP
    PageWide printer, which was at the HP launch event in San Diego the beginning
    of June, the model shown had three drawers, so I think that meant a 6-roll
    model.  One of the pictures shared when
    you click on one of the links in the newest teaser e-mail shows both a three
    drawer model and a two drawer (4-roll?) model, so it looks like, later
    in 2015, HP will be offering at least two different versions of its PageWide
    Wide-Format printers.  The only thing I
    did not like about the video shown in the latest teaser e-mail was that prints
    exiting the machine are, apparently, headed for the floor!  Where’s the stacker tray, HP?!

  • For those of you who follow the “imaging” industry …. (Cintas, Access, Berkshire Partners and Charrette mentioned)

    For those of you who follow the “imaging” industry ….
    Early in 2014, Cintas, a publicly traded company mostly
    involved in the uniform rental business, announced its intention to sell off
    its businesses providing document management, records management, document
    shredding, scanning and imaging services. 
    Subsequently, it sold its shredding business to Shred-it, a major player
    in the shredding industry. (Cintas retained a 42% interest in the shredding
    business it sold to Shred-it)
    In
    November 2014, Cintas announced that it sold its document management, scanning
    and imaging services business to a company known as Access.      Here’s the announcement Access posted on its
    web-site about that deal:
    http://informationprotected.com/news/acquisition-press-release/access-announces-acquisition-cintas-document-management/
    In
    October 2014, Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity group, whose
    name should be at least somewhat familiar to reprographers, acquired a majority
    interest in Access    .  Here’s the
    announcement Access posted on its web-site about Berkshire’s “investment”:
    http://informationprotected.com/news/acquisition-press-release/access-announces-investment-berkshire-partners/
    Familiar, I say, because Berkshire Partners,
    on July 31, 1987, purchased Charrette Corp (from its founders, Lionel Spiro and
    Blair Brown.)      Berkshire later
    split Charrette into two companies and sold off Charrette ProGraphics (the
    reprographics business) to Gruppo Picking Pack (later renamed to Service Point)
    and sold off Charrette, Inc. (by then, a supplies company) to Pittman.  Just for reference, this was the announcement
    Berkshire Partners put up on its web-site back in 1987. (just the beginning of
    the announcement):
    Berkshire
    Has Designs for Charrette Corp.
    August 18, 1987 — Berkshire Partners on July 31 acquired Charrette Corp.,
    a supplier of graphic imaging equipment, supplies and design services, in a
    management buyout for an undisclosed price, said Bradley Bloom, a managing
    director at the Boston firm.

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    Berkshire Partners made a ton of money on
    its investment in Charrette.  Evidently,
    even years later, Berkshire Partners feels that there is still money to be made
    investing in “imaging” businesses.  Don’t
    confuse Berkshire Partners with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire-Hathaway.  They are not the same company.  But, Berkshire-Hathaway did previously own a
    very large interest in Iron Mountain, but liquidated that interest in
    2010.  Iron Mountain does not just store
    boxes.

  • SURVEY RESULTS – WHAT REPROGRAPHERS ARE THINKING ABOUT HP PageWide wide-format printing technology

    Blog Publisher’s comments on the survey
    results:
    We announced
    the survey on November 30th and left it open until this afternoon.
    In spite of
    the fact that the survey post received 744 page-views – and, people, that’s a huge number of page-views for a post on
    Reprographics 101     – only 24 people took the time to participate in the
    survey. 
    Here are some specific comments about the
    survey results:
    * Evidently, HP
    has done a very thorough job getting the word out, in and around the
    reprographics industry, about its PageWide wide-format printing
    technology.  100% reported knowing about
    HP PageWide wide-format.  [Note that HP
    recently showed HP PageWide at the AutoDesk event that took place in Vegas a
    couple of weeks ago – first time showing PageWide at an event that end-user
    customers (A/E firms) go to.]
    * 92% of
    respondents feel that HP PageWide wide-format printers will cause a serious or
    moderate reduction in sales of B&W toner-based wide-format printers.  My take: 
    if HP’s claims prove to be true, the reduction will be dramatic, not
    just serious or moderate.
    * 50% of
    respondents indicating that, since HP’s PageWide announcement in June, they’ve
    held back on acquisitions of new technical document wide-format systems.
    * But, only
    around 44% of respondents have held back on acquisitions of black & white
    wide-format printers.  That’s totally
    surprising to me, unless the acquisitions HAD to be made and could not be held
    off.
    * And, 50% of
    respondents have held back on acquisitions of color wide-format printers.  I would have guessed that this number would
    be lower than the B&W number.
    * It was
    nearly unanimous that reprographers feel that, over time, HP’s PageWide
    wide-format printers will cause a reduction in the prices reprographers get for
    printing large-format technical documents in color.
    * And, a very
    substantial majority of respondents feel that both A&E firms and GC’s will
    want more and technical documents (plans, drawings) printed in color if pricing
    for that sort of printing goes lower.
    * 20 out of 24
    respondents indicated that they will, or that it’s likely that they will,
    acquire HP PageWide wide-format equipment. 
    Comment: Not sure what the 4 who said “probably not” are
    thinking!!!  Do they really want to be
    the ones who fall behind technology-wise?
    The
    full/complete results of the Survey can be accessed at this link: (give the
    file time to load, please):

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    https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-Y5MQXQRV/

  • What are reprographers thinking about HP PageWide wide-format printing technology?

    In early June 2014, HP announced its PageWide
    wide-format printers, indicating that this new generation of wide-format
    printers would not be released until the second half of 2015.  So, over a year away from the announcement
    date! 
    (During the
    month of June, I put up several posts about HP’s Page-Wide wide-format
    printers.  You can easily find those
    posts, if you want to look back at what those posts said.)
    When I wrote
    about the (over one year) gap-in-time between the announcement date and the
    release, I speculated that many reprographers would, for the next year,
    hold off on orders for wide-format equipment – hold off on ordering OCE, KIP,
    Canon, Xerox, Ricoh (and other brands of) wide-format equipment – not wanting
    to invest in wide-format equipment that may, essentially, become obsolete
    because of HP’s PageWide wide-format technology.  In particular, that reprographers would hold
    off on orders for black-and-white-only wide-format printers and KIP color
    wide-format printers.
    At the time
    HP announced its PageWide wide-format technology, HP essentially claimed that
    its technical document PageWide wide-format printers , which, per HP’s claims,
    will print b&w and color
    technical documents for the same cost, will be far faster than anything else on
    the market and that the cost of operating its printers would be equal to or
    less than the operating costs of non-HP black-and-white-only and color
    wide-format printers.
    Well, it’s
    been six months since HP announced its PageWide wide-format technology.
    What are reprographers thinking?
    How about taking the brief, confidential
    survey I’ve just posted on-line?
    Link to Survey:

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    SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED, LINK REMOVED!  RESULTS WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY.

  • And, the "word of the year" is…….

    Word of the Year
    Check out this post on the best economics blog out there:
    http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/11/word-of-year.html

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    Happy Thanksgiving

  • Nemetschek acquires Bluebeam

    This was
    reported (by other publications) in October, but I’m just finding out about it
    now.
    “Customers of both
    companies will benefit from the addition of Bluebeam PDF expertise and
    Nemetschek adherence to open standards. 
    German software
    vendor Nemetschek AG announces it will acquire Bluebeam Software, a leading
    developer of PDF-based collaboration tools for AEC.
    The purchase price
    is $100 million.”
    Link to full
    article (at the web-site where I found this news):
    http://gfxspeak.com/2014/10/04/nemetschek-bluebeam-collaboration/

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