Friday, 30 November 2012
Toner News(30-11-2012)
Staples Launches "Easy 3D" Printing Service
FRANKFURT, Germany, November 2012 --Full colour and low cost make 3D printing accessible to everyone
In a giant step toward the reality of 3D printing for all, Mcor Technologies Ltd has struck a deal with Staples Printing Systems Division to launch a new 3D printing service called "Staples Easy 3D," online via the Staples Office Centre.
Staples' Easy 3D will offer consumers, product designers, architects, healthcare professionals, educators, students and others low-cost, brilliantly coloured, photo-realistic 3D printed products from Staples stores. Customers will simply upload electronic files to the Staples Office Centre and pick up the models in their nearby Staples stores, or have them shipped to their address. Staples will produce the models with the Mcor IRIS, a 3D printer with the highest colour capability in the industry and lowest operating cost of any commercial-class 3D printer....Read More>>
Xerox Announces Partnership With Yestar India to Open 100+ Imagenation Retail Stores
Xerox India announces partnership with Yestar India Retail
Capital Group Pvt. Ltd. recently acquired Yestar India Retail and plans to open over 100 Imagenation stores over the next two years, providing quality digital printing and finishing services to its business customers.
Xerox India announced its partnership with Yestar India Retail Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Capital Group Pvt. Ltd. Singapore. Xerox will become the technology provider for their chain of Imagenation stores in India. Imagenation stores are the first-of-its-kind, fully integrated one-stop shopping for digital photo and digital business document solutions. At Imagenation’s first store in Delhi, Xerox India successfully installed Xerox 770 Digital Color Presses and a Xerox 4112 production mono printer...Read More>>
Samsung To Issue Firmware Fix For Printer Security Flaw
Samsung said disabling older versions of SNMP on the printers would protect them, contradicting an earlier security warning from US-CERT
Samsung Electronics will close a security hole in the firmware of some of its printers by issuing an update on Friday, and said they could be protected by disabling SNMP.
The worst security snafus of 2012
The affected printers have a backdoor administrator account hard-coded in their firmware that does not require authentication and can be accessed over the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interface, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said earlier this week in an advisory....Rad More>>
Samsung Electronics will close a security hole in the firmware of some of its printers by issuing an update on Friday, and said they could be protected by disabling SNMP.
The worst security snafus of 2012
The affected printers have a backdoor administrator account hard-coded in their firmware that does not require authentication and can be accessed over the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interface, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said earlier this week in an advisory....Rad More>>
NER® and Sharp Business Systems Sign MPS Service Agreement
Customers gain broader device coverage through combined technologies and services.
Glassboro, NJ November 2012 NER Data Corporation (NER), developer of the Print4 Managed Print Services announced today a Managed Print Services agreement with Sharp Business Systems (SBS). SBS, a direct sales division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, is a provider of Multifunction Printers (MFPs)/Copiers, Network Printers, Fax Machines and MPS solutions...Read More>>
Glassboro, NJ November 2012 NER Data Corporation (NER), developer of the Print4 Managed Print Services announced today a Managed Print Services agreement with Sharp Business Systems (SBS). SBS, a direct sales division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, is a provider of Multifunction Printers (MFPs)/Copiers, Network Printers, Fax Machines and MPS solutions...Read More>>
Smartphone Study is Good News for Apple, Bad News for Canon
Apple Samsung, Nokia , Research In Motion and other smartphone manufacturers can rejoice in the news that consumers are repeatedly turning to their cellular devices to perform a wide array of tasks.
According to PCMag, 82 percent of smartphone users turn on the device just to take a picture, while 80 percent turn it on to send or receive a text message. More than half (56 percent) turn it on to surf the Web; 50 percent do so to send or receive an e-mail.
These findings are not as surprising as they are damaging to companies that produce specific-use devices. Canon , for example, does not make cellular devices...Read More>>
According to PCMag, 82 percent of smartphone users turn on the device just to take a picture, while 80 percent turn it on to send or receive a text message. More than half (56 percent) turn it on to surf the Web; 50 percent do so to send or receive an e-mail.
These findings are not as surprising as they are damaging to companies that produce specific-use devices. Canon , for example, does not make cellular devices...Read More>>
Q3 Western Europe Sales of Laptops & Tablets Reaches €14.1B
Third quarter sees growth in resilient economies
A report from retail research firm GfK has shown that IT and telecommunications hardware sales in Western Europe increased in the third quarter of 2012, though some areas of consumer sales lagged.
While many European countries continuing to see austerity measures affect budgets for businesses and consumers, sales of IT equipment such as laptops, tablets and other hardware including HDDs grew in the last quarter...Read More>>
A report from retail research firm GfK has shown that IT and telecommunications hardware sales in Western Europe increased in the third quarter of 2012, though some areas of consumer sales lagged.
While many European countries continuing to see austerity measures affect budgets for businesses and consumers, sales of IT equipment such as laptops, tablets and other hardware including HDDs grew in the last quarter...Read More>>
U.S. Fort Bliss Recycling a Success, Raises $1M in Profit
FORT BLISS -- The Fort Bliss recycling program met its goal of raising $1 million in net profits this past fiscal year, and soldiers and their families will benefit from that success.
Tuesday, top recycling officials presented a check to the Fort Bliss community before a senior leadership meeting at the Centennial Club. The money will be used by Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation, an Army agency dedicated to improving the lives of soldiers and their families...Know More>>
Tuesday, top recycling officials presented a check to the Fort Bliss community before a senior leadership meeting at the Centennial Club. The money will be used by Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation, an Army agency dedicated to improving the lives of soldiers and their families...Know More>>
What is the "The Carbon Price Communique" ?
Ricoh Endorses"The Carbon Price Communique" Joint Declaration on Climate Change
Nov , 2012 --Ricoh Company, Ltd. (president & ceo:Shiro Kondo) has endorsed "The Carbon Price *1 Communique" joint declaration issued by the CEOs of global corporations to leaders of national governments.
*1) Carbon Price
Carbon price is the term for placing a price on carbon through either subsidies, a carbon tax, or an emissions trading system...For Details>>
Nov , 2012 --Ricoh Company, Ltd. (president & ceo:Shiro Kondo) has endorsed "The Carbon Price *1 Communique" joint declaration issued by the CEOs of global corporations to leaders of national governments.
*1) Carbon Price
Carbon price is the term for placing a price on carbon through either subsidies, a carbon tax, or an emissions trading system...For Details>>
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This Chart Is Why A Lot Of People Think HP Is Totally Screwed
This week, we ran a chart showing HP's crashing stock price since Mark Hurd was forced out of the company.After we published the chart, a friend emailed to say, "Hurd destroyed the company. Gutted R&D, which was the cardinal sin. It was always an engineer's company. He financialized it. And in so doing, set in motion the wheels of doom."
From 2010, here's a look at how R&D as a percentage of revenue fell under Hurd's watch..
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Samsung Takes Aim at Japanese Rival Canon ...
Samsung's financial and marketing clout suggest it could be the biggest threat to Japanese domination of a digital camera industrySEOUL: South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co is taking aim at its Japanese rivals with an Android-powered digital camera that allows users to swiftly and wirelessly upload pictures to social networking sites.
The Galaxy camera lets users connect to a mobile network or Wi-Fi to share photographs and video without having to hook up the camera to a computer...Read More>>
FBI Charges Philadelphia City Employee in $1M Toner & Ink Scam
PHILADELPHIA—An indictment was unsealed today charging three people, including a former city employee, in a scheme to defraud the city of Philadelphia of more than $1 million, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger, FBI Special Agent in Charge George C. Venizelos, and City of Philadelphia Inspector General Amy Kurland. Calvin Duncan, 61, of Philadelphia, worked for the Philadelphia Water Department as a mailroom clerk. As part of his responsibilities, Duncan was responsible for mail deliveries and purchasing supplies, including printer ink and toner cartridges, for the administrative offices of PWD. Today, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Arkansas arrested Derek and Danita Willis.According to the indictment, Duncan submitted requests for approval to purchase printer ink and toner cartridges, falsely claiming that the cartridges were for PWD employees...Read More>>
Pennsylvania Businessman Gets Federal Prison in Copier Fraud
Plenty of people vouched for Erie businessman Frederick Zurn's religious faith before he was sentenced on Tuesday to four years and six months in federal prison for a multimillion-dollar fraud.Zurn's two sons, his brother, a Roman Catholic priest and several business associates described Zurn as committed to his church and community.
"Fred can do a lot more good outside the prison than inside the prison," the Rev. Michael DeMartinis told U.S. District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin.
"There is a difference between evil criminals and my dad," Michael Zurn said....Read More>>
Whistleblower Could Reap Big Reward in HP Autonomy Accounting Case
Nov 2012 - While the Hewlett-Packard Co accounting scandal has produced several losers, it also produced one potentially very big winner: the whistleblower.HP said on Tuesday that a whistleblower had alleged improper accounting at Autonomy, the British software company it bought last year, and said it is taking an $8.8 billion charge.
If true, the revelations could lead to a huge financial award for the whistleblower, who the company has not identified, courtesy of a new program run by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But before anyone gets rich, several conditions have to be met...Read More>>
Man Gets 2 Life Sentences in Fatal Shooting Over A Printer
Question – What if I don’t use my ink jet printer for long periods, how does that affect the print quality?
Ink Jet Cartridges
The simple answer – Not using your inkjet printer for long periods of time is deadly. Most people are trying to save money any way they can. One item in a house hold that can get very expensive is ink for a printer. So many people figure to save on the cost of ink we’ll only print what we absolutely have to. This may very well mean not printing for one week to 3 months in some households. Here’s the problem with that...Read More
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