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Scan to Email: Tips for Small and Mid-Size Businesses

There are few things more satisfying than achieving big results from simple changes. Scanning is revolutionizing the way businesses operate, helping small and medium businesses (SMBs) boost productivity and efficiency while cutting costs, usually with just a few simple steps.

Those steps all start at your multifunction printer. Number one? Scan to email. One of the most popular and easy to use features, scan to email is also one of the most underutilized, often because users aren’t familiar with the process – or they’re unwilling to take the time to learn.

New Canon press, the Océ ProStream, offers unrivalled quality and media versatility from continuous inkjet

Poing, Germany, 17th February 2017

The ProStream combines the best features of Canon’s existing high-performance inkjet technologies with new innovations to take high-speed inkjet to the next level of colour output quality and media versatility.

This creates valuable new opportunities for many print service providers (PSPs) by enhancing their capability to deliver high-value variable content applications such as premium direct mail and marketing collateral, personalised catalogues, brochures and books.

Canon showcases broad range of digital application capabilities at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2017

Lucerne, 20th February 2017 – Canon Europe, leader in imaging solutions, is at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2017 (Messe Lucerne, 20-23 February) to showcase the broad range of high-quality print applications enabled by recent Canon innovations across inkjet and toner technologies.

Océ VarioPrint i300 sheetfed inkjet press delivers new level of production flexibility for more than 70 customers worldwide

Lucerne, 20th February 2017 – The Océ VarioPrint i300 sheetfed inkjet press – officially launched by Canon Europe in 2016 – is delivering new levels of productivity, flexibility and quality for commercial and corporate customers worldwide, enabling them to meet a wide range of customer needs quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.

How quality and substrate flexibility drive inkjet success

London, 20 February 2017 - Two years on from its launch more than 60 Ricoh ProTM VC60000 continuous feed inkjet press engines have been installed by Print Service Providers choosing to transform their print production capabilities. 

For many it is its high-quality results on a huge array of offset papers, including gloss, which has proven the biggest attraction. This ability allows those in the high end direct mail markets to develop a highly creative product portfolio. 

Canon U.S.A. Announces a New Approach to Premium-Quality InkJet Printing with Océ ProStream Series

MELVILLE, N.Y., February 20, 2017 – Building on a decade of experience in inkjet technology, Canon U.S.A, Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced its new Océ ProStream series inkjet press, a solution designed to open up new business opportunities for commercial printers.

Why the Device Matters

We often hear about Managed Print Services as an example of the Internet of Things. We discuss how analytics drive the MPS roadmap, and how document security reduces breaches in digital workflows. These sophisticated topics we now associate with MPS, but let’s not forget what started it all — the devices themselves.

In your job, you may never have to pay much attention to the printers, scanners and MFPs that share the office space. And that’s as it should be, but don’t underestimate those devices. They’ve come a long way, and now they contribute to many corporate initiatives:

Device Compatibility Pack for the Global Print or Mobile Express Driver

A Device Compatibility Pack (DCP) is a compressed file archive containing product specific data including device images, driver constraints, device capabilities and more. The print drivers rely on DCPs and their contents to know how to print to specific products. There is a Xerox DC TIP which has recently, (January 2017), been updated on the Customer Tip Site.  The tip document explains in detail how DCPs work and how to install them in your environment. These Device Compatibility Packs are not for the Apple Mac environment.

Four Signs you Need to Upgrade your Print Technology

When you’re running a busy print shop, it’s easy to be so focused on getting the work out that you don’t have the time to look at the bigger picture and ask some important questions.

How has the market changed? Are you keeping up or falling behind? How do you stack up against the competition? Does your business model still make sense? Where will you be in a year – or five years?

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