Gartner released prediction of print technologies
- by 2012 over 75% of all printed bills and statements in the U.S.
will have advertisements for products and services, generating more
than $2.8 billion in ad revenue for billers.
- by 2012 over 30% of enterprise customers with document intensive
business processes will use applications or custom workflow
deployed to MFP's to lower paper process costs and improve worker
productivity
- by 2012 over 70% of businesses with more than 250 employees will
adopt a managed print services program
- by 2012 over 80% of enterprise businesses will be using fax servers
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Lyra Research announced results of poll taken with business owners answering the question; “Have Environmental Considerations and Policies Had An Effect on U.S. Print Volumes?”:
- just under 40% said that it DID have an effect
- Over 40% said it did NOT have an effect
- Around 10% were not sure
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The Monterey County police are reporting an upsurge in the usage of counterfeit currency apparently made on a color copier. Unknown who is making this fake money.
Graham, Texas police arrested Randall Hammond, 29 and Jamiece Smith, 36, after they were caught making fake currency using a color copier.
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IDC announced latest data on computer sales during the last quarter:
- Dell Computer = 4,174,000, down 18.9%
- Hewlett Packard = 4,134,000 up 2.3%
- Acer = 2,009,000 up 51%
- Toshiba = 1,225,000 up 33.9%
- Apple = 1,213,000 down 12.4%
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EFI, maker of Fiery controllers, announced it won a lawsuit against Leggett & Platt, which had sued EFI over alleged infringement on one of its patents in EFI’s VUTek wide format color inkjet printer.
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