Gartner has placed Xerox in the leader quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers report.

Remata, the Johannesburg-based prepress, print and cross-media specialist, has bought a Heidelberg Speedmaster CD74 and deployed it at its Midrand premises.

Bowens Bureau has grown its e-commerce photobook business to 20% of its overall revenues and plans to increase that percentage further in the next year to between 50% and 60%

HP today announced it has been positioned as a “leader” in the latest Gartner “Magic Quadrant Report for MFPs and Printers".
A leading provider of IT research and advice, Gartner issues independent multivendor reports that position vendors based on their “ability to execute” and their “completeness of vision".

The Konica Minolta bizhubs C220, C280 and C360 have taken home the 2009 BLI "Pick of the Year" awards as "Outstanding A3/Ledger Color MFPs" in their respective speed range. Independent testing lab, Buyers Laboratory Inc (BLI) was impressed by the overall performance of the multifunctional devices, especially their ease of use and productivity.

Itec Distribution has announced the immediate local availability of its new digital monochrome MFP (multifunction product) models: the Itec B423, followed later by the Itec B363, Itec B283 and Itec B223. 

Production inkjet printers have progressed far beyond the simple barcode label they were originally designed to print, says Paul Haglich, manager of the production systems group of the Xerox division at Bytes Document Solutions. Today they can do full colour.

Corporates have come to understand that they’re sitting on potential riches – their customer databases, writes Annemarie Burger, director at Remata. All they had to do was find some means of cost-effectively releasing the potential of existing customers by harnessing the power of new printing technology.

Colour printing can actually help companie sto save money and paper. These are the findings of research conducted by Ipsos for Lexmark. Office workers are far more careful about what they print if they print in colour rather than in black. As a result, there is far less unnecessary printing leading to reduced paper waste and lower costs when compared to black print outs.

Companies that are serious about eliminating wastage and saving money in their office automation environments should adopt printing solutions that feature follow-me-printing.

South African companies can achieve massive cost-savings as well as benefit from significant productivity improvements by opting for a managed services model in their document output environments.

Fewer than 10% of South African companies are aware of their actual print costs, an area that if properly controlled can help save up to 30% on total office printing costs.