MakerBot adds
new dimension to
KYOCERA offering
KYOCERA Document
Solutions UK has added
MakerBot 3D printers to
its 3D portfolio, including
the MakerBot Replicator
Mini+, the MakerBot
Replicator+ and the
MakerBot Replicator Z18.
MakerBot printers are Wi-Fi and cloud-enabled and feature
on-board webcams that enable the progress of print jobs to be
monitored remotely.
Trevor Maloney, product marketing manager at KYOCERA
Document Solutions UK, said: “We’re seeing schools, colleges
and universities investing in 3D technology in order to improve
students’ learning. The MakerBot devices are ideal for this
environment, as they are built with safety front of mind, as well
as coming complete with the MakerBot 3D printing platform’s
design community for discovering, printing and sharing free 3D
models.”
SPOTTED
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Technology you may have seen on-screen
A popular feature of Sky’s Monday
and Friday Night Football shows, the
Tactics Table is actually a 70-inch
Sharp BIG PAD PN-70TW 10-point
multi-touch interactive touchscreen.
Broadcast & Production Services
(BPS) needed a large touchscreen with
high quality resolution and a broad
colour temperature that was capable
of being installed as a table and tough
enough to withstand regular travel.
After reviewing a number of options, it
selected Sharp’s BIG PAD.
Brian Naylor, Sports Technical Manager
at Sky Sports, is delighted with the
choice, giving special mention to the BIG
PAD’s ease of use. “Using touchscreen
technology properly is all about enabling
the presenter to do the match analysis
and get their story across to the viewer at
home in an innovative and engaging way,
so it cannot be too complicated. It has to
be relatively intuitive and straightforward
to use, otherwise you risk losing your
viewer by getting bogged down in boring
menus,” he said.
Naylor added: “We have four of
these screens throughout Sky, which
we regularly move around to various
studios. The fact that it is robust,
doesn’t weigh so much and also
has carry handles on the sides is
particularly useful. We recently took the
BIG PAD used for our ‘Tactics Table’
from London up to Liverpool to film
an episode of Monday Night Football,
something we wouldn’t have been
able to do so easily with some other
screens.”
If you have spotted branded office
equipment, especially printers and MFPs,
on-screen (TV and cinema), please email
details to
.
Epson eyes further growth
Epson enjoyed a 40% year-on-year increase
in business inkjet unit sales last year and
is looking forward to continued growth
in 2017 as more businesses realise the
environmental and financial benefits of inkjet
printing. Now the second largest business
inkjet supplier in Europe, Epson recently
launched the Workforce Enterprise series of
ultra-fast A3 printers capable of printing at
up to 100 pages per minute. It has invested
€
400 million in new production facilities and plans to allocate a
further
€
185 million towards its PrecisionCore inkjet technology
over the next three years.
Nuance enhances eCopy ShareScan
With the new version of its
MFP capture solution eCopy
ShareScan, Nuance claims
to have made it easier for
organisations to deploy,
administer and secure
document capture workflows.
Nuance says that eCopy
ShareScan is best suited
to the capture of hard copy
documents for personal
productivity and sharing with
collaborators, rather than for a
core business process. Useful
new features include:
n
Integration with Nuance
Business Connect, which
enables remote workers to use
a mobile device to capture and
insert documents and images
into a business process;
n
Personalised Workflows,
which enable users to
tailor a workflow by defining
destinations, naming the file,
scanning parameters etc.;
n
RapPID preference features
that remember a user’s
settings and pre-fill workflows
based on recent activity;
n
Scriptable Workflow, which
enables users, working with
Nuance Professional Services,
to develop custom scripts that
connect processes to backend
systems;
n
A forms overlay extender
that enables document-related
data to populate pre-defined
templates, improving efficiency
and consistency in applications
such as client onboarding and
insurance claims management;
n
A raft of new security
features including the
monitoring of scanned
documents for confidential
content, with email alerts
should protected content be
detected; and
n
A visual workflow editor that
system administrators can use
to create and test workflows
on the administrator console
before making them available
to users, including ‘scan to’
buttons that distribute scanned
images in multiple file formats
to multiple destinations.
Xeretec develops apps for Xerox MFPs
Xeretec has launched a
suite of apps designed to
simplify the management
and servicing of Xerox
iSeries MFPs (see page
12). Developed in-
house, the Xeretec Support
Application Suite gives
customers the ability to
initiate key service tasks at
the MFP display and enables
Xeretec to monitor devices
and resolve problems more
quickly. For example, the suite
enables a customer to submit
a meter reading to Xeretec
with just one click; to request
a callback from Xeretec’s
helpdesk; to log a ticket with
Xeretec or submit a meter
reading even when the MFP is
offline using an automatically
generated QR code that can
be scanned and sent via a
smartphone; and to raise a
support request at the device
and view all outstanding
issues.
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