Ricoh GELJET best for convenience
Office technology service
provider Midshire has won a
contract to supply a record number
of Ricoh GELJET printers to the One
Stop Stores chain of convenience
stores.
With more than 20 Ricoh MFPs
in its head office, One Stop Stores
has been a customer of Midshire’s
for more than seven years, so when
the time came to update the fleet of
printers used in its 900 convenience
stores, it naturally asked Midshires
to propose a solution.
Midshire’s recommended the
Ricoh SGK3100 mono GELJET
printer for its ease of use, low
maintenance, green impact, print quality and time-saving features.
The front-loading devices use fast-drying pigment-based liquid
gel technology to deliver high-quality black and white prints at
high speed, with a first print available in less than 5.5 seconds.
Because the liquid gel dries instantly, the printers can print on
both sides of the page at speeds of 20 pages per minute.
One Stop Stores successfully trialled a number of Ricoh
GELJET printers in 12 stores and experienced no downtime and
no negative feedback. For Amanda Sanderson of One Stop Stores,
another major benefit was the printer’s low energy consumption.
She said: “As well as saving staff time and space in store,
the environmental aspect was a key consideration for me
when working on the project. The sizeable reduction in power
consumption significantly lowered our overall carbon footprint,
which was an important factor.”
The Ricoh GELJET printers are expected to reduce One Stop
Stores’ carbon footprint by the equivalent of 378 trees each year.
Midshire Regional Sales Manager Danny Walden said: “Not
only is the new fleet of printers more affordable, it’s lowering the
company’s carbon footprint and saving staff from having to deal
with technical issues, giving them more time to help customers.”
Did you know?
(source: Canon Europe, Office
Insights 2016, a survey of 1,000
business decision-makers and end-
users in 10 countries across Central
and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, the
Middle East and Africa.)
of office workers
print more
documents today than they
did three years ago.
of decision-
makers view
document printing as
essential or very important to
their business.
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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)
brought another dimension to this year’s
Chelsea Flower Show through the medium of Blippar augmented reality
technology. For the first time, visitors were able to scan the show catalogue
using the free Blippar app and receive curated multimedia content relating
to five of the sponsor gardens, including behind-the-scenes interviews with
designers, plant lists and a chance to win tickets to the RHS Hampton Court
Palace Flower Show, taking place on July 5-10.
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Photobooks bring stability to consumer photo
print market
After years of falling revenue, including double-digit declines in
2013 and 2014, the consumer photo print market is showing
signs of stabilisation thanks in part to strong demand for
photobooks, up 12.5% in 2015.
According to the Futursource Consulting report,
The Impact
of Apps on Photo Printing
, growth in photobooks is being driven
by new printing apps; greater ownership of portable devices;
increased use of photo sharing and social media; and the desire
of consumers to make their digital memories more tangible.
Research analyst Polina Vorms said: “The number of images
captured and stored on mobile devices is growing exponentially,
and better camera resolution is providing consumers with more
images worth printing. A whole generation of consumers is finding
physical prints unexplored fun. If just 1% of these unprinted digital
memories were converted into a physical print, the photo prints
market could double in size in one year.”
The new report complements Futuresource Consulting’s recent
Consumer Photo Sharing Report
, which forecast significant growth
in the use of mobile devices for image capture. By the end of
2016, it expects as many as 638 million images to be captured
on smartphones every day in Western Europe. A further 55 million
will be captured on digital cameras.
BULLETIN
New from Duplo, the Powis Photopress offers a new way of creating
photobooks. The ‘entry level system’ turns single-sided digital
prints into layflat photobooks, using pressure rather than heat to
laminate single-sided photos to sheets enclosed within hard or
soft covers.
57%
78%
