Managed.IT - issue 52

10 MANAGED.IT 01732 759725 BULLETIN Call for entries The Stationers’ Company is inviting submissions to the 2019 Stationers’ Company Innovation Excellence Awards, which celebrate the role the communications and content industries play in the UK economy. Judges are looking for examples of novel products, services or business processes from commercial companies, charities, trade associations, individuals, educational institutions and public bodies, such as museums, libraries, galleries and archives. Awards are given in a number of categories, including publishing (books and magazine and digital); paper and printing media; printing supplies; office supplies; printing machinery; packaging; computer software; communications and content. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at Stationers’ Hall, London on June 25 2019. www.stationers.org Free mono printing OKI Europe Ltd is making in-house colour printing even more affordable for customers by offering free mono printing for a year and free paper banners with select high-performance LED colour printers and MFPs purchased between January 7 and March 31 2019. The ‘ALIVE WITH COLOUR’ promotion applies to OKI’s C612n/dn and C712n/ dn A4 colour printers, the C800 Series of compact A3 colour printers, and the high capacity MC800 Series of smart multifunction printers. To qualify for the offer, customers must purchase black toner and banner paper from OKI within 30 days of the printer invoice date and submit an online claim form. www.oki.com/eu Sharp top for sales growth Sharp Electronics Europe outperformed all other MFP vendors in the three months from July to September (Q3) 2018, achieving unit sales growth of 22% compared to the same period in 2017, despite a slight decline in the overall market. According to IDC’s latest overview of the Western European office printer market, Sharp was also a top three vendor in terms of value growth, recording an 18% increase in turnover per unit. Peter Plested, Director of Information Systems at Sharp Europe, said: “We see these results as an endorsement of the refresh of our A3 range and the launch of our new A4 devices.” www.sharp.eu NAES improves security with XM SendSecure The National Artificial Eye Service (NAES) is piloting the use of XM SendSecure for the transfer of patient files to people inside and outside the organisation. The NAES, hosted within the Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, provides a manufacturing and fitting service for the supply of ocular prostheses to people throughout England. With a database of over 48,000 patients, the NAES complies fully with all data protection legislation. Even so, the NAES IT team recognised that existing systems for communicating with external stakeholders could be improved. Encrypted email systems typically require that all users are on the same system or, in the case of nhs.net , on the same domain, which means that transmissions outside the NHS domain are not fully encrypted and are therefore potentially insecure. They also suffer from file size limitations. Paul Aspden, Technical ICT Lead at NAES, recognised that XM SendSecure provides a better way of communicating with anyone outside the NHS or anyone that does not have expensive encrypted systems as standard. He said: “Communication with patients, consultants and other stakeholders involves the transmission of sensitive personal data, which falls under the regulatory umbrella of the GDPR, ICO and the NHS Information Governance regulations. In order to be fully compliant, it’s important that file transfers are encrypted during transmission and at rest.” Using XM SendSecure for secure file transfers, alongside fax over IP and NHS Mail as part of an integrated end-to- end communications strategy, helps NAES meet the highest compliance requirements. As well as encrypting files at rest and in transit, it restricts access to intended recipients through the use of two-factor authentication, provides a full audit trail and supports file sizes of up to 5TB. www.xmedius.com ProcessFlows to sell UniPrint.net IT and services company ProcessFlows has expanded its print management portfolio with the addition of cloud print solution UniPrint Infinity from UniPrint.net. ProcessFlows sales director Tim Muckart said: “UniPrint is the first print management software we have been introduced to in a very long time that is actually unique! Cloud Print Management has been talked about and attempted by many but has never actually delivered cloud print management without compromise and with embedded software on the device. UniPrint is going to be a really strong addition to our portfolio.” ProcessFlows also provides the Cirrato, Equitrac and Output Manager print management solutions. www.ProcessFlows.co.uk TCO Certified update TCO Certified, the sustainability certification programme for IT products, has been updated with more focus on circular and sustainable lifecycles for IT products. TCO Certified generation 8 includes new criteria relating to product durability, repairability and upgradeability, in addition to existing requirements for material recovery and recycling. https://tcocertified.com/ Print Audit acquired by ECi ECi Software Solutions has strengthened its portfolio of cloud-based business management software and services with the acquisition of print device and management specialist Print Audit. PrintAudit provides end users and trade customers with tools for managed print services (MPS), device data collection and document management and is the first provider of remote monitoring and management services (RMM) to have a seat-based billing (SBB) model for managed print. www.ECiSolutions.com