Kodak Alaris earns Scanner Line of the Year Award Keypoint Intelligence has honoured Kodak Alaris with the Buyers Lab (BLI) 2022 Scanner Line of the Year Award. The global information capture specialist has claimed this prestigious accolade six times in the past seven years. “After another rigorous year of scanner testing, Kodak Alaris still reigns supreme, taking home their sixth BLI Scanner Line of the Year Award in the last seven years,” said Lee Davis, Associate Director of Software/Scanners at Keypoint Intelligence. “No matter which segment you look at, you’ll find scanners from Kodak Alaris are among the top performers in each category that Keypoint Intelligence evaluates, including in the critical areas of reliability, media handling, productivity, and OCR accuracy.” This latest award follows the news that Kodak Alaris claimed the first ever BLI 20212022 PaceSetter Award in Distributed Capture and that the Kodak S3000 Series Scanner was also chosen by Keypoint Intelligence analysts as winner of the Winter 2021 Pick Award for Outstanding Departmental Scanner . www.alarisworld.com 01732 759725 BULLETIN 10 Epson wins award Epson has been recognised by Keypoint Intelligence with a Buyers Lab (BLI) Pick Award for its Remote Services solution. Launched in 2020, Epson’s ERS software provides remote service solutions for office automation dealers, helping to improve the management and efficiency of business inkjet printer fleets. Enabling remote diagnostics and problem fixes, reducing onsite service requirements and securing higher first-fix rates, this free of charge software helps reduce service cost as well minimising product downtime. It also reduces travel requirements and the environmental impact of journeys made because of service call-outs. “Businesses are in constant pursuit of a ‘better, faster, less expensive’ way of doing things. They are always asking, ‘How can I do more with less? How can I be better than my competition?’ To many, the answer to both those questions and more is digital transformation,” said Lee Davis, Associate Director of Software/ Scanners at Keypoint Intelligence. www.epson.co.uk Brother accelerates decarbonisation plan Brother has achieved carbon neutral status for its recycling and environment technology centre in North Wales as the business commits to reaching net zero carbon emissions globally by 2050. The site at Ruabon was certified by The Carbon Trust, which includes a calculation on the site’s scope 1 and 2 emissions determined by direct and indirect emissions from energy sources and emissions associated with vehicle use. The centre, which recycles used toner cartridges returned by Brother customers from across Europe uses 100% green-certified electricity to power the plant and a fleet of electric vehicles. Globally, Brother recycles more than 2.6 million toner cartridges every year. Brother has offset the remaining 173 tonnes of CO2e (FY2020) produced annually through the purchase of carbon credits to support the development of renewable energy projects in Kenya, Ghana, Indonesia and India. These projects include supplying clean energy for people with no access to electricity, providing 820,000 insulated fuel efficient stoves to help feed families and reduce deforestation, and making affordable water filters to increase access to safe water. Additionally, the business also makes a donation to the rainforest charity, CoolEarth, for every cartridge it receives, which are 100% reused or recycled. Brother achieved its target of being 100% zero waste to landfill across its UK operations in 2019, and runs a free recycling scheme to recondition and reuse toner cartridges. www.brother.co.uk Kyocera joins RBA Kyocera Document Solutions has joined the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) to work with the global supply chain through a common code of conduct. The RBA is a coalition of more than 190 leading companies working to improve efficiency and labour, occupational safety, environment, ethics, and management systems in global supply chains. RBA members adopt the RBA Code of Conduct as operating principles for their companies and suppliers. The RBA provides tools to assess operations and determine conformance to the code, as well as code-related capability building tools for members to use in their own facilities and with their suppliers. As a Regular Member, Kyocera Document Solutions fully supports the RBA’s vision and mission and commits to progressively apply the RBA Code of Conduct to its first-tier suppliers, to monitor its application to the best of its ability using RBA practices and tools, and to encourage and support its suppliers to do the same, therefore, establishing the Kyocera Document Solutions Supply Chain CSR Procurement Guideline based upon the RBA Code of Conduct and share it with its suppliers, and work together as a team with associates to implement fair business practices. www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk Ricoh acquires Pamafe Ricoh customers in Portugal are set to benefit from more comprehensive digital transformation capabilities following the company’s acquisition of Pamafe. Headquartered in Porto and founded in 1998, Pamafe is a Portuguese digital services company with primary expertise in managed services, cloud solutions, and cybersecurity. The acquisition gives Ricoh customers access to these specific local capabilities, while Pamafe customers can make use of Ricoh’s broad range of digital services capabilities. Pamafe will continue to operate as an individual entity, with all employees remaining in post. www.ricoh.co.uk Tim Griffin Roman Rudolf Tim Griffin Roman Rudolf The PrintIT Reseller and Technology Reseller Golf Society is open to everyone with events in May, June, July and September – find out more at: www.binfo.co.uk/golf-society.php 2 0 2 2
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