WHAT'S NEW 01732 759725 26 Expanded printing capabilities EFI and Konica Minolta have expanded their partnership to make it easier for customers to produce professional colour prints and to bring print back in-house. The Konica Minolta AccurioPrint C750i series is driven by the EFI Fiery IC-420 v2 digital front end (DFE) on the latest Fiery FS500 platform to increase productivity, giving users simple, intuitive tools to quickly, efficiently and cost effectively print professional quality and personalised documents in the office environment or workplace. The DFE includes intuitive Fiery TrueBrand technology, a powerful new feature that solves one of the most enduring challenges in office printing – accurate, consistent reproduction of corporate brand colours using Microsoft Office applications. “We continue to give customers more capabilities through our long-term relationship with EFI and this exceptional new Fiery DFE,” said André Statkus, Senior Product Manager Professional Printing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. “Together, EFI and Konica Minolta are bringing innovations to customers that add value to their daily work, especially with the very first implementation of Fiery TrueBrand – an easy-to-use tool that should be an essential solution for preserving corporations’ brand identity in common office documents. Fiery makes getting terrific looking colour prints easy and fast, including the ability to print large or complex PowerPoint files and colour-critical PDFs accurately and quickly.” www.konicaminolta.co.uk Focus On: What’s New New SaaS offering Assisted reality wearable solutions provider RealWear, has launched RealWear Cloud, marking the company’s major shift from a hardware-centric company to a fully platform-centric business. RealWear Cloud is a new multipurpose software offering for IT and business operations. Through the new dashboard, IT and business operations can remotely and securely streamline control of their RealWear device fleet. As companies grow their fleet of RealWear devices, RealWear Cloud allows for convenient low-touch, over-the-air firmware updates, keeping the devices secure and company data protected. In addition, RealWear is introducing RealWear Cloud Assistance as part of the offering. RealWear Cloud Assistance provides real-time remote technical support and troubleshooting to frontline workers to quickly identify, diagnose and fix device issues. “As the deployment of RealWear devices grows across sites and countries, it’s critical that we provide great IT tools and real-time metrics for those ultimately responsible for the successful deployment of the devices in the field,” said Andrew Chrostowski, Chairman and CEO. “We’re capturing data that will drive better decisions. It’s exciting to see RealWear transitioning from a devicecentric company to a platform solution company with the introduction of our first software-as-a-service offering.” www.realwear.com Control data in the cloud Thales has announced a new cloud data protection solution that will protect SAP customers’ sensitive data in SAP applications in public cloud environments. Together, the two companies are offering new capabilities that enable security teams to own and centralise the control of their encryption keys across public clouds while helping meet compliance and regulatory requirements. The solution enables customers to leverage the potential of SAP technology in the cloud by protecting sensitive data with enhanced external key management from Thales integrated with SAP Data Custodian to control and secure SAP data across public cloud environments. “The SAP Data Custodian was created to give our customers confidence that their data will be secure when utilising a public cloud,” said Dr Wasif Gilani, Vice President and Head of SAP Data Custodian. “The introduction of Thales’ external key management service demonstrates our commitment to that mission, as Thales’ unmatched key management solutions will allow our customers to use the high-quality keys they know and trust when working with Data Custodian.” www.thales.com Linerless kiosk printer Star Micronics has added to its range of Sanei SK1 kiosk printers. The Sanei SK1-311SK can be built into a kiosk to offer a versatile labelling solution that supports full glue coverage MAXStick media, as well as PlusD diamond pattern, making it ideal for a range of applications in the retail, hospitality and transport sectors. Designed to print repositionable variable length thermal labels, the SK1-311SK eliminates any unused white space on labels, thus reducing paper consumption. With its open chassis design, 200mm/sec print speed and 80mm paper width, the space-saving and lightweight SK1-311SK is perfect for integration into a variety of kiosk terminals for any self-service application. The SK1-311SK builds on Star’s existing range of linerless printers that includes the cloud enabled TSP654IISK printer with paper taken sensor. www.Star-EMEA.com
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