An interactive t-shirt printing pop-up run by print specialists
YR STORE was one of the big attractions at this year’s Royal
Academy of Arts Burlington Gardens Festival.
To help raise funds for the The Royal Academy Schools, visitors
were offered the opportunity to create and print customised t-shirts
featuring artwork by Royal Academy Schools’ students, tutors and
associated artists.
The pop-up included three touch-screen terminals, where
visitors could design their t-shirts, a heat press and an Epson
SureColor SC-F2000 direct-to-garment printer.
YR STORE Production Manager Dan Hughes said: “The
SureColor SC-F2000 is the perfect option for live event printing.
It is portable, easy to set up and use, and is extremely reliable. It
provides superb output quality in super-fast time – printing a t-shirt
in 27 seconds!”
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ThinPrint buys ezeep
ThinPrint has strengthened its position in the cloud printing
market with the acquisition of ezeep, a provider of printing
solutions for co-working spaces.
It has also set up a new business unit, ThinPrint Cloud Services,
which will continue to operate ezeep services and further develop
printing as a cloud service, with enterprise-grade enhanced
features and management capabilities.
ThinPrint’s existing printing solutions for mobile, virtual and
cloud environments are used by more than 25,000 organisations
worldwide.
Apogee has opened a Digital
Print Evaluation Centre in
the Birmingham office of new
acquisition Balreed. The facility
enables customers to compare
a number of production print
engines including a Konica
Minolta 1070, Konica Minolta
1085, Xerox Versant 80 and the
Ricoh 7100sx.
More choice with new versions of PrinterOn
PrinterOn has announced new versions of its secure enterprise
mobile printing solutions for large corporations and mid-sized
businesses.
New connectivity modes in PrinterOn Enterprise and Express
Edition 3.1 enable businesses to choose between an On Premise
or Hybrid Cloud deployment. Both modes run on servers inside the
trusted network and do not allow documents to leave it.
Hybrid Cloud offers additional benefits including centralised
printer set-up, printer management and job reporting; auto driver
distribution; and centralised encryption key exchange using an SSL-
based outbound cloud connection to the PrinterOn directory service.
Other new features include a Mobile Web App, providing secure
mobile printing from any browser-based device including BlackBerry,
Windows Phone and Surface tablets; support for industry-leading
mobile device management platforms (in the Enterprise Edition);
and expanded print job reporting.
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Apogee has taken another
step on the road to becoming
a £200 million business by
2020 with the acquisition
of managed print services
provider Balreed Digitec Group.
With a turnover of £45
million, Balreed is the largest of
Apogee’s 20 plus acquisitions
since the company was
founded in 1993.
Balreed will merge with
Apogee’s existing operations
and trade under the Apogee
brand, creating the largest
independent pan-European
provider of managed services
for print, document and
process technology, with a
combined UK turnover of £120
million. Apogee’s European
arm, headquartered in France,
adds another £30 million to
Group turnover.
Speaking to sister
publication
PrintIT Reseller
,
Apogee group marketing
director Gary Downey said the
acquisition would benefit the
customers of both companies
by adding scale and new
capabilities to their offering.
He said: “There are lots of
areas where Apogee will add
scale to our existing operations
and where we will add value
and bring new capabilities
to benefit all customers. For
example, Balreed is arguably
one of the UK’s leading
providers of managed services.
We have established a
reputation for innovation in this
field and we have a mature,
remote monitoring operation in
place. The pro-active managed
services we have developed
will remain a key focus for the
new enlarged Apogee Group
and we will further expand that
operation to deliver the full
experience to every Apogee
client.”
Downey added that
production print is another
area where Apogee customers
can benefit from Balreed’s
expertise.
He said:“Apogee has
enjoyed some success within
this sector, but it isn’t a key
area of focus. We have a
dedicated team that spans
pre-sales, sales, remote
monitoring and service, with
specialist expertise in digital
production presses and in-
depth knowledge of clients in
this space.”
Apogee takes over Balreed in largest
acquisition to date
Duplo beats backlog after record sales of
DC-616 systems
Duplo has ramped up production in Japan and replenished UK
stock-holdings to meet unexpectedly strong demand for its new
Duplo DC-616 and DC-616 PRO slitter/cutter/creaser.
A 20% spike in sales to small commercial printers, corporate and
government in-plants and pay-for-print markets meant that for a
short period in the summer Duplo did not have enough machines to
meet demand.
In 12 months after replacing the
DC-615 with the DC-616, Duplo
UK more than doubled
sales to 200 units.
The compact,
multifunctional DC-616/
DC-616 PRO cuts, creases
and perforates printed sheets,
producing finished applications,
including business cards 21-up, in
a single pass.
