Print now to avoid regret
Almost half (44%) of British adults have lost a digital photo they wish they had printed, with ‘losing/
breaking hardware’ and ‘accidentally deleting photos’ being the most common ways to lose images.
According to a YouGov survey commissioned by Jessops to mark the launch of its new online photo printing
service, 21% of British adults have never printed a photo. Nearly one in ten (8%) print a photo at least once
a month. Jessops’ new website makes printing photos easy, with the option to have prints delivered to a
home address or to the nearest Jessops store for collection within 25 minutes.
Xerox has enhanced the
capabilities of its new i-Series
of Xerox ConnectKey MFPs
with ready-to-use apps that
speed up paper-dependent
business processes and
make it easier for users to
collaborate and work more
effectively.
Ready-to-use apps
accessible from the i-Series
MFP interface include the
@PrintByXerox App, a free
mobile cloud printing solution
that enables employees and
visitors to print securely
from any mobile or network-
connected device via a single
email address; and a QR Code
App that lets users print from
and scan to a ConnectKey-
enabled MFP by scanning a QR
code with their phone/tablet.
Mobile Link is another
useful app for iOS and
Android devices. It enables
users to create one-touch,
automated workflows on a
mobile device so that they can
remotely control a Xerox MFP
and transmit documents to
fax, email and cloud-hosted
services like Box, Dropbox and
Google Drive. A new camera
capture feature lets users
route photos of documents
taken with a mobile
device directly to relevant
departments.
In addition, the Xerox App
Gallery is now pre-loaded
directly on the user interface
of i-Series MFPs, giving users
easy access to a variety
of apps from Xerox and its
partners. These include the
new Xerox Easy Translation
Service app, which translates
documents scanned or
captured on a smartphone/
tablet and uploaded to a web
portal into more than 35
languages.
Partners can tailor the
user interface and automate
customers’ business
processes using Xerox App
Studio 3.0 or, for more
sophisticated customisation,
the Personalised Application
Builder (PAB) program.
Paper being removed
from 90% of processes
but progress is slow
In the next two years,
organisations in North
America and Western Europe
plan to remove paper from
all but 9% of key business
processes, even though more
than half of them (55%)
say their workflows are still
largely or entirely paper-based.
A survey of 600 IT decision-
makers by Xerox highlights
deep concern over paper-
based processes, including
cost (42%) and security
(42%), and an appetite
for greater automation,
with three quarters of
respondents having already
identified certain functions
as candidates for full robotic
automation.
The most popular are
accounting (38%), expenses
reporting (37%), accounts
payable (36%) and customer
care (35%).
The
Digitisation at Work
report questions the ability
of organisations to achieve
these aims, pointing out
that 29% still communicate
with customers via paper,
rather than email or social
channels, and that many have
yet to implement fairly basic
changes to processes.
Almost half (47%) of
those questioned have still
not introduced or improved
cloud services; 45% have not
yet incorporated predictive
analysis as part of a big data
strategy; and 40% have not
introduced solutions for the
mobile workforce.
Andy Jones, vice president
or Workflow Automation,
Large Enterprise Operations
at Xerox, said: “Organisations
foresee a lean and agile
digital future but current
business processes are
still weighed down by paper.
The disconnect between
an organisation’s vision
and the steps required to
achieve successful digital
transformation has stalled the
promise of digitisation.”
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Teachers printing
more
Following a period of
decline, there are signs that
printing by teachers is on
the rise again. A new study
by KYOCERA Document
Solutions – its third annual
Education Technology
report
– shows that two thirds of
teachers now print more than
3,000 sheets per term, up
from 56% in 2014.
The importance of printing
in the education sector is
highlighted by the fact that a
third of both teachers (34%)
and students (33%) have
a desire for better quality
printing, making it the second
most wished for technology
improvement after new PCs.
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Apps add to appeal of
new ConnectKey MFPs
