ISSN 2055-3099 (Print) ISSN 2055-3102 (Online)
THE PRINT & DOCUMENT WORKFLOW MAGAZINE
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ISSN 2055-3099 (Print) ISSN 2055-3102 (Online)
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Bulletin
Panasonic re-enters A3 MFP market
14
Cover Story
Canon A3 scanner driving digitisation
17
Q&A
PrintIT
talks to Jun Ashida about the
Foxconn Sharp ‘alliance’
19
Document Management
What’s on at June’s AIIM Forum UK
20
Data Security
What the GDPR means for you
24
What’s New
New printer products and initiatives
26
Security printing
Staying one step ahead of banknote counterfeiters
28
Consumables
The circular economy explained
30
Label printers
Dobbies works smarter with Toshiba label
printers
32
Digitisation
Eliminating paper reporting with NFC authentication
34
Analysis
Printer vendors highlight top trends for 2016
SPRING/SUMMER 2016
Comment
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COMMENT
Digitisation is transforming all areas of daily life, from how we
shop to what we do at work to pay for the goods we buy. The
pressure to replace old forms of communication and exchange,
which are expensive to produce, handle, store and retrieve, with
small footprint digital alternatives is immense. From all sides,
businesses and individuals are being exhorted, sometimes forced,
to change the way they have always done things. Mostly we
are happy to oblige. The benefits of digitisation are such that
we would be crazy not to. Yet, still the old way of doing things
persist. In moments of uncertainty, we cling to what we know,
the comfort factor of the tangible. In offices people still print to
proof read because they feel more confident and in control holding
and reading a printed page. They still print important documents
because they like the reassurance of a paper copy.
Our relationship with money is much the same. Debit and credit
cards are wonderfully convenient and no one would choose to do
without them. Yet, in 2015 cash accounted for almost half (45%)
of all transactions, according to a new report from Payments UK
(UK Payment Markets 2016)
. As you can read on page 26, when
everything went pear-shaped in 2008, the amount of cash in
circulation increased. Contactless payments mean that cash is
no longer the most convenient payment method for small value
purchases (the Payments Councils predicts that by 2025 cash will
be used in only 27% of transactions). But it is trusted, and money
under the mattress or in the cookie jar is a reassuring presence.
Much of our confidence in money is
down to the work of the central banks
and security printers in devising new
methods to thwart the counterfeiters
(see page 26). Similarly, our tolerance
of paper in the workplace endures in
no small part to the efforts of printer
and vendors and software providers.
New technologies, from business
inkjets to authentication and auditing
software, help keep the cost and
environmental impact of printing in
check so that organisations can treat
employees’ love of the printed page
with a degree of indulgence.
James Goulding,
Editor
