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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago

 

This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago

First Week of June 2017

We are six months away from creating 20 years of original content for the copier industry.  Yes, the change in those twenty years has been awesome and it's exciting to see where are our industry will be in the next twenty years!

Enjoy These Copier Threads from Five Years Ago

Australian label printer targets further growth with Konica Minolta bizhub Press C71cf

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By Henry Mendelson 31 May 2017 Read later Sydney-based label printer Foxcil is forecasting a faster future with the installation of the first Konica Minolta bizhub Press C71cf label press in Australia. Established only four years ago, Foxcil attributes its rapid growth to an adaptive and innovative approach to business, with managing director Roger Kirwan credited as having installed the first Xeikon press into the Australasian market and known in the industry for his unconventional approach
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Konica Minolta Enhances the Customer Experience and Workplace Communication with the Launch of a Virtual App

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Ramsey, NJ, June 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ), ranked #1 in customer loyalty in the MFP Office Copier market for 10 consecutive years, today announced the expansion of its digital customer service experiences with the launch of the easy-to-use MyKMBS mobile app. The company’s “Voice of the Customer” initiatives -- including extensive customer journey mapping -- showed a desire for expanded fast, convenient and engaging digital
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New White Toner Printer ready to help grow businesses in the graphic arts, design and print sector

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to new revenue streams for consumer-retail print shops and businesses that carry out light or short-run production printing. By combining OKI's High-Definition digital colour LED printer technology and proven white toner technology, the Pro8432WT offers big opportunities for businesses in the creative, graphic arts and printing industry. Easy-to-use, affordable and ideal for creative, graphics arts use, the Pro8432WT prints solid, sharp, colourful and white colour designs on a wide range of
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Acquisition creates managed print powerhouse

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even more customers. With the potential it offers customers and staff, we are thrilled to see the Landscape Group become a Xeretec Group company, and we warmly welcome its team to the existing Xeretec family.” Founded in 1996, the independently-owned Landscape Group’s engineers and sales team are specialists in the full range of HP printers and HP Managed Print Services. It is one of HP’s Platinum Partners for Managed Print and it is also an HP Authorised Service Delivery Partner. Following the
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Toshiba Honors Seven Top-Performing Resellers

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printers, Ellumina ™ digital signage and thermal barcode printers. The Lioce Group earned Rookie of the Year recognition for most revenue for a first-year reseller. About Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS) provides multifunction printers, managed document services and digital signage for businesses of all sizes throughout the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America. The company’s award-winning e-STUDIO ™ copiers and printers provide
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New Fiery-powered imagePRESS Server H300Delivers Productivity and Integrated Workflows on Canon imagePRESS C850, C750 and C65 Digital Presses

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of graphic designers using tools such as Adobe ® Creative Suite. Users can also benefit from the latest version of EFI's JDF-certified Fiery technology, which can connect users' imagePRESS operations into efficient, plant-wide workflows to help simplify and improve overall business management. Seamless integration to EFI MIS /ERP and web-to-print products, Canon's PRISMA software suite of workflow essentials for production print, and other prepress workflow solutions – including Kodak PRINERGY
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Lead for Fleet of Copier Maintenance in Massachusetts

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DFSNF Maintenance Agreement for (2) Konica Minolta Bizhub 362 Copiers /ADM - Save Matched Keyword(s) copiers Solicitation No. BD-18-1021-DFS-DFS01-17005 Region Massachusetts Agency State Government of Massachusetts Due Date June 15, 2017 Source https://www.commbuys.com/bso/ external/publicBids.sdo... ... Agreement for (2) Konica Minolta Bizhub 362 Copiers /ADM Open Market 06/15/2017 03:00:59 PM List ...
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Foxconn Says Apple, Amazon to Join Its Bid for Toshiba Chip Business: Nikkei

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TOKYO — Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc will join Foxconn's bid for Toshiba Corp's semiconductor business, the Nikkei business daily quoted Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou as saying on Monday. The two U.S. technology giants plan to "chip in funds", Gou said, according the interview with the newspaper. It was not immediately clear if this would take the form of a direct investment in the semiconductor unit or would be financing for the deal. Taiwan's Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry
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Compass Sales Solutions Announces Enhanced Microsoft Outlook Integration!

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Compass Sales Solutions Announces Enhanced Microsoft Outlook Integration! Boise, ID (June 2017) – Compass Sales Solutions, the industry leader in sales opportunity software, is proud to announce an enhanced Outlook Sync integration. This latest enhancement provides users with improved bi-directional syncing of emails, contacts, and appointments. The enhanced Outlook Sync integration allows for the same syncing of contacts, emails, and calendar appointments between Sherpa and Outlook that was
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Rumor of 2nd round of layoffs at Ricoh commencing today?

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Haven't seen anything more on it, but the rumor mill is that Ricoh is reorganizing its sales team again today in North America. 2 replies (most recent on top) Many major account reps and manager laid off in the Denver area market. Just talked with some employees. A lot of Major Account Executives have been let go today at least in the Northeast. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/NEmzqPc
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Toshiba signs off on separating 3 core segments

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TOKYO -- Toshiba said Tuesday that it has inked agreements to split off a trio of core businesses July 1, hoping to afford them greater autonomy and flexibility on its road to rehabilitation. The in-house companies will be absorbed by existing subsidiaries. The unit taking on the infrastructure business will become Toshiba Infrastructure Systems Solutions. The subsidiary absorbing the electronic devices business will be Toshiba Electronic Devices Storage. The subsidiary that gets the
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Little progress seen in Toshiba probe

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The Yomiuri Shimbun Eighteen months have passed since the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission launched an investigation aimed at filing a criminal complaint against three consecutive presidents of Toshiba Corp. over the company’s accounting irregularities. Prosecutors believe it is difficult to pursue the criminal responsibility of the former presidents, but the commission’s investigation has been unusually prolonged. The difference in opinion between the commission and prosecutors
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6 Different Ways to Become a Top Salesperson

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They say there’s more than one way to skin a cat. But what kind of psychopath would actually want to do that? It sounds pretty messed up… The expression means that there’s more than one way to get to a desired outcome. The same is true in sales. Top performers all got there by taking their own path, often aided by great sales applications like Spiro . While all sales legendsreach the peak of their performance in different ways, these are some of the common ways that people become top
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Spec Check Review of Epson WorkForce C20590 Color MFP

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10.12.x INK DURABrite Pro pigment ink 5 individual cartridges (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black x2) Fade resistance and print longevity is up to 84 years (that's pretty incredible number of years) Replacement ink cartridge yield for black and color is 50,000 pages ECO Features Uses up to 50% less power than color laser printers Saves up to 50% of your paper with automatic two sided printing Energy Star qualified RoHS compliant There are many additional features for the Epson WorkForce C20590. If
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Lead for Fleet of Copiers in California

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RFP #2000013386 - Cal Poly, SLO Enterprise Copier Management Program - Save Matched Keyword(s) copiers Solicitation No. RFP #2000013386 Region California Agency California Polytechnic State University Due Date July 10, 2017 Source https://afd.calpoly.edu/cprm/ vendor_info/bids_in_proces.... .. ..., SLO Enterprise Copier Management Program California Polytechnic State...
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Lead for Fleet of Copiers in Oklahoma

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Oklahoma - FEMA-4315-DR - Sources Sought Copiers - Save Matched Keyword(s) copiers Solicitation No. FEMA-4315-DR-Copiers Region Oklahoma Agency Department of Homeland Security Due Date June 08, 2017 Source https://www.fbo.gov/index?s= opportunitymode=formid=d2... ... Solicitation Number : FEMA-4315-DR- Copiers Notice Type : Sources Sought...
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Lead for Fleet of Copiers Maintenance in New Jersey

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Title: Copier Maintenance Office Supply Leads Opps ID: NBD14190110733950479 State: New Jersey Agency: Newspaper Ads Posted Date: Jun 05, 2017 Due Date: Jun 16, 2017 Description Request for Pro ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids for the following will be received by the Hamilton Township Board of Education, Mercer County, 90 Park Avenue, Hamilton, New Jersey 08690 in the Board Room on June 16, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. prevailing time. Copier Maintenance Contract Bids must
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Japan's GPIF Pension Fund Sues Toshiba Auditor Over Investment Losses

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's giant Government Investment Pension Fund (GPIF) has sued the local affiliate of global accounting firm Ernst Young, claiming $31 million for losses on investments in Toshiba Corp stemming from the conglomerate's accounting scandal in 2015. Toshiba has been on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's supervision list since mid-March as it has failed to clear up concerns about its internal controls after the $1.3 billion accounting scandal. That scandal preceded the crisis now
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Re: How Many Copiers Do You Sell Every Month?

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18 is great. Rare producer. Give them a bonus.
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Canon Branches To Be Closed

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So I am not one to start the rumor mill but I had a meeting with Samsung today and they were asking me if I had heard that Canon would be closing their branches. I haven't heard anything else to confirm this and I also think it will happen just as Ricoh has, but has anyone heard anything about it?
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Re: Canon Branches To Be Closed

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I've worked for Canon (CSA) for a couple decades and I've certainly heard nothing of the sort. Of course, after Ricoh dismantled the bulk of their direct sales operations, rumors like this will rule.
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Re: When a Sales Rep leaves to go work for a competitor

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We had a goofy sales newbie at Toshiba who come in late every day for a month. Turned out he was at his Ricoh morning sales meetings then come to work at Toshiba and then end the day at Ricoh. Didn't sell anything for either.
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What is a Zero Turn Scanning Productivity Center?

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scanning process. For some unknown reason scanner manufacturers an wide format multifunctional manufacturers never developed and automatic feeder for wide format documents. There's certainly a need for them because more and more clients are scanning those legacy documents. Thus, what is a client to do? About a month ago I had a chat with Rich Gigl (Vice President of Sales Marketing) of National Azon for an interview. In that interview, Rich mentioned the "Zero Turn" Scanning Productivity
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Infinite Device Management: Introducing SNMPv3

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Infinite Device Management: Introducing SNMPv3 By Scott Robinson, Jun 7, 2017 10:47:03 AM With the release of Infinite Device Management 3.18 and ICE 1.30, Print Audit is pleased to announce the introduction of SNMPv3 for scanning print devices. We encourage to check out our online tutoria l on configuring SNMPv3 in IDM. Read more »
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Is Your Brand As A Sales Rep As Genuine As Peyton Manning?

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? Your clients and prospects deserve an authentic experience. B.S. meters are at an all- time high as people can tell the difference when we they see sales pitches from salespeople who do not care. There is no passion, the sense of “why” is missing. Those exhibiting a heart for sales and a focus on their clients bring an air of authenticity into the room. BE THE REAL DEAL Be genuine and not a fake. Be real, sincere and honest. Prospects know when you're being yourself. Prospects are more likely to
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Lexmark unveils next generation A3 printing solutions for demanding workgroups

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Lexmark unveils next generation A3 printing solutions for demanding workgroups LEXINGTON, Ky. , June 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Lexmark International, Inc., a global imaging solutions leader, today unveiled the next generation of A3 color laser printers and smart multi-function products (MFPs), featuring nine new models designed to serve the most demanding of workgroups with fast, efficient and secure imaging services. The Lexmark CS920 Series and the Lexmark CX920 Series feature Lexmark's
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Is this how the NSA 'leaker' was tracked down so quickly? Series of nearly-invisible yellow dots on the leaked document revealed exactly when and where it was printed

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A series of 'tracking dots' that were inadvertently published by The Intercept on leaked documents could have led to the arrest of an NSA contractor. Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a Georgia security contractor with top secret clearance, was arrested and charged with leaking documents on Monday as NBC linked her to pages published by The Intercept . Now, blog Errata Security has revealed how a series of nearly-invisible yellow dots that appeared at the top of the leaked pages would have allowed...
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Re: HP Can Grab More A3 Market Share

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Ty for this, yup just guess we're going to have to wait and see. BTW, Toshiba bought licensing for the memjet waterfall print head many years ago along with Xerox. The plan was to develop A3 Color ink, like the HP's. Have heard nothing on this in years, how about you?
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Connection® Wins HP MPS Best in Class 2016 Award

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challenges, and delivering the technologies to help them achieve their goals. Receiving the HP MPS Best in Class 2016 award reflects that dedication and highlights the value of our managed print services portfolio. We will continue to build on that success and help our customers improve productivity while reducing the cost and complexity of their printing solutions.” As a leading National Solutions Provider, Connection offers advanced technology solutions and services across 7 key Practice Areas
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How Can You Be the Best at MPS, MFP, & Managed IT?

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they've hit their number. The phone calls, the appointments and the opportunities drop. On the other hand I also understand why this can happen, our business unlike any other is filled with rejection, riddled with price driven customers and reps, along with countless hours of research that can lead to failure. Desire, Dedication and Determination are all hallmarks of making a great salesperson. To be the best you've got to WANT IT! Why would you be in sales if you didn't want to be at the top of the
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Re: Help with Ink Conversion to Cost Per Square foot

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According to my cost sheet from Canon, the IPF (5-ink) models average 0.012 to 0.029 per sq. ft. in ink costs when printing monochrome cad drawings.
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Re: Rumor of 2nd round of layoffs at Ricoh commencing today?

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Heard GEM rep (government, education and major) reps in the US. Along with 3,000 support workers in Japan
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Re: Rumor of 2nd round of layoffs at Ricoh commencing today?

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had this earlier today PM'd to me: just got word that GEM positions are cut in half in markets today , you may get more on your end but wow!
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Re: Canon Branches To Be Closed

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I've heard nothing here in NJ, however I know someone in Jersey that owns a Canon dealership. Not sure if he will talk to me since I beat of his reps in recent wide format opp. What comes around goes around and one of his reps took an account of mine last winter. Seems like all we do is steal each others accounts
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Re: Canon Branches To Be Closed

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As we know, some of the rumors come true and some don't. If those Canon dealers press hard enough, you never know. Interesting to see if anything happens with this.
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Re: When a Sales Rep leaves to go work for a competitor

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@John Mooney We had a guy who was like that but two industries. He worked for us and would start out in the office and then go to work at a internet/phone company. Someone from our office saw him working under a tent on a corner selling home phones and internet service. Turned out he was coming to our office and then going to the street corner then coming back days end.
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Colorado Housing and Finance Authority Digitally Transforms Mortgage Loan Processes with Kofax Software

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dramatically improve the customer experience, greatly reduce operating costs and increase competitiveness, growth and profitability. Kofax software and solutions provide a rapid return on investment to more than 25,000 customers in financial services, insurance, government, healthcare, higher education, supply chain, business process outsourcing and other markets. Kofax markets its solutions via a direct sales and service organization, along with a global network of more than 1,000 authorized partners
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GEARING UP FOR GROWTH: HAMILLROAD SOFTWARE READIES ITSELF FOR FURTHER EXPANSION

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) Hamillroad Software is a global supplier of software solutions for the prepress industry. Hamillroad solutions help customers save time and money during all stages of the printing process whilst also improving the final printed image fidelity. Portfolio Hamillroad Software specialises in Digitally Modulated Screening which provides unparalleled screening technology for Lithographic (Auraia DMS) and Flexographic (Bellissima DMS) printing. The FirstPROOF solution allows users to simulate errors
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HP Can Grab More A3 Market Share

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We reiterate our Outperform rating on HP. On April 5, HP (ticker: HPQ) shipped more than 54 SKUs of new A3 multifunction printers to more than 80 countries world-wide. The company signed and on-boarded more than 500 resellers world-wide for the A3 opportunity with roughly 40% new to HP. We think the latter reflects the potential value proposition to the channel and believe the product portfolio should further strengthen following the close of Samsung acquisition (expected to close before
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HotDocs Announces New Partnership With General Networks Corporation

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contract management, and sales order processing.” HotDocs document assembly software is used by corporations, law firms, banks, and government agencies to quickly and efficiently generate customized documents such as contracts, sales agreements, government forms, and loan documentation. The technology streamlines these processes to enable HotDocs customers to realize faster revenue, improve the customer experience, and reduce operating costs, all while generating error-free documentation. Speaking
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2017 Hurricane Season Awareness to Secure Business Documentation, Assure Business Continuity

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planning system (ERP) and line of business applications, for lifecycle-managing all related documentation, facilitating optimized interdepartmental processes workflow automation and cash flow optimization. Areas of use include Accounting (both Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable), Finance, Purchasing, Customer Service, Human Resources, Legal, Logistics/Distribution, Operations and other paper and process-intensive departments, supporting time and cost savings throughout organizations. For
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SurgeX Doubles Down on UPS Solutions With New SurgeX Large-Format Models

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generator, our new large-format UPS solutions serve as a bridge between the service being supplied by the utility and power from the generator by keeping the entire system online until the alternative source is able to supply on-going power. Installed between the generator and the AV system, our large-format UPS solutions completely isolate and regenerate the AC output to ensure availability of the connected gear," comments Rick Komendera, Manager, Sales, for AMETEK ESP. To help dealers select the
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Kofax Enhances Healthcare Solutions To Improve Patient-Centered Care

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direct sales and service organization, along with a global network of more than 1,000 authorized partners in more than 70 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For further information contact Rachel Spear, (913) 227-6237, rachel.spear(at)kofax.com. # # # © 2017 Kofax Limited. Kofax is a registered trademark, and First Mile and NilRead Enterprise Viewer are trademarks of Kofax Limited. Source: KOFAX

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