Kyocera Newsletter - Week 33 14th Kyocera Service Awards: And the finalists are … |
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Kyocera Document Solutions | 16 - 20 August 2021 | South Africa |
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Kyocera Document Solutions SA is pleased to announce the national finalists for its 2021 Service Awards, an exciting annual event which recognises the company’s best service engineers across the globe. Many international service engineers qualify for entry each year and this year saw 121 entries from SA-based engineers, who completed the online exam portion of the competition. And the finalists are … Top Service Dealers Top 10 Finalists for 2021 Steven Bosch, Lesedi ICT Marchant Combrink, Office-Cor Ezray Cupido, Nasatech Michail Eksteen, Universal Office Automative Solutions Jacques Lombard, Ronmar Office Equipment Calvin Malekela, Corporate Business Solutions Robert Nkosi, Pansolutions Danushan Pillay, Omni Technologies Rayno Strydom, Kokstad Copiers Matthew Townsend, NRG Office Solutions
The finalists will go on to compete in the 2021 Service Awards national finals, which includes practical and theoretical components, and stand to win R55 000 in cash prizes, gift bags and certificates. The finals will be held at KDZA’s head office in Johannesburg from 7 to 9 September 2021. Because safety is of utmost importance to us and we adhere to all COVID-19 health and safety protocols, the KDZA team will only test five finalists a day and unfortunately prize giving will not form part of the finals this year. Instead, winners will be invited to attend a small event hosted by KDZA to celebrate their achievements and the winner will go on to compete in the European Finals to find the Best Engineer in the Region. Usually the winner of the national awards travels overseas to compete against other EMEA regional KYOCERA winners and the prize for the top achievers of the regional finals usually win an all-expenses paid trip to Japan, however, due to COVID-19 this may not be an option. The format of the finals is being discussed and will be announced in due course. As KDZA’s local Service Awards 2020 finals were not held last year due to safety concerns for the delegates, the Top 5 for 2020 automatically qualify into this year’s finals and they are: Tjaart Bekker, URB ICT Alan Benefeld, Page Automation Juandre Broodryk, Universal Office Automative Solutions Thamsanqa Nxumalo, Corporate Business Solutions Darryl van der Mescht, NRG Office Solutions
KYOCERA service partners provide the backbone of service delivery across our region and we remain focused on continually improving our local service network together with our partners, and providing a certification framework to develop the skills of our service engineers.
These awards are important, as they not only reward the efforts of our technicians, but they give us a chance to prove how rigorously-trained our technicians are, which is a competitive advantage for us. It is an important differentiator that our technicians can service and repair machinery that provides many years of satisfactory use for a business, and we are exceptionally proud of both participants and finalists. Paul Wendlandt Customer Services Support Manager KYOCERA Document Solutions South Africa |
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| REMINDER: Urgent Discontinuation Notification Please be advised that the following products have been discontinued with immediate effect. - ECOSYS FS-1040
- ECOSYS FS-1120MFP
- ECOSYS P5021cdx
- ECOSYS M5521cdx
KDZA has no stock on hand for the FS-1040 and FS-1120MFP. There is some stock on hand of the P5021cdx and M5521cdx, which will be used to fulfil backorders and new orders until the stock is depleted. These model numbers can no longer be ordered going forward. Production has halted on these lower speed models in order to ramp up production on the higher speed models and to close the gap on the COVID lockdown production backlogs. Should you have any enquiries, please email product@dza.kyocera.com. Regards, The Kyocera Document Solutions Product Team |
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| Kyocera ECOSYS P2040dw mono laser printer review (US)
Fast and fine though somewhat pale printing from this compact desktop workhorse. Perfect for the growing SMB that needs to print big text documents in a hurry.
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Fast print speed Crisp 1200dpi resolution Compact, robust build Upgrade accessories available
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No touchscreen or NFC Pale printouts Somewhat expensive Limited companion app support |
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| Kyocera Ecosys M6235cidn review: Worth splashing out (UK)
Busy workgroups looking for a workhorse laser MFP need look no further. Kyocera’s Ecosys M6235cidn is designed for huge duty cycles, with a quoted maximum of 100,000 pages a month. It’s cost-effective, too. The ceramic print drum and developer are designed to last the life of the MFP, so toner is the only consumable. You’ll find 6,000-page black and 5,000-page colour cartridges supplied in the box, after which Kyocera’s high-capacity black toner cartridges last 13,000 pages, while colour ones are good for 11,000 pages. That works out to a very reasonable 1p per mono page and 5.4p for colour. The M6235cidn is a versatile creature, thanks to Kyocera’s HyPAS (Hybrid Platform for Advanced Solutions) app library. There’s a good range to choose from, including apps for access control and document management. Sadly, due to changes in security policies, some cloud apps are being discontinued, including Cloud Direct for Dropbox and Google Drive, so this might not be the ideal MFP for teams that are heavily invested in the cloud. |
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| RJ Young Announces Dealer Partnership with Kyocera Document Solutions (US)
RJ Young, an industry-leading business technology solutions provider in the Southeast, announces today its dealer partnership with Kyocera, a Japan-based global leading provider of total document solutions.
The partnership will allow RJ Young to provide the latest technologies to clients – specifically those in the education, government, retail business, and church verticals. |
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| Kyocera study: Office is often overlooked in sustainability strategies (Germany)
A third of the companies in Germany do not have a sustainability strategy for their office processes. This is the result of a survey that Statista carried out on behalf of Kyocera Document Solutions Germany.
Since around 18 million people work in an office in Germany, there is great potential here to improve one's own climate balance, according to Kyocera. Companies that pursue a green office strategy implement measures relating to printing and digitization: 59 percent of those surveyed stated that they would digitize paper-intensive processes 39 percent also rely on raising employee awareness and in In 38 percent of cases, there are fixed rules when printing out documents, such as duplex printing, i.e. printing on both sides of the paper.
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| What is the printer's role in the WFH era? (SA) To borrow Mark Twain's famous saying, the death of print has been greatly exaggerated. It's a headline that appears on many articles discussing the topic. The idea of digital media eliminating printing has turned out to be simplistic. On a philosophical level, people are even more attracted to tangible media, counteracting digital media's ethereal character. For example, US book publishers made $26 billion in revenue during 2019, $22.6 billion of which came from printed books. The recent shifts in workplace behaviours have lifted printing's appeal even further. According to David Preston, MD of Canon South Africa, the shift to remote and hybrid working is boosting a market that was already doing well: "In the one month of June, we sold more printers than in any other single month of the previous 12-month period, and those numbers were already strong. Something's going on there." What could that be? The answer lies in how printers have developed in three notable areas. First, they have evolved into centralised devices that various people can access. Second, printers are now multifunction devices that offer scanning and related technologies such as OCR (optical character recognition) to digitise physical documents quickly. Third, they integrate more seamlessly with broader technology ecosystems, such as a company IT environment or access to cloud services and storage. The printer's expanding role Visibility unlocks productivity |
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| Xerox positioned as a leader in new Quocirca report on channels to MPS (SA)
Xerox is proud to be positioned as a leader in the fourth consecutive Quocirca Channels to Managed Print Services. The report states: “Xerox has long led the market by virtue of a scalable, cloud-based MPS platform and an expanded ConnectKey workflow solution portfolio.” And: “Xerox continues to invest heavily in its channel programmes in both the US and Europe, expanding its accreditation levels and offering valuable training and support resources for partners.”
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| eBook: How digitisation is giving SMBs a competitive edge (SA)
It’s a fundamental shift that’s changing how organisations operate internally and interact with their customers, suppliers and partners. Converting paper processes to digital ones helps them cut costs, increase efficiency and deliver better customer service. And we’re not talking here about basic digitisation, where you simply scan original paper documents and store them. The real gains come when you deploy an end-to-end digital ecosystem, with complex document workflows reduced to push-button simplicity. Where document routing, storage, sharing and security are effortlessly integrated and automated. |
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| PrintNightmare: More attacks on corporate networks predicted (SA)
June 2021, researchers inadvertently published a proof of concept (PoC) exploit for a critical Windows Print Spooler vulnerability, dubbed PrintNightmare that enables users to gain access to corporate networks.
Although a patch for the vulnerability has been released, the vast majority of users have not downloaded or installed it yet, and while the exploit was quickly taken off GitHub, some managed to download and republish it. Evgeny Lopatin, security expert at Kaspersky, says the vulnerability is serious because it enables bad actors to gain access to other computers within an organisation's network. “Since the exploit is publicly available, a lot of fraudsters will take advantage of it. Therefore, we urge all users to apply the latest security updates for Windows,” he adds. He says PrintNightmare can be used by attackers with a regular user account, to take control of vulnerable servers or client machines that run the Windows Print Spooler service. |
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| Remote Work Highlights the Real Problems with Paper-Based Processes (SA) Despite the rapid move towards remote work during the pandemic, even COVID-19 hasn’t been able to kill off paper in the enterprise. The result is that most businesses are facing the twin challenges of ensuring that remote employees manage hardcopy documents with due regard for security and making it easy for them to share documents with each other in remote or hybrid working environments. Despite years of hype about the paperless office, paper has endured because there are still many business processes that depend on paper being signed and scanned to comply with legislation.
What’s more, most businesses also have many important corporate records stored in legacy media or in unstructured formats such as paper files, books, magazines, films, and microfiche.
“To address this challenge, companies will need to invest in the holistic management of their information. They will need to analyse their legacy business processes and technology infrastructure to determine where the potential risks and inefficiencies lie. This is the perfect opportunity for digital transformation of your business to ensure that you are not left behind in the electronic age.” |
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| Spectrum Networks and KYOCERA SLD Laser Team Up to Develop Next Generation Lighting and Wireless Connectivity Solutions for Private Aviation (US) Spectrum Networks is utilizing revolutionary proprietary technology from KYOCERA SLD Laser (KSLD) in a suite of products poised to redefine lighting and wireless connectivity in aviation. Known as LaserLight TM, KSLD’s groundbreaking technology is the world’s brightest and most innovative light source. LaserLight outshines the limits of LED to deliver safe, high luminance white light from an incredibly small point source that is efficiently fiber delivered. LaserLight, when coupled with LiFi technology, enables secure communication at speeds 100x higher than LED based LiFi systems from an RF-free, lightweight solution. Spectrum Networks is spearheading the advancement of LaserLight based LiFi into private aviation and beyond. Spectrum Networks is working closely with KLSD and their extended team with direct involvement from the distinguished Professor and KSLD Senior Advisor Harald Haas, widely known as the inventor of LiFi. |
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| NetDocuments Records Unprecedented Cloud Growth in Q2 2021 (US)
NetDocuments, the foundational content management platform for legal professionals, today announced unprecedented growth in Q2 2021 (2Q21), with its largest new sales Q2 in company history, and the largest non-Q4 quarter, making it the third largest quarter overall. 2Q21 was a record second quarter for new customer acquisition among Am Law and Global 100 firms in its Strategic Law segment.
Within the last two quarters, NetDocuments has switched three Am Law 200 firms from competitive providers. Additionally, NetDocuments saw continued momentum within the small-medium law (SML) firm segment, representing 69% Year over Year (YoY) growth and 168% growth in new bookings from existing customers, compared to the same quarter last year. NetDocuments also added to its record Q1 2021 in new corporate legal accounts, representing a 163% increase compared to Q2 2020. The cloud platform addresses common technology, usability/user adoption and security concerns among Chief Legal Officers. |
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| Canon U.S.A. Introduces Three New Compact A3 Color Models Adding to its Line-up of Office Multifunction Printers (US) Helping to meet the needs of the changing workplace, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is pleased to announce the imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX C3800 Series, the most compact color A3 models in the Canon multifunction printer line-up. Designed to deliver reliable printing, productive scanning, and intuitive ease of use, these models are designed to help produce impressive color quality, crisp text, and consistent images.
With advanced scan functionality, easy-to-implement cloud-ready capabilities, 1 and a foundation of strong security features, 2 these models, along with optional uniFLOW Online, can help enable and support customers in their digital transformation initiatives. |
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| The HP Indigo Optimizer: Planning Efficient Print Runs at the Press of a Button
In this video sponsored by HP Indigo, Dror Kella, Technologist, R&D, in the HP Indigo 100K Lab, demonstrates the HP Indigo Optimizer. Available on all sheetfed Indigo presses, the Optimizer is a user interface and set of tools that increase productivity by giving operators the information they need to plan their jobs.
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Upgrading your office space? This wireless printer is perfect if you're still working from home (UK) Still working from home? Same.
While working from home has its benefits, there's certain office luxuries we're all starting to miss at this stage. A routine, air con, social interaction, that kind of thing...
Printing is another perk of office working that hasn't been lost on us over the last year-and-a-bit.
And if you're going to be working from home for the foreseeable future, it might be time to set yourself up with an at-home printing solution.
Perhaps a solution that supports greater freedom and flexibility while striking the right balance between work and family life. HP have recently launched HP+ in Ireland, and it's a game changer when it comes to at-home printing. Whether you’re on a tight work deadline or trying to keep the kids occupied with arts and crafts, this smart solution has been designed to optimise the hybrid work environment. HP+ is a smart printing ecosystem that's more secure, productive and sustainable than ever before. Here are just some of the many benefits that come with this new smart printing solution |
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Smart Printing Has Arrived
HP+ is the smarter printing system that thinks ahead so your printer is ready when you are, more secure, more productive, and more sustainable than ever.1
Choose HP+ and get 6 free months of Instant Ink5 and one extra year of HP warranty.* Print with fewer connection problems With Smart Cloud Resilience, HP+ printers automatically detect and fix issues before they slow you down. The printer is ready when you are.1 24/7 built-in security Works with virtually any device, any app, anywhere Keep your printing private Manage your printer in one place
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How to connect your smartphone to a printer (Australia)
Before you get started, you need to connect your printer to your home network. However, every brand does this a little differently. Even within the same brand, the way you get the ball rolling changes from product to product. The best advice is to consult your printer's product or user manual. If you can't find yours, try searching for it online using the exact product name, which should be somewhere on the printer, either on the case or on a sticker. Only download user manuals from the manufacturer's website. Once your printer is online, you can connect your Android or iOS devices using the following steps |
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Microsoft Universal Print will integrate directly with OneDrive soon
Back in March 2020, Microsoft announced the private preview of Universal Print, its cloud-based printing solution. It essentially moves Windows Server print functionality to the cloud, which means that as long as you have a Universal Print-capable printer, you don't need to worry about other infrastructure or even printer driver updates. The service became generally available for Microsoft 365 customers just a few months ago, and now, the company has announced that it will be able to directly integrate with OneDrive soon too.
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Konica Minolta Launches IP Pro Portal
Konica Minolta's IP Pro Portal is designed to help its IP customers access pertinent information and discover new ideas for marketing, growth applications and opportunities to increase profits.
Intended to provide an environment for business transformation and build a community of profitable businesses through education, networking and shared experience, the portal includes: - A forum where customers can ask questions and get answers through a network of other Konica Minolta IP users
A marketing repository where customers can get everything from sample files to marketing videos and tools, presentations to new growth applications and proven case studies Technical resources to provide operators with help to be the most efficient and productive running and servicing their presses A cloud-based ink estimating tool for Konica Minolta’s AccurioJet KM-1e LED UV inkjet press and AccurioLabel 230 toner-based production label press Content on the IP Pro Portal will be updated on a regular basis to give Konica Minolta’s IP customers the most up-to-date information and ideas to help them increase their profitability.
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