Michael Galvin of NBMNational Business Machines (NBM), a Cork-based Xerox accredited premier partner, recently implemented Xerox Managed Print Service solutions for two Cork-based companies, electronics manufacturer Flextronics and financial services provider Quintas. This has resulted in significant cost savings of up to 34 per cent as well as reducing the indirect costs associated with device maintenance and management. Xerox Managed Print Services offers a proactive managed print solution enabling businesses to rein in spiralling print and maintenance costs.
Michael Galvin, managing director, NBM, said: “Many businesses find themselves in the position that, over the years, they have accumulated a large number of printing devices from a range of different manufacturers. This leads to the situation where a wide variety of print supplies have to be kept in stock, ultimately leading to higher printing costs. Additionally, valuable staff hours are wasted troubleshooting problems and maintaining hardware from multiple vendors when employees and IT departments should be focusing on more important work.”
Flextronics had 95 different print devices on site, a figure that was reduced to 21 under the managed print solution. Additionally, Quintas cut the number of devices on its premises from 18 to five Xerox multifunction devices, offering a complete printing, copying, scanning and faxing solution.
“The printing situation used previously was totally unmanageable,” said Norman Donnery, system administrator, Flextronics. “We had nearly 100 different printers, MFDs, fax and scan devices from four different manufacturers. A huge amount of money was being wasted on toner cartridges, as well as the administration costs associated with ordering in spares. The company was under increasing pressure to cut its IT spend, and tackling office printing was the most straightforward move. NBM and Xerox came to us with this solution and since its implementation we have found that demand on IT support has reduced substantially.”
NBM logoDonnery added: “Another benefit of the managed print service has been a positive environmental impact. Not only have we lowered our power consumption, the new Xerox ColorQube multi function machines installed use solid ink blocks rather than toner cartridges meaning less packaging and less waste, not to mention reduced printing costs with a significant percentage of our colour printing now costing the same as black and white output.”
The Xerox managed print solution has also allowed Quintas to reduce the amount of work it has had to outsource to printing companies and resulted in cost savings of thousands of euro. As a financial services company with a range of different products, it created large amounts of printed marketing material for prospective clients. The addition of a booklet-making finisher to one of the installed devices has allowed Quintas to now create much of this material in-house.
“When installing the print system, NBM explained to us that by adding a finisher to one of the new devices we would be able to produce professional quality marketing collateral,” said Paul O’Connell, partner with Quintas. “We previously had to put in expensive orders for large quantities of brochures that were often out of date before we could use them all. Now we can create much of this as we need it with the added benefit of having the flexibility to tailor the message for specific audiences.”
“Businesses trust Xerox’s approach and ability to deliver, enabling the company to forge the way with managed print services,” said Martin Boyle, general manager, Xerox, Ireland and Scotland. “Working with partners such as NBM allows us to offer the same level of service to SMBs [small and medium-sized businesses] that we have previously only been able to offer to larger enterprises. It makes both financial and organisational sense to allow Xerox and our partners to free businesses from the effort of managing office print systems allowing our customers to reduce costs, drive efficiencies and focus on core operations.”
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Company aims to bolster IT applications and cloud computing
HP is set to expand its workforce in Ireland by creating up to 150 research and development jobs at its centres in Kildare and Galway along with an additional 130 technical and support roles. The R&D positions are supported by funding from IDA Ireland, Ireland’s inward investment promotion agency.
The technical and support roles will help to support the expansion.
Recruitment begins immediately and HP is expected to fill the positions from Ireland’s wealth of highly qualified computer, science and engineering graduates, as well as hiring experienced engineers.
The company says the new recruits will work on projects involving the build, test and deployment of large-scale systems using cloud-based infrastructures and multiple delivery channels, including mobile, video and social media.
Martin Murphy, managing director, HP Ireland says the jobs will contribute up to €45 million to the Irish economy over the next three years. He believes they will “solidify Ireland’s strong position at the heart of HP’s commitment to invest in research and development”.
HP’s news comes shortly after Bill Veghte, executive vice president of HP Software, was named new chief strategy officer.
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Designed to help customers easily identify eco-responsible papers.
Antalis Green Star System
Antalis UK has launched an easy to understand environmental classification system to help customers quickly identify eco-responsible papers. The Antalis Green Star System (GSS) is based on the universally-recognised star ranking reference to indicate levels of eco-responsibility and incorporates fundamental information on the origin of the fibre and the manufacturing process. This new simple star-based system attributes a number of green stars, from zero to five, to each paper product according to its environmental credentials, allowing customers to make informed, responsible choices.
Company supports Cap COP 21 climate change initiative.
Matthew Botfield Environment Manager at Antalis UKAntalis, one of Europe's leading paper, visual communications and packaging solutions merchant, will join like-minded organisations committed to the environmental cause in supporting *Cap COP 21, a series of events to help protect the environment. The initiative, organised in the run up to the United Nations Framework convention on Climate Change conference (COP 21), includes meetings, informative events and discussion forums which will be held in the run-up to the main conference, which will take place in Paris, France in December 2015.
Aim to stop the use of misleading “go green – go paperless” environmental claims.
New research, commissioned by worldwide lobbying organisation ‘Two Sides’, has revealed that major global corporations are still using inaccurate and misleading environmental claims to encourage consumers to ‘go paperless’ and switch from paper-based to digital communication. This is despite legislation being introduced by the advertising standards authorities to protect the consumer from being misled.
Company strengthens traceability of product offering with unique Myrmex supplier platform.
Matthew Botfield Environment Manager at Antalis UKAntalis, a leading European distributor of paper, packaging solutions and visual communications products, has confirmed that it continues to prove its commitment to setting the standard in social and environmental responsibility with its Myrmex supplier platform. The aim of the platform is to strengthen traceability of the entire Antalis supply chain by gathering together extensive information on suppliers' regulatory conformity and adherence with new FSC® and PEFC standards, as well as the new European Timber regulation. This enables Antalis to clearly evaluate the potential risks linked to certain supplier’s sources and take measures to mitigate them if necessary.
Can recent policies impact the changing climate?
The Look of a Curious MindPresident Barak Obama has unveiled an unprecedented policy this week which deals with climate change. The proposed plan seeks to cut existing carbon emissions from power plants. They were not announced by President Obama, but by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Gina McCarthy. McCarthy announced that carbon dioxide emissions would be cut 30% from 2005 levels or 15%-17% from current levels by 2030.
FOGRA testing proves 82% energy savings,
boosting green benefits of EFI's VUTEk LED Printers.
The VUTEk GS3250LX is one of the printers used to determine energy savings in Fogra's testingEnergy assessments carried out by Fogra have confirmed that EFI's VUTEk® wide-format printers with LED curing show energy reductions of up to 82% when compared with devices that use conventional mercury arc lamps. Even in print-ready mode, the company's LX printers with "cool curing" LEDs are now shown to save up to 77% in electricity usage, simply because the LEDs are off, unlike mercury arc lamps which still consume power when the machine is idle between jobs. The calculations of Fogra's Energy Efficiency Project ("Energy efficiency of large and small format printing systems") have demonstrated that users can save around €16,000 every year on power consumption, an important factor for businesses pricing up jobs on both rigid and flexible materials.
Company is one of the Global 100
Most Sustainable Corporations once again.
James Deacon head of corporate responsibility Ricoh UK and IrelandFor the tenth year in a row, Ricoh has once again been rated as one of Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world. The company was presented with the news during the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Global 100 is an extensive data-driven corporate sustainability assessment and inclusion is restricted to a select group of the top 100 large-cap companies in the world. Ricoh said that its presence on the list for a decade is a testament to its success incorporating social, economic, ecological and cost benefits.