Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday? 

What the heck is behind that phrase? What should be bought on #CyberMonday?

Well, “cyber“ showed up as the first word in the title of ‘Cybernetics or Control and Communications in the Animal and the Machine” in 1948. Remember cyborgs from science fiction - surgically or mechanically augmenting humans or animals? Recall the “We can rebuild him. We have the technology” of the Six Million Dollar Man?

Back in the height of the mainframe days of the 1970s, IBMers would battle against CDC and their product line named the Cyber supercomputers.

Now any Starbucks or McDonalds is equipped like what we once described as a cybercafé – having a public and usable connection to the WWW World Wide Web. Now it is getting more difficult to find a cafe that doesn't offer wireless connectivity.

Here’s a great idea. Wrap your Cyber Monday up with last week’s Small Business Saturday.

Forget the “Fox”. What does the Greek say?  The origin of cyber could be from helmsman or steersman, or “skilled in steering or governing”.

What are the perfect products to buy from me on www.ChooseGLMgroup.com today this Cyber Monday? Well, thanks for asking! 

In the spirit of 'CYBER', here’s a condensed shopping list for you: IPDS Printers -- Planet Press Software with enhanced PostScript -- FortisBlue content management software! These are a few of our products that each have their strength in allowing the customer to steer, control and govern the document through creation, delivery, and consumption by the intended users.

'Cyber' is about getting enabled to access, guide, and control; not only a sales catalog on one's tablet computer but also those systems in one's work life.  Happy Cyber Monday!

For more information, contact Warren Neeley at WNeeley@PCIprinters.com or 817-939-5614.

Printronix L5535 Toner # 703532-002 Solution with Affordable Rebuilt Printronix L7032 Printer

If you are struggling with what to do since the end of the supply of Printronix toner # 703532-002, here's an option.  Ditch the old L5535, but maybe hold off on jumping into a new printer unit.

We can offer a few, available, rebuilt, restored, refurbished Printronix L7032 laser for which there is currently a good supply of parts. Spend a little, lay in some toner and supplies, and print into 2014 while you ponder your output department's "Extreme Makeover."

Lots of customers are telling us that they didn't budget for a continuous forms printer acquisition in this year's plan. Remember, we sell some great new replacements for the old Printronix L5000 family - choices from MicroPlex and Sato.  Several L5000 customers are studying hard for this test, and some are already taking the plunge with us this year.  However, some accounts want to have a different financial option.  That's where we can really shine.

For more ideas about how to get through this bump in the road, give Warren Neeley a call at 817-939-5614 or contact him at WNeeley@PCIprinters.com

The End of the Printronix L5535 and Toner # 703532-002

The L5000 laser line from Printronix has come to its eventual end. Printer Connection offers a variety of choices for these customers.  

If June 2011 was in the "Printronix Bar and Grill", they had L5000 "Last Call for Alcohol". Printronix told their customers that the last order for L5000 Drums and Developer Units to their supplier was going to really be their last order. The supplier would not manufacture any more replacement units. When a laser printer needs a drum for quality reasons, it has to get a new drum.  If they're no longer available, you are done with that machine's usefulness.

In June 2013, Printronix ended their stocking orders for toner, and the inventory of Printronix L5535 and other L5000 toner supplies vanished.  L5000 Printer Users are faced with some decisions they they need to make quickly. Will they continue to print continuous laser forms and labels with a printer machine from another vendor, or move that output to some other type of device, other media,  and other style of printer?

Options are available right now.

PCI's customer options for Continuous Forms laser printers can be reviewed at http://goo.gl/tzNccL.  A move to cut sheet printing can be handled with moving to Canon, Xerox, or Ricoh units. Thermal printer options are with Printronix up to 8 inches in width and with Sato for even wider output.

For more information, contact Warren Neeley at 817-939-5614 or WNeeley@PCIprinters.com

IPDS Printers for Mainframe and AS400 Print Requirments

As some of our customers have been saying: "InfoPrint IPDS Printers are Gone - Now What?"  Ricoh shut down the InfoPrint operations at the end of 2011, but we are still supplying IPDS printers for the needs of the AS 400 printing customers.

Lexmark MS810n with IPDS

Lexmark IPDS was the very same provided by InfoPrint, and still available from PCI. The same applies to the 4247 tabletop serial dot matrix built by Compuprint as the IBM InfoPrint 4247.

Printronix P8000 with IPDS

Printronix will not and cannot ship the same IPDS as on the IBM InfoPrint 6500 line printers due to a stupid contractual hang-up with IBM and Ricoh, but their IPDS is very good and they are absolutely committed to testing and resolving any issues with intense graphics. On the T5000 thermal barcode label printers, it's the very same code as was on the IBM 4400 and InfoPrint 6700 thermal units.

Dascom has committed time and resources by hiring one of InfoPrint's best IPDS industrial and office printing experts onto their serial dot matrix technical staff.  Dascom has a very good IPDS solution found on their Tally 4347 printers.


Canon Oce VarioPrint DP 135 with IPDS

Higher volume production printer vendors have worked to accommodate the IBM IPDS crowd, and PCI offers new options from the Canon / Oce merger and from Xerox.  Ricoh units are also available, and Printer Connection has a supply of refurbished IBM InfoPrint cutsheet units.  In continuous form pin-feed laser, choices are available from Sato and MicroPlex.

For more IPDS information, configurations and technical assistance, contact Warren Neeley at 817-939-5614 or WNeeley@PCIprinters.com or review his website at ChooseGLMgroup.com for IPDS AS400 Printing with Lexmark IPDS and Other Vendors.

IPDS Output Software Options -- Other Than Ricoh's InfoPrint Manager or InfoPrint ProcessDirector or InfoPrint Server

Or Ricoh ProcessDirector, or whatever Ricoh may do to the product names and the organization that was once the IBM Printing Systems Division. Are you interested in printing with IPDS, and would like to review alternatives to using the software and support limitations once offered by the InfoPrint organization? This site holds a couple of options for you: Other IPDS Options


For software, you can choose from a well-established alternative with RSA, Rochester Software Associates.  RSA software can run a complex datacenter and print center workflow and drive IPDS print to supported devices.

Another newer choice for IPDS printing is NewLeaf PrintSoft from ObjectifLune, the providers of the very popular PlanetPress print software. OL recently acquired PrintSoft and their strengths in complex IBM print center and variable print management tools.

For more information or a product discussion, contact Warren Neeley at WNeeley@PCIprinters.com or 817-939-5614.  Review these products at these web pages:  RSA and PrintSoft.

InfoPrint 75 - Enjoy It Now At A Reduced Price

InfoPrint 75 Laser Printer Availability

The InfoPrint 75 is a nice continuous forms laser printer unit that unfortunately did a disappearing act in the market.

2020 EDIT: RICOH DROPS IP75 SERVICE ON MARCH 31, 2021. NO NEW REPAIR PARTS AVAILABILITY. TONER SOLE SOURCE HAS ANNOUNCED END-OF-AVAILABILITY OF IP75/100 TONER PRODUCT 03/31/2021. THESE GREAT PRINTERS WILL BECOME UNUSABLE FOR KEY MISSIONS. NO RICOH ALTERNATIVES. RICOH WALKS AWAY FROM IP75 AND IP100 INSTALL BASE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT PRINTER CONNECTION, (866) 430-6202.


Once sold by the InfoPrint Business Partners and the nationwide team of InfoPrint sales reps, the machine went into hiding after the end of 2011.  Ricoh shut down the InfoPrint operations, canceling all the resellers and laying off all the reps, save for the very few RPPS reps that continued to sell the $500k+ roll-fed mono and $2MM color units of the InfoPrint 4100 and 5000 product families. 

Customers still have needs, and resellers could still sell these machines except the InfoPrint 75 is not available to them.  Ricoh could certainly take an order and take the reseller's customer and run, but there's nothing in it for the folks that know the customers best.

It is now effectively an orphaned unit.  The former Ikon sales reps could sell it, but they are not typically in the enterprise industrial marketplace enough to invest the time to know the product and its usage.  The RPPS reps could sell it, but why spend time on a $75,000 unit (before discounts) when your quota is high and you are tasked to sell $500k or $2MM units?

Printer Connection has access to a few of these Infoprint 75 units, lightly used and ready for new homes. The same reliable Ricoh RPPS (former InfoPrint) maintenance service and technicians are still available to maintain the printers, with RPPS service contracts also available from Printer Connection.

For a spec sheet, click here.

Contact Warren Neeley at 817-939-5614 or WNeeley@PCIprinters.com.

Mobile data traffic will rise sharply in the coming years

Thanks, DocPath!

We found this on the website of our friends at DocPath and they give the source as: Cisco.  Visit www.DocPath.com to see our partner's great document software solutions.  Here's the very interesting article --

Mobile data traffic will rise sharply in the coming years

According to a detailed report by Cisco VNI (Visual Networking Index) about data traffic on mobile phones, global mobile data traffic will multiply by 13 times in the next 5 years, from 2013-2017, and will reach a staggering 134 exabytes per year. As an example, this number equivalates to 10 MMS-type images produced by each person globally in an entire year.

The increase in mobile data traffic is due, among other causes, to significant growth in mobile Internet connections. In fact, Cisco's report expects that smartphones, laptops, and tablets will generate 93% of the global mobile data traffic in 2017.

In addition, Cisco points out that global mobile data traffic will exceed 3 times the fixed global data traffic during the period of 2012-2017. The Cisco report notes the following trends to be the reasons for this development:

• More mobile users. In 2017 there will be 5,200 million mobile users (from 4,300 million in 2012)
• More mobile connections. In 2017 there will be over 10,000 billion mobile-connected devices (from 7,000 million in 2012).
• Faster mobile connections. The average speed of mobile connections will multiply by 7 between 2012 (0.5 Mbps) and 2017 (3.9 Mbps).
• More mobile video. In 2017, the Global mobile video traffic will account for 66 percent of all global mobile data traffic (from the estimated 51 percent in 2012).

For more information on mobile document management, contact Warren Neeley at WNeeley@PCIprinters.com or 817-939-5614.

InfoPrint 2235 Powerhouse Is In The House

High Speed 2707-003 Printer at Printer Connection Now

We've landed the biggest fish in the InfoPrint ocean, and it is now refurbished and ready for its next customer home.  

The InfoPrint 2235, aka the 2707-003 has completed the final checkout run with the Printer Connection Tech Center.

Running at up to 135 pages per minute, equipped with all available print languages (IPDS, PS, PCL), and with a lot of life left in the old chassis, this high performance beauty is ready to rock-and-roll as a high volume system printer or a very capable backup to another unit currently in production.

To review more about the 2235: http://www.chooseglmgroup.com/Pages/InfoPrint_2235.aspx.

For more information, contact Warren Neeley at WNeeley@PCIprinters.com or 817-939-5614.

Xerox Nuvera 120 - a Print Production Workhorse at 120 PPM

Xerox Nuvera 120 EA Production System

Outstanding Monochrome Imaging Quality, Power, Productivity and Modularity

The Xerox Nuvera 120 EA Production System
is a high volume and high speed production printer that is capable of printing or scanning and copying at up to 120 pages per minute. The Xerox Nuvera 120 is perfect for producing complex jobs requiring folding such as booklets or brochures. This workhorse unit has a recommended average monthly volume of 1,500,000 images per month.

The Nuvera 120 handles a wide variety of applications in both mid-production and full-production environments:

• Time-critical printing
• Complex documents or simple documents
• Promotional transactional documents
• Variable data
• Digital printing and digital book publishing
• On-demand book printing

If you are searching for an upgrade or replacement for printers from IBM and InfoPrint, this system is a great choice. Call Warren Neeley at 817-939-5614 to discuss, or reach Warren at WNeeley@PCIprinters.com

Post Office pondering Intelligent Mail barcodes on all commercial parcels

This is taken and condensed from Enterprise Labeling News, posted March 13, 2013
http://enterpriselabeling.com/2013/03/14/usps-moving-toward-requiring-the-use-of-intelligent-mail-barcodes-on-all-commercial-parcels/

Since January 28, mailers looking to take advantage of the discounted "automation prices" offered by USPS have been required to use the Intelligent Mail barcode.

Now, it seems the agency is preparing to require the use of the new barcodes on all commercial parcels. On February 26, the Postal Service published a pertinent notice in the Federal Register, informing mailers that it is "exploring the advisability of requiring the use of Intelligent Mail package barcodes (IMpb) or unique tracking Intelligent Mail barcodes (IMb) on all commercial parcels."

The organization said it would expect to implement the new standards "on or about July 28, 2013." USPS offered a brief explanation of the rationale behind its actions by pointing to the benefits associated with the "intelligent" barcodes.

"Mailers will benefit from the tracking services provided with IMpb, both from improved service performance and from more efficient postal operations," the notice said.

The notice in the Federal Register was introduced as a way to provide stakeholders with an opportunity to submit comments before the beginning of a final rulemaking process. The agency will be accepting comments on the proposal until March 28, 2013.

For continuous form printers that are IMb capable and ready, visit http://www.chooseglmgroup.com/Pages/CheshireLabelsIMBIntelligentMailBarcodePrintingonImpactPrinters.aspx

DocPath Business Suite Industrial Bringing New Life to Matrix Printers

DocPath, PCI’s partner in document software especially for the run-native IBM “i” operating environment, has announced the availability of Business Suite Industrial.  It is a new software solution that enables businesses to generate professionally-formatted documents such as invoices and labels for printing on line matrix, serial matrix, or thermal printers. This solution provides users with document design technology that was previously only available to laser printer users.

The challenge of using line matrix technology is an inability to have an easy and affordable way to design graphical documents for printing on a line printer or other industrial units. With Business Suite Industrial, line matrix users can continue to reap the benefits of a greener technology solution, migrate completely away from or use less expensive and inflexible preprinted forms, and do far more with their printed documents.

Business Suite Industrial also includes an intuitive design tool for creating professionally-formatted graphical documents that allow for tables, images and data-driven messages, barcodes and more, which are commonly used by industrial companies.

“Many businesses like the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of existing industrial printers, but have been forced to migrate to laser due to a severe lack of application flexibility. With DocPath, this is no longer the case,” said Julio Olivares, the president and CEO of DocPath. “Industrial printers are increasingly relevant by offering benefits such as lower energy consumption, hardware longevity, lower cost of ownership, and support for graphical forms generation.”

A renewed relevance for line matrix, serial and even thermal printing:

•A “greener” alternative – When factoring hardware longevity, consumable waste, and energy consumption, line matrix is one of the most environmentally-friendly ways to print.

•Lower cost of ownership – Especially for high volume and high coverage print requirements, industrial printers can be the least expensive to operate per page, long-term, providing an attractive alternative to laser for nearly any business.

•Unmatched reliability – Continuous form industrial printers maintain superior performance when exposed to humidity, extreme temperatures, dust/dirt and other elements, making them ideal for harsh environments.

Business Suite Industrial is available for installation on iSeries, Windows, UNIX, and Linux. Business Pro Suite, a more comprehensive version enables support for laser printing, larger distributed print environments, PDF generation, and automated delivery of documents to email or fax.

For more information, contact Warren Neeley, GM of PCI Solutions via email address  WNeeley@PCIprinters.com or by calling 817-939-5614.  For a proposal, visit the website http://www.chooseglmgroup.com/Pages/DocPathBusinessSuiteIndustrial.aspx and request a quote.