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Re: Oce:CBS::Ikon:RBS Simple Math
Larry, I agree it is a great time to be an independent! Art, When I was at Ricoh - RBS the Ricoh leadership was more concerned about all of the branches being THE SAME then they were about each individual branch succeeding. What made me loose respect for the Ricoh Management team was they did not respect individual achievement. So even though my branch hit our triple crown numbers they dismantled what we had put in place, what made us successful, because they wanted all branches to be the...
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Re: The Worst Copier Web Sites in the World!
Are there anymore entries? I'll leave this thread open for another few days and then I'll create a poll so that we can Crown the Winner of the The Worst Copier Web Site in the World!
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Re: The End Is Nigh
More for Czech I see what you do on LinkedIn, I see what you write, you my friend "is the value" that you bring to your clients! Like I stated before, selling copiers now seems to be more about identifying those clients that you can ands can't make GP. You need to make that assessment ASAP during discovery. There are many boxes I don't make money on (GP), however there are spiffs from the manufacturers and @ $200 bucks each for some color units, you can pocket another $1K in spiffs. Don't...
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Toshiba cuts profit outlook as costs rise for energy business
TOKYO -- Toshiba on Wednesday slashed its operating profit forecast for fiscal 2018 by 66% to 20 billion yen ($181 million), barely three months after forecasting 60 billion yen for the year. The cut came as the group reported a 94% plunge in operating profit for the third quarter to 1 billion yen, on a 6% drop in revenue. Rising costs in its energy business and a 9.8 billion yen goodwill impairment to semiconductor equipment subsidiary NuFlare Technology -- stemming from a sharp decline in...
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2nd Watch Named CRN® Triple Crown Award Winner
SEATTLE, Oct. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 2nd Watch has earned the 2018 Triple Crown Award from CRN ®, a brand of The Channel Company . The AWS Premier Partner and Microsoft Azure Gold partner is one of only 46 solution providers in North America to meet CRN’s Triple Crown milestones for revenue, growth and technical expertise. 2nd Watch is the largest independently owned US-based cloud-native service provider, with 200,000 instances under management. The CRN Triple Crown Award is just the...
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Attention Sales Leaders: What Could Your Team Do With $7.2 Million Of Sales Opportunties?
Observe those successful in sales, and you'll soon notice they're good at the art of conversation. If you think this sounds easy, think twice. Having engaging sales conversations takes a tremendous amount of skill, practice and patience. With so many leaning heavily on social media for their interactions, the less face to face communication is practiced, the less skilled your team becomes in having business conversations. If your business relies on your sales team to win clients, the better...
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Computer Design & Integration LLC (CDI LLC) Named to the 2020 Tech Elite 250 by CRN®
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 7, 2020-- Computer Design & Integration LLC (CDI LLC) announced today that CRN ®, a brand of The Channel Company , has named CDI to its 2020 Tech Elite 250 list. This annual list acknowledges the top tier of North American IT solution providers that have earned the highest number of advanced technical certifications from leading technology suppliers, scaled to their company size. These organizations have differentiated themselves as premier solution...
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Focus Technology Achieves Titanium Tier in 2020 Dell Technologies Partner Program
Focus Technology, a leading provider of next-generation IT infrastructure, managed IT services, cyber security and cloud solutions, announced today it has achieved the prestigious Titanium Solution Provider tier in the Dell Technologies Partner Program for 2020. This is the third consecutive year Focus has advanced its tier status with Dell—moving from Gold to Platinum to Titanium—signifying the firm’s rapid growth over the past three years. As a Titanium member of the Dell Technologies...
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Re: Final Five Predictions?
Fuji Xerox (Note the FUJI, I think they will take a more aggressive ownership within Xerox) HP Canon Ricoh Konica Minolta Art - don't underestimate the size of HP's Imaging & Printing division (now PPS). There wouldn't be a copier manufacturer with the funds to but HP's crown jewel
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Re: Rumor has it.....
As far as Canon releasing Solutions Engineers... Too often top management doesn't understand exactly what an SE does, because its hard to quantify their impact. A good pre-sales SE is to a Sales Organization like yeast is to bread, you only notice when its not there. Several years ago I was hired by RBS-Boston to reconstitute the solutions team that they had disbanded two years earlier. Of course the branches sale tanked, and they finally figured out they needed Pre-Sales SEs. They brought...
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Robber Jailed After Using Banana As Weapon
Robber Jailed After Using Banana As Weapon Wed Mar 16,11:51 AM ET Strange News - AP LONDON - Robert Downey had the mask and the attitude to be a successful robber. But he ruined the effect when he tried to stage a hold-up at his local bookmaker's...
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4th of July Independance Day
As the Fourth of July draws near..........over 200 hundred years ago America was a colony of the British Empire. Tyranny & Heavy taxation, limited freedoms and colonial censorship were the order of the day. We were able to proclaim our freedom and fight for what we believed in. We had help to win our freedom back then. France gave us ships, money and troops and moral support to stay the course. Let us not forgot that our freedoms and independence does not come with our cost. Lives have been...
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CarboNZero certified
BECOMING carbon neutral has transformed staff behaviour at an East Tamaki firm. It took six months of system changes and scrutiny for Oceania Printing Technologies to navigate Landcare Research's carboNZero programme. "Initially getting certified can...
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Publishers, Inkjet Experts, Paper Suppliers Talk Change at Ricoh’s Book Publishing Symposium
MALVERN, Pa.—October 19, 2015—Ricoh Americas today announced the success of its inaugural Publishing Executive Symposium, a two-day event that recently took place at the company’s Executive Briefing Center in Boulder, Colorado. Executives from the world’s leading publishers convened to debate where the publishing industry is headed and how technology can support it. Attendees discussed publishing trends, exchanged best practices and lessons learned, and experienced first-hand how the latest...
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NEWS: Hatteras Triples Superwide-Format Capacity with EFI VUTEk HS125 Pro Inkjet Press
NEWS -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hatteras Triples Superwide-Format Capacity with EFI VUTEk HS125 Pro Inkjet Press FREMONT, California -- March 31, 2016 -- Electronics For Imaging , Inc. (Nasdaq:EFII) today reported that Hatteras, a family-owned printing business with locations in New Jersey and New York, will be one of the first businesses to install the high-volume, 3.2-meter EFI VUTEk HS125 Pro hybrid roll/flatbed inkjet press. The company, founded in 1983 and employing 290, operates a...
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New Stratasys Compact Dental 3D Printer Combines Versatility, Affordability and Quality for Smaller Dental Labs
September 01, 2015 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time MINNEAPOLIS & REHOVOT, Israel--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Stratasys, Ltd . (Nasdaq:SSYS), a global leader of 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions, introduces the Objet30 Dental Prime, a high quality, low cost 3D printer designed to allow smaller dental labs to produce a wide range of models and appliances in-house. While compact in size, the Objet30 Dental Prime is big in versatility, beginning with a choice of 3D print modes: High...
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New Jersey State Police Ticketing:
Here's the latest NJ State Police Initiative (Radio Station 101.5 confirmed this info). Starting July 28, New Jersey will launch a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that 9 million dollars will be generated in speeding tickets. One...
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Ricoh reduces costs for pork company
Ricoh reduces costs for pork companyRicoh’s Managed Print Services (MPS) have been installed at Tulip Ltd, part of The Danish Crown Group, the UK’s largest producer of pig meat. As well as managing hardware replacement, Ricoh's MPS...
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EMC, IBM, Veritas,
The latest acquisition promises to create an oligarchy of four companies, EMC, IBM, Veritas, and Microsoft, in the storage management software space -- five, if you want to count Computer Associates -- with lots of small fries taking little bits of...
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MakerBot Offers a Step Back in Time with Jurassic T-Rex Skeleton and T-Rex Skull Models Available for Download and 3D Printing
BROOKLYN, N.Y., May 06, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Adventurous 3D print fans have some new 3D models to get excited about this week. The MakerBot® Digital Store is thrilled to announce two new models that take 3D printing to a whole new level and time. MakerBot is introducing the T-Rex Skeleton , an anatomically correct, realistic and scaled model of a full Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton! This giant lived in the forested river valleys of North America 65 million years ago and has always been a...
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Stratasys Introduces Precision Wax 3D Printers for the Dental Industry
Stratasys Ltd., a global leader of 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions today introduced the highest precision wax 3D printers available to the dental industry. The Stratasys FrameWorx dental 3D printer produces wax-ups for dentures. (Photo: Stratasys) The Stratasys CrownWorx and FrameWorx 3D Printers allow dental laboratories to produce wax-ups for crowns, bridges and denture frameworks. The machines will be unveiled May 17 at the LMT Lab Day West Show in booth number B8.
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INTELLEDOX TO EXHIBIT AT SHARE CONFERENCE 2013
INTELLEDOX TO EXHIBIT AT SHARE CONFERENCE 2013 Canberra, Australia – 11 November, 2013 - Intelledox will exhibit with partner Fujitsu at Share Conference in Melbourne this month ( 18 – 20 November 2013 ). The conference is designed to help business users pinpoint new and different ways to use SharePoint to enable great business performance. Intelledox and Fujitsu will show attendees how to make business processes intelligent and manage SharePoint environments effectively, including how to:...
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To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas for 2014"
Christmas in Sweden begins with the Saint Lucia ceremony. Before dawn on the morning of 13 December, the youngest daughter from each family puts on a white robe with a red sash. She wears a crown of evergreens with tall-lighted candles attached to it....
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Public Services Alliance of Canada installs Konica Minolta bizhub Press 1052 and C1085
News January 2, 2017 | Tony Curcio Heith Gharib, Major Account Executive for the PSAC, with the bizhub Press 1052 from Konica Minolta Canada. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, has installed two new Konica Minolta bizhub Presses – the 1052 and C1085 – from Konica Minolta Canada. The PSAC has 23 regional offices across Canada and represents more than 170,000 workers in every province and territory – as well as in locations around the world. Its...
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Konica Minolta unveils e-bizVAULT cloud DMS For multi platforms
Konica Minolta has added one more jewel to its crown with the launch of e-bizVAULT, a cloud based web DMS (Document Management System) solution which furnishes all the benefits of a DMS in a cloud environment for enterprises. e-bizVAULT protects an organisation against data loss, system failure and as well as unauthorized system access. Furthermore it is also accessible on a notebook, in the organisation’s network, over the web, in the cloud or in a smart-phone as well as a tablet, ensuring...
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Brand Keys Names Konica Minolta #1 in Customer Loyalty for Tenth Consecutive Year
RAMSEY, NJ --(Marketwired - February 08, 2017) - For the 10 th consecutive year, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ) is being honored for customer loyalty. According to the 2017 Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index®, the company has once again earned this recognition ten years in a row. Konica Minolta was also awarded for best brand engagement. Brand Keys 22 nd annual Customer Loyalty Engagement Index and research consultancy, identifies brands that are...
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Can Foxconn Unlock Sharp's True Potential?
Once a crown jewel in Japan Inc.'s corporate pantheon, Sharp is now added to the long list of recent Chinese acquisitions of foreign companies. As of June 1st, 2016, Taiwanese regulators have cleared the acquisition of Sharp by Foxconn Technology Group. Sharp's newly released RoBoHoN and 4k AQUOS NEXT/XU technology show that its top-tier researchers still have the Japanese spirit of innovation. Foxconn's management will need to tap into Sharp's latent potential in order to make the company...
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Can HP Protect Its Printer Kingdom?
Can HP Protect Its Printer Kingdom? Dell is quickly taking share in the low end, so Fiorina & Co. are going upstream. Despite some early successes, HP has much to prove When Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ ) began blazing trails in the nascent printer industry two decades ago, few realized what the business could mean for the Silicon Valley icon. Today, the printing and imaging business is HP's heart and soul. In 2004, its $3.8 billion in operating profits represent over three-quarters of HP's...
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Merry Christmas
I know it's early but I have my first family Christmas celebration tomorrow (and my last on the 30th) so I wanted to wish each of you a Merry Christmas!Just for fun here's some Christmas Trivia:According to historical accounts, the first Christmas in...
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Wide Format Monster Garage!!
Ah! It's good to live in New Jersey! I can't say that I'll say that too often. Wide Format Monster Garage came to the Crown Point Hotel in New Jersey yesterday. There were two four hour work shops. We had the KIP3000, Xerox 6204, OCETDS320 and our...
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Hewlett-Packard reported higher 4th-quarter, however..
By Keith ReganE-Commerce Times 11/17/06 11:22 AM PT Hewlett-Packard reported higher 4th-quarter profits and a modest rise in sales. Net income for the quarter ending in October was $1.7 billion, compared with $416 million in the year ago period....
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How Toshiba Lost $6 Billion
Since its founding in 1873 as Japan’s first maker of telegraph equipment, Toshiba has survived a litany of challenges, from the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, to having its factories bombed into rubble during World War II, to the drubbing of the Zune music player it co-developed with Microsoft. Now the conglomerate may be undone by four nuclear power plants under construction in the American South. Blown deadlines and budgets at the reactors in Georgia and South Carolina overseen by...
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Lexmark awarded place on Crown Commercial Service Framework Agreement
Lexmark has been awarded a position on RM3781 Lot 3 for Managed Print and Content Management Services in the UK Lexmark International, Inc., a global imaging leader, today announced that it has been awarded a place on the highly competitive Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Framework Agreement. The RM3781 framework offers public sector and central government customer solutions for printer/copier, managed print and records information management services. Awarded in partnership with YPO and...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The First Week of November 2006
One of the more interesting threads below is from Gordon MacKay from Queensland, Australia. Gordon posted a thread in reference to his existing dealership and his past experience in the copier industry. It was awesome to re-visit this thread. Gordon, if you're still out there, shoot us a reply. That thread is here Japan's Konica Minolta 11/5/06 6:42 PM multifunctional models, especially in Europe," company director Yasuo Matsumoto told a news conference. Konica Minolta also raised its...
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NexusTek Achieves Triple Crown Status for 2019
CRN Recognizes Exceptional IT Solution Providers in North America DENVER, CO / ACCESSWIRE / November 19, 2019 / NexusTek , a top national cloud, managed IT services and cyber security provider (MSP), today announced its recognition as one of CRN's 2019 Triple Crown Award winners. Now in its sixth year, the Triple Crown Award recognizes solution providers that outshine their IT channel peers. It is awarded to the top solution providers in North America based on revenue, growth, and technical...
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MGI and Konica Minolta Present JETvarnish 3D Embellishment & Accurio Print Solutions at 2019 Digital Packaging Summit
MGI and Konica Minolta Present JETvarnish 3D Embellishment & Accurio Print Solutions at 2019 Digital Packaging Summit Decorative Brand Impact Highlighted in New NAPCO Research “Adding Value to Print” Report 2019 Digital Packaging Summit Event Guide MELBOURNE, FL USA (November 21st, 2019) – MGI and Konica Minolta Business Solutions , U.S.A., Inc. presented a complete spectrum of JETvarnish 3D and Accurio digital packaging and label solutions at the 2019 Digital Packaging Summit held in...
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iCoreConnect Inc. Acquires TrinIT Solutions
WINDERMERE, FL, Jan. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- iCoreConnect Inc. (OTC:ICCT) announces the acquisition of Computer Plumber LLC, DBA TrinIT Solutions. TrinIT Solutions is a North Carolina-based IT company providing, managing and monitoring technology solutions for corporate and healthcare companies. “The iCoreConnect culture is to engage and listen to our customers to understand the full spectrum of their challenges, then proactively develop solutions to their problems,”...
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Team Concept Launches “LuxFX” Decorative Print Designs with JETvarnish 3D Special Effects
Team Concept Launches “ LuxFX ” Decorative Print Designs with JETvarnish 3D Special Effects Konica Minolta and MGI Co-Sponsor PRINTING United Exposition & Project Peacock Tour Team Concept “LuxFX” JETvarnish 3D Samples MELBOURNE, FL USA (August 27th, 2019) – For the last twenty-one years, Team Concept , based in Carol Stream, IL, has been an innovative leader of the Chicagoland printing industry. In 2018, as a growth strategy to establish a competitive advantage for their customers and...
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Ntiva Wins CRN Triple Crown Award 2019
Award Program Recognizes Exceptional IT Solution Providers MCLEAN, Va. (PRWEB)October 14, 2019 - Ntiva, Inc., a leading provider of managed IT, cloud hosting, cyber security, unified communications and strategic consulting services announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Ntiva as a 2019 Triple Crowd Award winner. CRN Triple Crown Award winners rank among the largest IT solution providers in North America in terms of revenue on the Solution Provider 500 list. They...
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Icahn ally sues to block Fuji-Xerox merger
Xerox shareholder Darwin Deason asked courts on Tuesday to block the company’s merger with Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings, claiming board members at the US photocopier maker had failed in their duty to shareholders. Deason and fellow shareholder Carl Icahn have been fighting to stop Fujifilm from taking over Xerox in a $6.1 billion deal, saying the transaction “dramatically” undervalued Xerox and “disproportionately” favored Fuji. Xerox has countered the claims, saying that the merger seemed to...
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Toshiba May Miss Deadline for Chip Sale -- And Reap Billions
increasingly likely Toshiba Corp. will miss a March deadline for closing the sale of its memory chip business. That could turn out to be $4 billion worth of good news for the Japanese conglomerate. The company agreed to sell the crown-jewel memory unit to a consortium led by Bain Capital to avoid delisting after billions of dollars of losses in its nuclear energy operations. But China has yet to grant approval for the deal and regulators are unlikely to sign off before the contract’s March...
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Access Expands in Canada with Acquisition of Six Canadian Records Management Companies
BOSTON, May 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Access , the largest privately-held records and information management (RIM) services provider in the United States, today announced a major expansion into Canada, with the acquisition of six Canadian records management companies. With these acquisitions, Access expands its operations in North America with locations in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, St. John’s and Saint John, servicing more than 20 key markets across...
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Toshiba Agrees to Sell Westinghouse Assets, Boosting Capital
Toshiba Corp. has agreed to sell claims in its Westinghouse U.S. nuclear unit to bolster its capital by 410 billion yen ($3.68 billion) by March, helping it to erase negative shareholder equity and avoid being delisted. The Tokyo-based company plans to complete the sale of the claims to an entity controlled by the Baupost Group LLC this month, it said in a statement Thursday. The deal will generate after-tax profit of 170 billion yen. Toshiba shares rose as much as 2.9 percent in Tokyo. The...
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Toshiba: the troubles chipping away at its core
Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki in Tokyo yesterday Earlier this month, after nearly three straight years of nasty surprises, one of Japan’s top analysts on Toshiba asked the company to explain a basic issue about the planned sale of its key asset, but received a blunt response. “We do not proactively disclose that information,” he was told. The company, a 143-year-old conglomerate at the heart of Japan’s supposedly reforming industrial economy, had apparently learnt nothing from a crisis that was...
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Spark Printing Fuels Explosive 400% Growth with MGI JETvarnish 3D Special Effects
Spark Printing Fuels Explosive 400% Growth with MGI JETvarnish 3D Special Effects Konica Minolta Digital Print Enrichment Solutions Ignite Brands at Inkjet Summit and Odyssey Expo Spark 2019 FSEA Sourcebook Image MELBOURNE, FL USA (June 9th, 2019) – Spark Printing , in Memphis, Tennessee, has lit a bonfire of new business opportunities with print buyers, brands and other fellow commercial print service providers over the last year with their MGI JETvarnish 3D digital print enhancement press...
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Phase 1 Prototypes Transforms Brand Packaging Designs with JETvarnish 3D Special Effects
Phase 1 Prototypes Transforms Brand Packaging Designs with JETvarnish 3D Special Effects Konica Minolta and MGI Co-Sponsor Print Media Centr’s Project Peacock Print Fair Phase 1 Prototypes Souvenir Project Peacock Box MELBOURNE, FL USA (August 12 th , 2019) – Phase 1 Prototypes in Dallas, Texas, is a creative workshop and packaging laboratory for brands to create and develop new product designs for maximum consumer shelf impact with advanced printing technologies. For the last year, they’ve...
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Re: Toshiba empire crumbles as talent, morale drain away
However they did reach that agreement with Bain for 13.8 billion. Sold the Crown Jewels to try and save the ship
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