Roland DGA Corp. recently introduced Roland Financial Services, powered by U.S. Bank, enabling customers to lease any Roland product priced more than $5,000.

 

Roland Financial Services offers a range of lease options to meet varying business demands including additional financing for media, ink and training through Roland University. The program is offered in partnership with U.S. Bank, the 6th largest commercial bank in the United States with assets of $238 billion.

 

With Roland Financial Services, Roland customers can preserve their existing bank credit lines and conserve cash for the future. Roland Financial Services allows businesses to finance up to 100 percent of the equipment purchase price with minimal or no initial fees. Leases can also be set up to cover supplies and training costs up to 25 percent beyond the equipment purchase price. Financing options are available for equipment upgrades as well, allowing lease customers to take advantage of new Roland technologies as they become available.

 

Now through Dec. 31, qualified businesses can lease Roland products at a special introductory rate of 5.9 percent for 48 months, with a $1.00 buyout.

 

More information on Roland Financial Services U.S. Bank lease options is available at www.rolanddga.com/rfs, through Authorized Roland Dealers or by calling Roland Customer Services at 800.542.2307.

 

 

Academy Reprographics recently announced that The New Mexico Business Weekly Magazine has selected Academy as a “Best Place to Work” in the State of New Mexico for 2008.

 

Out of thousands of applications across all industries, Academy ranked No. 7 in its category, scoring a 93.79 out of possible 100 points. The Best Places to Work award recognizes Academy for its outstanding culture, employee recognition and benefits. Academy has 16 employees in its two Albuquerque stores.

The Best Places to Work in New Mexico is an annual awards program that pinpoints the top 40 companies in the state. The ranking was based entirely on the anonymous responses of company employees, who must have completed an online, multiple choice questionnaires that tabulated their level of satisfaction with their jobs, their confidence in the future prospects of the company, trust in co-workers, manager effectiveness, work engagement, compensation and whether they felt valued in the company. 

 

Frank M. Misischia (right) has been appointed president of FLM Reprographics based in Fairfield, N.J., with production facilities in Princeton as well as the client-based locations throughout the Northeast. He joined the company in February of 2007 as vice president and director of Client Services.

 

FLM Reprographics has been providing reprographics, document management and digital imaging services to the architectural, engineering and construction industry in the New York-New Jersey area for more than 35 years. Along with its sister company, FLM Graphics Corporation, which is a leading provider of commercial offset printing services, the FLM family of companies is one of the leading and most respected providers of a diversified range of quality graphic communications services in the Northeast.

 

 

Responding to the needs of the company’s growing customer base, Roland DGA Corporation has added senior level managers to its management, sales and service teams.

 

Rick Scrimger (right) is vice president and general manager, and his responsibilities have changed to include all inkjet devices, software, supplies, vinyl cutters, engravers and 3D scanning and milling machines. In this position, Scrimger is responsible for leading the company’s sales, marketing and product management initiatives. David Nelson has been appointed general counsel for Roland. As general counsel, Nelson is a member of Roland’s senior management team, provides strategic leadership and legal counsel for the company and oversees all aspects of the company’s legal affairs.

 

Joe Dawson has been promoted to the position of senior director of Sales, responsible for key sales functions across all Roland inkjet devices, vinyl cutters, engravers and all related supplies and accessories for North and South America. Fred Sciuto has joined Roland as national sales manager for color products, responsible for sales of inkjet products, supplies and accessories for the U.S. market. Mark McClafferty has joined Roland as the eastern regional sales manager based in the Philadelphia area. Michael Nichols has been promoted to the position of service manager for Roland.

 

For more information, visit www.rolanddga.com.

 

 

Mutoh America Inc. hires Missy Hino as an inside sales representative for its Midwest region.

 

Hino will serve serve as a liaison between the regional sales manager and the customer, as well as act as the customer’s point of contact for all sales transactions and inquiries.

 

Hino’s previous employers include Casa de los Ninos, La Hacienda and Devereaux Arizona Tucson, Arizona.

 

For more information, visit www.mutoh.com.           

 

 

Roland employees, affiliates and partners in business gathered at the Club Sirio Libanes Oct. 15 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to celebrate the success of Eco Journey South America 2008, a major public service campaign and automotive tour across South America to raise awareness for environmental issues throughout the continent.

 

Founded by Team ACP, a Japanese racing team and former Paris-Dakar Rally champions, Eco Journey 2008 marks a decade of similar “eco missions” completed by the team worldwide. Past Eco Journeys have taken the team across Europe, China, North America, Japan and the Sahara desert – each to advocate environmental initiatives.

 

The 2008 Eco Journey kicked off Sept. 15 in Quito, Ecuador, and concluded Oct. 15 in Buenos Aires. The route crossed an elevation change of 4,000 meters from north to south and passed through archeological sites, deserts, the salt flats of Salar de Uyuni, and Patagonia. Throughout the journey, Team ACP worked to minimize fuel consumption across South America’s extreme environmental conditions, demonstrating the power and viability of today’s fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles. Along the route, Team ACP met with top industry professionals in major cities to promote a variety of environmental issues, focusing on the importance of energy conservation.

 

To honor Team ACP’s work and commitment to the environment, the Roland special event featured presentations by Team ACP, Roland and Toyota. Each paid tribute to the environmental campaign and discussed the many causes supported by Eco Journey.

 

Toyota joined Roland in supporting Eco Journey 2008 and provided Team ACP with a hybrid Prius and Landcruiser for the challenge. To help increase awareness for the cause, both vehicles were fully wrapped in high-impact Eco Journey graphics using Roland eco-solvent inkjet printing technologies.

 

For more information, visit www.rolanddga.com.

 

 

Mutoh America wins the DPI (Digital Printing & Imaging Association) Product of the Year Competition. The prestigious award was received at the SGIA 2008 show in Atlanta for the ValueJet 1608-64 Hybrid printer.

 

The ValueJet 1608-64 Hybrid printer took top honors in the “rigid substrate (solvent ink)” category, meaning those solvent machines capable of printing on rigid materials. A panel of judges anonymously evaluated submissions based on criteria that include image, color, detail and tonality.

 

The prize winning image was printed by the ValueJet 1608-64 Hybrid printer with Mutoh’s new EPA recognized MUBIO Inks, on Gilman Foamboard using SAi’s Mutoh Edition 6V2 PhotoPrint Software. The ValueJet 1608-64 Hybrid printer is safe to operate without ventilation and produces high-resolution, outdoor durable images on a variety of rigid and roll-to-roll media.

 

This competition honors the finest digital imaging products, those that clearly provide a new definition of industry technology and recognizes outstanding products that will have a major beneficial impact on the industry in 2009. This award presented to the ValueJet 1608-64 Hybrid printer is recognition of our technological advancements, ink development and application of innovative ideas through feedback received from our customers and partners.

 

For more information, visit www.mutoh.com.

 

 

Ricoh Americas Corporation recently announced the promotion of Mark Minshull to vice president and chief technologist. In this newly created role, Minshull will oversee Ricoh’s solution technology vision across all business units. Minshull will also continue to serve as vice president of Ricoh Americas Corporation’s Technology Center, which supports major-account sales activities and software product development in the Americas.

 

Minshull joined Ricoh America Corporation in 2004, after working with a subsidiary company, Ricoh Silicon Valley (RSV). At RSV, he led the successful launch of Ricoh’s eCabinet, a first-of-kind open source-based content management appliance. He also oversaw the development of the first version of Ricoh’s industry-leading Java Embedded Software Architecture (ESA) platform. In addition to his responsibilities for Ricoh Americas Corporation, he also serves as deputy general manager, Document Solutions Development Center of Ricoh Americas Corporation’s parent company, Ricoh Company, Ltd.

 

For more information, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com.

 

 

The drupa 2012 Committee, in its meeting for its constitutive session in Düsseldorf on Sept. 23, unanimously voted Dipl.-Ing. Martin Weickenmeier, Member of the Executive Board of Körber AG and CEO of Körber PaperLink GmbH, as the new president of drupa. Dipl.-Ing. Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann, president of drupa in 2000, 2004 and 2008, did not wish to stand for re-election.

 

Weickenmeier symbolizes the continuity and consistent further development of drupa as the leading global fair for its sector. Since drupa 2004, the 54-year-old has already served as the vice president and chairman of the Admissions Committee.

 

The committee also unanimously voted Dr. Jürgen Vutz, CEO Windmöller & Höl-scher KG, as vice president, and thus chairman of the Admissions Committee. Rolf Schwarz, president of the German Printing and Media Industries Federation (BVDM - Bundesverband Druck und Medien), was confirmed as the second vice president. The 23-member drupa committee is responsible for the key policy decisions on the print media fair drupa. It is made up of representatives from the exhibiting industry and represents the entire technology spectrum at drupa — from pre-media through to printing up to further processing, packaging production and paper processing.

 

In addition to these personnel changes, the committee also set the key dates for drupa 2012. The public countdown to the preparation for the 15^th drupa will begin this November in connection with the “All in Print China” show in Shanghai. For potential exhibitors who wish to participate at drupa from May 3-16, 2012, the exhibitor invitations will be mailed by spring 2010 and the closing date for registrations is Oct. 31, 2010.

 

 

At the 2008 Fall Executive Conference recently held in Atlanta, Ga., ReproMAX President Rick Bosworth presented Canon USA Inc. with the 2008 Integrated Vendor Partner of the Year.

 

The ReproMAX awards acknowledge those leaders in the reprographics industry whose long-term commitment to excellence is consistently noted and admired by industry peers. Each ReproMAX award recipient has been chosen by their fellow partners in ReproMAX through a system of voting and meeting specific criteria.

 

The partnership between Canon and ReproMAX delivers leading edge wide-format inkjet printing solutions ideal for technical/engineering documents, CAD/CAM, signage and general office markets. ReproMAX has been actively involved with Canon products for the last three years and has experienced tremendous growth in that segment. Canon technology coupled with Canon programs and support has proven to be a thriving benefit for all ReproMAX members throughout the enterprise.

 

For more information, visit www.repromax.com and www.canon.com.