Kyocera-Mita

FAIRFIELD, N.J. – November 3, 2008 – Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced that Advanced Imaging Solutions (AIS), one of its Premier Diamond Dealers, has been recognized in Inc. magazine's list of America's 5,000 fastest-growing companies for 2008.

Inc.’s annual award acknowledges the fastest-growing private companies in America with innovative and successful products that are in demand and highly influential in today’s marketplace. The Inc. 5000 companies are ranked according to the percentage of revenue growth from 2004 through 2007.

FAIRFIELD, N.J. – October 27, 2008 – Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced it has been awarded the 2008 Excellence in Partnership (EIP) award for Industry Green Contractor from the U.S. Government's General Services Administration (GSA) and the Coalition for Government Procurement, the single most effective voice for commercial service and product companies selling in the federal market.

FAIRFIELD, NJ – October 7, 2008 – Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced that Bill Kohler was promoted to the position of Northeast Regional Sales Manager. Kohler will be responsible for managing the sales activities and strategies for the area sales managers within the Northeast region of the United States.  He will report directly to Kevin Flood, Vice President of Sales for the Kyocera Mita Dealer Division.

Grapevine, Texas and Fairfield, NJ - September 16, 2008
- Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced its plans for a comprehensive software development platform and associated business strategy designed to deliver customized applications for its award-winning line of multifunctional systems.

Called HyPAS, or Hybrid Platform for Advanced Solutions, Kyocera Mita Corporation has applied significant investments toward establishing the company’s unique development platform and strategy to ensure dealers and end-users have a broad range of options for enabling select Kyocera MFPs to seamlessly integrate and operate in their specific environment.

Grapevine, Texas and Fairfield, NJ - September 16, 2008 - Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today revealed its plans for the launch of 15 new product models, a new product brand mark, corporate branding campaign, and its strategy to introduce a software development and integration platform, all at the company’s annual National Dealer Meeting being held this week.

Under the theme of "Winning Together", Kyocera acknowledged the critical role of the independent dealer channel, and how the company will help enable success through new corporate and product initiatives. In particular, Kyocera emphasized its new mid-range B2C color MFP series, set to launch in December 2008 in conjunction with the company’s new MFP product brand mark called TASKalfa.

FAIRFIELD, New Jersey – August 5, 2008 – Kyocera Mita America, one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the availability of two new optional print management software solutions— provided by Equitrac Corporation, the leader in intelligent cost recovery and print management solutions worldwide — to simplify print-copy tracking, and offer businesses and organizations greater management insight into document output volumes and reduce overall print waste.
The software, Equitrac Office® and Equitrac Express®, will be available as an Equitrac Embedded™ solution on select Kyocera multifunctional products (MFPs) or as a terminal-based software offering, and provides advanced monitoring and document cost control for Kyocera’s award-winning product line.

FAIRFIELD, N.J., July 29, 2008 ― Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the promotion of Akisa Matsuda to the position of Director, Software Solutions. In this role, Ms. Matsuda will be responsible for leading Kyocera Mita America’s Software Solutions Group, and expanding the availability of integrated, embedded and customized software offerings.

Under Ms. Matsuda’s leadership, the group will work closely with Kyocera Mita Corporation’s Software Marketing and Research & Development teams, as well as with third-party software vendors and business partners to develop customized software offerings that will help dealers evolve their sales models from stand-alone to digitally connected installations.

FAIRFIELD, New Jersey – July 21, 2008 - Kyocera Mita America, one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the release of a new server-based software tool, PrintQ Manager, to monitor, maintain and analyze print jobs and usage. This powerful solution combines advanced user/group print tracking capabilities, access controls, and robust reporting to significantly reduce paper waste and lower output costs on all Kyocera networked MFPs and printers.

Based on proprietary Kyocera technology, PrintQ Manager creates secure printer/MFP job queues on an end-user’s network; enabling network administrators’ the ability to monitor Kyocera device operations and obtain greater insight on how the Kyocera devices are being used for enhanced output management. In addition, companies can make more informed equipment purchasing and deployment decisions, as they gain an understanding of printer/MFP usage. With this knowledge, organizations have the opportunity to reduce total printing costs and optimize equipment deployment.

FAIRFIELD, New Jersey – July 7, 2008 - Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, has successfully completed its annual surveillance audit, for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001:2004, where once again, the Company achieved high marks for demonstrating its environmental management system excellence. This annual certification, verified through an independent audit, emphasizes the importance of environmental responsibility, and verifies Kyocera Mita America’s commitment to establishing a strategic organizational framework and approach to environmental policy, plans and actions.

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Xerox Specialty Paper Used At The University Of Alabama To Prevent Prescription Pad Counterfeiting

July 1, 2008 - In response to federal regulations requiring medical professionals who write prescriptions for Medicaid patients to use pads with various security features to prevent reproduction or alteration, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System recently announced the implementation of Xerox’s specialty paper to print “tamper-resistant” prescription pads on the school’s Xerox iGen3 110 Digital Press.