Kyocera Mita America Introduces Highly-Efficient, Compact Monochrome Desktop Printer
FAIRFIELD, N.J. - March 4, 2008 - Kyocera Mita America, one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the availability of its FS-1300D, the latest ECOSYS® monochrome laser printer to meet today’s fast-paced small business workgroup and small office printing requirements. Offering high-quality output with a competitive six-second first print out time, and standard duplex for double-sided printing, business users gain a printer solution that handles tasks both effectively and economically.
This compact, high performance desktop printer delivers 30 pages-per-minute print speeds and a six-second first print out time, which is critical in business environment where printing tasks often comprise of short simple document jobs. In addition, its powerful controller and standard 32MB of memory (upgradeable to 544MB) ensures that large document output needs are also met and processed with high-quality printing efficiency.
"In this competitive economic environment, organizations must be focused on investing in document imaging solutions that are reliable and have a low total cost of ownership," said William Cassidy, associate director, product and solutions marketing, Printers, Kyocera Mita America. "We’re proud to say that our new FS-1300D printer strongly matches both of those requirements with strong output speeds for enhanced reliability and as part of our ECOSYS line, the device offers long-life consumables to ensure one of the lowest costs per print."
Focused on end-user productivity, the Energy Star Compliant FS-1300D offers two new features; an LED panel, providing users distinct color indicators to highlight the printer’s status at the device, and an innovative Status Monitor, which relays information for the printer directly to a users desktop. These new features are designed to simplify customer interaction and improve the workflow, performance and productivity within the office.
Further, the FS-1300D offers the user a robust set of standard and optional features, including standard 1200 dpi print resolution for high-quality black and white imaging, standard Hi-Speed 2.0 USB connection, standard 250 sheet output/input trays, standard 50 multi purpose tray, which handles alternative media stock from heavier paper to envelopes and labels; optional 250 sheet paper feeder, with a maximum paper capacity up to 800 sheets, and an optional network interface card which can support IPv6.
Pricing and Availability
The FS-1300D is available now through authorized Kyocera dealers at a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $530.00. To find the nearest dealer, please visit Kyocera Mita America's dealer locator, at: www.kyoceramita.com/us.
ABOUT KYOCERA MITA AMERICA
Kyocera Mita America, Inc. (www.kyoceramita.com/us), headquartered in Fairfield, N.J., is a leading provider of computer-connectable document imaging and document management systems, including network-ready digital MFPs/printers, laser printers, color MFPs/printers, digital laser facsimiles, and multifunctional and wide format imaging solutions. Kyocera Mita America is a group company of Kyocera Mita Corporation. Kyocera Mita Corporation is a core company of the Kyocera Corporation, the world's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced ceramics and associated products, including telecommunications equipment, semiconductor packages and electronic components. Kyocera Mita America, the first document solutions company with third-party certified sales data, has earned numerous honors for its products’ high performance, reliability and cost efficiency. Kyocera Corporation's consolidated net revenues exceeded $10 billion for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2007. <!-- discliaimer and read me --><!-- discliaimer and read me -->
DocuWare Holds Annual Partner Event in Conjunction with ITEX 2008
Newburgh, NY – March 3, 2008 – DocuWare Corporation, a leader in the Integrated Document Management industry, held their annual Partner meeting, DocuWorld, on February 19 2008 at the Hilton, Las Vegas – during the same week as ITEX 2008. The ITEX 2008 show took place February 20 - 22, in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The events were planned simultaneously to promote vendor relationships.
DocuWorld 2008 – Beyond Boundaries
The Las Vegas Hilton was chosen for DocuWorld, the annual Authorized DocuWare Partner meeting. DocuWare resellers from North, Central and South America were in attendance. Agenda items included speakers John Mancini, President of the AIIM Association, presenting “Why Does This Seem to be so Hard?” and Darrell Amy, President of Dealer Marketing Systems, speaking about maximizing profits in solutions transactions, as well as Kevin Diday of Kodak. Other speakers included Authorized DocuWare Partners, Neil O’Mahoney, Document Imaging Manager at Toshiba Business Solutions – TX/NM, located in San Antonio, TX, and Giles Scott, President of Scott Technology Group, located in Rohnert Park, CA.
EFI Digital StoreFront Web-to-Print Solution Now Features Integration to Popular PrintSmith MIS System
On Demand – Boston – March 3, 2008 – EFI (Nasdaq: EFII), the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today extended support for its award-winning Digital StoreFront® (DSF) web-to-print solution to include native integration with its popular PrintSmith™ Print MIS system. The PrintSmith system is in use by more than 8,000 print shops worldwide. Already in use at more than 2,500 locations worldwide, Digital StoreFront lets print service providers create a unique, intuitive e-commerce shopping interface for their customers, and delivers powerful back-end automation to improve profitability. Digital StoreFront 3.3 will be available at the end of March. Digital StoreFront will be featured at the On Demand Conference & Exposition (March 3-6, Boston) in a variety of EFI’s partners’ booths, including Canon USA Inc. (Booth 1416), FujiFilm Graphic Systems USA, Inc. (Booths 952, 1048), Konica Minolta (Booths 913, 916, M.57), and Ricoh Americas Corporation (Booth 631).“Integration is a big part of the DSF workflow, and building this connection to PrintSmith creates flexibility for a wide range of shops, from commercial printers to institutional inplants and CRDs,” said Chuck Gehman, director of product management, EFI. “With this new capability, customers can place orders on the web and take full advantage of DSF‘s industry-leading capabilities, while the print service provider can manage their production via the familiar PrintSmith MIS system interface.”The new integration joins a suite of workflow and web tools available from EFI. PrintSmith Site, the venerable web-to-print option is still available as an add-on for PrintSmith. “The low-cost, high-value PrintSmith Site remains a very compelling value-proposition for a lot of customers,” continued Gehman. “Having a choice of either PrintSmith Site or DSF, in an integrated solution with PrintSmith, provides a gamut of capabilities to suit the needs of virtually any printing operation, customer or application.”
An Introduction to ECM
Submitted by Webmaster on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 16:23ECM or Electronic Content Management allow for the storage of images and information on your network. Byron Aulick at Datavault posted an introduction to ECM at the Datavault Blog.
Enterprise Content Management, by definition, is the ability to gather, organize, and distribute corporate information, regardless of its original format. The ECM industry is rapidly becoming the most highly sought after service for 'Corporate America'. Having said that, let's first understand that ECM has no ‘vertical' market. Simply stated, this means that there is no one type of business served better than any other. ECM can help a medical facility handle its knowledge base just as quickly and efficiently as it can help an attorney's office manage their legal documents.
Captaris Announces New Capture and BPM Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint at AIIM Expo 2008
Story Highlights
- Four new products bring world-class capture and BPM capabilities to SharePoint 2007 customers at affordable prices
- Captaris completes strategic transition from fax server leader to a leader in intelligent document and process management solutions
- Captaris will also offer the new products to extend its large installed base of fax server and document management customers
- RightDocs - the flagship release of the new suite of products enables customers to accelerate business processes, to support compliance initiatives by controlling and tracking documents from the point of origin, and to easily share document information for better collaboration and enterprise search. RightDocs facilitates document capture from any imaging source, performs document classification and data extraction from structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents, then sends the documents and information into SharePoint 2007. RightDocs intelligently recognizes the document type and extracts vital information to automatically drive business process automation and enable document lifecycle management. The RightDocs system consists of several services which can be mixed and matched to a customer's needs: distributed batch scanning; capture; document classification; intelligent extraction; and a validation client. RightDocs also supports Captaris RightFax and Alchemy.
- RightStar - the next generation of intelligent document distribution, RightStar is ideally suited for the rapid adoption of MFP devices as document on-ramps into the enterprise. RightStar eliminates human errors, improves security and compliance by reducing the number of people handling sensitive information, and reduces the labor costs normally associated with sorting and distributing documents. Going far beyond simple routing products, RightStar uses document metadata and powerful rules based on the Microsoft® Windows Workflow Foundation (WinWF) engine to automatically sort and deliver documents via SharePoint 2007, fax, e-mail and to business process and document management solutions. RightStar is an open system based on XML and WinWF standards, and Captaris is inviting other software vendors to develop extensions to their LOB or ECM applications.
- RightFlow - providing business analysts with the high-level tools necessary to rapidly build and deploy effective Business Process Management (BPM) solutions on Microsoft WinWF, RightFlow helps with compliance by creating secure, auditable and repeatable processes. It increases productivity by identifying and removing organizational and system bottlenecks, and turns knowledge into a business asset by facilitating collaboration through effective process management. RightFlow manages document driven processes, prioritizes tasks, escalates problems and maintains visibility to key performance indicators at all times. RightFlow is an extensible and configurable product available as a stand-alone solution or as an add-on module for other Captaris products. RightFlow will be offered in an entry-level, affordable configuration. Captaris will also rebrand its existing Workflow product to RightFlow Enterprise and offer a migration path for the installed base.
- TIFF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 - Simultaneous with AIIM Expo, Captaris and Microsoft jointly announced a new capture solution at the Microsoft SharePoint 2008 Conference in Seattle. Based on Captaris OCR server technology, the TIFF iFilter fills a hole in the current SharePoint and Search Server environment by enabling enterprise search of scanned documents alongside all the electronic documents. As a result, knowledge workers and managers can find all the information they need with a single search operation, improving business decision-making and increasing their productivity. The Captaris TIFF iFilter integrates within a SharePoint or Search Server environment and automatically extracts the full-text from scanned documents and enhances image quality. "Our recent acquisition of ODT is paying immediate dividends by expanding our capture product offerings and significantly increasing our capability to serve the rapidly evolving distributed capture market," stated David P. Anastasi, President and CEO of Captaris. "AIIM Expo 2008 marks a key inflection point for Captaris as we continue to execute on our strategic transition plan from a fax server company to a leader in intelligent document capture, distribution and process management solutions."
Captaris Announces New TIFF iFilter to Support Enterprise Search Capabilities for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express
Bellevue, WA - March 2, 2008 - Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPA), a leading provider of software products that automate document-centric business processes, today announced the new Captaris TIFF iFilter capture solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express. Based on Captaris OCR server technology, the TIFF iFilter transforms scanned images created from paper documents into intelligent documents for search and retrieval by customers of Microsoft's enterprise search product line. Captaris also announced that it is a Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express launch partner.
"Our enterprise customers are using SharePoint and Search Server for compliance, e-discovery, records management, and business process management applications, all of which require them to manage large collections of scanned business documents," said Jared Spataro, Group Product Manager of Microsoft Search Server. "Information is only as valuable as its ability to be retrieved by the right person at the right time. The Captaris TIFF iFilter is a capture solution that enables our search engines to index the information contained within these documents and make it easier for people to find what they are looking for."
The Captaris TIFF iFilter automatically processes scanned images that are stored in SharePoint document libraries, using the powerful Captaris OCR engine to extract the full text of each page and send the text to Microsoft's indexing engine. Within moments, the images are ready to be searched and retrieved across the enterprise using keywords that exist on the scanned page. The TIFF iFilter also provides automated image enhancement and clean-up features such as auto-rotation of upside-down pages, de-skew of pages that were scanned off-center, de-speckle to remove black dots caused by fax noise or poor scan quality, punch hole removal, de-shading and inverse text correction.
"The Captaris TIFF iFilter fills a need in the SharePoint Server 2007 environment for an automated server-based solution that creates high-quality searchable images. The Captaris TIFF iFilter exposes vital information contained in those documents so they can be easily shared with other people, applications and processes throughout the enterprise," said Paul Yantus, executive vice president of Marketing and New Product Development for Captaris. "As a Microsoft partner, our focus is to add value for customers operating within a Microsoft environment. The TIFF iFilter is a key part of our commitment to help Microsoft customers succeed in a document-centric environment by providing them with creative capture and process management solutions."
The Captaris TIFF iFilter will feature multi-lingual OCR capability that includes most European, Central European and Scandinavian languages. In addition to the Microsoft product support mentioned above, the TIFF iFilter will also support both 32 and 64 bit versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008.
The Captaris TIFF iFilter will be available for sale online during Microsoft's fiscal fourth quarter (which ends June 30, 2008). Captaris plans to offer an affordable entry-level edition and a 30 day free trial version. Interested customers can sign up in advance to receive email notification of general availability and other information about the product, by visiting the Captaris website at www.captaris.com.
About Captaris Inc.
Captaris Inc. is a leading provider of software products that automate document-centric business processes. Captaris specializes in document capture, recognition, routing, workflow and delivery. Captaris integrated solutions provide interoperability with leading line of business applications and technology platforms. Captaris products include RightDocs, RightStar, RightFlow, RightFax, Captaris Workflow, Alchemy, FaxPress, DOKuStar, RecoStar, Single Click Entry and ID-Star, which are distributed through a global network of leading technology partners. Captaris customers include the entire Fortune 100 and the majority of Global 2000 companies. Headquartered in Bellevue, WA, Captaris was founded in 1982 and is publicly traded on NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol CAPA.
The following are registered trademarks and trademarks of Captaris: Captaris, Alchemy, RightFax, FaxPress and Captaris Workflow. RecoStar, DOKuStar, ID-Star and Single Click Entry are trademarks of Captaris Document Technologies GmbH. All other brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
EFI Delivers Fourth Consecutive Year of Growth for MIS, Web-to-Print and Workflow Business
FOSTER CITY, Calif. – Feb. 29, 2008 – EFI (Nasdaq: EFII), the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced that its Advanced Professional Print Software (APPS) business delivered record growth for the fourth year in a row, with approximately 8 percent topline growth in 2007, compared to 2006, from $56 million to $60 million in full-year revenues. EFI’s APPS business unit comprises the company’s industry-leading MIS, web-to-print, and inkjet proofing and production workflow solutions.“APPS achieved a record year of revenue in 2007, and this EFI business unit’s topline growth exceeds that reported by many of the leading companies in our industry,” said Guy Gecht, CEO, EFI. “Our APPS success helped EFI achieve strong continued growth and profitability in 2007, combined with our VUTEk business unit contributing more than 20 percent revenue growth and our Fiery business unit continuing to generate strong profits for our company. This success validates EFI’s strategy to add high-value offerings that help print service providers improve business productivity, make it easier for their customers to do business with them, and allow them to add high-potential services and capabilities that drive customer loyalty and business growth.”EFI’s APPS business delivers print management solutions that connect business and production processes with powerful specification, estimating, planning, purchasing and costing tools. EFI’s print management products offer real-time, shared access to baseline and high-level information for managers and executives – collecting, organizing and presenting business intelligence to facilitate critical business decisions. Based on the Theory of Global Optimization, EFI’s print management solutions identify and eliminate weak links in manufacturing operations and management processes, while improving workflow, reducing costs and growing profits. With installations of print management solutions in more than 10,000 locations worldwide, EFI is the largest global provider.
“2007 was a record year for our Print MIS business” said Marc Olin, senior vice president and general manager, APPS, EFI. “We saw very strong demand from our existing clients looking to add further value to their EFI Print MIS solutions as well as new clients who are now recognizing the value of EFI MIS Solutions. Everyone from a small printer with $500,000 in annual revenue to the largest printers in the world now depends on EFI to help run their business.”
EFI’s web-to-print solutions include Digital StoreFront™, PrintSmith Site® and the PrinterSite® family of products that streamline customer interaction with the print service provider. Their intuitive user interfaces and seamless workflow increase customer satisfaction and collaboration while reducing operator error, streamlining complex job cycles, and decreasing job completion time – leading to maximum productivity and profitability. These solutions are installed in more than 2,500 facilities worldwide, making EFI also one of the largest providers of internet-based commerce solutions for print service providers.
EFI’s Workflow Solutions - inkjet proofing and production software products - also enjoyed a record year for sales as part of the APPS group. Including products such as Colorproof™ XF and Fiery® XF, which are based on Bestcolor® technology, the group grew sales by over 20 percent in 2007. These solutions have more than 60,000 installations worldwide. “This rapid growth reflected the market’s strong acceptance of the technology in our newest version of Colorproof XF, the industry standard for proofing and now rapidly becoming the industry’s choice for production on inkjet devices as well,” said Stefan Spiegel, general manager of graphic arts solutions, EFI.
EFI’s APPS group has the industry’s largest and most talented development team working on MIS, web-to-print and workflow software, with nearly 200 people in R&D for the division. “EFI makes significant investments in R&D in order to maintain our leading edge, with 25 percent of our corporate revenues dedicated to building world-class products and solutions that meet the needs of today and tomorrow,” added Gecht. “Our APPS group is a great example of the results that dedication to innovation delivers to the market.”
“Print service providers face an increasingly competitive environment,” continued Olin. “They can no longer depend on faster, more automated presses to improve productivity and make their operations more cost-effective. They must streamline their workflow, from the inception of the customer interaction to delivery and invoicing. This year we will continue to respond to our customers’ needs with a number of exciting new developments in CRM (customer relationship management) capabilities, enhanced web-to-print offerings, streamlined user interface designs, expanded VDP (variable data print)-enabled solutions and some stunning new JDF-based solutions that change our customers’ understanding of what is possible using JDF. These solutions, combined with our continued innovations in key vertical markets like superwide, production, publishing, direct mail, flexo and more, are a key element of our ‘Print to Win’ strategy, a win/win proposition for both EFI and its customers.”
More information about EFI’s broad product portfolio can be found at www.efi.com.
About EFI
EFI (www.efi.com) is the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation. EFI's award-winning solutions, integrated from creation to print, deliver increased performance, cost savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery® digital color print servers; VUTEk® superwide digital inkjet printers, UV and solvent inks; Jetrion® industrial inkjet printing systems; print production workflow and management information software; and corporate printing solutions. EFI maintains 26 offices worldwide.
Captaris Announces Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008
Bellevue, WA - February 27, 2008 - Captaris, Inc., a leading provider of software products that automate document-centric business processes, today announced that it will support Microsoft Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 to provide customers with the opportunity to gain greater business efficiencies through Microsoft solutions."Captaris products, with Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, bring to our customers a way to significantly maximize the efficiency of their business processes with improved decision-making and enhanced security on proven platforms," said Paul Yantus, Captaris executive vice president of Marketing and New Product Development. "We are pleased to have such a close working relationship with Microsoft, which continues to give us the opportunity to bring Captaris' suite of document-centric solutions to businesses operating within a Microsoft IT environment."
"Microsoft is pleased to be working with Captaris to expand the offerings for customers of Windows Server 2008," said Ward Ralston, group technical product manager for Windows Server Marketing at Microsoft Corp. "Our industry partners play an essential role in ensuring that our customers have the best technology foundation available, and Captaris helps deliver valuable new functionality to our joint customers."
About Captaris Inc.
Captaris, Inc. is a leading provider of software products that automate document centric business processes. Captaris specializes in document capture, recognition, routing, workflow, and delivery. Captaris integrated solutions provide interoperability with leading line of business applications and technology platforms. Captaris products include RightFax, Captaris Workflow, Alchemy, FaxPress, DOKuStar, RecoStar, Single Click Entry, and ID-Star which are distributed through a global network of leading technology partners. Captaris customers include the entire Fortune 100 and the majority of Global 2000 companies. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Captaris was founded in 1982 and is publicly traded on NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol CAPA. www.captaris.com.
The following are registered trademarks and trademarks of Captaris: Captaris, Alchemy, RightFax, FaxPress and Captaris Workflow. RecoStar, DOKuStar, ID-Star and Single Click Entry are trademarks of Captaris Document Technologies GmbH. All other brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Mono Lasers Reviewed by PC Magazine
Submitted by Webmaster on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 20:43Vince Ferraro of the HP Laser Jet Blog points us to the PC Magazine Review of monochrome laser printers.
Here is what Vince said in his blog post:
This week, PC Magazine featured a roundup of four affordably-priced monochrome laser printers best suited for SOHO use - two of which included HP LaserJet Printers. The roundup included the HP LaserJet P1006, the HP LaserJet P1505 Printer (an editor's choice pick from an earlier review), OKI Printing Solutions B4400, and the SamsungML-1630.The review praised the HP models for their speed and small size, and reviewer David Stone said that while "the ML-1630, for example, offers a designer look, for those who care about such things, [...] the P1505 and B4400 are noticeably faster than the other two models. Any one of them could be your personal monochrome laser of choice." There is a great deal of debate, in the industry, in terms of how fast the market (and users) will covert to color business printing. To be sure, the price and performance of color laser printers is declining - making them more affordable than ever. However, if you are not yet ready for color, mono laser printers in this price range offer surprisingly good value in terms of print quality, performance (usually faster than equivalently-priced color printers), and performance.
Sharp Reinforces Commitment to the Environment with Copier Toner Recycling Program
MAHWAH, N.J., February 27 , 2008 – As part of its continuing commitment to preserving the environment and reducing landfill waste, Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) is enhancing its Copier Toner Recycling Program to encourage government and business customers to recycle Sharp toner cartridges from all Sharp models.Beginning February 2008, every Sharp-branded copier, printer and multifunctional peripheral (MFP) toner cartridge sold in the U.S. can be easily recycled at no cost to the customer. Users can simply download pre-paid, pre-addressed UPS shipping labels from www.sharpusa.com/recycle to ship out used toner cartridges. To facilitate bulk shipments, help conserve resources and reduce energy use, users can also order recycled cardboard bulk cartons that hold up to ten used cartridges. These cartons arrive via UPS and can be conveniently placed in the customer’s mailroom or near the copiers for easy collection, and then shipped to one of three recycling centers nationwide.“At Sharp, we are committed to maximizing energy resources while also maximizing product performance,” said Ed McLaughlin, president of SIICA. “This program formalizes our longstanding recycling efforts and makes the process easy and convenient for the customer.”
A History of Environmentally Sound Business Products
Sharp’s copiers and printers are among the industry’s most energy efficient and all current models are Energy Star® qualified. Sharp’s High-speed copier and printer products deliver energy efficiency and savings through external heat fusing technology that employs an external system to heat thin-walled steel fusing rollers. Sharp has further reduced waste by switching to reusable airbags for its packaging materials. As well, Sharp has eliminated the use of expanded polystyrene as a packaging material for all products under 11 lbs., and all service and owner’s manuals are printed on recycled paper.
The company was recently honored with the “Product Line of the Year” Award from Buyer’s Laboratory Inc., a tribute to the exceptional reliability and superior performance of its broad line of multifunction peripherals and copiers. “Achieving BLI’s ‘Product Line of the Year’ award underscores our business strategy of bringing to market superior products which meet the highest standards of reliability and advanced functionality,” said McLaughlin. “Our focus on industry-leading reliability provides the additional benefit of extending our MFPs’ productive life so their parts stay out of landfills. Additionally, fewer service calls mean less emissions from service vehicles.”
Global Commitment to the Environment
Sharp is committed to being a socially responsible company and helping preserve the environment. The company has long focused on designing environmentally-conscious products, reducing harmful emissions from its plants, and expanding the use of solar energy. In fact, Sharp aims to reduce its worldwide greenhouse gas emissions to the extent that, by fiscal 2010, the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted from its worldwide business activities that year will equal the quantity of greenhouse gases avoided through the use of Sharp energy-saving products and the use of the solar cells Sharp has sold during the previous 20 years.
The Sharp legacy of environmental responsibility was recently recognized by the U.S. Government’s General Services Administration (GSA) which awarded Sharp both its “Green Contractor Award” and its “Evergreen Award” in recognition of the company’s environmental leadership in manufacturing and sustainable business practices.
Sharp was also awarded the “SmartWay Excellence Award” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for conserving energy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions from transportation and freight activities. Sharp was one of the first members of the SmartWay Transport Partnership, which was created by the EPA in 2004 as a voluntary alliance that establishes incentives for fuel efficiency improvements and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. By 2012, this initiative aims to reduce between 33 and 66 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions and up to 200,000 tons of nitrogen oxide emissions per year.
In addition to the Copier Toner Recycling Program, Sharp is a key player in the Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company (MRM). This newly formed joint venture between Sharp Electronics Corporation, Panasonic Corporation of North America and Toshiba America Consumer Products is designed to manage consumer electronics collection and recycling programs in the United States for manufacturers and others, including state and local governments.
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Sharp Electronics Corporation is the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of one-of-a-kind home entertainment products, appliances, networked multifunctional office solutions, solar energy solutions and mobile communication and information tools. Leading brands include AQUOS® Liquid Crystal Televisions, 1-Bit™ digital audio products, SharpVision® projection products, Insight® Microwave Drawer® appliances, and Notevision® multimedia projectors. For more information visit Sharp Electronics Corporation at www.sharpusa.com
