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Belated Congratulations to Falcon Sponsored Charity Event, Eastwoods Pepper Golf Day

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Falcon would like to send its belated congratulations to Janet Edwards and Joe Collier, the organisers, and everyone else who participated in this year's Eastwoods Pepper Charity Golf Day held at Ashbridge Golf Course in Hertfordshire almost two months ago now (!). The day, which was the most successful yet, raising a total of £21,300 from sponsorship and an auction, sees the golf event through its fourteenth incredible year, all in the name of support for the care of terminally ill children. One of the highlights of the day was the auctioning-off of a still photograph from celebrated TV comedy series, Only Fools and Horses, capturing possibly one of the most hilarious moments in British televisual history, Del Boy very swarvely falling through the bar at a wine bar. This item alone bagged a fanastic £1000 for the Foundation....

Falcon Provides High Quality, Great Value Document Solutions to Leading London Commercial Rentals Company, Workspace Group

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Falcon is delighted to report on its highly successful implementation of a range of document solutions for innovative London-based commercial property rentals company, Workspace Group. Workspace Group, which has established itself as the leading provider of flexible and affordable office/commercial space in Greater London has benefited from a range of Falcon document solutions, both for its own staff at Workspace HQ as well as its many clients at the exciting new Club Workspace drop-in style office centres. A consistent requirement for all implementations was impressive document security, which Falcon, in conjunction with its various technology partners, was able to ensure across each of the sites. In line with Workspace's environmental commitments, as well as providing greater security, functionality and flexibility, the new Falcon document solutions should significantly reduce paper waste and environmental impact going forward.

Document Security Briefing - Part One - Photocopiers and MFPs

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:00:00 +0000

With the ever-increasing threat of data compromise, organisations have to ensure the utmost vigilance when it comes to their and their clients' information security. Most commonly we see concerns raised in the arena of online banking transactions and web-based communications but the increasing convergence of technologies, with essentially bordlerless interractions between previously separate business processes/systems, means that few environments are now entirely risk free. This does not have to mean panic but it should necessitate a timely move away from more old-fashioned, 'analogue' conventions on risk towards a view more informed by the actual technologies we're all using and their full, often potentially harmful capabilities...

Canon uniFLOW Document Workflow Solution Awarded at Buyers Lab 'Summer Picks'

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Buyers Laboratory Inc., one of the world's leading authorities when it comes to assessing reprographics/imaging devices and software has this month announced the winners of Buyers Laboratory Inc 'Summer Pick 2011'. In recognition of Canon's efforts to set the standards when it comes to document workflow security, the company's flagship solution, Canon uniFLOW 5.0 has been awarded 'Outstanding Document Security Solution'.

Canon imagePROGRAF iPF 8300S Receives 'Outstanding Colour Inkjet Wide Format Production Photo Printer' Award at BLI's Summer Pick

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Here at Falcon, it's not often that we take time to acknowledge the many accolades Canon regularly receives when it comes to its conventional printing devices but this month's award of the 'Outstanding Colour Inkjet Wide Format Production Photo Printer" at BLI's 'Summer Pick', where Canon also picked-up awards for its Canon uniFLOW document workflow solution, seemed like an opportune moment. The Canon imagePROGRAF iPF 8300S wide format printer impressed BLI earlier in the year with its high levels of productivity and exceptional print quality at widths of up to 44 inches and has been singled-out at the summer awards which recognise the best products and software reviewed by BLI over the previous six months.

Environmental Standards for Photocopiers - What the Symbols Actually Mean

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +0000

The environment is more important today than it has ever been. Companies worldwide go to great lengths to reduce their carbon emissions and minimise environmental impact. It is simply no longer a sound business strategy to turn a blind-eye to what is clearly becoming one of the most critical issues in contemporary society. Understandably, manufacturers of office equipment, whose photocopiers and multifunction printers consume considerable amounts of energy in office environments the world-over have to be a part of the solution and companies like Canon, renowned for its technological innnovation, have gone to great lengths to ensure devices match-up to growing expectations in this area. But understanding exactly which standards manufacturers hold themselves to - seeing through all the acronyms and symbols - can be something of a minefield. Here we provide the most straightforward guide we can....

Canon Among "15 Most Innovative Companies of all Time"

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:00:00 +0000

Business Insider has selected Canon as one of the most innovative companies of all time. The magazine's Top 15 list judges companies on their historic patent applications and the number of patents actually granted to them. The list includes some of the most iconic names in the history of electronics and design and Canon, the leading imaging solutions company, ranked 2nd, beating General Electric, Sony and Intel among a roster of other world-beating corporations. Here, we look at Canon's performance on the Business Insider Top 15 and examine further the company's unparallelled history of innovation in imaging technology.

Canon on Forbes 'Top Genuinely Green Companies' List

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Forbes, the magazine best known for ranking the world's richest individuals and its most successful corporations has listed Canon, the well-known manufacturer of cameras, photocopiers and other electronics devices as one of the world's top ten most genuinely green companies. With a selection from a very wide spectrum of industries, Forbes singled-out Canon's environmental activities which are at the heart of what it does as a company. These include the Environmental Planning Center and the Environment Promotion Center in the US, which enable Canon to keep track of its environmental performance as well as Canon's publication of an annual sustainability report, published in both English and Japanese.

How the Photocopiers Industry Authority, BERTL, Picks the Best

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:00:00 +0000

When reading about Canon's recent success at BERTL's 'Spring Pick' Awards a month or so ago, it quickly became apparent that BERTL, who are now the major assessment authority within the photocopiers industry, have made some pretty significant changes to the way they judge performance for the world's major photocopiers manufacturers. In many ways echoing the view of Trevor Dodsworth, Canon UK's Head of Product Marketing, who recently spoke of Canon's own device product development drivers, BERTL are placing ever more emphasis on end-user needs than whatever the rest of the industry's own internal performance criteria happen to be at any given time. BERTL and Art Wynne, the company's President, very kindly agreed to shed some light on how the world's leading photocopiers manufacturers are being assessed today.

The Photocopier that Helped Topple a President

mg@falcon.co.uk (Max Guttfield) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Amid the recent clamour around the WikiLeaks US Defense Department leaks, the figure of Daniel Ellsberg has re-emerged to greet our screens on various topical news programmes and fill column inches in national newspapers in the US and worldwide. To some, Ellsberg is now a US national hero, to others he will always be seen as one of the most serious threats to US national security in the country's modern history, Henry Kissenger at one time branding him "the most dangerious man in America." It was Daniel Ellsberg who was responsible for what has been described as "the most famous military leak in US history" when in June 1971 he passed on 7000 pages of "Top Secret", "Sensitive" material, concerning America's conduct in the Vietnam War to the New York Times and several other newspapers. The documents which became known as the "Pentagon Papers" revealed that the American public had been continually misled over Vietnam and the firestorm which ensued led to the first ever presidential resignation, when Nixon bowed-out ignimoniously in 1974. But many have put forward the contention that it was in fact the photocopier that was the real hero of this most dramatic episode in American history. It was one of the RAND Corporation's photocopiers afterall which allowed Ellsberg to pass on government files without alerting the immediate attention of colleagues. Here we examine the significance of the Pentagon Papers and how it was a humble photocopier which in fact effectively blew the lid on Vietnam and helped topple the President of the USA.