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Samsung Printing Solutions held its European Printing Partner Summit from 8^th – 9^th June in Budapest, Hungary, hosting over 250 attendees from 22 European countries.

Under the theme of “The Next Big Thing in Printing Solutions,” Samsung presented the company’s strategy, as well as insights on global printing solutions trends, highlighting key developments made over the last twelve months. The summit also highlighted Samsung’s complete product portfolio of smart printing solutions and printing hardware, as well as its Channel Managed Print Services (MPS) + Plus program.

Major achievements for this year include launching the Samsung Channel MPS Print+ Program, which provides simple, automated, low-cost MPS solutions for every Samsung partner, as well as winning the Range of the Year award from Buyers Laboratory Inc. for its leading range of print technology products. The MX7 A3 lineup also showed notable growth in sales.

At the EXPO area, Samsung demonstrated how its innovative printing solutions, including its MPS program, Remote Call (a paid remote service app designed to minimize service visits), the Samsung Smart Printer Diagnostic System (SPDS), and mobile printing, can be used in actual customer scenarios.

The newly launched Samsung Channel MPS Print+ Program especially received a lot of attention as it is expected to enable Samsung partners to create additional revenue streams and manage MPS more effectively.

“We are striving to bring innovation to the European market through our unique ability to create solutions that integrate multifunction devices for smart office environments,” said David SW Song, Senior Vice President of Printing Solutions Business at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung will continue to expand its B2B printing market share through collaborations with industry leaders and partners to build a new printing ecosystem.”

Samsung Channel MPS Print+ Program will launch in the UK and Belgium this month, and will roll out to most other European countries in the second half of the year.

Samsung Electronics’ range of multifunction printers’ (MFPs) Smart UX Center and Printing App Center have been granted a Platinum rating by the Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI), an imaging industry evaluator. The BLI’s Platinum ratings are awarded to products that score high in the following categories: Features & Productivity, Usability, IT Admin & Security, Support & Training, and Value.

“This winning combination [of Samsung’s Smart UX Center and Printing App Center] delivers best-in-class usability and extensibility for buyers of Smart UX-equipped Samsung MX-series devices,” said Marlene Orr, Director of Office Equipment Product Analysis at BLI. “Customers should have no trouble finding solutions to boost productivity, streamline daily document-centric workflows, and realize the full potential of their MFPs. And Samsung has just scratched the surface of the platform’s possibilities.”

With its MultiXpress and ProXpress MFPs, Samsung has created the printing industry’s first ever Android-based UX. The BLI praised this feature for its ease of use and customizable system. BLI’s Solutions Report mentioned that the “clean, user-friendly interface…[requires] minimal training when deployed,” and that it increases productivity for users already familiar with the Android system.

With the MFPs’ touchscreen Smart UX, users now have total control over their printing tasks and can seamlessly add functions using the Printing App Center’s downloadable apps and widgets. The system also offers users a range of remote management and troubleshooting assistance options.

“Receiving the highest rating from the BLI proves our products’ excellence and captures Samsung’s innovative spirit,” said David SW Song, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Samsung Electronics. “We hope our customers take advantage of the Smart UX Center to maximize the hardware’s printing efficiency.”

Buyers Laboratory Inc. conducts comprehensive evaluation on the technology and performance of document management solutions including printers, multifunctional printers and scanners, and is recognized as an evaluation agency with the highest public confidence.

The BLI has recognized Samsung Printing Solutions business achievements on multiple occasions this year. Samsung and its MFPs received the Monochrome Printer/MFP Line of the Year Award in January and two Outstanding Performance prizes at the 2016 Buyers Lab Winter Pick Awards.

Samsung Printing Solutions has announced the release of Remote Fax, a new printing application that enhances fax functionality while cutting printing maintenance costs.

The Remote Fax app means users do not need to install additional fax kits or PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) lines in order to equip fax functions. This allows companies to reduce installation fees and better manage their TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).

The new application enables multiple printing products to run fax functions using a single fax server and fax kit or PSTN.

“Samsung continues to exceed customers’ expectations in providing convenient, cost-effective printing products,” said David SW Song, Senior Vice President of Printing Solutions Business at Samsung Electronics. “The Remote Fax app will provide more office efficiency and accessibility.”

The Remote Fax app is Samsung Electronics’ first paid application for its printing products. The company expects it to usher in a new business model for the company’s dealers and business partners.

Remote Fax is compatible with Samsung printing products with the Smart UX Center, including the MX7 range of multifunction printers.

Users can download the Remote Fax application from the Samsung Printing App Center: https://printingapps.samsung.com/apps

Samsung Electronics announced that the company has expanded its worldwide partnership with Danish independent software vendor Ubiquitech for its Print Management solutions. Ubiquitech’s software has been certified by Samsung for its multi-function printer (MFP) solutions, including the MultiXpress series with a Smart UX Center based on Android. With this agreement, Samsung will be able to better serve enterprise consumers with IBM Z and Power system solutions.

Through Ubiquitech’s print management solutions, Samsung printing products can help improve printing security in business environments. The solution identifies registered users and only allows documents to be printed by or shared with authorized personnel, preventing confidential information from being leaked. Moreover, Ubiquitech solutions make sure all print tasks are tracked and registered. Users can see an overview of all printing tasks on the Smart UX display and reduce duplicate or unnecessary printing.

Ubiquitech’s solutions can run on Windows, IBM Power and IBM System Z, allowing enterprise customers to easily implement Samsung’s printing solutions within their current IT strategy. Samsung expects to be able to enable its range of customers – from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises – to centralize their print management systems, helping them to save on their total cost of ownership (TCO) for printing products.

“Ubiquitech’s technically strong and flexible solutions give the enterprise customer the possibility to consolidate all Windows Print Servers into a single IBM System Z or Power platform; potentially releasing significant savings”, said Klaus Kristiansen, CEO, Ubiquitech.

“Security has been an essential business focus for Samsung,” said David SW Song, Senior Vice President of Printing Solutions Business at Samsung Electronics. “Through the strategic alliance with Ubiquitech, Samsung will provide highly secure, efficient, and easy-to-use printing solutions that seamlessly fit into the IT and office ecosystem.”

About Ubiquitech

Ubiquitech is an independent software vendor founded in 2004 that develops, produces and delivers intelligent, secure print management systems based on open platform technology. Having received the Duke’s Choice Award from Sun for Best Printing System and Mobility, Ubiquitech provides world-class printing solutions and security to organizations of different sizes.

Samsung Electronics announced it has won the ‘2016 Monochrome Printer / Multifunctional Printer (MFP) Line of the Year’ Award from Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) for the fourth time since 2012. BLI, the world’s leading independent evaluator of document imaging devices and solutions, credited Samsung’s monochrome printer and MFP series for their reliability, robust design, strong performance, cost and energy efficiency, environmentally friendly features, and ease of use.

“It’s a great honor to be recognized as the leading provider of printing solutions that help create a more productive and efficient work environment,” said Sungwon Song, Senior Vice President of Printing Solutions Business at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung is totally focused on offering printing solutions which are optimized for the smart office environment. It is hugely rewarding to see the key strengths of our monochrome printers and MFP lines once again independently confirmed by BLI.”

“Samsung Electronics understands what customers need most from their printing products: reliability, productivity and efficiency,” said Marlene Orr, BLI Director of Office Equipment Product Analysis. “Samsung offers products that deliver strong performance and reasonable costs, maintaining its position as the leading printing solution provider in the industry.”

Two More BLI 2016 Winter Pick Awards for Samsung

Samsung also won two more BLI 2016 Pick Awards, which are announced twice annually – in winter and summer.

Samsung’s ProXpress M3825DW received the ‘Outstanding A4 Printer for Small Workgroups’ Winter Pick Award, with the ProXpress series capable of printing 40 pages per minute, and offering a range of features ideal for SMEs. For example, the eXtensible Open Architecture (XOA) web platform enables fast implementation of third-party software, as well as mobile printing through Google Cloud Print.

The ‘Outstanding A4 Printer for Large Workgroups’ Winter Pick Award was won by Samsung’s ProXpress M4530 Series, which is capable of printing up to 47 pages per minute. The M4530’s 1GHz dual-core CPU provides the power and capacity needed to accomplish print and copy jobs of all sizes and complexity, swiftly and easily. It also enables companies to reduce their operating costs and save time due to the long-life drum and extra high yield toner.

The Most Rigorous Evaluation on the Market

BLI’s Line of the Year Awards honor the manufacturers whose product line is determined to be the best overall in its category based on the cumulative test results of all models tested in BLI’s rigorous two-month laboratory evaluation. The selections are made by BLI’s highly experienced staff of technicians and analysts after subjecting scores of devices from every major OEM to BLI’s exhaustive, comprehensive lab tests.

The BLI Winter and Summer Pick Awards acknowledge the products that gave the best performances in BLI’s extensive suite of lab tests in the previous six months.

“IDC’s recognition of Samsung Printing Solutions affirms our ongoing commitment to help organizations boost business efficiency by improving how they digitise paper and manage their printing,” said Paul Birkett, Director of Print Operation Sales and Marketing of Samsung Europe. “In the newest areas of mobile-first, cloud-first printing, Samsung is helping clients connect to the information they need, by merging mobile and printing technology in its Smart UX platform. This uses standard mobile apps to reduce repetitive or wasteful tasks through advanced machine-to-machine communication.”

The study is the first vendor analysis of the managed workflow services (MWS) market using the IDC MarketScape assessment tool. The report evaluates the capabilities and business strategies of leading hardcopy vendors in the Western European MWS market, and discusses the quantitative and qualitative characteristics that position vendors for success. The report also examines vendors’ capabilities of providing clients with a roadmap for higher-value workflow automation, and the optimization services required to deliver this effectively.

In particular, the IDC MarketScape report recognised Samsung’s use of emerging cloud and mobile technologies, as well as intuitive hardware products and value added services that extend beyond print. These include business process management, mobile print, mobile capture and digital signature services, which all extend Samsung’s IT portfolio. Samsung was also praised for the printing solutions partnerships and alliances it is forging worldwide.

IDC also remarked on Samsung’s ability to draw on expertise and innovation from other areas of its business, stating that its strength in consumer electronics is an advantage, because of the growing influence consumers now have in the world of work.

“Samsung’s key strengths are its application development and use of innovative solutions which include more than one Samsung product line,” IDC MarketScape reported. “Its focus on security alongside its rapid development helps the company gain traction with potential customers, while some competitors are still trying to dissipate security fears associated with solutions adoption.”

”Managed workflow services market players are continuing to develop their offerings to address challenging process workflows in their customers’ organizations,” said Jacqui Hendriks, Research and Consulting Manager, IDC European Managed Print Services and Document Solutions. “Established Western European market players have taken cautious steps and are more aggressively fulfilling customers’ functional and industry-specific workflow requirements,” she added.

For the MarketScape demonstration, Samsung focused on its new products and solutions incorporating mobile functionality and the intuitive interfaces common to multi-function printers, tablets and smartphones.

Samsung Smart UX Center

About IDC

International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 1,100 IDC analysts provide global, regional and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries worldwide. For 50 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to help clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world’s leading technology media, research, and events company. www.idc.com

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Samsung Electronics launched its new Marketing Support Portal for Printing Solutions to help both current and future dealers and channel partners grow, and create and capitalize on business opportunities to drive sales.

The Marketing Support Portal provides up-to-date marketing materials for Samsung’s printing devices and solutions, and will help keep all of Samsung’s partners informed of its upcoming and latest developments in printing technology.

“We at Samsung Electronics believe that our partnerships with dealers are absolutely vital to share success” said David SW Song, Senior Vice President of Printing Solutions Business at Samsung Electronics. “By helping our channel partners market and sell our products more strategically – with their clients’ needs in mind, we ensure they can grow their business more effectively too.”

Crucially, much of the content is editable, allowing Samsung’s partners to custom-design their marketing collateral to target their customers’ specific needs while staying within brand guidelines.

Not only are all brochures in an editable format, they will feature a virtual copier configuration function, which allows users to configure a copier with various options and see what the end product will look like.

Samsung Printing Solutions’ Marketing Support Portal will also provide more opportunities for collaboration, by hosting online events for Samsung and its partners to discuss co-marketing and sales strategies and opportunities.

The portal reflects Samsung’s ongoing commitment to collaborating with partners to drive mutual growth. It also forms an additional part of Samsung’s overall support system for its printing business partners.

It works in conjunction with the Technical Support Portal and Samsung Printer Diagnostic System to provide sales and marketing support along with technical support. In addition, its comprehensive Marketing Materials Library expands on the product information found in the Samsung Printing Catalog, which features all of Samsung Printing Solutions’ devices.

For more information, visit Samsung Printing Solutions’ Marketing Support Portal:

www.samsung.com/PrintingMSP

IT managers are always looking for ways to reduce expenses, and they typically look to new technologies to cut costs without adding burden. This is true for enterprises across the industry spectrum, for businesses large and small. Samsung is seeking to meet these needs with Samsung Printing Solutions. Here are three ways that smarter, faster and more reliable printing solutions can help businesses save on IT costs.

Embrace BYOD Without Worry

Samsung’s mobile printing solutions make workflows smoother than ever. Being able to print from anywhere while on-the-go can save time and boost productivity, which means increased revenue and reduced costs.

One of the concerns that arise from the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend is the increased risk of data breaches. However, Samsung minimizes that risk with NFC (Near Field Communication)-based secure authentication and pull printing features. Installing NFC printing technology on a multi-functional printer (MFP) allows for secure authentication of documents on top of the usual mobility benefits that NFC technology brings, without having to purchase an ID card reader. This mitigates potential document theft and keeps documents from getting mixed up with others. Secure pull printing can even help reduce paper and toner waste.

Leverage Customizable Solutions for Business

Thanks to Samsung’s unique and flexible eXtensible Open Architecture (XOA), developers can build customized printing solutions that fit business needs, while also giving users access to a growing range of solutions that can streamline business processes even further.

For instance, King’s College London needed an integrated printing solution to service its 30,000 students and faculty. What’s more, it wanted a fleet of printers that could be integrated with PaperCut, its existing third-party solution used for important functions such as student access card authentication. So the university adopted a fleet of MultiXpress C9352NA printers equipped with XOA, which could run that software without a problem.
Customized solutions help companies reduce IT costs while increasing productivity with the most up-to-date printing solutions. And if business needs change, an XOA-based Samsung MFP can be easily and cost-effectively reconfigured and upgraded accordingly, which lets users avoid expensive outlays for new hardware.

Manage Printing Costs More Efficiently

A key feature of Samsung Business Core Printing Solutions is the Usage Tracker. IT managers can use it to monitor usage and plan IT budgets accordingly. They can lower costs by tracking how the machines are used by individuals on the network, and even receive e-mail notifications with cost forecasting based on usage breakdowns for how much printing, scanning, copying and faxing is being done in the office. These costs can add up quickly but tend to be hidden. Intuitive solutions like the Usage Tracker arm managers with the tools they need to budget smartly.

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