Sustainability and New Technology Platform Highlights of Toshiba's LEAD 2017
Bill Melo, chief marketing executive at TABS and TGCS, spoke about Toshiba’s successful relationship with PrintReleaf, developer of PrintReleaf Exchange. The cloud-based solution hooks in with popular fleet monitoring platforms and tracks paper consumption across a customer’s fleet in real time to determine their paper footprint. Each month, the customer’s footprint is replanted through the reforestation project of their choosing. Since agreeing to distribute PrintReleaf last May, Melo told the audience that the company has planted 57,000 trees.
PrintReleaf Certifies First Reforestation Project in the United States
PrintReleaf’s Certified Global Reforestation Partner, Trees, Water & People [TWP], has activated the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as PrintReleaf’s first US-based reforestation project. Located in South Dakota, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke in Lakota) is an Oglala Lakota Native American Reservation encompassing 3,468.85 square miles and is the eighth-largest reservation in the United States, larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
University of Colorado’s Masters of the Environment Program Partners with PrintReleaf
PrintReleaf has partnered with the University of Colorado’s Masters of the Environment Program to facilitate Capstone Projects for its Masters students interested in working in the private sector to contribute to solutions to current global environmental problems.
More than 2500 end customers have “releafed” 1.5 billion pages which is 180,000 trees within PrintReleaf’s certified global forestry system. This is a milestone for the company. PrintReleaf have “conducted a vertical market review that includes end user segmentation and case studies”, with the goal of the study to “further understand which types of organisations have already connected to PrintReleaf”, which created a “road map” for partners to “target prospective customers” that respond positively to the company.
D’Youville signs on to ‘releaf’ reforestation effort
Beginning this fall, each time students, faculty and staff at D’Youville College use a collective 8,333 sheets of paper from printers and copy machines on campus, a new tree will be planted in an area of the world that needs to be reforested. The college of about 3,000 students, working with Toshiba Business Solutions’ Buffalo office, has signed on to a software platform called PrintReleaf Exchange that will monitor paper use on campus.
Butler Street Chief Marketing Officer Jefferson Allen Joins PrintReleaf Advisory Board
Butler Street, a leading consulting, training and research firm focused on client and talent development, announced that its Chief Marketing Officer, Jefferson Allen, has joined the advisory board of PrintReleaf – an organization that empowers businesses to certifiably reduce the environmental impact of using paper products by automatically planting trees across a global network of reforestation projects. Allen was appointed to the board in order to bring marketing and public relations guidance and perspective to the company.
Mary Free Bed announces reforestation partnership with PrintReleaf, through Lasers Resource
As part of its commitment to sustainability, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, the fifth largest free-standing rehabilitation hospital in the United States, has subscribed to the PrintReleaf Exchange (PRX). This strategic partnership allows Mary Free Bed an innovative and authentic way to promote sustainable business practices and reduce the environmental impacts that can result from the use of forest products. Grand Rapids-based managed print service provider Lasers Resource made the partnership possible.
Saving Money and the Planet: Print Audit’s Impressive PrintReleaf Integration
Saving money is important to any business, and saving on print output is one of the most immediate ways to do that. As the winner of countless awards, Print Audit understands this better than anyone. For the better part of 20 years, the company has been helping equipment dealers grow their business with tools that help organizations lower the cost of document output. Never one to stop growing, however, Print Audit recently announced an exciting venture: integration with PrintReleaf, the leader in setting a global standard for sustainable paper consumption.
In this issue, we profile 10 young influencers—all 40 years of age and under—from various segments of the industry who are making significant contributions to the imaging channel. Some of these individuals have been in the industry for more than a decade, others only a couple of years. Yet, a common thread unites them all—they are young, driven, and standouts in their own organizations and the channel.
PrintReleaf: Providing Sustainability for a New Generation of Offices
When I first learned about PrintReleaf a little over two years ago, my reaction was: "What a great idea. I wonder how they came up with it?" Founder and CEO Jordan Darragh explained that it was really the nexus of two separate career paths that inspired the idea. He had worked in the energy industry for several years, helping utilities develop clean energy programs and reduce carbon emissions. But before that he had worked in the imaging industry for a decade.
Print Audit® is proud to announce integration with PrintReleaf’s cloud-based forest product tracking and reforestation platform. The integration will allow Print Audit Premier members to promote sustainable business practices as additional value-adds for their managed print offerings.
LaserCycle Inc. announces strategic partnership with PrintReleaf
LaserCycle, a best-in-class printer supplies, service and equipment retailer, has become an authorized channel partner of the PrintReleaf Exchange [PRX], the first technology platform to enable cloud-based forest product (e.g., paper) tracking and reforestation. This strategic partnership allows the company to provide its customers with an innovative and authentic way to promote sustainable business practices and reduce the environmental impacts that can result from the use of forest products, such as printing.
