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.
To achieve success in the print industry, and any industry for that matter, it requires a lot of energy and dedication to the job. As a result, we often find ourselves buried in the weeds of our day to day task working toward company goals and our personal goals within it. The print industry is filled with complexity and detail which requires narrow focus on the present to achieve our personal and business goals.
Toshiba Introduces PrintReleaf Reforestation Program
To build upon its commitment to maintain a more sustainable planet, Toshiba America Business Solutions has become an authorized distribution partner of the PrintReleaf Exchange [PRX], the first technology platform offering cloud-based paper tracking and reforestation. This partnership allows Toshiba to provide its dealer channel and customers with an innovative and authentic way to promote sustainable business practices.
Virtual Software Panel Addresses Trends Impacting Software Development
The Cannata Report’s April 2016 Special Out of the Box: Software & Services issue features a virtual software panel with Stephen Young, president & CEO, Square 9; Bruce Malyon, President, MaxxVault; Vaclav Muchna, CEO and co-founder, Y Soft; Jordan Darragh, founder & CEO, PrintReleaf; Casey O’Hara, Director of Product, PrintReleaf; and Chris Dance, president, PaperCut.
Grand Rapids Public Schools uses a lot of paper on a daily basis as a necessary part of running the district. And of course, all of this paper comes from trees. However, GRPS is now giving back to the environment using a program that plants a tree for every box and a half of paper it uses.
