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Audiovisual news in brief

Signagelive boards bus
Signagelive.com has its cloud-based offering on 160 buses across Norway, where Urban Media has expanded its signagelive network. Urban Media founder Einar Schwaiger said the monitors are in airport express coaches in 14 cities.
All the signs are favourable

VARs showcase Promethean
Resellers Network & Cabling Solutions (NCS) and Matrix Display Systems showed new Promethean ActivClassroom kit at the Education Show last week in Birmingham. Interactive and interoperable tools include customisable ActivInspire interactive whiteboard software.
Education market to stay solid

Agfa reloads Canon
Agfa Graphics has partnered with Canon to distribute Canon’s imagePRESS digital colour presses alongside its inkjet portfolio, prepress systems and Apogee Suite workflow software. Separately, Canon has partnered with recycler eReco to achieve zero landfill on toner bottle waste.
UK printer sales crash as services, green rally

Monster unleashed
Midwich has signed Monster cables and recruited for its Ricoh, Oki, Lexmark and Canon teams. The print team is now Chris Shelley, Oki sales; Sian Thurston, Lexmark sales; Paul Rochester, Kyocera and Kyocera managed print; Marsha Funchal, Ricoh sales; Nadia Lenzen, Brother sales; and Stephanie Cripps, Canon and Visioneer document scanners.
Midwich looks to managed print

Talking turkey
Bernard Matthews’ turkey farms have eliminated fax machines, replacing them with an expansion of its RightFax e-fax use from Avanquest Solutions. The firm now has just one Konica-Minolta MFD replacing every four old fax machines. All faxing, copying and printing is now initiated from the desktop.
Avanquest strikes gold

Energy star
Brother has launched a range of mono lasers, its first to include duplex and Energy Star as standard. The HL-5300 series targets the healthcare and business markets. All models carry the Blue Angel environmental seal.
Printer vendors embrace green