Bid to reduce costs and improve day-to-day sustainability with “significantly high” printing.
The Australian Retailers Association (ARA), the industry’s national body, has formed a five-year MPS partnership with Upstream Print Solutions, with retailers “under pressure to reduce costs, identify inefficiencies and improve the sustainability of their day to day operations”, reports Computerworld.
Russell Zimmerman, Executive Director, ASA, commented: “Our members, large and small, realise that traditional approaches to printing are no longer able to keep up with the demands of business today. Add to this the fact that consumers expect retailers to incorporate green efficiencies into their operations and it’s clear new approach to printing need to be embraced” and remarked that printing within the association and Australia Retailers Institute were “significantly high”.
Under the arrangement, ARA members that deploy Upstream will have access to free paper for 12 months and free Upstream Connect Software that enables monitoring of usages among all devices.
Zimmerman commented: “We’re looking forward to a very confident after Christmas sale period and we go into 2012 with a little more hope, although I temper that by saying the consumer confidence survey has just come out and indicates that confidence is back to where it was in about August. This is concerning and I think reflects conditions overseas in Europe and to some degree in America.”