The seminar in Athens, Greece saw over 30 customers attend, while Lexmark’s Head of Government Affairs for the EMEA gave a presentation on clone cartridges.
The latest seminar hosted by the largest manufacturer of aftermarket imaging systems took place on 20 May in Athens, Greece, with around 30 customers attending. The event’s programme included technical demonstrations from Customer Support Technician Alejandro Casillas on “how to remanufacture three different cartridges”, including the Lexmark CS/CX series, the HP 3525 and the HP M551.
Other elements of the seminar included “the recent launch of Static Control’s inkjet range of products and cartridges”, a section “dedicated to troubleshooting and fault-finding in remanufactured colour cartridges”, and the talk from Maxime Furkel, Lexmark International’s Head of Government Affairs for the EMEA. Furkel’s presentation, entitled Clone Toner Cartridges – an OEM Perspective, discussed the “need to educate customers on the legal, social, economic and environmental issues surrounding this subject”.
Printerland’s Nektarios Ntagkas, who attended the event, stated: “This seminar was a step in the right direction regarding the value that we all have to place on our industry. It was also a chance to draw on Static Control’s years of experience to get our questions answered, view invaluable technical demonstrations and gain some direction in how to grow our business within this market. How many companies can you locally meet with and hear the perspective of an OEM? This gave us all the opportunity to learn a lot from Maxime Furkel from Lexmark.”
Javier Gesualdo, Static Control’s Regional Sales Manager for Southern Europe, commented: “For Static Control, the most important aspect of today, and in fact all events in the seminar calendar, is the demonstration of support. It is not enough to tell remanufacturers that we support them; in coming to Athens, we are bringing our customers new commercial and technical tools to help them rethink the best ways to grow their businesses.”
Static Control added that it “respects the IP of OEMs and works diligently to provide its customers with the safest aftermarket solutions available”, and added that “for this reason, Static Control was proud for the show of support from Lexmark on this occasion”.
The seminars are free of charge to Static Control customers, and future events are planned in Rome, Minsk, Fatima and Madrid during June, before “phase two” of the seminars commences in September. The Recycler attended the seminar in Budapest, Hungary, which you can read about in issue 271, while the first event of 2015 took place in Albania in February.
Other 2015 seminars took place in Germany and Georgia as well as Paris, France, with details on further seminars available on the company’s event’s page at http://www.scc-inc.com/aboutus/events.aspx. The Recycler reported on the free seminars hosted by Static Control last year, including events in Croatia and Serbia, Italy, Latvia, France, Romania, Poland and Greece. The original programme was announced in March last year, and was expanded in September.