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Four Questions With Scott Raskas, OKI Data Americas

Recharger Magazine spoke with Scott Raskas, senior marketing manager of color products at OKI Data Americas, to find out more about the company's C711WT device, which utilizes OKI's proprietary white toner formulation to expand the possibilities in print and differentiate its resellers from the competition.

Sushil Jain

Q&A With Indian Toners: Celebrating 20 Years Of Success

Indian Toners celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and with its longevity and success in the industry, Sushil Jain, Indian Toners' chairman, managing director and founder, sheds some light on the manufacturer's history, the challenges it faces in the Indian market, and how it has remained — and will continue to be — successful throughout the years.

MSE new packaging

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MSE: Where Vision and Technology Meet

Much like a family name, a company's brand holds meaning, possesses a sort of resonance that echoes among people familiar with it — those who've shaken a hand, bought a product or both. It's not surprising, then, that Micro Solutions Enterprises, or MSE, has come to embody the standards and ethics its founding family, the Wazanas, imbued it with, as they have worked hard throughout the last 18 years to build a brand of well-engineered cartridge technologies with performance that's as trustworthy as family.

Helpful Printer Driver

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Four Questions With Environmental Business Products on the Helpful Printer Driver

Recharger recently sat down with Environmental Business Products (EBP), a 20-year-old collector and remanufacturer of inkjet cartridges based in the U.K., regarding its latest innovation, The Helpful Printer Driver. After recognizing the negative effects printer driver pop-ups have on end users, EBP started looking into developing its own printer driver -- one that would give accurate ink levels, one that wouldn't falsely scare end users away from using legitimately remanufactured cartridges, and one that could be used as targeted advertising for EBP's reseller partners.

Concentrating on The People It Serves, Image Star Continues to Shine

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Concentrating on The People It Serves, Image Star Continues to Shine

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Image Star continues expanding, much like the luminous bodies in the sky with which it shares the second half of its name.

Color Imaging Test Printing Lab

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Perpetual Flexibility and Growth -- the Keys to Color Imaging’s Success

An old proverb says, “The wind does not break the tree that bends.” Color Imaging is the perfect embodiment of said tree, having leaned in a few different directions the printing industry’s winds have blown in the company’s 23-year life span.

Static Control Case Study

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Static Control: The Industry’s Innovative Force of Nature

Static Control Components (SCC) has continued its 26-year legacy as an industry leader at a time when the industry has needed it most: during the rough economy, with people everywhere printing less. With hundreds of engineers under the leadership of CEO Ed Swartz, SCC researched and developed aftermarket responses to the unrelenting technological hurdles the OEMs have erected.

ACM: Commitment to Customers and the Environment Creates a Successful Business Model

Lisa Weber presents a case study on ACM Technologies, a distributor and manufacturer of OEM and aftermarket products. The company has been in business for more than 20 years, and its average customer relationship is more than 10 years. Find out what this company is doing to stay competitive and successful.

Four Questions With Steve Skurnac, Sims Recycling Solutions, Americas

Recharger spoke with Steve Skurnac (president, Sims Recycling Solutions, Americas) about what the environmental concerns are with respect to electronics recycling; how the recycling process itself has evolved; and how companies and consumers can make sound, educated recycling choices.

Four Questions With Mona G. Friedl, MGF Services, LLC

Previously involved in both her grandfather’s printing press company and her father’s press rebuilding/repair business, Mona G. Friedl, MGF’s founder and president of MGF Services, brings more than 25 years of experience to the table. Friedl details how she’s stayed on top of the game.

International Laser Group (ILG):Success From the Ground Up

Back in 1988, the aftermarket was just getting started — as was International Laser Group (ILG), but from one distribution center to five and from two people to more than 500 today, ILG has definitely grown, and it is now one of the U.S.’s largest cartridge remanufacturing companies.

OCP: German Engineering Keeps Pace With OEMs in The Fast-Moving Ink World

Lisa Weber profiles German ink manufacturer OCP GmbH in this month’s case study. Learn more about this colorful company and its race to keep up with the OEMs.

EOS: As E-Waste Grows, So Does Business

Lisa Weber profiles Environmental Office Systems (EOS) in this month’s case study. Learn how the market has shifted for this empties broker and how e-waste is fuelling business.

Important Trends in Cartridge Retailing

Environmental benefits, core collection and quality are in vogue at Quebec’s La Recharge.

MWAi: Automating the Future

More and more businesses today are looking into automation as an add-on solution to their core product lines. But for MWAi, automation is the core. “What we do, simply put, is provide total automation for the channel,” MWAi President and CEO Mike Stramaglio explained. “And that automation is guided by, surrounded by and supported by professional services.”