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Parkwood are pleased to announce that they are now an OKI Executive Partner. Following the news that Mike Stevens joined us as our new technical Director, He has brought the OKI Executive Series printers and MFD's along as a major addition to our services

The partnership with OKI wil allow us to supply all OKI offerings but we will focus on their Executive Series that are aimed at business use and volume users rather than the standard OKI machines aimed at smaller businesses and home SOHO use.

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News | Published in The TES on 2 April, 2010 | By: Richard Vaughan

Schools procurement blunders laid bare

Claire Dicks, assistant director of the educational procurement centre at the Department for Children, Schools and Families, said schools are getting tied into rolling contracts with companies that can end up spiralling out of control.

The news is likely to turn faces red within the Department particularly that of Schools Secretary Ed Balls, (was at the time but now Shadow Chancellor) who has called on schools, colleges and children's centres to make savings of 650 million in their procurement budgets.

ParkWood Document Solutions are proud to announce their recent tie up with Hampshire Cricket Club. This year ParkWood will be sponsoring the young and promising player Chris Wood. Wearing shirt number 25 Chris is a Left arm medium fast bowler and right handed batsmen and we wish him all the very best for the season.

Sharp has announced the world's first MFPs with a finger-swipe touch control interface, as part of its continuing drive to improve productivity in the office.

The new MX-2610N and MX-3110N feature a 10.1" control panel, on which users can touch icons then tap, flick or slide a finger to access every document, function and setting. Sharp believes that the technology will revolutionise the way in which people interact with MFPs, just as it did for cell phones.

Did you know that: Most copiers made since 2002 come equipped with a hard drive. Every time someone copies a sensitive document on one of these machines, such as a tax return or bank statement, the image can remain on the hard drive for an indefinite period of time.

Following a recent investigation from CBS news which found that many copiers are sold into the second hand market with hard drives full of confidential or sensitive personal data still in them, Sharp has a solution which will avoid the new high level fines which could be imposed by the UK's ICO.