ARC Expands its footprint in China...

American Reprographics Company announced the acquisition of the assets of Shanghai Light Business Machines Co., Ltd., a provider of document reproduction equipment, supplies and reprographics services to the Shanghai business community by Shanghai UNIS Printing Technology Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of UNIS Document Solutions Co., Ltd. ("UDS"), its joint venture in China. The new subsidiary is the second UDS reprographics company located in Shanghai and will operate under the brand name "Shanghai UNIS Printing Technology Co., Ltd." or UPT.

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PlanWell to Prolog Databridge

Communication is key - the ability to span gaps in platforms immediately and with effect - essential.
That’s why we created PlanWell DataBridge™, an application enabling the real-time exchange of information between PlanWell Enterprise, the most widely available online planroom in our industry today, and Prolog® - construction project management software licensed by Meridian Systems.
With DataBridge, Prolog users will be able to share common data, synchronize project information, and eliminate redundant data entry – increasing efficiency and leveraging the power of both applications into one powerhouse system.

If you use Prolog and also use PlanWell contact us to learn how DataBridge can save you loads of time and keep both systems syncronized.

Are you a contractor on Twitter?

If you are a contractor and you are searching online for your next project you may want to follow Reprographics Northwest on Twitter. In this current economy it is important to find every opportunity that is available to keep the work coming in.
We post all new public projects as a tweet (or twit) with a link to the plan room; this make it easy for you to be alerted of any new public projects that are out for bid. You can also do a (Hash) search for projects by using these popular hash terms #bidprojects, #bid, #construction. Best of luck to you and we will see you online.

Reprographics Northwest will be sponsoring a hole for this years Absher Construction Golf Classic. This years event will be held on Monday July 20th at the High Cedars Golf Course in Orting, WA. We will be giving away water bottles and other prizes and there will also be a masseuse with a massage chair at the hole to help keep all of the participants relaxed and on their game.

Our very own Ed Kay (Bid Services) and Valerie Laird will be golfing for RNW this year, We will be giving you the hole by hole scores and updates on twitter this year so stay tuned and good luck to them.

July's Wednesday Web Special

This special has been a hit so if you missed it last week here are the details again for tomorrow::

Contact any RNW branch (Kent, Seattle, Tacoma or Bellevue) and tell them you want the Wednesday Web Special:
$.25 color copies
(8.5x11 on #28 paper only-$5.00 min purchase)

Firefox 3.5 released today

The latest version of Firefox's internet browser was released today and our initial tests show that it works great with PlanWell EWO and Enterprise.
When using the EWO to send in files you may have to re-attach them when you get to the upload portion of your order but it will allow you to upload and submit files (unlike the previous version).
The interesting thing is to see how much faster the new version runs, I do not know how a browser can make using the internet run faster but it is noticeably faster. Here is a link to the download site.
Firefox 3.5

RNW 2.0

We have been expanding our web presence by joining and participating in the following social networks. Wanna be friends?

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