From the Editor: Rise of the Trolls

Think you're OK just using your MFP to scan and e-mail images? PIC said printers in Southern California have been receiving letters from Farney Daniels on behalf of BetNam, LLC. The patent in question, PIC reports, supposedly covers “a system having a digital copier/scanner/multifunction device with an interface to office equipment (or to the Web) for scanning and transmitting images electronically to a destination such as email applications, or local files.” The firm wants $1,000 per employee for past infringement and future licensing.

Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.





