Your monthly news and information resource from Mutoh America,Inc.  Please feel free to forward this issue on to a friend, or colleague.  By doing so they will not only receive this issue, but future issues as well. January 03, 2003, Happy New Year! May your New Year be prosperous and filled with opportunity. We hope we can help make it bright and colorful too! In this issue of Flying Colors: Image Graphics Expands Services With Mutoh's Falcon-II, 87-Inch Printer Print Management White Paper New Toucan Operational CD-ROM Video Available Richard Auger Joins Mutoh America's Sales Management Team SGIA Honors Mutoh America's Marketing We hope you will find Flying Colors useful and informative. We are interested in your feedback. Please email your comments and questions to sales@mutoh.com You are receiving this email because you have previously expressed interest in Mutoh's products and services. At any time you may remove yourself from the distribution list simply by clicking the removal link at the bottom of this email. January Issue of Flying Colors Image Graphics, Deer Park, NY, Adds Falcon II, 87", Expands Services "The Mutoh Falcon II, 87-inch will enable Image Graphics to better serve the rapidly expanding fine arts market by providing the best inkjet print available, said Rick Scher, president of Image Graphics. Not only will we be able to make the best print, but we can make one that is near continuous tone at 87-inches wide." Says Rick Scher, President, Image Graphics. Click Here for the whole story. White Paper Mutoh's Print Management Solutions Mutoh America views large format digital printing from the customer's perspective - considering the whole printing solution, not just the output component. This customer centric philosophy has led to the development and introduction of Mutoh's ISIS Print Manager software and complementary Thunderbird ISIS Print Server. ISIS Print Manager software completes the Mutoh printing solution and enhances the performance of Mutoh's large format indoor and outdoor production printers - Falcon-II and Toucan. ISIS combines print manager, and PostScript raster image processing tailored for Mutoh's production printers. The optional Thunderbird ISIS Print Server acts as an intermediary between the printer and the client network, the ISIS Print Server combined with ISIS Print Manager Software provides a multi-queue network print server, job archive server, network hard disk, Web server, and PostScript interpreter with a high-speed data interface, designed to streamline the processing and management of large format print jobs. Click here for the complete White Paper. New Toucan Operational Video Now Available! The new Toucan Operational Video series one through three are now available from Mutoh on CD-ROM. Each series video will guide you step-by-step through key areas of operating your Mutoh Toucan wide-format color printer. Series One: Media Loading Series Two: Purging & Wiping Series Three: How to Shut Down the Printer For more information or to obtain your copy, please contact Clint Fox at sales@mutoh.com or 602-414-4613 Ext. 224 Mutoh Hires New Sales Manager Mutoh has named Richard Auger as its newest Sales Manager. He will be responsible for growing Mutoh's channel sales through value added resellers (VARs) and will utilize over 15 years of experience he's garnered working as a reseller in the imaging business himself. Richard joins Mutoh's sales team with a focus of growing the western regional United States. His strong knowledge and experience with VARs will help Mutoh bridge its OEM-based business model to a more reseller-focused model. Click here to read full press release. Screenprinting & Graphic Imaging Association International (SGIA) honors Mutoh America's Marketing Mutoh, selected as an award-winner in SGIA's 2002 Business Promotion Awards Competition, was one of only 14 screenprinting firms, graphic imaging companies and industry suppliers from around the world to be honored with a total of 28 awards in the competition. Mutoh received two Awards of Merit, one in the Advertising category and one in the Tradeshow category - both were awarded for the company's "Mutoh Knows Digital Printing" entry. SGIA's annual Business Promotion Awards Competition recognizes the best marketing, advertising and public relations efforts undertaken in the screen printing and graphic imaging industry. Evaluation criteria for the awards include originality, creativity, cost, and return on investment as judged by a panel of local business communication professionals. IMPORTANT: Mutoh respects the personal nature of e-mail communication. Every effort is made to offer only information that may be of value to you or your business. If you do not wish to receive marketing e- mail from Mutoh in the future, click here.