We are pleased and excited to be working with Nassau Community, says Ray Piskin, President of CCP and Continental Copy Products.
Wayne Piskin, VP of CCP and Continental and Ray Piskin have provided the equipment and services architecture to provide copier services and sophisticated pay-for-print services for all students.

Nassau Community College will be a showcase operation for CCP with embedded print management solutions offering students streamlined access with “follow-me printing ” from PC to kiosk to print release station as well as Bookscan technology equipment as seen in hundreds of Universities across the country including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Duke.

Call CCP at 800-221-4445 for any questions.

Students will be given a free quota allowance of prints at the beginning of the semester. This is standard procedure for the majority of college libraries. After reaching their free quota allowance students can utilize several options to add value to their Papercut print accounts. These include the placement of self-service Pay Station Kiosks conveniently located throughout 2 floors of the library as well as an easy to use web payment portal offering students the flexibility to add value to their accounts using paypal and credit card.

Students will print to a global print que that provides the convenience of printing their jobs from any print release station in the library.

CCP is also looking to provide in coming semesters the ability to release prints from CCP’s Kyocera copiers via Papercut’s embedded technology right from the Kyocera copier panels further enabling students with even more flexibility to print from wherever they are in the library.

CCP will also be providing students with the capability to print via the web from any PC, laptop, tablet, iPad or mobile device via a simple web portal that opens a brand new level of immediacy to students who are working on projects and storing these projects on a variety of devices.

Ray Piskin, 8/7/12 Quantitative and qualitative. CCP provides a unique all encompassing solution to Businesses, Government agencies and the academic University marketplace. For 38 years we have brought equipment and services to thousands of customers in the northeastern United States. The foundation of our strength is the people who work for us, many for more than 30 years, and the power of 3:
· Vended solutions -solutions for copiers and pay-for-print network public systems

· Retail equipment – see www.ccpcopy.com for a complete listing of equipment

· Scan station technology – our newest technology providing a wide range of services.

In addition to the Power of 3 our document solutions include Drive software for storage and retrieval as well as Papercut software with capabilities of licensing up to 50,000 users. More to come in the next blog

What Bucks County Community College says about Scannx Book ScanCenter:
“It’s been a paper-saving, easy-to-use solution that requires very little staff help, which is especially helpful in the fall and spring semesters when we are very busy. For students, it’s nice to have an electronic copy for their records, and to be able to collaborate with others by sending documents electronically.”

Linda McCann,
Director of Library Services,
Bucks County Community College Library

About Bucks County Community College
Since 1964, Bucks County Community College in southeastern Pennsylvania has offered an affordable two-year college education to the area’s growing population. It’s a place where area residents can take a first step toward a bachelor’s degree, get a certificate that launches a new career, or return again and again for a lifetime of learning. Most graduates transfer from the associate degree program to a four-year college. The community college has smaller campuses in Bristol and Perkasie, but the main 200-acre campus is located in Newton, where the 40-year-old library is half-way through a major renovation aimed at fostering greater collaboration between students and staff and offering more flexible spaces for today’s learners.

The first phase of the renovation brought a number of related services all together onto the main floor, along including the reference desk, tutoring resources and a media learning lab designed to foster 21st century learning skills called MInDSpace (Media and Instructional Design). The redesigned second floor, scheduled to open this summer, will feature both collaborative work areas and quiet study areas, as well as a consolidated circulation and technology help desk. The final phase will add office space, computer classrooms and extra equipment storage in time for the Fall 2012 semester.

Scannx at Bucks Library: Less paper; more collaboration
The library building isn’t the only thing that’s being transformed at Bucks County Community College. The way library patrons use and share books and materials is changing too, thanks to a new Scannx Book ScanCenter, a simple and complete self-service book and document scanning solution that pairs an intuitive 15” touchscreen with an 11”x15” book-edge scanner and next-generation cloud-based document management.

According to Linda McCann, Director of Library Services at Bucks, today’s students are working more on group projects, using e-books and making a lot of PowerPoint presentations. Instead of charging for printing, Bucks charges a flat technology fee, then allows students to print whatever they want. The result was that students were printing multiple copies of their presentations, class notes and even whole book chapters to share with their group.

“I found we were going through a lot of printer paper, both at the library and the college,” she said. So when she heard about the Scannx BookScan Center being used at nearby Delaware Valley College, she decided to go see it for herself. The demonstration convinced her to buy two for Bucks Community College. The first was installed in early 2010 near the first-floor reference desk. The second will debut in a few weeks, near the new circulation and technology help desk.

“Everybody loves it,” said McCann. Now, she said, students have a paperless option that is completely free. They are able to scan periodicals that can’t be checked out and e-mail the articles to themselves or save them to a USB drive. They make one quick scan of their notes or project materials and e-mail them to everyone in their group at the same time. They can even scan papers to GoogleDocs so their whole team can collaborate electronically. So far, few are choosing to scan to iPads or smartphones – mainly because the price of those devices is out of reach for most of Buck’s students – but that could change as those technologies become more affordable.

While she has not calculated the paper or cost savings, McCann is certain the scanner is providing both. And with tightening budgets and the college’s sustainability initiative, “I’ve been trying to go as paperless as possible,” she said.

Book ScanCenter and more
Students aren’t the only ones using the Scannx Book ScanCenter. The staff has also found it invaluable. McCann says she started using it to fax documents when the regular fax machine broke down, and she’s never gone back. “It just makes a lot more sense to me, because I have a record of what I sent that includes the actual document as a scan.”

The library has even used it to repair books. “Sometimes we’ll have an older book that is missing a page, or a student will tear out three pages of literary criticism they need,” she said. A quick scan of the missing pages from another volume can be printed out and inserted into the damaged book. It’s not something they have to do often, but repairing damaged books makes McCann really appreciate the Scannx Book ScanCenter’s patented beveled book-edge design, which delivers distortion-free scans and protects the book spine from damage. There’s no need to press the book flat, and no ‘black gutter’ swallowing the words on the edge of the page.

Mostly, though, McCann likes the fact that the Scannx Book ScanCenter is so easy to use. Before, when students wanted to scan materials, they were sent to the Technology Learning Center, which has a flatbed scanner attached to a desktop computer. They almost always needed help, and the Learning Center isn’t always staffed. In contrast, the Scannx Book ScanCenter has large easy-to-read buttons on a touch-screen that guide users through each step, helping them choose a file format, adjust image quality and color depth, crop the image, and send or save the scan to printer, USB, fax, GoogleDocs, or a smartphone or tablet.

“It’s self explanatory and very easy to use,” said McCann. “I’ve found that very few people need any assistance at all. Overall, she said, the Scannx Book ScanCenter “has been a huge success, and we can’t wait to get that second unit all set up.”

“Whoohoo!  I am so excited about seeing the Disney parks!  Thanks so much for such a wonderful prize.”
– Ava Ehde, Library System Manager – Manatee County Public Library System, Central Library

Ava and her Guest enjoy the Spaceship Earth attraction at Epcot Theme Park.

The winner of two 3-Day Disney Theme Park tickets was chosen at random from over 75 entrants who registered and attended the Florida Library Association (FLA) Conference in Orlando, Florida. CCP Solutions sponsored the prize in recognition of the Scannx Book ScanCenter. For more information on the Book ScanCenter, please feel free to contact me: daye@ccpcopy.com

Daye Brake, John Dexter and Johnny Garner represented CCP Solutions and the Scannx Book ScanCenter at the Florida Library Association’s 2012 Conference in Orlando, FL. It was a phenomenal experience, as Librarians, students and leaders of the industry were all amazed by the new Scan to Smart Phone/Tablet and Scan to Fax features. In addition to live demonstrations of the scanner on the exhibit floor, attendees were encouraged to use the scanner in a hands-on environment at the Technology Petting Zoo. Now Florida libraries are more excited than ever to implement the Scannx Book ScanCenter solution into their locations.  Here are more photos from the conference:

Valencia College, Osceola Campus Library began the evaluation of a CCP book scanning solution after viewing a live web demonstration in late January. According to Jorge Soto, Manager of Learning Support Technologies, the library wanted a scanner that would provide an alternative to photocopy machines and be easy enough for patrons to use unassisted. Reference Librarian, Sarah Dockery, testifies that the book scan solution responds to their needs.  See this link for her comments:  http://portal.sliderocket.com/AGBZV/Valencia-College—Osceola-Campus-Library

During the evaluation period, students, faculty and staff have the opportunity of testing the unit and its features for free. Anonymous survey cards are collected to record the comments and concerns of those using the equipment. The overall experience of using the scanner is rated on a scale of 1 to 10 (1= Not Satisfied; 10= Very Satisfied). Of the 30 cards received from their users thus far, 27 users rated the book scanning solution a “10”, 1 gave it a “9” and 2 users rated their experience an “8”.

“I like the touch screen.” says Marcie Rhoads, Library Specialist, “It’s very easy to use.”

Other users of the scanner also let us know their thoughts of the new scanning solution:

“I love the book scanner. The touch screen feature plus the speed of the program makes it an EXCELLENT source.”

”Love it! It’s very helpful. Thanks!”

“ It works really fast! I love that I can save as PDF and Word file. Awesome Machine!”

“It was really easy to use. It worked well because it allowed me to email my scanned document to my professor.”

“Keep it here!”

“Thank you for having this.”

“It makes it easier and convenient to place documents on a USB drive rather than carrying a book around. It’s fast too.”

Now that the Scannx Book ScanCenter has released the new Scan to Smart Phone/Tablet features, the Library looks forward to receiving CCP’s newest scanning solution in the fall. Like many schools evaluating the Scannx Book ScanCenter, the students and staff of Valencia’s Osceola Campus agree that the Book ScanCenter is a solution needed within their learning environment.