Back to School with Lexmark and Evernote!

Now that school is back in session, we wanted to offer students, parents, teachers and anyone else for that matter a chance to enter our back to school giveaway for one of five Interact S605 printers from Lexmark. For this giveaway, we're working with one of our favorite SmartSolution partners, Evernote, and asking you to follow us both on Twitter (@LexmarkNews and @Evernote) and Tweet the following: "I'm entered to win a Lexmark printer in the #evernotelexmark Back to School giveaway LINK TO BLOG (via @evernote @lexmarknews)."

We are taking entries from September 22 - October 1 and we will be checking that you're following us both as we'll be reaching out to winners via Direct Message after the drawing by Evernote on Monday, October 4.

This back to school giveaway coincides perfectly with the launch of Forms and Templates, six super useful new SmartSolutions (click here to see a video) now available for Lexmark's Web-connected all in one printers. Students and teachers alike will find our new forms and templates helpful to getting their school jobs done. Imagine being in math class and running out of graph paper or music class and not having blank sheet music - well no more! Today we're launching SmartSolutions for blank sheet music, lined and graph paper as well as wall calendar templates for use from the classroom to the kitchen.

In addition to those helpful examples, we're also announcing additional forms and templates including stationery, fax cover sheets and certificates, all of which will be available for use next month. This allows users to use the printer's 4.3 inch capacitive touchscreen to effortlessly identify and print necessary items without ever having to touch your computer - saving you time in your daily activities.

Winners will each receive one of Lexmark's Interact S605 printers along with one year on free Evernote Premium, which gives users greater upload capacity, more security and the ability to upload more files types as well. The Lexmark Interact features a 4.3 inch capacitive touchscreen and wireless connectivity so that you can upload to your Evernote account easily through the printer without ever having to turn on your computer. These awesome printers will also be available starting October 2 at Best Buy locations so if you don't win, you can always get your own nearby.

Looking forward to helping everyone get back to school in style!

SmartSolutions Enter the Cloud

Making life easier for SMB's is a huge part of what we do here at Lexmark. To that end, I'm excited to announce the latest addition to our SmartSolution line-up...Scan to Box. This solution integrates with Box.net, a cloud content provider that helps businesses manage and share their data from anywhere, at any time.

Many organizations are increasingly turning to 'the cloud', meaning that their information is saved on a server and may be accessed and shared via the Internet. Box.net offers a variety of services for companies in the cloud, including managing file transfers, online collaboration and more. That's why we're so excited about this integration.

With Scan to Box, you can upload important documents from your Lexmark Web-connected all-in-one printer into your Box account with just the simple touch of a button. In a matter of seconds, your document is scanned, converted to digital format and uploaded to your Box.net folder in the cloud (click here to watch a short video about how it works). You can also set up multiple solutions, with different names, mapped to each of your respective Box.net folders. Even better, the integration doesn't require your computer be powered on in order to scan and upload documents.

Don't have a Box.net account? Sign up here for a free trial to take advantage of Scan to Box and start saving time using the cloud for collaboration, sharing and storage. And for more information about Lexmark and Box.net, be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter.