This makes me sick, always supporting Ricoh and then seeing Ricoh give away High volume B & W technology for our new Aficio 3131 color. Toshiba could keep the color for all I care!
Toshiba America Business Solutions Enters High-Volume Copier Market With New Segment Five And Six Offerings
Toshiba’s Fastest Products To Date – the e-STUDIO™900/1050 Series –
Round Out Toshiba’s Copier Line And Position Toshiba
As A Single Source Provider For Major Accounts
IRVINE, Calif., (May 17, 2004) – Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. (TABS) rounds out its copier product line by introducing the company’s fastest product offerings to date – the Toshiba e-STUDIO™900/1050 series – with the e-STUDIO1050 being Toshiba’s first Segment Six model (defined as copiers producing 91 or more prints-per-minute). Producing digital copies at 90 and 105 pages-per-minute (PPM) respectively, the e-STUDIO900 and 1050 are fully-featured monochrome copiers designed to meet the high demands of production printing environments and corporate offices with high-volume copying and printing needs.
“The availability of the e-STUDIO900/1050 series puts Toshiba in the best possible position, enabling us to capitalize on the significant growth opportunity industry analysts anticipate in the Segment Five and Six markets,” said Mark Mathews, vice president, Marketing for TABS. “And the fact that Toshiba now provides a full line spanning all product segments offers a significant advantage to our GEM (government, education and major account) dealers and customers interested in working with a single source provider.”
Superior Features
The e-STUDIO900 and e-STUDIO1050 scan original documents at 80 PPM and produce exceptional image quality at 1,200 dpi. The system’s job queue feature allows users to scan up to 20 copy jobs into memory, with a job list screen showing the estimated time it will take to complete each job. Offering optional network printing and scanning capabilities, both models are being launched with an external EFI controller, the industry’s high-end EB105EX. In addition, each model includes large standard memory of 128MB RAM and two 40GB hard drives, with a new long-life 700K drum for significantly increased uptime.
Industry-Leading Paper Capacity
Both the e-STUDIO900 and the e-STUDIO1050 offer a 3,000-sheet standard capacity through a tandem letter-size tray that holds 1,000 sheets per side and two lower cassettes that each house 500 sheets from statement to ledger-size paper. A unique optional large capacity feeder provides three additional paper sources and 4,550 extra sheets of statement to letter-size paper. An additional option is a 500-sheet bypass tray, providing a seventh paper source that will accept paper as large as 12” by 18”, bringing the system’s total paper capacity to an industry leading 8,050 sheets.
Full-Range of Finishing Capabilities
The finishing options available on the e-STUDIO900/1050 series include copying of covers, chapters and tab extensions, 100-sheet stapling, hole punch and Z-folding to further enhance the look and functionality of copy and print jobs. An interposer option allows pre-printed pages to be merged with copied or printed pages, enabling the production of professional looking jobs quickly, easily and with the lowest possible production costs.
Exceptional Ease-of-Use
Users of the e-STUDIO900 and e-STUDIO1050 have complete access to the copier and network features through an oversized remote LCD Touch Screen Control Panel. The Control Panel is positioned above the copier at the user’s eye level and features well-designed icons and easy-to-follow menus for ultimate ease-of-use. In addition, the system’s dual toner bottles allow for quick toner changes and uninterrupted output.
The e-STUDIO900 and e-STUDIO1050 are available through Toshiba’s nationwide network of dealers for the suggested list price of $41,000 and $50,000 (USD) respectively.
About Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.
Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers and toner products throughout the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS comprises four divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division, Toner Products Division, Document Solutions Engineering Division and Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a subsidiary which operates a network of acquired office equipment dealers.
Named the most favored manufacturer in seven of the past eight years by the Business Technology Association (BTA), Toshiba’s entire product line, customer support and marketing distribution policies are a marker for the industry. Among the many other awards garnered in recent years, Toshiba was named the “Copier Manufacturer of the Year” by the Marketing Research Consultants (MRC) in 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2002 and received the CIO Web Business award for its leading edge intranet site in 1998, 1999 and 2000.
TABS is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the sixth largest electronics/electrical equipment company and the world's 62nd largest company in terms of sales. Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in high technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Fiscal year revenue in 2002 was approximately $47 billion.
For more information on Toshiba copier, facsimile, multifunction printing products, network controllers or toner products, or for a dealer in your area, call 1?800?GO?TOSHIBA or visit the TABS Web site at www.copiers.toshiba.com.
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