WEEKEND MFP INDUSTRY NOTES
6-21-09
The following is a quick review of copier/MFP industry news from various trade publications.
Toshiba announced a number of new A3 b/w MFPs:
- eSTUDIO 205L, 255, 305 series:
- 20ppm, 25ppm & 30ppm
- Base MSRPs of $5095, $6650 & $8,050
- Maximum monthly duty cycles of 80K, 100K & 120K
- Base MSRPs fo $8625 & $10,799
- 8.5” full color touch screen LCD control panel
- Optional fax board
- 600x600dpi (advertised as offering 2400dpi with interpolation)
- 20 second warmup time
- 4.7 second first copy out time
- 30,000 page toner yield based on 5% coverage
- USB direct scan and print
- Auto duplex
- Scans in color and b/w
- Two 550 sheet paper drawers standard hold up to 28lb. bond only
- 100 sheet stack bypass standard (up to 110lb. index)
- 3,200 sheet maximum paper capacity with options
- Optional document feeder that handles 100 originals and scans up to 57ipm
- Optional Smart Card reader
- Print/scan controller standard
- 1GB RAM & 60GB hard drive
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports
- PCL, XPS & PostScript print drivers standard
- eBRIDGE technology allowing embedded applications into control panel
- Optional embedded software allows for scan to MS Word, MS Excel and searchable PDF
- Optional finishers offer hole-punch, stapling and booklet making
- eSTUDIO 355, 455 series:
- 35ppm $ 45ppm
- Maximum monthly duty cycles of 125K & 150K
- Base MSRPs fo $8625 & $10,799
- 8.5” full color touch screen LCD control panel
- Optional fax board
- 600x600dpi (advertised as offering 2400dpi with interpolation)
- 20 second warmup time
- 3.7 second first copy out time
- 30,000 page toner yield based on 5% coverage
- USB direct scan and print
- Auto duplex
- Scans in color and b/w
- Two 550 sheet paper drawers standard hold up to 28lb. bond only
- 100 sheet stack bypass standard (up to 110lb. index)
- 3,200 sheet maximum paper capacity with options
- Optional document feeder that handles 100 originals and scans up to 57ipm
- Optional Smart Card reader
- Print/scan controller standard
- 1GB RAM & 60GB hard drive
- PCL, XPS & PostScript print drivers standard
- eBRIDGE technology allowing embedded applications into control panel
- Optional embedded software allows for scan to MS Word, MS Excel and searchable PDF
- Optional finishers offer hole-punch, stapling and booklet making
- eSTUDIO 555, 655, 755 & 855 models featuring:
- 55ppm, 65ppm, 75ppm & 85ppm
- Base MSRPs of $19,995, $24,495, $29,495 & 36,995
- Maximum monthly duty cycles of 460K, 515K, 540K & 600K
- 62,400 pages toner yield based on 5% coverage
- 8.5” full color touch screen LCD control panel
- Optional fax board
- 600x600dpi (advertised as offering 2400dpi with interpolation)
- 130 second warmup time
- 3.5 second first copy out time
- 30,000 page toner yield based on 5% coverage
- USB direct scan and print
- Auto duplex
- Two 500 ledger-size sheet & two 1250 letter-size paper drawers standard
- all paper sources hold up to 110lb. index
- 100 sheet stack bypass standard
- Optional side mount 4000 sheet paper deck
- Document feeder that handles 100 originals and scans up to 80ipm
- Optional Smart Card reader
- Print/scan controller standard
- 1GB RAM & 60GB hard drive
- PCL, XPS & PostScript print drivers standard
- eBRIDGE technology allowing embedded applications into control panel
- Optional embedded software allows for scan to MS Word, MS Excel and searchable PDF
- Optional finishers offer hole-punch, stapling and booklet making
Toshiba may benefit from a proposed $18.5 billion loan from the Energy Department of the U.S. federal government to build new nuclear reactors in the U.S. These proposals may not beat the lobbying effort against them by environmentalists.
Toshiba has joined with NEC and IBM to develop next generation computer chips for cell phones. The 28 nanometer chips, will use less power, and may ship in late 2010.
Even after the most movie studios have adopted the Blu-Ray HDTV DVD technology from Sony, Toshiba is still trying to market their HD DVD players, even though it is very difficult to find a movie to rent that uses this format. Toshiba president Akiyo Ozaka told the press in Las Vegas that their technology “has not lost”.
Toshiba will postpone its $310 million takeover of Fujitsu’s hard drive business.
Okidata, maker of LED color printers and MFPs, announced that its managed print services program is called “Total Managed Print”.
Kyocera launched a new A4 desktop color laser printer, the FS-C5400DN offering:
- 37ppm top speed b/w or color
- 60 second warm up time
- 9 second first color print out time
- 600x600dpi (does not offer true 8 bits per pixel imaging)
- advertised as offering 9600dpi with interpolation (4 bit mode)
- 150K/month maximum duty cycle
- recommended for volumes of 3K to 30K per month
- Letter/legal only
- 300,000 impression PM schedule
- Uses amorphous silicon ceramic drums
- Print controller standard
- 733MHz processor
- 256MB RAM (can upgrade to 1GB)
- Optional hard drive for job spooling from network
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports standard
- PCL, XPS and PostScript print drivers
- Comes standard with 500 sheet paper drawer and 150 stack bypass tray
- Optional second 500 sheet drawer
- Supports up to 120lb. index
- auto duplex standard
- black toner yield of 16,000 pages based on 5% coverage per page
- color toners yield 12,000 pages
- comes with starter toners that have short yield
- Base MSRP of $2593.00
Lyra Research Senior Analyst Cortney Kasuba will present “The Evolution of Managed Print Services: A Look Ahead” a the 2009 Managed Print Summit on 8/18/09 at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Mark Robinett, owner of Robinett Copiers & Printers, a Konica Minolta dealer in Springfield, Missouri, has sold his business. After 28 years, he will move on to another career. The sale was caused by foreclosure proceedings ordered by Great Southern Bank, and assets were sold to Pearson-Kelly Office Products, a competitor.
Oce’ announced it will relabel more Konica Minolta devices. It will call the Konica Minolta bizhub C552 & C652 as the Oce VarioLink 5522c and 6522c.
Oce’ wins bid to provide production color system. Jeppesen Corp. has added an Oce’ ColorStream 10050 system. Details:
- company produces aviation charts for major airlines and private pilots
- 80% of work is b/w
- 20% is a mix of spot and process color
- Originally shop was offset presses only.
- First digital product was a continuous roll feed b/w production system from IBM (relabeled Hitachi)
- Then added a Hewlett Packard Indigo production color system
- 40% of total shop volume is now digital
- The 10050 system offers 5 colors of toner
- Brown used for contour mapping lines
- Magenta used to highlight important changes
- Cyan used for water
- CMYK used for images of landing approach pictures
- Uses primarily 40gsm paper
Xerox announced it will sponsor the Rochester Jazz Festival, held in New York.
Xerox launched two new desktop b/w laser MFPs, the WorkCentre 3210 and 3220 models featuring:
- print/copy/scan/fax
- 24ppm for 3210 and 30ppm for 3220
- 1200x1200dpi
- 500 sheet paper tray
- Scan to or print from a thumb drive via USB port
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports
- 360MHz processor
- 128MB RAM
- 3210 has PCL print driver only for $449 MSRP
- 3220 has PCL and PostScript print drivers as well as auto duplex for $549 MSRP
More details on Xerox winning the Procter & Gamble account with managed print services:
- Will supposedly reduce company’s operational costs by 20-25%
- 5 year contract
- 138,000 employees
- Offices in 80 countries
- Web portal for ordering printers, supplies and service
- Will reduce printer power requirements by 30%
Xerox announced a new EFI Fiery print server for its iGen4 production color laser system. Details:
- Utilizes the in-line spectrophotometer built into the print engine
- External controller design
- Called the EFI Fiery EX Print Server
- Supports high speed variable data output
Xerox announced it won a FM bid for Northern Rock Financial of Finland. Size and length of contract not announced.
In an effort to raise cash, Xerox announced it will sell its 29 story, 850,000 square foot building, and will lease it from the new owner. Also it will sell an adjacent auditorium, and two other buildings. All are in the Rochester, NY area.
Xerox launched the “Gallup”, which is an iGen4 production color system attached to an Epic CT1-635 coater and a KAMA diecutter/foil stamper, to produce high speed, full color, small packages for cosmetic industry.
In another FM contract Xerox won, it claims that it saved Baptist St. Anthony’s Medical Center of Amarillo, TX a total of $300,000 per year.
Kodak announced it will have a large booth at the upcoming Print 09 trade show in Chicago, IL in September. Details:
- Will sow the new Kodak PROSPER system, a high speed b/w inkjet imprinting system
- NEXPRESS SE3600 production color system
- 120ppm top speed or 3600 sheets per hour
- new Intelligent Calibration System using a Kodak i1220 ICS color scanner
- new, improved Enhanced Dry Ink toner
- 25% more yield from toner bottles
- new, improved developer for more consistency
- fifth toner station for clear toner, which works with off-line Intelligent Dimensional Coating
- DIGIMASTER EX300 production b/w system
- 18,000 impressions per hour or 300ipm
- uses two b/w engines to print on both side of paper (similar to Xerox Nuvera 288 or Oce’ 6250)
- optional Watkiss SpineMaster and PowerSquare 200 bookletmaker able to make books
of 8 to 200 pages with square spine with text on spine
A company in Germany, and one in Switzerland claim that they have combined to create a new printing process. MDC Max Daetwyler, the Swiss firm and Interprint GmbH the German firm, sent out a press release claiming the invention of LaserSonic. They plan on showing the technology at the Interprint trade show in 2010, and claims it uses ink. They also claim it will print on paper, plastic or cardboard.
Sharp wins latest court battle against Samsumg. The court found that Samsung infringed on 4 patents Sharp owns regarding color LCD manufacturing.
Managed Print Services related statistics from DocuVision International:
- HP has placed over 100 million laser printers in the U.S.
- Copier makers have placed over 8 million copiers and MFPs
- Only 10% of office document hard costs can be attributed to document device and supply/service costs
- Other 90% is IT infrastructure, IT support, procurement, vendor administration, scanning labor,
storage labor, retrieval labor and distribution labor
Samsung sponsored survey reveals info on printer data security:
- Just under 50% of employees are exposed to sensitive data via prints left on exit tray
- 14% admitted seeing salary details
- 22% had seen performance reviews
- 34% had seen confidential correspondence
- 80% did not know that secure jobs could have been inadvertently stored on hard drive of printer of MFP
- 75% did not know that some printers could be hacked
Gartner stated its research showed the following about sales/shipments of printer/copier/MFP units in first quarter of 2009
- Decline of 18% worldwide to 26.4 million units
- Value of units declined 21% to $12.8 billion
- print only devices declined by 28% to 9.9 million units
- color laser MFPs sold 632,000 units
- color laser printers sales declined 15% to 1.4 million units
- b/w laser printer market grew 23% to 6.4 million units
- 14.6% decline in U.S.
- 22.6% decline in Canada
- End user spending in U.S. declined 21%
- Canon lost its marketshare leadership to HP
- inkjet printers declined by 15% in 2008 to 17.8 million units
Ricoh now shipping the MP 6001, 7001, 8001 & 9001 models of b/w laser MFPs:
- replace the 6000, 7000 & 8000 models
- first two digits of model number denote speeds of 60, 70, 80 & 90ppm respectively
- Base MSRPs of $18K, $23K, $28K and $33K
- all models can scan in color
- 30 second warmup time for 6001/7001
- 300 second warmup time for 9001
- first copy out times range from 4.2 seconds to 3.3 seconds
- 4,300 sheet paper capacity
- comes standard with two 550 sheet drawers, and 1550 letter-size sheet drawer
- 100 sheet stack bypass
- Drawers can not hold card stock
- bypass accepts up to 110lb. index
- document feeder holds up to 150 originals
- scan speed of 80opm for b/w and 55opm for color
- document feeder can scan both sides at same time (but it slows down for this mode)
- 1200x1200dpi
- auto duplex standard
- 8.5” full color LCD touch screen
- Optional fax board
- scan to USB port
- Optional scan/print controller:
- actual maker unknown (most likely Oak Technology)
- 512MB RAM (can upgrade to 1.5GB)
- 160GB hard drive
- 1GHz processor
- PCL print driver standard
- Optional PostScript print driver
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports
- optional fax board
- optional FD5000 multi-fold unit (z-fold, tri-fold letter in, tri-fold letter out, gate fold, double parallel fold)
- optional GBC StreamPunch III
- optional BK5010 booklet maker with trimmer
- optional 50 sheet or 100 sheet stapling finisher
- optional cover inserter
- optional 2/3 hole punch
- Removable hard drive for security
- 1200x1200dpi
- maximum paper supply of 8,300 sheets
- drum yield of 1.2 million
- can embed applications into the control panel
InfoTrends released study of those who buy color inkjet wide format output, and if they felt it was effective at delivering message:
- 0.3% felt if was not effective
- 14.2% somewhat effective
- 30.1% undecided
- 17.5% extremely effective
- 37.9% somewhat effective
Police and Secret Service officials are on the lookout for someone in Arkansas who is making fake dollar bills on a color copier. Fake $20 and $100 bills have been discovered at local Burger King and Walmart.
FedEx reported first quarter financials for its FedEx Office division, formerly known as Kinko’s copy/print shops:
- 13% decline in revenue
- Decline in print and copy volume
- $810 goodwill impairment charge
After bad press from JP Morgan, Ricoh’s stock sank 5% to 1206 yen.
Riso launched a new high speed color inkjet MFP series:
- Replaces existing ComColor HC5500
- Still made by Olympus of Japan
- main print engine is 46” x 27” x 40”
- advertised as offering 2 cents per page color cost
- ink cartridge yield of 60,000 pages based on 5% fill per page
- ComColor 9050 features:
- top speed of 150ppm
- 300x300dpi (interpolated to 300x600dpi)
- 8.5” full color touch screen LCD control panel
- image area of 12 3/8” x 21 9/16” maximum
- max paper size of 13 3/8” x 21 5/8”
- handles up to 210gsm
- 8 gradations of ink coverage (3 bit?)
- auto duplex
- optional scanner for copying/scanning offers 40opm and 600dpi
- holds up to 100 originals
- 2 minute, 45 second warmup time
- 8 second warmup time
- uses Windows GDI (end user’s computer does the processing)
- Optional IS900C PostScript controller
- Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz processor
- 320GB hard drive
- 2GB RAM
- forms storage
- supports PPML variable data format
- can cluster up to 4 units
- auto stacking tray
- max duty cycle of 500,000 pages per month
- 3 paper drawers standard
- Optional finishing includes hole-punch, stapling, cover inserter and booklet making
- Optional envelope feeding kit
- ComColor 7010/7050 series:
- same as 9050 except only up to 120ppm
- 7010 has stack tray only, but 7050 also has three paper drawers
- 7050 can collate with finisher
- ComColor 3010/3050 series:
- same as 7010 except only up to 90ppm
- image area only 8 ¼” x 21 7/16”
- trays hold letter/legal size only
- 3050 comes with three paper drawers
- 3050 can collate
Memjet, the supposed high speed color inkjet technology of the future, launched a new website to prime the public for launch of its first product. Details:
- Based on 2500 patents from Kia Silverbrook of Australia
- Work started in 1994, but product has yet to ship
- Company claims that it has partners lined up to product color printers and floor-standing MFPs to compete with traditional color laser devices.
- Each printhead has 70,400 nozzles
- Each nozzle is 31.7 microns and uses only 170 nanojoules of electricity to heat ink
- Nozzle made with silicon nitride
- 1600x800dpi in top speed, 1600x1600dpi in half speed
- 900 million drops of ink per second
- Ink droplets are 1.4 picoliters in size
- Printhead is as wide as sheet of paper
- Unlike HP Edgeline, does not use drum to wrap paper around, or a fixing agent
- Uses water based inks for fast drying
- First product set to launch in late 2009 is an A4 size, 60ppm color printer with speed the same
regardless of ink coverage
- Also in the pipeline are a 60ppm and a 120ppm color MFPs
IKON, a division of Ricoh, announced it has launched the DocSend Server. Details:
- is made by EFI, and is also known as the SendMe technology
- hosted on centralized Windows server
- communicates with applications running on Ricoh MFP control panel
- scanned files converted into MS Word, MS Excel of PDF
- built-in OCR
- pricing not announced
Syratec Corp. of Cicero, NY, claims to have developed a new type of surge protector for copiers. The Innovolt Power Manager supposedly offers:
- LCD display
- Microprocessor diagnostics
- Fax modem protection
- Network RJ45 protection
- Quick check diagnostic summary
- Copier technician can download data from the device to a computer to diagnose power problems
- $100,000 machine replacement guarantee
- Pricing not announced
Hewlett Packard celebrated the 25th anniversary of its first laser printer. History includes:
- First unit actually made by Canon, who makes all HP laser printers sold today
- In 1984, the first model was the A4 size LaserJet 500, for $3495, offering 8ppm, with 128KM RAM and 8MHz processor
- In 1986, launched the LaserJet 500 Plus with two paper trays.
- In 1987, launched the LaserJet II, for $2495
- In 1988, launched the LaserJet IID, offering auto duplex
- In 1990, launched the LaserJet IIP, for $999
- In 1991, launched the JetDirect card, allowing LaserJet to connect to a network instead of a single PC
- In 1994, launched the LaserJet 4V, offering 11”x17” output
- In 1994, launched the Color LaserJet, actually made by Konica (now Konica Minolta)
- Claims to have sold 132 million laser printers since 1984.
Ryerson University conducted a test of several production color systems. Systems tested included:
- Canon imagePRESS C7000VP w/Fiery for $250,400 MSRP
- Hewlett Packard Indigo 7000 w/SmartStream controller for $679,000 MSRP
- Kodak NexPress S3000 w/NexPress controller for $542,000 MSRP
- Oce’ CS665 Pro (relabeled Konica Minolta) w/Fiery for $75,000 MSRP
- Presstek 52Di digital offset press w/RIP for $549,000 MSRP
- Screen Truepress 344 color inkjet w/RIP for $350,000 MSRP
- Toshiba eSTUDIO 6530C w/embedded Fiery for $32,999 MSRP
- Xeikon 3300 w/X800 controller for $730,000 MSRP
- Xeikon 8000 w/X800 controller for $990,000 MSRP
- Xerox iGen 4 w/FreeFlow controller for $640,000 MSRP
- vendors were charged $5000 to conduct test
- Toshiba unit was unable to run gloss coated paper in the test
- Test covered the following topics:
- Delta E color match
- Pantone color match
- blackest black
- varation in color across page
- optical resolution
- fold and crease resistance
- toner rub test
- deinking
- fade resistance
- variation over 1000 sheet run
- variation from day 1 to day 2
- duplex registration
- The HP Indigo was the best overall performer
- To order a copy for $99.00 plus shipping, visit www.ipa.org/digitalprint
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