Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter
12-27-09
- Inkstop, a 150 location chain of stores that refill ink and toner cartridges, announced it is going out of business due to bankruptcy.
- Brian Parisi Copiers Co. announced it has acquired the former Harden Furniture building in Clarence, New York
- Toshiba announced it is bidding on building a new nuclear plant in Kozloduy, Bulgaria.
- According to white paper released by Kofax document imaging software:
- Over 20 million tons of office paper is consumed each year in the U.S.
- Federal government consumes 110,000 tons of paper annually
- Cost to file a single paper document is $20
- Searching for a misfiled document costs $120
- Reproducing a lost document costs $220
- 90% of medical patient related info is still paper based
- 31% of every dollar spent on healthcare is spent on admin costs
- Only 8% of the country’s 5000 hospitals use automated electronic patient records
- Only 17% of the country’s 800,000 physicians use automated electronic patient records
- 75% of companies surveyed employ paper based processes to manage AP
- Average cost to process an invoice is $37
- Average time to process an invoice of 33 days
- Accounts payable staff spends 40% of their time researching response info
- Document capture software market grew by 7.7M in 2008
- By 2012, document capture software sales expected to net $.27 billion
- According to a study conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine:
- 90% of all patient information remains on paper
- Only 8% of 3,000 hospitals studied used even a basic electronic medical records (EMR) system
- Only 1.5% of non-federal U.S. facilities use a comprehensive EMR
- Only 17% of doctors are using even a basic EMR system
- 12% are going through an EMR system de-installation
- According to survey conducted by Oce’:
- Commonly quoted 7% average toner coverage per page is actually more like 16%
- Abandoned documents account for up to 25% of all print jobs
- On average, 30% of IT helpdesk support time is spent on printers/MFPs
- The average time it takes to print a 40 page document on a desktop printer is 5 minutes
- Toshiba announced it plans on spending $2.2 billion expand its plant that builds NAND memory chips in Yokkaichi City, Japan
- In cost cutting moves, Dell Computer announced it will:
- spend $120 million to transfer its manufacturing plant in Poland to Foxconn Technology
- lay off 700 workers at its Malaysian plant
- close its plant in North Carolina
- OfficeMax is suing former sales reps for breach of their non-compete contract when they left for rival W. B. Mason Co. Inc. in New England.
- Adobe Corp. is warning users of a virus that can allow hackers to take over end user’s PCs. The virus can be embedded in a PDF, and be inadvertently unleashed on the PC after downloading the PDF attachment in email. Adobe has yet to release a fix to prevent this problem.
- According to Raymond James & Associates, IT shipments will increase 4.3% in 2010. FBR Capital Markets is projecting IT spending to increase 1.6% in 2010.
- The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to review a court case that was lost by Xerox regarding how much tax it must pay in the state.
- ACS, a division of Xerox, won a $22 million contract to manage automated toll roads in North Carolina.
- Xerox announced it has named Jacques Guers as Vice President of Developing Markets.
- Xerox announced that its President and COO of its Global division, Paul Schulman, has resigned. Prior to Global, Paul ran Carr Business Systems, of New York.
- Xerox announced it has placed an iGen4 production color system at Collingwood Print Group, a print shop in Australia. The system replaced a Heidelberg SM-52 offset press and a Xerox DocuColor 8000 system.
- The looming new healthcare reform bill in Washington D.C. is raising concerns at Xerox. The company wants to modify the Medicare tax provisions in the Senate bill that would cut the company’s earnings. Martin Reiser, a lobbyist for Xerox, said a big concern was “whether a lot of the provisions meant to contain costs will actually do so. If they don’t work – and we won’t know for years – then the bill is a failure”
- Xerox won an Editor’s Choice award from Better Buys for Business magazine for the new WorkCentre 5225 featuring:
- 25ppm top speed
- Actually made by Fuji of Japan
- Base MSRP $4299
- A3 model, so handles ledger size 11”x17” paper
- 1200x1200dpi
- 256MB RAM copier memory
- 500 account codes standard
- Optional print controller for $1749
- Actual maker unknown (most likely Marvell)
- 333MHz processor
- PCL print driver standard
- Optional PostScript print driver for $550
- 40GB hard drive
- 256MB RAM standard (can upgrade to 512MB)
- Optional scanning
- Optional color scan
- Scan to email/LDAP/FTP/folder
- Optional fax board for $1095 but is only 400dpi
- Document feeder holds up to 75 originals, with top speed of only 55opm
- 4.3 second first copy out time
- ID card copy mode
- Comes standard with two 500 sheet paper drawers and 100 sheet stack bypass
- Can add two more 500 sheet universal drawers ($999) a 800 sheet letter drawer and a
1200 sheet letter drawer ($1295)
- Can add a side-mount 2,000 sheet letter size drawer for $1299
- Optional envelope feeder holds up to 65 each
- Optional 50 sheet corner stapling finisher called “Integrated Office Finisher” for $999
- Optional 50 sheet multi-position stapling finisher is called “Office Finisher LX” for $1199
- Optional hole-punch kit for $795
- Optional booklet making kit staples up to 15 sheets
- Optional embedded software via the Extensible Interface Platform (EIP)
- Xerox plans on replacing the WorkCentre 7655, 7665 and 7675 color MFPs in 2010 with the 7755, 7765 & 7775 models. The only difference apparently in these Fuji-made models will be:
- Use 1.33GHz processor from Freescale instead of the 1.8GHz processor from AMD
- 2GB of RAM instead of 1GB of RAM
- The touch screen color LCD panel will have the new icons as other Xerox models
- Buyers Labs Inc. (BLI) gave out the following awards:
- Color Printer Line of the Year – Ricoh
- Monochrome Printer Line of the Year – Lexmark
- Outstanding Mid-size Workgroup Color Printer of the Year – HP Color LaserJet CP4525
- Outstanding Departmental Color Printer – Ricoh Aficio SP C821
- Outstanding A4 Color MFP = Sharp MC-X401
- Outstanding A4 Monochrome MFP – Sharp MX-B401
- Visioneer, maker of scanners, announced it has named Andy Domnauer to Director of Enterprise Sales, Jim Tamo to Director of U.S. Sales, and Ruben Suazo as Director of Latin America Sales.
- Lyra Research stated the following on printer/MFP sales:
- worldwide unit sales in 2009 will decline 14.64%
- worldwide revenue in 2009 will decline 14.96%
- overall revenue will not increase until 2013
- worldwide units and revenue in 2013 will still be short of levels in 2007
- Hewlett Packard announced that it sold an Indigo 5500 production color system to ProGraphics Communications, a printshop in Atlanta, GA. In addition, it sold an Indigo 7000 system to L&D Mail Masters, a print shop in New Albany, IN.
- Hewlett Packard and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have partnered to provide $80,000 in technology to 90 middle schools in the U.S. This includes:
- Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, San Francisco & Washington DC
- HP tablet PC’s
- HP PhotoSmart color inkjet AIOs
- HP LaserJet printers
- Access to NBA photos, footage and other materials
- Tickets to 50 NBA games
- Hewlett Packard is apparently suffering from a backorder situation on several laser printer models, as well as laser print cartridges.
- Hewlett Packard’s Vyomesh Joshi, who is Executive VP of its printer/MFP division, was interviewed by Bloomberg:
- Printing market is “healthy”
- “2009 was a difficult year for printing hardware”
- “But supplies were fine. What that means is that printing is healthy – even with economic pressure, customers are still printing the content”
- Has posted 5 quarters of declining printer/MFP sales
- Plans to achieve the 15% to 17% profit margin he’s on the line to deliver to investors in 2010
- Printing unit is “poised for recovery and getting on the attack”
- Forecasting this quarter “double digit” growth in printer shipments
- The printing group accounted for 21% of HP’s $114.6 billion revenue last year and
3% of its $13.4 billion profit
- Company has shortages after orders picked up sooner than it expected
- To cut costs, HP is now shipping directly from Asian factories to some distributors and retailers instead of its own distribution centers (this will dramatically increase lead times for backorder fulfillment)
- “HP overall has a $60 billion supply chain. We have a fair share of that. When you have those kind of numbers, even a small percent of those numbers are a big number”
- “We don’t need to cut prices. In the market right now, our product, compared with any of our competition, is much better in terms of innovation, in terms of ease of use, in terms of quality, in terms of connectivity. That’s what the customer will be looking at”
- “What I can tell you is that the printing and imaging business is a great business with great opportunities. I want to make sure the transformational work I’ve started – I want to see that all the way to the end”
- Hewlett Packard is running ads to counter the growth of sales of Kodak color inkjet printers/MFPs. The ads claim that:
- 36% of Kodak printer owners have had problems with heir printers
- Products have won few patents or awards
- Kodak has received an “F” rating from the Better Business Bureau
- Hewlett Packard launched the Color LaserJet FP3520 featuring:
- Desktop color laser printer made by Canon
- 30ppm b/w or color top speed
- Base MSRP of $699
- A4 model, up to letter/legal size only
- 4 tandem OPC drum design
- 600x600dpi actual (advertised as offering 3600dpi with interpolation)
- Built-in print controller
- 515MHz processor
- PCL and PostScript print drivers standard
- 512MB RAM standard (can upgrade to 1GB)
- 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
- Optional hard drive for spooling
- 250 sheet output tray
- Optional auto duplex $200
- Comes standard with single 250 sheet paper drawer and 100 sheet stack bypass
- Optional 500 sheet paper drawer
- Handles up to 58lb. bond glossy stock in bypass or 500 sheet drawer
- Black toner cartridge yield of 5,000 pages based on 5% coverage per page for $133.99
- Color toner cartridges have yield of 7,000 pages each based on 5% coverage per page
for $264.99 each
- 17 second first page out time after sleep mode
- Hewlett Packard now shipping the Color LaserJet CP4020 featuring:
- Desktop color laser printer made by Canon
- 35ppm b/w or color top speed
- Base MSRP of $999
- 4 tandem OPC drum design
- 1200x1200dpi
- A4 model, up to letter/legal size only
- Hewlett Packard release the Color LaserJet CP4520 featuring:
- Desktop color laser printer made by Canon
- 42ppm b/w or color top speed
- Base MSRP of $1349
- 4 tandem OPC drum design
- 1200x1200dpi
- Built-in print controller
- 512MB RAM standard (can upgrade to 1GB)
- Optional hard drive for spooling
- 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
- 800MHz processor
- PCL & PostScript print drivers standard
- 500 sheet output tray
- Optional auto duplex supports up to 32lb. bond for $250
- Comes standard with 500 sheet paper drawer and 100 sheet stack bypass
- Can add three more 500 sheet paper drawers, to make unit floor standing
- 9.5 second first page out time from Ready mode
- Black toner cartridge yield of 8,500 pages based on 5% coverage per page for $157.99 each
- Color toners have yield of 11,000 pages based on 5% coverage per page for $285.99 each
- In a study conducted by IBM, the following was stated:
- The average cost of ink in a printer ink cartridge is $10,000 per gallon
- Electronic forms are currently used by more than 1.4 million Army personnel worldwide costing $1.3 billion annually
- Ricoh claims to have invented a plastic sheet of paper that can be printed on by a special thermal printer, that when reheated, becomes blank again. Ricoh claims this process can be repeated 1,000 times before discarding the sheet.
- Ricoh’s InfoPrint division (which it is acquiring from IBM), announced that it has opened up its second Print Innovation Center. These high end production print showrooms, have on display various technologies, including the InfoPrint 5000, a high speed color inkjet system (actually made by Screen of Israel). The new center is in Shanghai, China, while the first on is in Boulder, Colorado.
- Former IKON CFO, Robert Woods, is now CFO of SunGard Corp. SunGard is on of the world’s leading software and IT services companies with 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. IKON is now a division of Ricoh.
- Ricoh recently won an Editor’s Choice award from Better Buys for Business magazine for its new Aficio 2550 and 3550 models featuring:
- 25ppm for 2550 model for base MSRP of $5340
- 33ppm for 3550 model (model number is deceiving) for base MSRP of $6755
- A3 b/w MFP models, offering up to 11”x17” ledger size paper handling
- 26 second warm-up time for 2550, only 14 seconds for 3550
- 6 second first copy out time for 2550 and 4.5 seconds for 3550
- Auto duplex standard and handles up to 28lb. bond
- 600x600dpi
- Optional print controller for $1056
- Actual maker unknown (most likely Oak Technology)
- 533MHz processor
- PCL print driver standard
- PostScript print driver is $530
- 40GB hard drive for $510
- 256MB RAM standard (can upgrade to 768MB)
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports
- Optional 1000BaseT port
- Optional color scanning
- Optional fax board for $1100 and is only 400dpi
- Comes standard with two 500 sheet paper drawers and 100 sheet stack bypass
- Standard paper drawers hold up to 28lb. bond paper only
- Bypass holds up to 42lb. bond
- Can add two more 500 sheet paper drawers for $1313
- Can add 2,000 sheet letter size paper deck for $1470
- Optional 50 sheet document feeder for $1375 (does not scan both sides of original at same time)
- Optional multi-position stapling finisher for $1084
- Optional booklet making finisher for $3150
- Hole-punch kit for $765
- Color LCD touch screen display
- 500 account codes standard
- Ricoh announced in Tokyo that it plans on launching a new version of the existing MP6001 digital b/w MFP, called the MP6001GP. The difference will be that the newer version will use “biomass” toner, which is made from plastic derived from plants, instead of petroleum. Print quality is unknown.
- Kofax angered many of its dealers (including IKON, a division of Ricoh), when it announced that 46% of its sales now come from its factory direct sales reps. CRO, Reynolds Bish, claims that this is necessary to move the company upstream into larger deals.
- Iron Mountain, a large document storage firm, announced that its digital business now accounts for 7.5% of its $784 million in third quarter revenue. The company has installed Kofax technology in 150 locations in the U.S. to serve its customers.
- Sharp won an Editors Choice award from Better Buys for Business magazine for the Sharp MX-B401 which offers:
- 40ppm top speed
- A4 b/w MFP (letter/legal paper handling only, no ledger 11”x17” paper handling)
- Made by Sharp
- Base MSRP of $4995
- Comes standard with built-in print controller
- Actual manufacturer unknown (most likely Zoran)
- 800MHz processor
- 512MB RAM
- 80GB hard drive (up to 38GB can be used to store documents)
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports
- PCL and PostScript print drivers standard
- Direct PDF, JPEG and TIFF printing standard
- Secure print standard
- Optional XPS print driver (for MS Windows Vista or Windows 7)
- Scan to folder/email/FTP/LDAP standard
- Scan to flash memory (USB) standard
- Scans in both color and b/w, even though output is b/w only
- Scan to TIFF, JPEG, PDF & XPS standard
- Optional analog fax board w/PC fax for $625, but is only 400dpi
- 512MB RAM copier memory
- 8.5” full color LCD touch screen display control panel
- 500 sheet paper drawer and 100 sheet stack bypass standard
- Can add up to 3 more 500 sheet paper drawers ($535 each)
- Paper drawers and auto duplex handle up to 28lb. bond only
- Bypass supports up to 110lb index
- Optional 30 sheet internal stapling finisher with 300 sheet capacity for $1565
- 50 sheet document feeder is standard (does NOT scan both sides of original at same time)
- Optional business card scanning handler
- Up to 1,000 account codes standard
- Includes data erase, hard disk encryption, group access controls
- 90 second warm-up time
- 9.9 second first copy out time
- 1200x1200dpi
- Good news. According to a survey by Purchasing magazine, electronics buyers are saying they will be pushing more purchase orders in the first quarter than any time in the past two years.
- Canon announced it is acquiring Optopol Group of Poland for $94 million. The company makes micro eye surgery equipment.
- Canon President, Tsuneji Uchida, stated the following in an interview with Forbes:
- maintains 55 yen year-end dividend despite Oce’ acquisition
- headed for a second straight year of profit declines
- “Building up our corporate strength for next year onwards has been out target this year, and we are on track to hit that target”
- “Considering where we were at the start of the year, we have made quite some progress”
- “I’m sure what we have done in preparation for a turnaround will ear fruit next year an d later”
- “It’s not like we are planning to borrow money for the investment. We’d like to uphold our stable dividend payout policy”
- “Christmas sales last year were a disappointment, but this year out digital camera sals were quite strong, with sales returning to levels seen in 2007, which was a year of robust
digital camera demand”
- Canon recently won an Editor’s Choice award from Better Buys for Business magazine for the new imageRUNNER 3200 series featuring:
- IR-3225 offers 25ppm for $5200
- IR-3230 offers 30ppm for $6600
- IR-3235 offers 35ppm for $8500
- IR-3245 offers 45ppm for $10,500
- All are A3 models, allowing ledger size 11”x17” paper handling
- Optional embedded software via the Multifunctional Embedded Application Protocol (MEAP)
- Color touch screen LCD control panel
- Optional 101 key keyboard
- Control panel has instruction manuals built-in via help mode
- Optional Web access from control panel
- Optional print controller for $900
- PCL print driver standard
- PostScript print driver is $600
- 768MB RAM (can upgrade to 1GB) & 60GB hard drive
- Optional WiFi port
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports
- Optional Universal Send scan kit
- Can scan in color or b/w
- Scan to email/LDAP/FTP/folder
- Scan to PDF, XPS, JPEG, TIFF standard
- Two 550 sheet paper drawers standard and 50 sheet stack bypass
- Can add two more 550 sheet paper drawers for $1450 and/or a 2,700 sheet letter size drawer for $2100
- Auto duplex standard
- Optional corner stapling internal finisher for $1230
- Optional multi-position stapling finisher for $2700
- Hole-punch kit for $670
- Optional booklet making finisher for $4000 with optional hole-punch for $850
- Optional 100 sheet document feeder for $1200 (does not scan both sides of original at same time)
- 1200x1200dpi
- Optional fax board for $950 but is only 400dpi, second line for $420, third line for $950
- 35 second warm-up time
- 1000 account codes standard
- Quick history of Oce’ (which Canon is planning to acquire):
- Founded in 1871 as a Dutch company that created a colorant to turn margarine yellow
- Sold this business to another company in 1970
- In 1920, manufactured blueprint paper and diazo print paper for wide format blueprint machines
- In 1930, developed RetOce’, which was the only economical copying technology until Chester Carlson invented electrophotography
- In 1958, became public company, and opened subsidiary in Germany
- In 1970, developed “CopyPress” toner technology, where no fuser is needed, as only pressure was used to get toner to stick to paper
- In 1972, launched first CopyPress analog b/w copier
- In 1977, acquired Arkwright, maker of specialty paper
- In 1978, acquired Ozalid Group, a diazo copier company with offices in 15 countries
- In 1989, acquired Shlumberger, maker of wide format machines
- In 1991, acquired Bruning, maker of blueprint machines
- In 1996, acquired Siemens Nixdorf for $550 million, maker of high speed b/w printing systems
- In 1997, acquired Archer, a large facilities management company, for $60 million
- In 1983, launched Oce’ Business Systems in the U.S. to maker copiers
- In 1990, ALCO, which became IKON, became authorized to sell Oce’ b/w units, but this ended after couple of years
- In 1999, started relabeling copiers made by Canon, but this ended a few years later
- In 2005, purchased Imagistics (the former copier division of Pitney Bowes) for $754 million
- In 2007 sold OCR business to Captaris for $15 million
- In 2007, sold coated paper manufacturing for $40 million
- NEC announced it will relabel the Konica Minolta bizhub C280 as the NEC IT28C6, the C360 as the IT36C6 and the C452 as the ITC45C6.
- Competing against the Kyocera TASKalfa 400ci? Points to remember:
- Can only program ahead up to 10 jobs (so may be an issue in a busy multi-user environment)
- Access to control panel is blocked while pages of jobs are being scanned
- The job log does not show the number of sets programmed in copy or print jobs
- The job log does not show application name for print jobs
- Unit apparently has trouble reproducing flesh tones, and makes then heavily reddish
- Does not offer true 8 bits per pixel imaging
- Can not store a scan profile for commonly used settings and destinations
- 8 clicks are required to program a booklet copy job from control panel
- Paper drawers and bypass can not handle 10point stock (common for postcards, business cards, etc.)
- Auto duplex can not support 10point stock
- The web utility does not offer administrators the ability to clone settings from one device to another
- The control panel does not offer a thumbnail view of a current scan job’s programmed attributes
- Default domains (such as @company name) cannot be stored to cut down on keystrokes for users
- The print controller offers only a 800MHz processor
- There is no optional EFI Fiery print controller available
- Hard drive overwrite is an option
- users can not copy on to tab extensions
- Optional external finisher has large space between support legs and main engine,
and is not appealing
- Unit has exterior LED indicators, but uses red and green, so color blind end users will not be able to use
- Unit does not have a proof copy mode
- Optional web browser from control panel does not allow for printing
- Apparently does not use the traditional Kyocera ceramic amorphous silicon drums, as the yield of the drum is a maximum of 300,000 pages (versus over 1 million with traditional Kyocera drums)
- The print drivers do not offer a point and click interface
- the print drivers do not offer any indication of paper of toner levels
- Very cumbersome to switch between PCL and PostScript print driver, as end users must:
- right click the device in “Printers and Faxes’’ in Microsoft Windows
- select “Properties”
- select the Device Settings tab within “Properties” and “PDL”
- from the “PDL Setting” dialog box, select the drop down menu
- select the appropriate print drivers
- close the driver
- reopen the driver for change to take effect
- Kyocera (which stands for Kyoto Ceramics) announced new options for its MFPs. Details:
- Capture2Go is a free downloadable application for Apple iPhone
- Uses Kyocera’s HePAS Web Services SDK
- Compatible with 500ci, 400ci, 300ci and 250ci color MFPs and 520i and 420 b/w MFPs
- MFPs must be on a network with WiFi access, since iPhone does not use BlueTooth
- User of iPhone can initiate a scan, there is no need to use MFP control panel
- Can scan from 200dpi to 600dpi, b/w or color
- Pages are saved on iPhone as PDFs
- iPhone user can email files, or print them to the MFP
- ColorLock is free utility that enables administrator to determine which users are allowed to
make color copies
- AccessLock is free utility that allows administrator to setup permissions for accessing the MFP
copying, printing, scanning and fax features
- Cryptek Netgard MFD card reader (complies with US Department of Defense Common
Access Card/Personal Identity Verification (CAC/PIV) standards for $1095 each
- Kyocera announced it has developed an LED printhead that could be used to create a b/w printer that operates at 1000ppm at 1200x1200dpi.
- Kyocera won an Editor’s Choice award from Better Buys for Business magazine for the KM-2500 series featuring:
- A3 b/w MFPs supporting up to ledger size 11”x17” paper
- KM-2540 offers 25ppm for $5805 base MSRP (does not come with print controller)
- KM-2560 offers 25ppm for $6733 base MSRP (comes with print controller)
- 600x600dpi
- Optional 75 sheet document feeder runs at 30pm for $1265 (does not scan both sides of original at same time)
- Comes standard with two 500 sheet paper drawers and 200 sheet stack bypass
- Only bypass can support 110lb. index
- Can add two more 500 sheet paper drawers for $1286
- Auto duplex standard (supports up to 28lb bond)
- Optional 30 sheet stapling internal finisher for $995
- Optional 30 sheet stapling external finisher for $1400
- Monochrome LCD for KM-2540 and color LCD for KM-2560
- Print controller is standard with KM-2560 and $1200 for KM-2540
- Made by Peerless
- 400MHz processor
- 64MB RAM standard (can upgrade for 1GB)
- PCL and PostScript print drivers standard
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports
- 80GB hard drive is option for KM-2540 but standard for KM-2560
- Scanning only offered on the KM-2560
- Can scan in color and b/w
- Scan to email/LDAP/TWAIN/folder/FTP
- Scan to PDF, JPEG & TIFF
- Optional fax board is only 400dpi
- Optional data security kit
- 15 second warm up time
- 4.7 second first copy out time
- Samsung now shipping a new desktop color laser AIO, the CLX-8540ND featuring:
- 40ppm top speed
- 4 tandem OPC drum design
- A4 design, offering up to letter/legal size and can not print ledger of 11”x17”
- Base MSRP of $8429
- Copy/print/scan/fax standard
- 7’ color touch screen LCD control panel
- Built-in print controller
- 1GB RAM standard (can upgrade to 2GB)
- 800MHz processor
- 160GB hard drive
- 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
- PCL & PostScript print drivers
- Scan to emai/LDAP/FTP/SMB at 35opm
- Comes standard with 520 sheet paper drawer and 100 sheet stack bypass
- Can add more 520 sheet paper drawers for $349 each
- Can add a 2,100 sheet letter paper deck for $799
- Optional hanging 50 sheet corner stapling finisher for $549
- Optional 4 bin mailbox sorter for $856
- Optional fax board for $499
- 13 second first copy out time
- 70 second warm-up time
- Supplies available from Internet based retailers
- 100,000 page yield for mylar film transfer belt
- black toner yield of 20,000 pages, and color toners have yield of 15,000 pages
- drum units have yield of 30,000 pages each
- optional embedded software applications with use of JScribe
- Samsung announced it has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against the company by Kodak over infringement of two patents involved with digital cameras. The settlement will include a one-time penalty payment and a technology cross-license with ongoing royalty payments.
- Samsung of Korea announced it will merge its computer and printer/MFP division together under Nam Seongwoo.
- Google Corp. is supposedly spending $25 million to acquire DocVerse Inc. of San Francisco. Details
- Founded by former Microsoft employees, Shan Sinhas and Alex DeNeui
- Will allow users to collaborate directly on Microsoft Office documents
- NER Data Products Inc. of Glassboro, NJ announced it is selling its compatible printer supply and parts business to Clover Technology Group, Inc. The sale will include facilities in Denver (Colorado), Plano (Texas) and Glassboro.
- Results of a recent survey conducted by AIIM regarding implementation of scanning and document management:
- 40% report a return on investment within 12 months
- 66% report a return on investment within 18 months
- 30% use outsourced services
- 30% have issue with quality of indexing
- 48% have a centralized, in-house scanning service
- 78% have some form of distributed scanning with MFPs
- 32% report that consumption of paper increased after implementing scanning
- 25% of documents are photocopied before they are scanned
- 31% of documents are destroyed after being scanned
- 32% of documents are archived off-site
- 38% of paper originated documents are scanned and archived electronically
- 51% of scanned documents are 100% born digital
- 37% of organizations are scanning over half of their incoming documents
- 6.5% of scanned documents are rejected or require intervention when scanning
- A Xerox sales agent buy a Savin/Riso dealer. Hughes Xerographic of Bellarie, West Virginia has acquired one of its competitors, Stenger Business Systems of Wheeling, which was owned by Tom Stenger. The Stenger dealership was originally founded by his father, Ralph Stenger in 1945, to sell and service Royal typewriters.
- Parts Now!, a company that sells generic laser printer parts, announced that it has posted free downloads of most Hewlett Packard LaserJet service manuals, making it easier for dealers to offer managed print service programs for HP devices.
- A maker of generic laser cartridges announced it is expanding due to growing demand caused by managed print services programs. West Point Products is opening up a new 110,000 square foot plant in Washington, Pennsylvania, which is in addition to 6 existing locations in the U.S.
- Muratec has announced it has developed its own A3 b/w engine, which will be found in new A3 b/w MFPs. Details:
- Engine is LED instead of laser
- Found in MFX-1810, MFX-2215 and MFX-2715
- 18, 22 & 27ppm top speeds respectively
- Code named “Moscow”
- Comes standard with USB port and Windows GDI printing
- Optional 10/100BaseT network printing
- Comes standard with 550 sheet paper drawer and 100 sheet stack bypass
- Can add up to three more 550 sheet paper drawers
- Monochrome touch screen LCD display
- Optional 50 sheet document feeder with top speed of 23opm
(does not scan both side of original at same time)
- Optional auto duplex
- Comes standard with fax board, and can add second fax line
- No finishing options
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