Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter 2/27/2011

Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter
2-27-2011


- Hewlett Packard announced that over 2,000 printshop personnel attended the Dscoop Annual Conference in Orlando, FL, which is a gathering of HP Indigo production color users.

- Hewlett Packard gave out details of its Imaging & Printing Group’s (IPG) last quarter’s financials:
o revenue up 7%
o 17% operating margin
o 33% increase in commercial printer hardware units placed

- Hewlett Packard announced it sold an HP T350 production color inkjet system to Griffin Press of Australia.

- Lexmark announced a new option for some of its desktop color printers and MFPs called SmartSolution Weather App, which lets users check weather forecasts directly on the color LCD panels of the devices, and print out weather reports for selected zip codes.

- Oce’, a division of Canon, announced it won a world-wide managed print services contract from GDF SUEZ:
o 9,000 devices
o Offices in more than 20 countries
o Contract worth 55 million euros

- UDOCX, a company in the Netherlands, announced that its new product will extend any browser-embedded MFP with mail, print, store and fax features without need to install any additional software or hardware:
o Cloud-based document processing service
o Direct access to MS Outlook Contacts stored in MS Exchange
o Documents stored in predefined places
o No unauthorized access
o Printing of stored document initiated from MFP
o Fax with fax board
o No software maintenance
o Administrative control from web interface
o Pay as you go subscription fee

- After a year of speculation, Heidelberg finally announced which company it decided to partner with to sell digital production color systems.
o The company chosen was Ricoh
o Will develop a connector to the Ricoh Aficio Pro C901 production color system for its digital offset press Prinect workflow
o Will resell the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition
 90ppm unit with PxP polymerized toner and 2 bits per pixel output
 Ricoh will provide service via IKON or dealers

- Ricoh announced that its planned launch of a new 47ppm and 52ppm b/w A4 MFPs has been delayed until 7/1/2011.



- More info on the new Ricoh A4 color laser MFPs, the Aficio MP C300 and MP C400 offering:
o while are A4 (meaning letter/legal size paper only), the main engine is so large, apparently it is designed to be a floor standing unit only
 base engine weighs 176 pounds
 base engine is 22”W x 22”D x 28”H
 platen glass is for letter size originals only (can not place legal size originals on the platen glass)
o 30ppm and 40ppm top speeds respectively
o Are based on the current engines from Aficio SP C430DN/431DN color printers
o Maximum recommended volume of 15K/month and 25K/month
 Anticipated average monthly volume is 4K/mo on C300 and 6.5K/mo on C400
 Expected color usage of 25%
o Document feeder comes standard:
 Top scan speed of 30opm at 200dpi setting
 Holds up to 50 originals (does not scan both sides of original at same time)
o 8.5” color touch screen LCD display that tilts up and down w/thumbnail preview
o 600x600dpi as copier and 1200x1200dpi as printer (1, 2 or 4 bits per pixel)
 Choosing higher bit depth causes print speed to slow down 50%
o Comes standard with single 550 sheet paper drawer and 100 sheet stack bypass
 Maximum paper capacity with options of 2,300 sheets
 Can handle up to 256gsm
 Auto duplex standard up to 163gsm
 Second 550 sheet drawer is $660
 Dual 550 sheet drawer unit is $1240
 Drawers have “gentle auto close” feature, where a motor helps pull drawer back in (more parts to break?)
o Uses Ricoh PxP polymerized toner w/4 tandem OPC drum design
 Black toner yield of 8300 pages based on 5% fill per page
 Color toners have yield of 10,000 pages based on 5% fill per page
o 50 second warm up time with 15 second first color copy out time
o $ 930 Optional fax board (up to 400dpi with $195 optional RAM)
o Optional copy data security kit for $710
o Optional proximity card reader for $299
o Output options include:
 50 sheet side exit tray $220
 Optional 100 sheet internal one bin tray $320
 Internal 50 sheet stapling finisher $500
o Built-in GW (Grand Works) print controller: (actual maker unknown, most likely Oak Tech)
 1.5GB RAM and 160GB hard drive come standard
• but if user wants to store documents on hard drive must buy the $605 optional file format converter kit
• comes standard with data security, but if end user demands Common Criteria certification, this costs an extra $390
 Intel Celeron 1GHz processor
 XPS, PCL and PostScript print drivers standard
 USB & 10/100BaseT ports standard
 Optional 1000BaseT gigabit Ethernet for $460
 Scan to and print from USB thumb drive or SD digital camera memory card
 Scan to email/FTP/SMB/URL/NCP/TWAIN/LDAP/folder
• Optional web browser
 ESA (embedded software architecture) for optional embedded software (uses UNIX and JAVA operating systems)

- Xerox announced based MSRP pricing for its new 7500 series of color MFPs (detailed in the 2/6/2011 issue of this newsletter):
o 7535 = $15,499
o 7530 = $13,499
o 7525 = $11,499

- Xerox announced it sold iGen4 production color system to IWCO Direct, a printshop in Downey, CA

- Xerox’s ACS division announced it has acquired Unamic/HCN, a large customer care call center provider in The Netherlands.

- Xerox launched two new A4 desktop color devices, the Phaser 6500 printer and WorkCentre 6505 MFP:
o Made by Fuji
o 16.9”W x 21.4”D x 23”H for 6505
o Top speed of 24ppm color and b/w
o Max duty cycle of 40K/month
o Uses LED technology instead of laser
o Uses 4 tandem OPC drums
o Uses Xerox EA (emulsion aggregate polymerized) toner technology
 Can print black even if color toners are empty
 End user has choice of 1,000 page yield toner cartridges or 2500 page yield cartridges
o Optional auto duplex
o Comes standard with 250 sheet drawer and single sheet bypas
 Option adds second 250 sheet drawer
 Holds up to 80lb. cover
o 13 second first color print out time
o 600x600dpi (but only a maximum of 4 bits per pixel)
o 6505 has document feeder that holds up to 35 originals
o Built-in print controller
 PCL, XPS and Postscript print drivers
 Pantone certified
 400MHz processor for 6500, 533MHz for 6505
 256MB RAM (can upgrade to 768MB)
 No hard drive
 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
 6505 has scan to email/network/USB
• ID card copy
• Fax board

- Fuji announced it installed the 700th Fuji Xerox 700 Digital Color Press in Australia at CopyWise, a printshop in Ivanhoe, Victoria.

- Cornell University’s Hoe Lipson and colleagues are working on “bio-printing” technology, using a converted inkjet printer to grow human tissue, such as skin, bone and cartilage.

- Intel announced it is pushing to sell its Atom processor to printer and MFP makers for their print controllers, as it is now available with a built-in high speed PCI Express Interface, meaning devices can connect directly to the chip without a separate I/O controller.


- The Canadian federal government awarded its printer contract to:
o Hewlett Packard
o Okidata
o Kyocera
o Xerox
o Dell
o Vendors on contract last year that did make cut were Lexmark, Samsung, Sharp and Ricoh

- A report issued by Morgan Stanley predicts:
o sales of tablet computers will cause 1-2% decline in spending on toner and ink due to less printing in 2011
o will decline 2.4% in 2012
o tablet users print 20-35% less inkjet pages and 8-15% less laser pages

- A report by GAP Intelligence states:
o In last 2 years, the average color click charge for office-class color A3 MFPs has dropped by over 10% to $0.0658 in government contracts

- Toshiba announced it will provide turbines for a geothermal plant in New Zealand.

- Toshiba announced that it is now selling used/refurbished HP LaserJet printers that it sources from Global Printer Services of Wisconsin.

- Toshiba announced it is developing a new class of micro-size fast neutron reactors:
o providing 10 megawatts, scalable up to 50 megawatts of electrical power
o known as “super-safe, small and simple” or 4S
o uses liquid sodium as moderator
o torpedo shaped unit that surrounds a core about 2 meters long and 0.6 meters aacross
o entire core unit and casing to be manufactured off-site, delivered to customer, and then lowered into a cylindrical concrete vault
o placed 30 meters underground
o designed to run for 30 years
o when nuclear fuel is exhausted after 30 years, Toshiba will remove and replace
o operating costs of 2 cents per kilowatt
o total project cost of up to $6000 per kilowatt

- In a study conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review gives more proof of value of printed page:
o Reader of printed version of the New York Times newspaper spend on average 30 minutes per day reading newspaper
o Reader of on-line version spend only average of 14 minutes and 29 seconds reading

- Sharp launched the PN-L601B-PKG, which includes:
o 60” color LED backlit touch panel display
o Compact PN-TPC1W whiteboard PC
o SR-560M rolling cart floor stand
o “a well designed, comprehensive and highly performing interactive whiteboard solution” said Steve Brauner, Senior Product Planning Manager



- Sharp gave out details on 4 future b/w A3 laser MFPs, called the MX-M282N, 362N, 452N and 502N featuring:
o Top speeds of 28, 36, 45 & 50ppm respectively
o All made by Sharp
o Based on “Jupiter III” platform
o 7” color touchscreen LCD display
 Do not have retractable keyboard
o Optional document feeder holds up to 100 originals, but does NOT scan both sides of original at same time
o Comes standard with two 500 sheet paper drawers and 100 sheet bypass
o 500 sheet internal exit tray with offset stacking
o Optional internal stapling finisher
 Optional external stapling finisher or bookletmaking finisher
• Requires bridge unit
• Optional hole punching
o Built-in print controller
 Actual maker unknown (most likely Zoran)
 576MB RAM for copier memory and 1GB RAM for printer memory
 Optional data security kit (but it is not Common Criteria certified)
 800MHz processor
 80GB hard drive
 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
 PCL print driver standard

- Kodak announced that its NexPress production color system won 8 awards for Superb Printing from the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen (IAPHC)

- President Obama announced the appointment of Kodak CEO, Antonio Perez, to the President’s Council of Jobs and Competitiveness, along with Xerox CEO, Ursula Burns, and GE CEO, Jeffrey Inmelt.

- Secret Service agents arrested Paul Rickett of Mountain View, California for filling a minivan with $30,000 worth of fake cash, made with a color copier.

- Okidata announced it will use environmentally-friendly bioplastics for some of the parts in its LED color printers and MFPs. The bioplastics will contain 25% plant material.

- Zoran, maker of print controllers, announced it is being acquired by CSR, maker of wireless chips, for $679 million

- Conexant Sytems, maker of print controllers, announced it is being acquired by SMSC (Standard Microsystems Corporation) of Long Island, NY for $284 million. (this company has technology from former companies; Rockwell Semiconductor, Oasis Semiconductor & SigmaTel)

- Xerox’s ACS division announced it won consulting contracts to assist healthcare facilities choose and install EHR systems:
o Botsford Hospital of Farmington, MI with McKesson Paragon EHR
o Cooper University Hospital of Camden, NJ with Epic EHR
o Wyoming Department of Health’s Medicaid Program
o And 47 others

- Xerox announced it has hired Markus Fromherz as its new Chief Innovation Officer For Healthcare to grow its business in this vertical market.

- Fujitsu launched the ScanSnap N1800 Network Scanner offering:
o 20ipm top speed
o Scans both sides of original at same time
o 200spi or 300dpi
o b/w and color scanning
o 8.4” color touchscreen LCD display
 Preview of scanned images
 Zoom, pan, rotate images
 Can delete or scan more pages to a batch
o Holds up to 50 originals
o Scan to email/folder/network/FTP/MS SharePoint
 Scan to fax or printer
o Automatic blank page deletion
o 11.8”W x 8.9”D x 6.8”H
o Base MSRP of $1895

- The University of California Davis announced that it has awarded contract to InterSystems Corp. of Massachusetts for integration services with its Epic EHR system.

- Epic claims that its EHR system at Kaiser Permanente securely manages the records of 8.6 million patients.

- Epic announced it won EHR contracts from:
o Sentara Health System in Norfolk, VA, 8 hospitals, for $273 million
o Franciscan Alliance, including all 13 hosptials and 165 practices for a total of $100 million.

- Allscripts announced it won EHR contract from St. Joseph’s Health System, which has locations in California, Texas and New Mexico.

- The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), using it new enforcement power, slapped a $4.3 million penalty against Cignet Health of Maryland for failure to honor patients’ requests for access to their medical records, as part of the HIPAA law.

- A study conducted by DowJones VentureSource found that:
o venture capital investment in medical software rose from $387.5 million in 2009 to $460 million in 2010, representing a growth of 19%
o an estimated 77% of venture capitalists predict that investment in healthcare information technology will continue to increase this year

- Massachusetts General Hospital agreed to pay HHS a fine of $1 million to settle a HIPAA violation involving 192 patients.

- KLAS Research announced results of a survey of customer satisfaction of EHRs in the ambulatory market:
o Allscripts = 16%
o Epic = 12%
o NextGen = 10%



- Hewlett Packard claims it won managed print services contracts, including its printers and MFPs from the following healthcare vertical customers:
o Bayer Schering Pharma AG
o Centra Health
o Children’s Hospital of Boston
o Cigna
o Exempla Healthcare
o Health Net
o Humana
o San Juan Regional Medical Center

- The Medicare Fraud Strike Force reported that it arrested 111 people last month, for allegedly bilking Medicare out of $225 million in false claims.

- Adam Greene, Senior Health IT and Privacy Advisor in the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), part of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), announced the minimum fine for HIPAA violation will increase from $100 to $50,000. This means that the minimum fine for misplacing just one patient record could result in a $50K fine.

- eClinicalWorks won an EHR contract from BayCare, a community based healthcare system in Tampa, FL.

- McKesson won an EHR contract from Stanly Regional Medical Center of Albermarle, NC.

- CapSite survey finds that 23% of hospitals plan to use consulting help to get their clinical systems up and running

- Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health & Human Services, announced the following about the EHR vendors that have been certified as meeting federal “meaningful use” standards:
o 231 vendors now certified
o 66% of these have fewer than 50 employees

- David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for HITECH stimulus money announced:
o 21,300 healthcare providers have signed up to qualify
o $20 million has been paid out so far from Medicaid
o Medicare payments start in May, 2011

- PatientKeeper announced it won contract from Madison Memorial Hospital of Rexburg, Idaho.

- Cerner, maker of EHR systems, announced it is in negotiations to but the former Sam’s Town Casino complex in Kansas City.

- The Henry Ford Health System of Michigan announced that an employee lost a flash drive containing the records of 2,777 patients. This is their second HIPAA violation in less than a year.

- Allscripts partner, dbMotion, announced contracts with:
o Orlando Health
o University Hospitals of Cleveland
o Sharp Healthcare (which will connect to its Cerner system)
o Huntington Memorial Hospital of Pasadena, CA

- Siemens announced it won an EHR contract from Jefferson Regional Medical Center of Pennsylvania.