TWIT "This Week in Toshiba"

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.

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