Sunday, October 24, 2010

This Week in Copiers "Industry Updates"


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- Lexmark launched a new A3 color MFP, the X925de featuring:

o Actually made by Fuji of China (which makes most products sold by Xerox)

o Base MSRP of $5849 (print only version has base MSRP of $2399)

o Uses LED, not laser technology

o 600x600dpi actual (advertised as offering 1200dpi with interpolation)

 Does not offer true 8 bits per pixel

o 30ppm top speed b/w or color

o 4 tandem OPC drum design

o Polymerized toner

o Hole-in-the-middle design

o 10.2” touch screen color LCD control panel (one of the industry’s largest)

 LCD can by customized via MyMFP feature

 Help function provides voice and animation to guide end user

o Auto duplex standard

o 100 sheet document feeder standard (does NOT scan both sides of original at same time)

 Top scan speed of 32opm

o Comes standard with 50 sheet stack bypass, 150 sheet paper drawer and 250 sheet paper drawer

 Can add up to three more 550 sheet paper drawers to make unit floor standing (or put on stand)

 Banner printing mode, up to 48” long

 Bypass can hold up to 10 envelopes

o Optional fax board

o Optional card shot feature

o 11 second first color page out time

o Max duty cycle of 200K/month

o Pantone certified (but done not offer optional color calibration device and color management software)

o Built-in print controller standard

 Actual maker unknown

 512MB RAM (can upgrade to 1.5GB)

 1GHz processor

 Hard drive

 USB port on front of device for print from and scan to thumb drive

 10/100/1000BaseT and USB ports in rear

 PCL, PostScript and XPS print drivers

 Optional embedded applications integrated with control panel (LESF or Lexmark Embedded Solutions Framework)

 Scan to email/FTP/network

 Supports PDF 1.6 (but not 1.7)

 IPv6

o Thumbnail preview on color LCD

o Optional proximity card reader

o Hard drive security standard

o No finishing options


- Lexmark launched a new A4 color MFP, the X792 series featuring:

o Made by Fuji of China

o Base MSRP of $4499 (fully loaded $6349)

o Letter/legal size paper handling only

o 50ppm top speed b/w or color

o Uses LED, not laser technology

o 600x600dpi actual (advertised as offering 1200dpi with interpolation)

 Does not offer true 8 bits per pixel

o 4 tandem OPC drum design

o Polymerized toner

o Hole-in-the-middle design

o 8.5 second first color page out time

o Pantone certified (but done not offer optional color calibration device and color management software)

o 10.2” touch screen color LCD control panel (one of the industry’s largest)

 LCD can by customized via MyMFP feature

 Help function provides voice and animation to guide end user

o Comes standard with 100 sheet bypass and 550 sheet paper drawer

 Can add two more 550 sheet drawers to make floor standing

o Banner printing up to 48” long, but only 8.5” wide sheet

o Auto duplex standard

o Document feeder holds up to 75 originals (Scans both sides of original at same time)

o Optional hanging finisher offers stapling and 2/3 hole punch

o Optional fax board

o Optional card shot feature

o Built-in print controller

 Actual maker unknown

 Hard drive

 1GB RAM standard (can upgrade to 2GB)

 USB port in front for scan to and print from thumb drive

 PCL, PostScript and XPS print drivers

 Optional embedded applications integrated with control panel (LESF or Lexmark Embedded Solutions Framework)

 Scan to email/FTP/network

 Supports PDF 1.6 (but not 1.7)

 IPv6

- Print only version, called C792, has base MSRP of $1349 (fully loaded $2999)
- Lexmark launched a new desktop color inkjet printer with an innovative feature. The $399 Genesis features a 10 megapixel imaging sensor (normally found in a digital camera), instead of a flatbed scanning CIS, so that it can capture a color photo in seconds.
- Print for pay industry data for second quarter of 2010 from PIA:

o Total print shipments up 5.1% over 2009

o Toner based print shipments up 11.5%

o Average selling price decline of 2.9%

o Shop owners project increase in sales of 8.2% over next 12 months

o Project growth of 10.5% in toner based printing
- Okidata announced it is adding a hologram to its toner cartridges to prevent counterfeiters from making compatible toner products.
- Equitrac announced it will be a Silver Sponsor of the upcoming Solutions Summit, held in November in Chicago, and organized by InfoTrends.

- Kyocera (aka Kyoto Ceramic Company) announced it will now offer an optional proximity card reader for some of its MFPs. The card reader is made by RD Ideas.
- Kyocera announced it has entered into agreement with Pantone LLC so that its 552ci color laser MFP can carry the Pantone Certification.

- Xerox an acquisition target? This is opinion published by Alexander Roepers, head of Atlantic Investment Management. (Xerox’s current market value is $15.4 billion)
- Xerox announced it sold a 1000 Digital Color Press (made by Fuji) to SPM Print of Rotherhithe, England to replace a DocuColor 8000.
- Xerox announced it sold a 700 Digital Color Press to Arnold & Wessels, a printshop in Klerksdorp, South Africa.
- Xerox announced it purchased TMS Health of Boca Raton, FL. TMS has 600 employees that call physicians and pharmacists to tell them about new pharmaceutical products, fields call-in lines for drug companies and helps find patients for clinical trials. It will become part of the ACS division.
- Toshiba announced that it is the fourth largest maker of notebook computers according to IDC.
- Toshiba announced that it won a bid to build a solar power plant for Chugoku Electric Power Company of Hiroshima, Japan. When it is completed, it will generate enough power for 900 households.

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