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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.
-=Good Selling=-
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