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Canon scoops seven awards
Canon has picked up seven accolades from testing and research
organisation Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) in its Summer 2013
awards. Imaging products from across Canon’s business portfolio
have been recognised following BLI’s rigorous in-depth laboratory
tests, with Canon receiving a total of six ‘Pick’ awards and one
‘Outstanding Achievement’ award.
www.buyerslab.com, www.canon.co.uk
Support for AirPrint
Kyocera Document Solutions’ ECOSYS FS-4300DN printer
series (ECOSYS FS-4300DN, FS-4200DN, FS-4100DN and
FS-2100DN) now support Apple AirPrint wireless printing
for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
Group Product Marketing
Manager Steve Mitchell said:
“Kyocera focuses on solutions to
improve the printing experience
for its partners and users such
as its own HyPAS customisation
software. According to IDC we
have the largest coverage of its
hardware segments and AirPrint
reinforces our commitment to
providing similar breadth and
depth in the software solutions
we offer.”
The company intends to
expand its range of printers and multifunctional products that
support AirPrint, aiming to meet the demand of wider business
printing solutions.
OKI Europe Ltd has also strengthened its mobile printing
portfolio with the addition of AirPrint support to its range of A4
colour and mono multifunctional printers (MC300/MC500 Series
and MB400 Series).
“With the increasing number of mobile workers, it is essential
that OKI provides a comprehensive mobile printing offering to its
customers to help them drive efficiency gains even when their staff
are in the field,” said Managing Director Harry Takahashi.
“Adding support for AirPrint to some of our key devices and
allowing users to print from an iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is
necessary to meet this growing market need.”
Moving forward, OKI will expand its range of AirPrint
compatible MFPs and printers and continue to strengthen its
mobile printing offering as part of its strategy to provide optimised
solutions to its SMB customers.
www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk, www.oki.co.uk
Intuitive usability
Konica Minolta says it has enhanced the overall workflow
performance of its bizhub C654e and C754e by simplifying
usability. The user panel now includes new features such as
‘pinch in pinch out’, which enables the user to easily zoom
into documents for content checking or to read information
on internal and external websites. Plus, a new drag and drop
feature simplifies the moving of MFP-stored documents to
the required function, e.g. printing, copying, sending or even
changing the overall page order.
The latest i-Options make manual steps unnecessary. Users can
scan searchable documents such as docx, pptx, xlsx and pdf; print
email attachments; or receive incoming faxes already text scanned as
searchable PDF files. This allows for further conversion without using a
PC after the scan is completed. The new devices can also now be bound
into Cortado ThinPrint environments.
www.konicaminolta.co.uk
A3 colour systems
Toshiba has added five new A3 colour
systems with speeds of 25-50 pages
per minute to its product range.
The company says that exceptional clarity
and sharpness ensure impressive document
output, but the e-STUDIO5055CSE series
has more to offer. A large range of optional
hardware and software applications allow
device and system configuration which
perfectly fits end-user requirements and
easily integrates into individual document
workflows.
Intelligent Toshiba technology based on
the e-BRIDGE controller ensures a flexible
expansion to fit evolving needs. Additionally,
the Toshiba Secure HDD, which is supplied
as standard, delivers the highest levels of
document security.
www.toshibatec.co.uk
Kyocera’s next
generation
Kyocera has launched the next
generation of A3 colour MFDs
which feature enhanced ease of
use and efficiency of output. The
four new A3 products, TASKalfa
3051ci, TASKalfa 3551ci, TASKalfa
4551ci and TASKalfa 5551ci, have
superior colour quality designed
to ensure every document stands
out and offer advanced features
and functions to enable a fully
customisable workflow.
A significant number of advances
to the design of the devices have been
made; set up has been reduced to just
five minutes; and even firmware updates
are hassle free. “Our partners can rest
assured that not only have we worked to
ensure consistency of high quality colour
output, we have also worked hard to
ensure the devices are straightforward
to support,” said Product Marketing
Manager Anup Rai.
www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.
co.uk
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Holdsworth said: “We’d heard about systems
from other manufacturers that claimed to do
a similar thing, albeit with limited success, so
wanted to see what Toshiba TEC had come
up with. We were particularly interested
in finding out how this new multifunction
product could help us save money and
reduce print-related waste.”
Toshiba TEC installed a prototype
e-STUDIO306LP at Virgin Media in February/
March 2013, positioned where it could
be accessed and used by a wide variety of
people from different departments. After
this trial period finished, various personnel
were invited to provide feedback about
their experiences with the MFP and offer
their views about how it could be used
longer-term.
The response to the device was
unanimously positive, with widespread
recognition of its waste reduction potential.
“In summary, we loved the technology
and can really see its worth in organisations
like ours that use an inordinate amount of
paper. Whilst we haven’t adopted it yet, it is
definitely something we would consider for
the future,” said Holdsworth.
“The feedback we have received from
Virgin Media confirms our belief that the
e-STUDIO306LP will open the door to a
new way of working by encouraging users
to save money and reduce the massive
amount of waste paper that is created in
offices every day,” said Spencer.
www.toshibatec.co.uk
OKI MB400 Series