| | | | What's New | Xerox, Lexmark, Canon, HP See Surging 2nd-Quarter Profits, Revenue;  Laser Printers, SMB Segment Making Strong Recovery July 28, 2010 - In a sign that economic recovery is becoming stronger in the office-imaging industry, particularly in the small and mid-size business segment, leading vendors Xerox, Lexmark International, Hewlett-Packard and Canon Inc. have reported strong second-quarter results indicating much-increased demand and sales. Read more here.
Print Movie Stills With New Canon PIXMA Printers July 20, 2010 - Ever wish you could directly print not just photos captured with your digital camera, but stills from your own recorded movies? Now you can, thanks to Canon U.S.A.'s newest PIXMA color ink-jet printers and All-in-Ones. Read more here. | | 1st Head2Head Comparison Report Compares Ink-Jet Versus Toner Entry-Level Office MFPs July 9, 2010 - In the latest Head2Head Comparison Report from Wirth Consulting, we took on perhaps one of our most interesting tasks, facing off ink-jet versus toner-based laser and LED entry-level MFPs for the office.
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| | Konica Minolta Officially Jumps On The A4 Bandwagon In A Big Way With bizhub C35 July 8, 2010 - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., which announced its entry into the A4 segment earlier this spring at its Power of Performance conference, has begun shipping its first A4 office MFP, the bizhub C35, which runs at 31 ppm in monochrome and color. Read more here. | Why Web-Connected Printers? Wirth Consulting Looks Back At Two That We’ve Tested  June 16, 2010 - Hewlett-Packard's latest announcement of new Photosmart e-All-in-Ones with e-mail printing and Web apps has renewed interest in Web-connected printers, with many people asking, what is the use or value in Web connectivity or Web applications? Read more here. | Summer 2010 - B/W Workgroup Printers From 31-40 PPM.gif) 
• Sufficient consumables' capacity to support multiple users: high-yield toner cartridge (10,000 pages) and sufficiently generous paper capacity (700 pages expandable to 1,800 pages). This means these consumables won't have to be as frequently replaced as with some other printers, thus reducing downtime and bottlenecks.
• Sufficient printing power to support multiple users--including Konica Minolta's Emperon print platform, which Wirth Consulting has tested and found to be very productive and capable of impressive image quality; 500 MHz CPU; and Gigabit Ethernet network interface for fast transfer of jobs to the printer. •Budget-friendly cost per page of 2.2 cents, and low TCO at higher monthly print volumes. •Capable feature set, including USB port for printing from flash-memory drives, PageScope suite for capable management and monitoring on the network (as well as compatibility with HP's Web JetAdmin), and optional offset tray for keeping users' jobs separated.
All-in-all, the Konica Minolta pagepro 4650EN brings together an unbeatable combination of quality engineering, printing horsepower. and workgroup features that make it a solid choice for any user in virtually any office environment.
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More News New A4 Color Printers From Ricoh Start At $1,499, Boast High-Yield Toner Cartridges Ricoh Americas has introduced two new A4 color laser printers for its dealer and direct channels, the Aficio SP C430DN and SP C431DN, which list at $1,499 and $1,999 respectively. Read more here. Konica Minolta Partner To Provide Charge Capability For Scan To/Print From USB Devices, Scan To e-Mail, Copy, Print, Fax While we're all very familiar with copiers located in places such as libraries and college campuses that require users to drop a few coins in a coin box to make copies, Konica Minolta Business Solutions (KMBS) U.S.A. has signed up with a new partner, ITC Systems, that will also give enterprises the ability to charge for print from and scan to USB flash-memory memory devices, as well as charge for scan to e-mail. Read more here. Sharp Bolsters A3 Lineup With 62-PPM MX-623 Monochrome Workgroup MFP Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) has filled out its high-volume monochrome workgroup family with the A3 62-ppm MX-M623, available in two configurations, the MX-M623N and MX-M623U, both of which follow up on the heels of the 75-pmm MX-M753 that Sharp introduced earlier this spring. Read more here.
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