Xerox Unveils Workcentre Multifunction Printers

April 28th, 2010

Xerox two lines of multifunction printers (MFPs), the Workcentre 7120 and Workcentre 5700 series are featured with fast print speeds and energy saving features.

Considering the budget of small and medium size businesses, the printer has been aimed. Xerox Workcentre 7120 color multifunction printer is designed to print high impact color documents such as presentations and budget charts.

It prints color and black & white documents with high speed up to 20 pages per minute (ppm) using Xerox emulsion aggregate high gloss (EA-HG) toner. Also, the company said it produces smaller more consistent toner particles to create crisp text and sharper color images. The Workcentre is available starting from $6,999 in the month of May in Americas and Workcentre 5700 series will be available worldwide from May for $7,475.

The Workcentre 7120 is equipped with advanced document management features like document routing to email, network and content management software, advanced color scanning up to 55 ppm, faxing over IP, fax forward to email and scan to or print from USB and Xerox Auditron which monitors color printing costs. It is an environmentally friendly printer which offers efficiency features such as sleep mode and consumes 3.08 watts of power, route and preview incoming documents on the interface or at PC to eliminate unwanted printing and earth smart print driver defaults including two sided printing with no banner pages. As part of Xerox green world alliance, all printers are energy star qualified.

Besides, Xerox is updating its line of black and white MFPs. The Workcentre 5700 series includes seven MFPs with print speed of 90 ppm and it is equipped with advanced security features including full support for IPv6 network security standard, image overwrite to electronically “shred” data, fax isolation to prevent unauthorized access to data and network authentication to restrict access to scan, email and network fax features.

The multifunction printers do far more than copy and print and also improve the way of work to be done, said rick dastin, president of Xerox global product delivery group. The Workcentre 7120 maximizes the office productivity and produce affordable, impactful color documents. With advanced document security and workflow tools, the Workcentre 5700 series help IT departments to solve their most difficult document management challenges.

Both Workcentre 7120 and 5700 Series are built on Xerox’s Extensible Interface Platform (EIP). EIP is a technology that can be used to create customized workflow applications.

Self Installing LaserJet Printers

April 20th, 2010

Hewlett Packard introduced a series of LaserJet pro printers that sport the new HP smart install technology. It lets the user to print the hard copies without having to install any software or drivers that is preloaded to the printers. Just connect the devices to the computer using USB cable and similar to 3G modem, the watch software load automatically. Eco-Friendly Printing

The monochrome printers include functionality like HP LaserJet pro p1100, the multifunction LaserJet pro M1130/M1210 and the LaserJet pro P1566/P1606dn.

The price for P1100 ranges from $149 to $199 and it’s available. The M1130 and M1210 MFPs cost $ 149 and $199 respectively during the time of launch. The P1566 cost $179 in Europe and Asia and P1606dn cost $229.

Hp launched ScanJet professional 1000 mobile scanner (pdf) that doesn’t need batteries or AC adapter, instead getting power from USB connection. It scan up to 600DPI and formats includes PDF, TIFF and JPEG.