Daniel Dern

Konica Minolta Business Solutions released its bizhub C353P color laser printer, which it claims has the features to bring enterprise printing to small offices and workgroups. According to Dino Pagliarello, senior manager, Product Marketing, Office and Workgroup Products at Konica Minolta, the bizhub C353P can be used as a Segment 3 (31-45 ppm) replacement for […]

Kyocera Mita currently owns about 2 percent of the U.S. business printer market share, but it is banking on lower per-page consumable costs and a channel of partners driving customers to managed per-page printing, to own five percent of the market by 2012. The company’s five year business expansion plan, now in it’s first year, […]

Businesses must pay more attention to how they print and how printer hardware and consumables can impact the environment, regulatory compliance and effect their bottom line. This is the message coming from separate announcements made this week by InfoPrint Solutions Company and Lexmark International. InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, announced […]

A networked printer is easier to share. Anyone with more than one PC or two employees in an office will tell you as much. Its also easier to afford, print industry executives and analysts tell eWEEK. Sharing printers and multi-function printers (MFPs) allows businesses to buy larger, faster and more cost-effective equipment, and provide color […]

What printer to buy is not likely to be the most pressing concern at any business with 100 or fewer employees, but perhaps it should be. Choosing a printer can have a far reaching impact on a business bottom line, printer industry executives and analysts told eWEEK. One has to consider work flow, productivity, support […]

Ricoh has unveiled an updated version of ScanRouter EX that adds rights management to the document and fax scanning and routing software. ScanRouter EX, a Windows-based document distribution server, uses Ricoh-manufactured MFPs, network scanners and fax devices to deliver faxes and scanned documents as files to preprogrammed destinations like e-mail addresses, shared network folders and […]

Hewlett-Packard unveiled new vertical enterprise imaging and printing solutions on Nov. 15, aimed at the financial services and public sector markets, as part of its Print 2.0 strategy to make it easier to choose to print, copy or scan a document. HP unveiled the HP Compliant Document Capture for Financial Services, adding audit trail and […]

Ongoing changes in printing, computer, network and printing technologies and products mean that new measures and uses for proofing—the practice of checking the job before the final print. “As technology gets better and less expensive, the nature of proofing continues to change,” said Derek Awalt, Global Product manager Halftone Proofing, Prepress Solutions, Kodaks Graphic Communications […]

Dell and Citrix are collaborating to certify Dell desktops and network laser printers to work with Citrixs Presentation Server, according to a letter to Dells Salesforce made public Nov. 12. The certification guarantees print actions translate properly over Presentation Server and do not result in a failure to print, missing functions, like a color printer […]

Far from ushering in the paperless office or a switch to laser or LED printing, the pace of technology advancement is actually increasing the demand for print and will drive inkjet sales into the near future, according to Kodaks Research Laboratories. Technology advances are expanding the applications that continuous inkjet printing can be used for, […]