Daniel Dern

Healthcare workers are sticking to black and white printing. Most vertical markets, such as reality and financial services, are moving to color-enabled printers and MFDs (multifunction devices) to allow some color output or reduce outside printing costs, but health care is staying gray, according to a study revealed Nov. 6 by Lexmark in conjunction with […]

Nearly six months after IBM’s Printing Systems Division officially became InfoPrint Solutions Company, a subsidiary of Ricoh Americas Corporation, the organization is reporting initial successes including new products, significant new customer agreements and expansion of sales staff and presence, according to Oct. 19 and Nov. 1 announcements from InfoPrint. In its February 2007 analysis report, […]

Canon U.S.A. announced three new color-enabled and black-and-white models of its imageRUNNER multifunctional product line Nov. 1, with its imageCHIP architecture that allows faster, simultaneous processing of multiple jobs in an attempt to keep customers who are switching from monochrome to color. Intended for large workgroups that need high-volume black-and-white and the ability to restrict […]

Kyocera Mita rolled out a pair of multifunctional printers Oct. 25 that it claims are tailored to SMBs or work groups within the enterprise that need to collaborate. The KM-3060 and KM-2560 print and copy 30 and 25 PPM (pages per minute) respectively, at 600x600DPI and scan at 50 PPM or faster depending on color […]

Ricoh added proximity cards to its user authentication line-up to ease and speed the process grabbing your print job from the queue at shared printers. Announced Oct. 22, card authentication uses contactless identification tokens. Similar to door access cards, users do no more than get close to the printer—typically, one to three inches—rather than swipe […]

To help address the growing business need for document and image scanning, Canon U.S.A. is shipping its ScanFront 220 and ScanFront 220P network scanners, which were displayed at the AIIM Conference & Expo in Boston in April. The ScanFront 220 and 220P can scan letter-sized documents at up to 26 ppm (pages per minute) or […]

Xerox is developing new software capabilities that could help automate the redaction process, making it easier, faster and more comprehensive than the current keyword-oriented products enterprises use to hide information for accessible documents. The software, dubbed Intelligent Redaction, is still in the research phase, with no product availability or price currently announced, but was demonstrated […]

Xerox unveiled four new black-and-white digital printing systems Sept. 6, including what the company claims are the fastest “light production” printers in the industry, to get enterprises printing more in-house. The Stamford, Conn., companys new machines are the Xerox 4112 and 4127 Enterprise Printing Systems, which are printer-only and use the FreeFlow Print Server, and […]

Ricoh is now a Kodak reseller. The print vendor will sell Kodak NEXPRESS 2100, 2100 Plus, 2500 and the new S3000 Digital Production Color Presses under a reseller agreement signed Sept. 9. Service and support will be provided by Kodak. “The agreement provides [Kodak] with additional market reach,” said Don Whaley, vice president of Business […]

Moving to new digital printing and production environments can be daunting. To help companies get there, Xerox on Sept. 4 announced initial training and professional services offerings from its New Business of Printing—Business Development Services program. The services are designed to bring the Stamford, Conn., companys digital printing expertise directly into customer enterprise operations. “We […]