Daniel Dern

Xerox rolled out a handful of new software tools Sept. 5, including enhancements to its FreeFlow Digital Workflow Collection, aimed at driving adoption of digital print. By reducing steps in the printing process, the software can expedite personalized marketing materials or short-run digital books, speed and simplify Web-to-print jobs, and route print jobs to the […]

Rochester-based Xerox Corporation Sept. 4 announced Xerox ProfitQuick Investment Planner, a financial modeling tool to help in-plant printing/reprographics groups, commercial printers and others make more informed decisions about the total cost of print purchasing. Until now, Xeroxs financial modeling tools addressed the impact of hardware investments. ProfitQuick Investment Planner, according to Xerox officials, “gives Xerox […]

Epson America announced on Aug. 15, the Epson Stylus C120, which the company claims is “the worlds fastest laser-quality document ink jet printer,” plus three new ink-jet multifunction printers. The four new devices are intended as personal devices, with USB 2.0 ports but no integrated network port. (They could be added through external USB/network adapters […]

As part of its push for segments of the high-end printing/product markets, Ricoh unveiled a Production Printing Business Group, along with a channel program and Alliance program of partner vendors. “Were trying to build solutions for the in-plant/CRD) and data center and graphic arts segments,” said John Fulena, director of product marketing in Ricohs Production […]

Historically, color printing for documents, presentations and other tasks has been more costly than black-and-white, to the point that organizations either avoid buying color-capable devices, or use authorization, physical or other security to control access to color output capabilities. Xerox Corporation, based in Rochester, N.Y, today announced two new color solid-ink printer and multi-function devices […]

Ricoh Americas announced Sept. 13 its Transaction Link document storage middleware, intended to help companies deal with paper documents that are “disconnected” from electronic accounting systems. Transaction Link connects paper documents to electronic systems by scanning the documents and linking them to the accounting system. Transaction Link is intended for accounting departments that use Sage […]

Carrying a significant fraction of a terabyte around in live, usable form—as opposed to tape—isnt as difficult or expensive as it used to be. Toshibas USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive is currently available in 100, 120, 160 and 200GB models at a cost of about a dollar per gigabyte. (A 250GB version is on […]

Lexmark International intends to do for printing what WiFi did for notebook computing. The Lexington, Ky.-based print vendor unveiled a set of 802.11g-enabled additions to its inkjet color printer and Multi-Function Printer fleet on Aug. 21, including a Wireless Print Server to wireless-enable existing printers, and an evangelization campaign to cut the cords. On September […]

To help track, manage and improve the total cost of ownership of output environments, Xerox Global Services, Xerox Corp.s professional consulting services division, released Aug. 6 Version 4.2 of its Xerox Office Services management software tools. Xerox Office Services tools can be used on either a Xerox or an XGS customer server. “XOS allows Xerox […]

Eastman Kodak is adding features to version 3.0 of its Insite Creative Workflow System designed to speed creation and proofing of graphic-rich content such as ads, brochures, logos and artwork. “The files involved are often too big to e-mail,” said Pat Lord, product manager of Kodak Portal Products. “Without a workflow system like this, you […]