Daniel Dern

Eastman Kodak on Feb. 28 unveiled its new Kodak ScanMate i1120 Scanner, a high-quality personal desktop scanner designed to help SMBs and departments in larger enterprises get a grip on scanning and organizing documents. These new scanners are intended for small offices or for workers who want to capture data but don’t need a highly […]

Lexmark International announced Feb. 25 software and services updates for its Lexmark Clinical Assistant MFP to enable health care offices to reduce their multifunction printer fleet management costs and improve productivity. The announcement was made at the 2008 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition held Feb. 24-28 in Orlando, Fla., where […]

eCopy unveiled a family of three document imaging applications for use with multi-function printers and network-attached scanners Feb. 13, to replace it’s single eCopy ShareScan software for front-office workers scanning and capturing directly to business applications. The three document imaging applications, eCopy Desktop, eCopy ShareScan Essentials, and eCopy ShareScan Suite address individual, workgroup and enterprise […]

For companies looking to provide document tracking and management through the interfaces of their multi-function printers, Canon’s imageRUNNER MFPs now support print tracking software from Equitrac. MEAP (Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform) enabled imageRUNNERS will run Equitrac’s software as embedded applications that can be used directly through an MFP’s front-panel user interface to let users add […]

To make it easier for small and mid-sized businesses to scan and archive documents, including incorporate data from existing databases, Xerox Corporation has released SMARTdocument Travel Express, a less expensive version of its SMARTdocument Travel workflow software.SMARTdocument Travel Express lets a company set up “buttons” on an office MFP (multi-function printer) allowing customers to easily […]

Scanning large-format original documents makes it easier for companies to edit and distribute electronic copies, as well as save them to digital archives — but many types of documents and objects, such as mounted maps, legal booklets, engineering drawing, architectural renditions, and posters that companies want to scan are too thick for traditional wide-format scanners. […]

Printing from a mobile desktop, BlackBerry or handheld device should be as simple as printing from your desktop and a new technology from Ricoh aims to make it so. Ricoh’s new HotSpot Printer line, announced Jan. 16, will extend printing capabilities in Wi-Fi hotspots to anyone with an Internet-enabled PC, handheld device, or cell phone, […]

There is still a lot of paper in business—forms, contracts and templates to correspondence and even e-mail—especially for small businesses who find the investments in a paperless office hard to swallow. But the potential savings from converting much of the hard copies to digital copies can make a clear case for adding a scanner and […]

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 […]