Daniel Dern

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, […]

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 […]