Daniel Dern

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 […]

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 […]