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16-City Road Show by Xerox India

2008-06-24

The road show is a part of Xerox's national channel strategy campaign running across cities including Indore, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Karnal, Rohtak, Raipur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Surat, Udaipur, Ranchi, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Madurai and Vizag besides Kochi. Xerox India will showcase 8 newly launched products ranging from small, cost-effective A4 printers to monochrome MFPs in the road show targeted at the SMB community that is expected to spend 5,600 crores in printing and printing supplies in 2008, as per a report by AMI Partners.

The products to be showcased during the road show include: Xerox Phaser 3600 (40 ppm A4 mono printer), Xerox Phaser 3250 (30 ppm A4 mono printer), Xerox Phaser 5550 (50 ppm A3 mono laser printer), Xerox Phaser 3100 MFP (21 ppm A4 multifunctional printer), Xerox WorkCentre 5020 (20 ppm A3 mono multi-functional printer), Xerox WorkCentre 5016 (16 ppm A3 mono multifunctional printer), Xerox Workcentre 5225 (25 ppm A3 mono printer) and Xerox WorkCentre 5230 (30 ppm A3 mono printer).

Speaking at the occasion, Sumant Bhatia, marketing manager, channel programmes and distribution, office business group, Xerox India Limited, said, "SMB is a big opportunity in India. According to AMI Partners, India will be the fastest growing major market in the APAC region with IT spending set to increase more than 20 per cent in 2008. SMBs, which are increasingly focussing at better print quality and printer usage, will be spending 41,500 crores on IT in 2008. Xerox India is bullish about emerging markets growth potential and has identified key 16 cities that are strategic business s for the company in India."

Bhatia added further, "Xerox has always focussed on the urban markets and is now focussing on making inroads in the smaller cities. With the changing dynamics of the market, it has become imperative for us to expand our base to the tier 2 markets. Over the next fortnight, we will visit the key emerging cities to showcase our products to the partners and expand our channel partner base by educating people about the brand ‘Xerox' and the value proposition associated with it."

Added Briju Pavithran, business head, SMB, South India, Xerox India Limited, "At this point of time, we have close to 13 channel partners across Kerala and will be looking at consolidating our position by signing on over 20 strategic partners across the state in various products segments in Southern India."

source:efytimes.com

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HP Photosmart C8180 All-in-One

2008-06-15

At $400, the Photosmart C8180 multifunctional printer sits in Hewlett-Packard's lineup as one of its most expensive All-in-One (AIO) players. This printer, scanner, and copier has a suite of features for the amateur photo enthusiast that includes a touch-screen display, built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth connectivity, a slide scanner, and a dual paper feed tray, but it's not without a few missteps. The photo quality is better than average and the hardware is well-designed, but the lack of an auto-document feeder (ADF) and painfully slow print speed prevent us from giving this otherwise excellent printer an Editors' Choice award.

Design and features

The design of the C8180 is similar to the rest of the printers in the Photosmart series, but this particular model has a few notable hardware additions that you won't find in most All-in-Ones. Unlike most printers, the C8180 has a swiveled touch screen that lets you control all the software functions including photo editing, wireless setup and management, and scanning jobs. The touch screen eliminates button clutter and frees up the rest of the front panel for simple buttons that control one-touch red-eye removal as well as a few others for start, stop, and cancel. The front of the C8180 also has a memory card bay with slots for Compact Flash, xD, SD/MMC, and Memory Stick cards.

Although HP flaunts the C8180 as a full-featured AIO for the home and office, it lacks a fax machine and an auto-document feeder that you can find on other AIOs for less money. You'll also notice a unique hardware feature on the front of the C8180: a LightScribe drive that lets you archive your data directly from a USB key or an external memory card to a CD/DVD. We're not disputing its utility, but we wish HP could have found a way to include the drive alongside an ADF and fax instead of omitting them entirely. In either case, we must compliment HP on the build quality and design of the C8180. The rounded corners and silver/white overlay contribute to its overall appeal; this printer will look great alongside any desk setup.

You have three options for connecting your computer to the printer: wired via the included USB cable, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi. We can confidently state that the Photosmart C8180 is the easiest Wi-Fi printer we've used to date. Other printers make you pour through pages and pages of instructions and ultimately force you to set up the connection via an ad-hoc network, but the C8180 distills the process down to a simple pairing between the printer and your computer. In fact, there are no onscreen instructions; you set everything up through the digital LCD on the faceplate itself. From open box to first print, the entire Wi-Fi setup took less than 5 minutes.

Another unique feature to the C8180 is its dual paper input tray. This is bound to be one of those, "Why didn't we think of that?" headaches for HP's competitors, and it really is genius--the C8180 has two separate paper trays: one for larger 8.5-by-11 inch paper and another for smaller 4-by-6-inch media. This small hardware addition saves time and desk space by allowing the user to manually select which paper tray will spool from the device, but most of the time the C8180 will choose automatically depending on the job.

The C8180 uses six separate ink cartridges (black, light cyan, light magenta, cyan, magenta, and yellow) and each has its own dedicated bay underneath the hood. We're happy to see that each cartridge is easily replaceable at a fairly reasonable price. Even though each color costs the same, the page yields vary immensely, so for our calculations we used black and yellow, which apparently yield the most pages. A black ink cartridge costs $18 and will yield 660 pages, which comes out to 2.7 cents per page and a yellow cartridge costs $10 for 490 pages, or 2 cents a page. Both are reasonable for a photo printer at this price.

Performance

The C8180 printed much slower in all three of our test categories compared with other printers in the same price range. The discrepancy is most obvious in photo prints--the HP printed almost half a page per minute slower than our other test subjects, including the Brother MFC-685cw, an AIO that lost major points for its slower-than-average print speed. Even the Brother beat our HP by a full page per minute in photos, averaging about 1.3 ppm, while the HP trudged in at a meager .66 ppm.

source:reviews.cnet.com

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HP's newest multifunction printer includes a built-in DVD drive

2008-06-08

The HP Photosmart C8180 isn't cheap, so we wouldn't recommend you throwing down $400 for this multifunction printer unless you're an amateur photographer who needs a top-notch printer and won't mind waiting more than a minute for each photo.

We just finished testing the C8180 (full review), and we were impressed by its built-in LightScribe drive. LightScribe is a direct disc-labeling system that uses lasers to burn an image directly onto the disc. The LightScribe system is meant to eliminate the smudges and peeling that inevitably happens with sticker labels, and the fact that Hewlett-Packard decided to include this proprietary method in the c8180 speaks to the popularity of the media. Feel free to insert your opinion: do you use LightScribe yourself or do you prefer the old sticker way?

Unfortunately, the c8180 isn't without its faults. First, there's no auto-document feeder, so forget about scanning and copying stacks of paper. Second, the printer is so slow that we recommend you pick up a hobby to occupy your time while you want for the tray to spit out your photo. We ran our standard speed tests and the c8180 couldn't even print one photo per minute! The standard rate came out to about .66 photos per minute; like we said, slow. Good thing the prints themselves look great because HP would have to be crazy to think that anyone would wait more than a minute per photo if it were anything less than flawless.

source:crave.cnet

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HP Deskjet marks 20 years as world's best-selling printer

2008-06-05

HP Middle East celebrated the 20th anniversary of the HP Deskjet printer, the world's top-selling printer brand.

Relied on by more than 240 million customers around the world, the HP Deskjet-branded printer continues to outsell all other inkjet printers on the market 20 years after its first introduction.

'Twenty years after its first introduction, the HP Deskjet continues to deliver on its original value proposition of quality, reliability, affordability and ease of use,' said Sherifa Hady, Consumer Business Manager, Imaging and Printing Group, HP Middle East. 'We are thrilled by this achievement because it represents a very strong endorsement from our customers all over the world. Deskjets have successfully brought printing closer to consumers worldwide, making it the world's most loved printer."

The HP DeskJet paved the way for HP to become the world leader in thermal inkjet technology. Today, the HP DeskJet continues to change the way people work with its latest models being Energy Star® compliant with ink cartridges newly molded from recycled plastic resins, while the mobile products allow printing directly from computers, PDAs, cameras, and memory cards.

'It is celebration time at HP. What the DeskJet did - and is still doing today - is to open personal printing to everyone.'

HP Deskjet advances through two decades Launched in February 1988, the HP Deskjet was the world's first single-sheet, desktop printer. The reliable HP Deskjet featured an average speed of just 2 pages per minute (ppm).

Today, the HP Deskjet has transformed into a high-speed, lightweight printer with a multitude of features from wireless connectivity to intuitive software and hardware installation for quick and easy setup. Ideal for printing everyday document and photos, current HP Deskjet models print up to 36 ppm.

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Eight Mono MFPs and Printers by Xerox

2008-06-02

Xerox announced the global launch of eight mono printers and MFPs for the first time in India. The global launch which was kicked off from India will be rolled out subsequently in 162 countries.

The newly launched products range from small, cost-effective A4 printers to feature-rich monochrome MFPs and are targeted at the fast growing SMB community (small and medium businesses).

Xerox's newly launched products include: Xerox Phaser 3600 (40 ppm A4 mono printer), Xerox Phaser 3250 (30 ppm A4 mono printer), Xerox Phaser 5550 (50 ppm A3 mono laser printer), Xerox Phaser 3100 MFP (21 ppm A4 multifunctional printer), Xerox WorkCentre 5020 (20 ppm A3 mono multifunctional printer), Xerox WorkCentre 5016 (16 ppm A3 mono multifunctional printer), Xerox Workcentre 5225 (25 ppm A3 mono printer) and Xerox WorkCentre 5230 (30 ppm A3 mono printer).

Xerox Phaser 3600


The Xerox Phaser 3600 laser printer is a robust 40-ppm printer with duplex printing and networking facilities. Meeting the needs of a workgroup and even a small office, it includes advanced security features and Xerox's CentreWare Internet Service technology, making the printer easy to use and maintain. The printer comes in two variants of 3600N priced at Rs. 45,644 and 3600DN at the price of Rs. 54,012.

Xerox Phaser 3250


The Xerox Phaser 3250 laser printer, is small in size but rich with features, including automatic two-sided printing and the ability to print up to 30 pages per minute. It also includes a network-ready version, packing many features into a small footprint. The printer comes in two variants of 3250D priced at Rs. 19,018 and 3250DN at the price of Rs. 24,090.

Xerox Phaser 5550


Built on the award-winning Phaser 5500 platform, the Phaser 5550 laser printer features automated tools for easy installation and service. The printer is geared to medium and large workgroups and comes with PhaserSMART, an online troubleshooting tool that helps diagnose and solve potential printing issues, preventing maintenance calls and increasing its reliability. It produces tabloid-sized prints up to 50 ppm for both single and double-sided pages. The printer comes in three variants of 5500N priced at Rs.2,44,066, 5500DN at Rs. 2,82,419 and 5500DT at Rs. 3,17,286.

Xerox Phaser 3100


Xerox combined ease of use, reliability and low-cost to build the Phaser 3100MFP. The system, Xerox's lowest-priced MFP, makes office work easy with print speeds up to 21 ppm and features like "scan to e-mail," a full keyboard for the fax directory, and Optical Character Recognition software that converts scanned documents into text-searchable files. It comes in two variants 3100 MFO P/S at the price of Rs. 12,160 and 3100 MFP P/X at the price of Rs. 17,279.

Xerox WorkCentre 5016 and Xerox WorkCentre 5020


Small and medium-sized business can also turn to the WorkCentre 5016 and WorkCentre 5020 for cost-effective productivity. With print and copy speeds of 16 and 20 ppm respectively, these multifunction printers start at an estimated price of Rs. 57,000 and Rs. 85,000.

They feature a scanning functionality with a paper capacity of up to 800 sheets for powerful, ongoing printing and copying. The WorkCentre 5016 and WorkCentre 5020 offer Power Save and Toner Save modes, which enable customers to save energy and stretch toner use, and "ID Card Copy," which lets people copy both sides of a document, such as a driver's license, onto one side of a piece of paper.

Xerox WorkCentre 5225 and Xerox WorkCentre 5230


The modular and easy-to-manage WorkCentre 5225/5230 multifunction printer is packed with high-end features to deliver a level of productivity beyond the typical office MFP. With print and copy speeds of 25 and 30 ppm respectively, base copier configurations start at an estimated price of Rs. 1,85,000 and Rs. 2,16,000.

Powerful scanning, printing and fax features can be added to meet customers' specific needs and introduce new productivity-enhancing workflows in the office environment. In addition to Xerox's EIP, the WorkCentre 5225/5230 also has comprehensive security features such as "scan-to-password-protected PDF," hard-disk overwrite and data encryption to ensure that confidential data stays private over the network

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source:pcworld.in

 

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