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Archive for March, 2004

Cost of Photo Printing, Tests Results Part Three – Print Quality

Friday, March 19th, 2004 - Posted in Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0411/1 - Final instalment—a comparison of the variability of print quality of the four photo inkjet printers.

Following the testing of the four photo inkjet printers in recent weeks, we now take a look at the results of psychometric testing for print quality and also some objective target-based tests.

Xerox targets knowledge of small business print practices

Friday, March 19th, 2004 - Posted in Strategy | No Comments »

Issue #0411/2 - A new competition from Xerox offers one luck company a complete office makeover while offering Xerox valuable market intelligence.

A new competition has been launched in the US and Canada by Entrepreneur magazine, with a total office makeover as the prize, that will feed Xerox with significant intelligence into the document workings and practices of small businesses (10 to 50 employees) and generate leads.

Ford contracts Hewlett-Packard to supply print services

Friday, March 19th, 2004 - Posted in News | No Comments »

Issue #0411/3 - Ford ‘buys printing not printers’ as it extends a previous contract with Hewlett-Packard.

In a deal, worth in excess of $100 million, Hewlett-Packard is to supply the Ford motor company with Managed Print Services in the US and Europe.

Ricoh follows Konica Minolta’s lead with modular MFP design

Friday, March 19th, 2004 - Posted in Print Technology, New Products | No Comments »

Issue #0411/4 - Ricoh has designed its new MFPs with a modular main-board that can be easily, quickly and relatively inexpensively upgraded to provide additional functionality such as print, fax and scan.

Named Ricoh GW Architecture, this follows in the footsteps of Konica Minolta’s launch of new DiALTA products during the autumn of 2003 with their ‘Central Imaging Platform’ (see TCPglobal Issue #0335).

Cost of Photo Printing, Tests Results Part Two – Performance and Cost of Printing

Friday, March 12th, 2004 - Posted in Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0410/1 - All printers are not made the same. The scale of the differences may be a surprise—as may the scale of Cost of Printing.