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Archive for October, 2007

Hewlett-Packard’s Officejet Pro K5400 is the best value workhorse inkjet printer

Monday, October 8th, 2007 - Posted in Comparisons, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0732/2 - With a long-term CPP that is a minimum of 30% below its closest rivals in the business inkjet market (and can easily cost as little as one-third of the cost of some rivals – depending on print volume), the Hewlett-Packard Officejet Pro K5400 is the low-cost A4 printer for small businesses.

New Colour MFPs – hardware comparison

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 - Posted in New Products, Comparisons, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0731/1 - While appearing to compete fairly closely, the three new MFPs (from Brother, Oki and Xerox) actually address different market criteria and careful choices must be made – but there is a clear all-rounder in the MFC-9440CN.

New Colour MFPs – hardware comparison

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 - Posted in New Products, Comparisons, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0731/1 - While appearing to compete fairly closely, the three new MFPs (from Brother, Oki and Xerox) actually address different market criteria and careful choices must be made – but there is a clear all-rounder in the MFC-9440CN.

Now the Samsung CLP-300 can be bought for £109.98 inc. tax and delivery

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 - Posted in Special Offers, News | No Comments »

Issue #0731/2 - Billed as the world’s cheapest and smallest colour laser printer, does the ridiculously low price of the Samsung CLP-300 have worrying implications for the future?

Ten years have passed since the infamous occasion when a printer product manager said to me “I would almost be willing to put US$100 in the box just to sell my printers so that I can sell the consumables!”

Kyocera pricing correction

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 - Posted in Pricing | No Comments »

Issue #0731/3 - Kyocera did not increase pricing on its FS-C5030N – it was a price list error.

Following the article in TCPglobal Issue #0730 "Has Kyocera met its match as Xerox turns the clocks back 20 years?" last week, we were contacted by Kyocera with regard to the comment that the price of the FS-C5030N was raised recently by 19%