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Archive for the ‘Workflow’ Category

CharisCo Printer Labs improves TCPglobal document archiving capability!

Friday, October 31st, 2003 - Posted in Printing culture, Workflow, News, Total Print Management, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0335/1 - Archiving is an integral element of a digital workflow. CharisCo’s experience with PDF creation helps underline the cost benefits of digital archiving.

This is a spoof headline with a very real underlying Total Cost of Printing message.

Epson introduces ‘big copier’ functionality to ink jet All-in-Ones for Home Workers and SoHo

Friday, October 17th, 2003 - Posted in Workflow, Print Technology, Hardware, New Products | No Comments »

Issue #0333/3 - New CX All-in-Ones from Epson look good and have nice functionality for frequent user small offices.

For the busy home or small office, where frequent but low volume daily print and copy requirements are the norm, Epson’s new All-in-One machines, the CX5400 and CX6400, look like offering an attractive multifunction solution with unique security feature and repetitive forms or document printing/copying capability provided on the CX6400.

Manufacturers push for colour printers to be the ‘norm’ in the general office

Friday, October 10th, 2003 - Posted in Strategy, Workflow, Total Print Management, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0332/1 - Mono cost per page on office colour laser printers is being squeezed to persuade customers to buy into colour but it is at the expense of colour printing as manufacturers compensate for the low cost of mono.

What it boils down to is marketing.

High capacity, low capacity or half filled?

Friday, June 27th, 2003 - Posted in Workflow, Issues, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0323/4 - Does the average customer know what is being supplied when buying a printer? Is the customer in for a surprise when the first cartridge runs out and are customers being treated fairly.

Paper handling – mailing costs

Friday, May 30th, 2003 - Posted in Workflow, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0319/1 - Handling of paper has been established as being a constituent of Total Cost of Printing in several issues of TCPglobal over the last year and also in the report ‘The Importance of Total Cost of Ownership in a world of Digital Convergence’. Normally concerned with products that produce marks on paper, the OfficeRight DI200 folder/inserter from Pitney Bowes came to our attention this week and, as it appears to be unique in the office sector, successfully argued its way into TCPglobal!