Issue #0502/3 - Xerox adds two new multifunction devices to its departmental heartland line-up, running at 65ppm and 75ppm.
At the upper end of the usage profile, Xerox’s new A3 format WorkCentre Pro 165 and 175 provide high speed 65ppm and 75ppm (at A4) copying, printing, scanning and faxing for departmental use.
These devices are also available in WorkCentre ‘M’ configurations if scanning is not required and in CopyCentre, digital copier, configurations for departments not wishing to combine printing with copy functionality at all.
As WorkCentre Pro advanced multifunction devices, the 165 and 175 are network and duplex ready mono machines offering print and scan as standard with optional functionality covering scanning, email, fax, internet fax, and network fax. They can handle a maximum of 4,800 sheets from up to five input sources and have an enormously impressive first page out time of 2.9 seconds.
Duty cycle of these heavy duty machines is 250,000 pages per month for the WC165 and 300,000 pages for the WC175 and a wide range of finishing devices are available to ensure flexibility and efficiency where throughput is high.
Thankfully, as heavy duty machines, the WC 165 and 175 use single-piece toner cartridges with a page yield of 45,000 at 6% coverage (quoted at 6% because of the copier market targeting of this level of machine), which equates to 37,500 pages at 5%. Nevertheless, toner cartridges will need to be replaced frequently where the heaviest users are concerned!
Running costs on these machines is a fairly healthy 0.45 pence per page (@5%), which is directly comparable with devices such as the 50ppm Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 9050mfp – which costs 36% less to purchase than the base level copy/fax only CopyCentre 165.
Xerox’s FreeFlow SMARTsend software is shipped with the devices to allow for distribution and routing of digital documents from hard copy originals scanned using the MFP device.
SMARTsend is designed to automate complex multiple routing commands with a simple setup from the device. For instance, an original document may be routed to a Document Management system or other document repository, printed on a remote device anywhere in the world and emailed to colleagues, customers or suppliers in one operation.
As document movement increasingly becomes accepted as a digital operation rather than an analogue operation, software such as SMARTsend is capable of making large savings in high volume document environments – e.g. banking, insurance, contract, etc.
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