Fuji Xerox Malaysia's new ApeosPort-II digital colour multifunction printer (MFP) series offers the option of installing a document-surveillance system.

With it, the device will save all documents that it copies, prints, faxes or scans, along with user details; and in the event of a data leak, it can provide a trail to the culprit.

Yeoh Swee Im, general manager of marketing and new business, said the ApeosWare Image Log Service (AWILS) system helps reduce tiresome and lengthy investigative work.

“A task that was once tedious and time-consuming now becomes swift and effortless,” she said at the launch of the MFPs in Kuala Lumpur recently.

However, Yeoh assured that even without AWILS installed, the ApeosPort-II series machines are secure because they have numerous measures built-in to protect documents from prying eyes.

This includes data encryption, data overwrite, digital watermark, secure watermark, enhanced annotation, print time restriction and private print options, she said.

To further strengthen security, users can add Fuji Xerox's Equitrac Follow-You printing technology solution.

With this solution, documents will be kept in a secure server and can only be output when users authenticate themselves at the MFP. There are three MFP models under the ApeosPort-II series — C7500, C6500 and C5400.

Lee Chin Guan, senior manager for solution products marketing, said the devices look identical and are also distinguishable from their rated copy and print speeds.

He said the C7500, C6500 and C5400 have rated monochrome copy speeds of up to 75pages per minute (ppm), 65ppm and 55ppm, respectively. As for print speeds, the C7500 and C6500 churn out up to 50ppm in monochrome and up to 25ppm in colour.

The C5400 prints out at up to 40ppm (monochrome) and 22.5ppm (colour).

Prices for the ApeosPort-II series start from RM60,000.

Fuji Xerox also unveiled a similar but lower-end series, the DocuCentre-II.

Source:star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2008/1/21/technology/20080121160906&sec=technology

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Unfortunately, one of the least used features on all-in-one multi-function printers and heavy duty copier/scanner/printer machines is the scan function because it’s simply too complicated. If you’re lucky, IT will set up your email account as a preconfigured setting and they’ll teach you how to scan a document to your email inbox. If you’re geeky enough to go and figure out how to key in your own email, then you might be one of the other two people in the building that uses the scan functionality. But most people simply keep paper copies and do everything the way they’ve always done it by making more copies and storing them in a file cabinet if they’re organized enough. Well Samsung might actually change this with their direct to USB multi-function printers.

One of the features I’ve searched long and hard for is a scan-to-USB feature. I’ve asked representatives from Xerox and every other copier company that offers multi-function copiers with little luck. I’ve asked HP for this feature and no luck there either. But last week as I went through Samsung’s CES booth, I thought I’d check out their color multifunction printers and I notice a nice little USB port in the front of them. The Samsung representative explained that the USB port can act as a print source or scan destination and I thought FINALLY we’ve made scanning easy.

The color multi-function printers in question are the Samsung CLX-3160 (pictured left) and the yet-to-be-released CLX-6200. Both devices can print an assortment of document types such as PDF, JPEG, TXT, etc directly from USB memory. Both devices can also scan documents and save them directly to the USB memory. This means that instead of trying to figure out how to configure an email destination which is difficult without a qwerty keyboard or figure out how to dump to a scan to a network file share, you simply dump the scan to USB. Now you just take those stacks of documents and shove it in the feeder and it will get digitized on to USB memory!

The difference between the Samsung CLX-6200 and CLX-3160 is that the 6200 can print all four colors at the same time whereas the 3160 does color one color at a time. This means that the 6200 prints color more than four times faster than the 3160 and it also prints black and white a little faster. The 6200 will also print full duplex two-sided output automatically which cuts down paper consumption in half if only people can be educated on using it. The 3160 is available now online for roughly $450. The 6200 will launch at the end of this quarter for $200 more than the 3160 and should be well worth the price as a workgroup all-in-one. Personally I wouldn’t mind having one of these near my cubical.

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Whether you're a businessperson on deadline producing documents on a plane, or a party host who wants guests to get snapshots in a jiffy, a portable printer is just the thing. A computer printer, or more commonly a printer, produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics) of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies. Many printers are primarily used as local computer peripherals, and are attached by a printer cable to a computer which serves as a document source. Some printers, commonly known as network printers, have built-in network interfaces (typically wireless or Ethernet), and can serve as a hardcopy device for any user on the network. Individual printers are often designed to support both local and network connected users at the same time.

In addition, many modern printers can directly interface to electronic media such as memory sticks or memory cards, or to image capture devices such as digital cameras, scanners; some printers are combined with a scanners and/or fax machines in a single unit. Printers that include non-printing features are sometimes called Multi-Function Printers (MFP) or Multi-Function Devices (MFD).

A printer which is combined with a scanner can function as a photocopier if so designed. Most MFPs include printing, scanning, and copying among their features.

Printers are designed for low-volume, short-turnaround print jobs; requiring virtually no setup time to achieve a hard copy of a given document. However, printers are generally slow devices (30 pages per minute is considered fast; and many consumer printers are far slower than that), and the cost-per-page is relatively high.

In contrast, the printing press (which serves much the same function), is designed and optimized for high-volume print jobs such as newspaper print runs--printing presses are capable of hundreds of pages per minute or more, and have an incremental cost-per-page which is a fraction of that of printers.

The printing press remains the machine of choice for high-volume, professional publishing. However, as printers have improved in quality and performance, many jobs which used to be done by professional print shops are now done by users on local printers; see desktop publishing.

Printer companies are under attack as more people become concerned about global warming and toxic pollution. The solution? "Printer Vendors Need to Greenwash Their Image." That unfortunate headline was the theme of an e-mail newsletter this morning from Lyra Research, a well-respected firm that tracks the digital imaging industry.

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