Printers That Tighten Data Security

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