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ISSN 2055-3099 (Print) ISSN 2055-3102 (Online)
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Bulletin
The countdown to GDPR begins
12
Printer Apps
Xerox lays the foundation for app expansion
16
Cover Story
Vision teams up with HP
19
MFPs
New Lexmark devices.
Plus the latest Eco Copier from Toshiba
20
Smart Print
How apps are
redefining the
office MFP
22
What’s New
A selection of the best new
products and services
24
ECM
A better way to manage
enterprise content
28
Scanners
How Kodak plans to tame data
chaos
32
Software
YSoft takes print management into
new areas
34
Opinion
Sam Crook makes the case for
e-signatures
34
E-signatures
What the public thinks
ISSUE 46
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COMMENT
So, the iPhone is 10 years old. When Jobs described Apple’s
new device as revolutionary, not everyone was convinced.
I for one completely underestimated its
likely impact. I fixated on the telephony
aspects, which were not radically different
to what other companies were offering,
and missed the broader picture – the
creation of an app platform and eco-
system that when combined with seamless
internet connectivity would be completely
transformative. WAP had been a damp
squib and I doubted how far you could go
with the offer of real-time access to football scores or weather
updates. How wrong I was. And how blinkered to ignore the
ingenuity and inventiveness of the developer community.
A decade on and I find myself in a similar position as printer
companies like Xerox (see page 12) and Samsung (see page
20) turn their office MFPs into app platforms. There are already
apps that simplify the management and servicing of devices,
streamline workflows and integrate MFPs with enterprise
software and the cloud. What comes next I have no idea. Is what
we have already enough? Or, by opening up their platforms to
developers, are MFP vendors laying the foundations for a step-
change in office productivity? Time will tell, but in the meantime
I look forward to seeing what app developers make of this new
opportunity. Their contributions are bound to be interesting.
In recent years, there have been innovations in printer hardware
too – mainly, it must be said, in inkjet rather than toner
technology. One exception is Toshiba’s Eco Copier. This unusual
device prints erasable toner onto normal paper, which can then
be erased through the application of heat. The same sheet of
paper can be re-used up to eight times, significantly reducing the
carbon impact of office printing. The original product did have
shortcomings, and these were reflected in poor sales: the MFP
could only print erasable toner, so customers would need an
additional, conventional MFP for printing permanent documents;
and pages had to be erased in a separate unit. Toshiba has
addressed both these problems in its new series of Eco Copiers
(see page 19). The new models can switch between normal and
erasable toner, so customers need just one machine, and the
MFP will also erase pages. Now that’s progress.
James Goulding
,
Editor
Toshiba Eco Copiers (see page 19)
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