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Oki is building on the success of its enterprise-class colour
A4 MFPs with the introduction of new mono devices
featuring the same customisable workflow platform.
OKI has expanded its range of A4 MPs with the mono MB700
Series, bringing all the benefits of the award-winning MC700
Series of colour MFPs to applications that require cost-effective
mono output.
The MC700/MB700 Series enhance business productivity
through Oki’s sXP (smart Extendable Platform), an embedded
open platform offering easy integration into an organisation’s
existing information infrastructure. The platform facilitates
streamlined digital workflows that can reduce running costs and
improve productivity and operational efficiency.
Andrew Hall, marketing manager of OKI Systems UK,
says that the new devices provide larger workgroups with
enterprise-class functionality, security and flexibility, backed by
comprehensive document workflow support.
He said: “By improving the way documents are handled,
managed and processed, they will deliver significant operational
efficiencies and cost savings to an organisation, ensuring that
their print capability fully supports the broader objectives of the
business.”
Both the colour MC700 Series and mono MB700 Series
have been well received since launch. OKI France recently won
a tender to supply more than 3,000 MB700 Series MFPs to
hospitals across the region; and the MC700 Series has already
picked up a number of awards including a
Better Buys for
Business
Editor’s Choice award, a
PC Pro
Recommended award
and an Editor’s recommendation by
IT w Administracji
.
A key strength of the new devices, says Hall, is that they have
the flexibility to meet diverse requirements. “In selecting the
most appropriate print solution, some organisations will focus on
improving productivity and efficiency, whereas others may focus
on controlling print usage or lowering running and maintenance
costs.Whatever the priorities of the individual business, OKI’s
highly flexible range of mono and colour MFPs can be tailored to
meet their diverse demands.”
He added: “Every aspect of the MC700 and MB700 Series
design reflects our ‘no compromise’
approach to providing customers
with flexible, high-productivity
print to meet the demands of the
business. The awards and positive
reviews the MC700 has already
received in such a short period is
testament to this and we expect
the same response from the
market for the MB700 Series.
These enterprise-class MFPs are
not only an important addition
to our product portfolio, they
will also significantly strengthen
our managed print services
strategy, which aims to provide
products that meet the precise
needs of each customer.”
Small and light, Philips PicoPix
projectors are suitable for diverse
applications, from business
presentations to art installations.
Here, Irene Brown, Degree
Programme Director MFA at
Newcastle University, explains why
she rarely travels anywhere without
a Philips PicoPix in her bag.
Irene Brown wears many hats. She is
the Degree Programme Director MFA
at Newcastle University, a university
lecturer in Fine Art and a practising
artist. She is also involved in numerous
international research projects and
works extensively with museums and
galleries throughout the world.
Earlier this year in Duisburg,
Germany, she ran an Erasmus Intensive
Programme for 60 students and 20
staff from seven European Universities
as part of the International Public
Art Trienalle, EmscherKunst; and in
October travelled to Minneapolis,
USA as the Bakken Museum and
Library Research Fellow. She is also
involved in Recall, an EU-funded
programme to preserve Europe’s
architectural heritage from the two
world wars.
In all these activities Irene
depends on pocket-sized Philips
PicoPix projectors to educate,
communicate and inform.
“I have just recently returned
from Norway where I was part of a
European Commission project called
Recall,” she explains. “This project
looks at new ways of communicating
20th Century European Conflict
Heritage, specificallyWW2. I used a
Philips PicoPix to produce a temporary
installation in theWW2 Prisoner of
War Camp Museum at Falstad.”
Irene has also used the multimedia
projectors in art installations for
Cragside House, a National Trust
property in Northumbria, and the
Literary & Philosophical Society library
in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Irene chose the Philips PicoPix
PPX2480 because she wanted to
project video images very clearly and
needed equipment to be discreet
and easy to operate. Because the
environments she works in are not
always fully dark, a good lumens
rating is important. So, too, is the
life expectancy of the LEDs. The
installation at Cragside House, for
example, is on 8 hours a day, 6 days a
week for 4 months of the year.
“The best things about these
projectors,” says Irene, “are their size;
their flexibility; the two-hour battery
and mains operation; 2GB internal
memory; and the fact that they run
content from a USB so there is no
necessity ever to plug in a laptop. They
are so easy to use and so far have
proved very reliable”.
She adds: “These days I often feel
like a Philips PicoPix sales person as
everyone I meet loves them and asks
me about them: how much do they
cost, where can they get one etc. I now
hardly travel anywhere without one in
my luggage.”
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Passport,
ticket, PicoPix
OCULUS MUNDI
is a multi-video installation in
the ‘quiet room’ of the Grade II-listed Literary &
Philosophical Society library in Newcastle upon Tyne
FULMINATION
is installed in Lord Armstrong’s
Study, Cragside House. Northumbria