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Philips, famous for its fax machines, is moving into the business printer market with the launch of two 24 page per minute mono laser MFPs, the MFD 6135d and MFD 6170dw. Based on a brand new printer engine, these highly productive devices combine the ease-of-use of Philips consumer devices with the versatility demanded by business customers, including automatic two-sided printing/ copying, wireless connectivity, colour scanning and a choice of standard or high yield cartridges. Philips is supporting the devices with a new distribution strategy and purchasing options. Unlike its fax machines, which are sold through the retail channel, Philips is taking its product to market via leading distributors VOW, Beta and Spicers and their network of business equipment dealers. In order to raise its profle in this new channel, Philips is offering the products and consumables on a standalone basis or in a copier-like bundle with three years’ worth of supplies.

First for business

In a crowded market, Philips’ frst business-class MFDs stand out as something special

Copy. Both devices include a versatile 24ppm copy function producing output of the highest quality thanks to Philips’ impressive Crystal Copy technology. This clever feature enhances copies of poor originals, for example by lightening grey areas of grubby originals or darkening text to improve the legibility of faint documents.

Scan. The high quality network colour scanner has a top resolution of 4800dpi, enabling originals to be captured in all their glory for electronic archiving, distribution, editing or re-purposing. Scans can be routed to a USB key, network folder, PC or email.

Fax. A Super G3 plain paper fax is still a useful feature to have for security or as back-up in case your email system fails. Leveraging Philips’ expertise in fax technology, the MFD 6135d/6170dw includes a secure fax option that prevents faxes from falling into the wrong hands. Instead of printing incoming faxes, it stores them on the MFP’s memory until a PIN code is entered via the control panel. As well as maintaining the security/confdentiality of faxes, this feature prevents faxes from being removed from the output tray by accident. An alternative option is to route incoming faxes to an attached USB drive (see below). Faxes are automatically printed with the time they were received, even if they are not output ‘til later.

USB Connectivity. A USB port conveniently located on the front of the device provides direct USB printing/ scanning capabilities to walk-up users. The direct printing feature supports a number of formats, including tiff, txt and pdf (scan) formats.

Standard Functions

The MFD 6135d and MFD 6170dw are aimed at small businesses, small work teams and home workers with advanced document processing needs. The stylish, compact devices give business users everything they need for day-to-day information creation, distribution and management, including a mono printer/copier, colour scanner and fax, with true multi-tasking so that one person can use the scanner while another is printing. Both models can be used as standalone or networked devices and offer the following core functions:

Print. The network-ready MFDs are based on a 24 page per minute (ppm) A4 mono laser print engine, with

c two-sided printing resolution of 1200 n printing on both he page, the MFD d/6170dw still s at an impressive pm. For ease of e, the printers take n all-in-one cartridge available with capacities of 1,000 or 3,000 pages.