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Canon and HP have won new
Buyers Laboratory Line of
the Year Awards for energy
efficiency and wide format
printing respectively.
Canon won BLI’s first
Line of the Year Award for
Energy Efficiency after its A3
MFPs exhibited ‘significantly
lower than average energy
consumption’ in real-world job
stream tests.
The award was based
on the performance of the
imageRUNNER ADVANCE
C2020i, C2030i, C5035i,
C5051i and C5255 Series; the
imageRUNNER 3245i; and the
imageRUNNER ADVANCE 4051i,
4025i and 6075 Series.
Canon’s devices had energy
consumption rates ranging from
37% to 62% below competitive
averages.
HP has won the inaugural BLI
Wide Format Technical Printer
Line of the Year award for its
Designjet T series. BLI claims
that HP’s models distinguished
themselves in testing with four
out of the six currently available
earning themselves BLI ‘Picks’
as the best in their respective
categories.
A key benefits of HP’s product
line, says BLI, is the Designjet
ePrint & Share utility, available
free with all Designjet ePrinter
models. This enables users to
scan wide format documents
to the cloud for retrieval by any
number of users and to print
directly without the need for
associated print drivers.
Joe Tischner, BLI wide-
format printer analyst, said:
“Modifications to design plans
and projects can be conveyed
quickly to teams worldwide
using HP ePrint & Share. It’s
a perfect solution for sharing
large, multi-page files.”
winter 2013
THE PRINT, MFP & SOFTWARE MAGAZINE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS
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Canon and HP winners as BLI launches new awards
Altman Integrated Technologies
(AIT) has released embedded
print management software
created specifically for Canon’s
new range of imageRUNNER
ADVANCE MFPs. XPR Enterprise
Canon Embedded software
provides secure authentication
to the device; accounting of
all print and copy activity;
secure, pull print release; and
integration with AIT’s popular
print accounting solution,
Pcounter. Authentication
options include user IDs, ID
cards and biometric fingerprint
recognition.
www.altman.co.uk
Users of Samsung XOA MFPs
can look forward to improved
print management following
Nuance’s announcement that
it has developed embedded
Equitrac software for the
devices. Equitrac embedded
clients will provide users with
Follow-You secure printing;
track all print, copy, scan and
fax activity at the MFP; enforce
print rules; and assign costs to
individuals and departments.
Embedded clients for Equitrac
Office and Equitrac Express
software remove the need for
customers to purchase and
support additional hardware.
www.equitrac.com/devices.
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Embedded authentication
No need for extra hardware with
embedded Equitrac
HP won the inaugural BLI wide
format technical printer line of
the year award for its Designjet
T series.
Energy-efficient: Canon
ImageRUNNER Advance