Inkjet
Update
Business inkjet sales bucked the trend
in the UK in the first quarter of this
year, with year-on-year shipments up
18.8%. Overall, the UK printer/MFP
market fell by 6.4% in Q1, according to
International Data Corporation (IDC).
InWestern Europe as a whole, printer
sales grew 2.6% in unit terms and 8.4%
in value in Q1, 2015, with double-digit
increases in Finland, Spain and Greece.
Highlights included a 6.3% rise in
shipments of laser MFPs and a 21.6%
increase in business inkjets, with sales of
A3 models up 83.6%.
Not surprisingly, there has been a fair
amount of activity in the inkjet market
of late.
What’s new in inkjet printing
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HP boosts print security
HP has introduced an expanded range of
solutions and services to help customers
improve the security of their print
environment.
1
HP Access Control now offers server-less
secure pull printing, eliminating the need
for servers in small branch offices. Secure
pull printing can be deployed to maintain
document confidentiality, improve compliance
and save on toner and paper.
2
HP Access Control now also functions
as a managed mobility solution, allowing
mobile device users to email print jobs to the
secure pull print queue and be subject to the
same access control, tracking and security
measures as print jobs initiated by PCs or
laptops on the company network.
3
The policy-based security monitoring
and management solution, HP JetAdvantage
Security Manager, has been expanded to
cover the new Pro-class HP LaserJet printers.
4
HP Printing Security Advisory Services
have been extended to cover Europe and Asia
for the first time.
5
A new forms recognition module has been
introduced for the HP Capture and Route
solution, which speeds up and simplifies the
scanning and routing of paper documents
to reduce errors and improve security and
compliance.
6
Finally, HP has launched the Proactive Print
Advisor, a new service providing customised
reporting, analysis and recommendations
based on each customer’s individual print
environment. Available globally, this service
helps reduce the printer management
load for IT organisations by providing
recommendations on how to optimise their
print fleet for cost effectiveness and policy
enforcement.
per month as it believes they will be
most responsive to the TCO message.
It has already had some success in the
healthcare sector, attracting print centres
that provide print services, such as
prescription printing, to communities of
GP surgeries, and also plans to go after
expensive high-end lasers and copiers
by promoting the HL-S7000 series as an
energy-efficient alternative.
Brother is not the only company
offering 100ppm print speeds.
Riso
has
just launched the world’s first A2 digital
duplicator, which is also capable of
printing at 100pm regardless of paper
size. Duplicators create a stencil master
for each sheet and are very economical
when producing large numbers of flyers,
leaflets and short-run newspapers – the
cost of the master means they are an
expensive option if only a small number
of copies are required. The new A2 size –
A3 was previously the largest paper size
supported by duplicators – will enable
commercial printers to produce 4 x A4
multi-up printing.
The RISO A2 is capable of printing as
soon as it is powered up, with a make-
ready time of just 60 seconds and the
ability to print 1,000 sheets in just 10
minutes. It is available with a choice of 21
standard colours, with the option to order
custom colours to match a corporate
logo, say. Print quality is up to 600 dpi.
Lower down the food chain,
Canon
is promoting its MAXIFY business inkjets
with free 3-year warranties (see cover
story on pages 12 and 13) and
HP
has
introduced a new A3 inkjet, the HP
OfficeJet 7510Wide Format all-in-
one for micro-businesses and small
workgroups of 1-5 people. HP says the
£139.99 printer has a 40% lower cost per
page than equivalent colour laser printers.
Epson
has finally established
a 26-strong network of managed
print service (MPS) providers to sell
and support its WorkForce Pro RIPS
(Replaceable Ink Pack System) device.
The device incorporates extra-large ink
sacks with capacities of 75,000 pages
(mono) and 50,000 pages for each of the
colours.
The large ink supply on RIPS machines
reduces the cost per page and minimises
the need for servicing interventions. It
will be interesting to see how much of
these savings are passed on to customers
and how much are used to increase
dealer margins.
Low running costs of 0.4p to 0.5p
per page are one of the selling points
of
Brother’s
expanded HL-S7000 series
of high speed mono printers. Following
the launch of the 100 page per minute
model last year, Brother has introduced
cheaper, slower 50ppm and 70ppm
models in an attempt to increase the
potential market for these impressive
devices. It has also added extra paper
trays to the 100ppm model, enabling it
to be used for printing a greater variety
of material without manual intervention.
Brother is targeting businesses with
print volumes of 15,000 to 20,000 pages
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