Copier/Printer Tidbits

Kodak announced it will have a large booth at the upcoming Print 09 trade show in Chicago, IL in September. Details:
- Will sow the new Kodak PROSPER system, a high speed b/w inkjet imprinting system
- NEXPRESS SE3600 production color system
- 120ppm top speed or 3600 sheets per hour
- new Intelligent Calibration System using a Kodak i1220 ICS color scanner
- new, improved Enhanced Dry Ink toner
- 25% more yield from toner bottles
- new, improved developer for more consistency
- fifth toner station for clear toner, which works with off-line Intelligent Dimensional Coating
- DIGIMASTER EX300 production b/w system
- 18,000 impressions per hour or 300ipm
- uses two b/w engines to print on both side of paper (similar to Xerox Nuvera 288 or Oce’ 6250)
- optional Watkiss SpineMaster and PowerSquare 200 bookletmaker able to make books
of 8 to 200 pages with square spine with text on spine


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Managed Print Services related statistics from DocuVision International:
- HP has placed over 100 million laser printers in the U.S.
- Copier makers have placed over 8 million copiers and MFPs
- Only 10% of office document hard costs can be attributed to document device and supply/service costs
- Other 90% is IT infrastructure, IT support, procurement, vendor administration, scanning labor,
storage labor, retrieval labor and distribution labor

Samsung sponsored survey reveals info on printer data security:
- Just under 50% of employees are exposed to sensitive data via prints left on exit tray
- 14% admitted seeing salary details
- 22% had seen performance reviews
- 34% had seen confidential correspondence
- 80% did not know that secure jobs could have been inadvertently stored on hard drive of printer of MFP
- 75% did not know that some printers could be hacked
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