Portable Sony Projector

Sony introduced it's new light weight projector for the road warrior.

The VPL-MX20 adopts a slim and lightweight body design – which offers a thin form factor of
approximately 1 13/16 inches and a light
weight of approximately 3 lb 12 oz.

By combining a new generation of optical system
that uses Sony’s BrightEra with Long Lasting
Optics technology and a 3LCD projection system,
the VPL-MX20 offers high picture quality in XGA
(1024 x 768) resolution and a high brightness of
2500 lumens.

Estimated Street Price $3000.00

Sony VPL-MX20 Spec sheet

Replacement Lamp: LPM-M200 - $399.00

New Brother MFC-8000 Series Additions

Brother MFC-8480DN and Brother MFC-8890DW will replace the MFC-8460N, MFC-8860DN & MFC-8870DW, will start hitting the distribution channel in April.

New Brother MFC-8480DN specifications:

• Up to 32ppm monochrome print speed
• Built-in automatic duplex capability (for two-sided printing)
• Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi print quality
• 300-sheet paper capacity, expandable up to 550-sheets
• USB Direct Interface, allows users to print from or scan to their USB Flash memory drive (PDF and JPEG)
• Brother TN-620 Toner Cartridge, 3,000 Page Yield
• Brother TN-650 Toner Cartridge, 8,000 Page Yield
• Brother DR-620 Drum Unit
• Estimated Street Price: $399

New Brother MFC-8890DW specifications:

• Up to 32ppm monochrome print speed
• Built-in automatic duplex capability (for two-sided printing)
• Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi print quality
• 300-sheet paper capacity, expandable up to 550-sheets
• USB Direct Interface, allows users to print from or scan to their USB Flash memory drive (PDF and JPEG)
• Built-in wireless (802.11 b/g) network interface
• Full duplex capability (print/copy/scan/fax)
• Toner cartridge TN620 low yield
• Toner cartridge TN650 high yield
• Brother Drum Unit DR620
• Estimated Street Price: $499

Supplies in Europe:

• Brother TN-3230 Toner Cartridge, 3000 page yield
• Brother TN-3280 Toner Cartridge, 8000 page yield
• Brother DR-3200 Drum Unit

Rate It! Kyocera Mita Managed Print Services Solution

KMnet Admin

KMnet Admin is a web-based imaging device management solution designed to allow network administrators to monitor printers and other output devices on their network. KMnet Admin incorporates device management, print job management and device accounting in a single unified dashboard tracking solution.

KM-NET ADMIN is Kyocera's latest technology in Network Imaging Device Management,designed as a web-based console framework that incorporates a 'plug-in' type architecture for management purposes. Within this framework, any of these features and solutions can be added.

• Network Device Management & Monitoring
  
• Print Job Management
• Device Accounting
• Report Generation

KM-NET ADMIN allows Administrators to assign business rules based on their requirements, as well as provide access and security privileges to users. Multiple networks and sub-nets can be added in the Console Manager, with the ability to set an auto-discovery tool at varying intervals, ensuring complete device discovery and monitoring.

KM-NET Viewer

Kyocera's KM-NET Viewer is a PC-based Managed Print Service (MPS) software solution designed for the small to mid-sized business to assist in the monitoring and management of their imaging devices. KM-NET Viewer provides real-time data and delivers comprehensive information for all printers and other output devices.

Kyocera's KM-NET Viewer tool is designed to assist in the day-to-day task of Network Device Management. KM-NET Viewer is a stand-alone PC-based application, which can be installed on any Windows-compatible computer.

KM-NET VIEWER is an Administrative tool that provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for many environments.

Features include:

• Device monitoring and status
• Simple auto-discovery of new imaging devices
• Report generation
• SNMP communications
• Device grouping by cost centers
• Error & Notification settings

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Rate It! 3rd Party Managed Print Solutions | printerRx

printerRx Managed Printing Solution

Features:

Output Management

• Page Counts by printer, department & user
• Monitor MS & USB attached printers
• Monitors NT Print servers
• Monitors Print by user
• Tracks NT Print jobs

Printer Management

• Auto-discovery of USB, parallel & serial, network printers & print servers tracks MFP impressions
• Monitors all Device activities
• Parallel-attached Printers
• Groups printers for logical monitoring
• Historical database maintained for years
• Automatically locates printers
  
• Online statistics (downtime, alerts, pages printed)
• Monitors desktop printers (serial, parallel & network)

Alert Management

• Receive SNMP alerts
• Intelligent filtering of alerts
• Automates responses to these events without user intervention
• Notification of alerts via email
• Standard notification options including paging, e-mail, and trouble tickets
• Closes alerts
• Highlights problem and down printers

Enterprise Printer Management

• Forwards alerts to EMS (Tivoli, Unicenter,OpenView)
• Scalable to Corporation with thousands of printers in many locations
• Enterprise solution for corporate document strategy
• Usage reports – who’s spending the most on printing
• Single view of printer network with sorting & grouping
• At-a-glance views of network, group, and device status

Cost of Printing

• By print job
• By user
• By printer
• Variable (consumables)
• Fixed (asset, maintenance, floor space)
• Downtime costs
• Online viewing of costs
• Track costs to devices
• Track costs to users
• Averages & standard deviations of printer yields for each consumable
• Tracks user printing by pages printed, job lists, printers
• Who is printing what, where & what it costs
• Total Cost of print by printer & user

Asset Management

• Printer inventory
• Maintenance tracking & scheduling
• Purchase Financials & Lease information
• Printer Supplies Tracking
• Vendor Tracking
  

Enterprise Planning

• Printer usage reports
• Printer problem graphs
• Usage trend graphs

Complexity & Overhead

• Easy to set up, install, and configure; Rapid deployment
• Self-configuring & self-maintaining;
• No costly rule-based structure to implement
• Printer manufacturer & vendor independent
• Software installed on desktops for monitoring USB printers
• Software located on server
• Minimal Software management Overhead
• Minimal Network overhead
• Not corporate critical (if sw goes down, printing is unaffected)
• Complexity of install
• Not tied to a hardware manufacturer or vendor

New Brother Laser Printers

New Brother HL-5300 Series Laser Printers

Set to be released in the channel in April, Brother will introduce these new Models.

• Brother HL5340D
• Brother HL5370DW
• Brother HL5370DWT

Brother HL-5340D features:

• 32ppm print speed
• Built-in automatic duplex capability for two-sided printing
• 16MB memory
• Increased high-yield replacement toner cartridge available Brother TN-620 and TN-650
• Brother DR-620 Drum Unit
• 300-sheet paper capacity, expandable up to 800-sheet
• Estimated Street Price: $199

Brother HL-5370DW features:

• 32 ppm print speed
• Built-in automatic duplex capability for two-sided printing
• 16MB memory
• Brother TN620 / TN650 Toner cartridge
• Brother DR620 Drum Unit
• 300-sheet paper capacity, expandable up to 800-sheet
• Built-in wireless (802.11 b/g) network interface
• Built-in Ethernet network interface
• 32MB of standard memory, expandable to 544MB
• Estimated Street Price: $249

Brother HL-5370DWT key features:

• 32 ppm print speed
• Built-in automatic duplex capability for two-sided printing
• 16MB memory
• Increased high-yield replacement toner cartridge available Brother TN-620 and TN-650
• Brother DR-620 Drum Unit
• 300-sheet paper capacity, expandable up to 800-sheet
• Built-in wireless (802.11 b/g) network interface
• Built-in Ethernet network interface
• 32MB of standard memory, expandable to 544MB
• Second 250-sheet paper tray that boosts total input capacity to 550-sheets
• Estimated Street Price: $299

User manual for the Brother HL-5370 Series Laser Printers

Supplies in Europe:
Brother TN-3230 Toner Cartridge, 3000 page yield
Brother TN-3280 Toner Cartridge, 8000 page yield
Brother DR-3200 Drum Unit

HP 2140 Fax - Coming Soon

The Hewlett Packard 2140 Fax is designed for small and home office businesses that need a dedicated fax machine, the HP 2140 Fax is an affordable (Less than $100.00) solution for plain paper faxing. Loaded with key features in a small footprint, the HP 2140-Fax includes an integrated telephone, fast fax speeds, walk-up scan & copying and option to fax without original. It also stores up to 100 speed dials and has a 200-page fax memory for enhanced office productivity and added efficiency in the office.

Features & Specs

• Fax transmission speeds as fast as six seconds per page with 14.4 Kbps modem.
• Store up to five frequently sent faxes so they can be resent multiple times without rescanning.
• 200-page fax memory.
• 15-page automatic document feeder
• 100 speed dials.
• Junk fax blocker to prevent unwanted incoming faxes.
• Walk-up copying, yielding up to 75 copies at speeds of up to three pages per minute. reduce/enlarge capabilities from 50 to 125 percent of original size.
• 20 locations broadcast fax feature.
• Paper Size: standard letter, A4 and legal paper sizes.
• HP 701 Black Print Cartridge - CC635A: $33.99, With a cost per print/page of $0.0971, plus paper.

The Hewlett Packard 2140-Fax is expected to be available for purchase June 2009 for an estimated U.S. street price of $100.

Rate It! 3rd Party Managed Print Solutions | Print Audit

Print Audit's suite of Print Management Solutions for the Printer & Copier service dealer.

Print Audit Assessor - is a tool exclusively built for service and printer dealers to be able to do a full assessment of their customer’s print environment. This data may be used to analyze volumes and create specific proposals related to their customer’s needs.

Print Audit Rapid Assessment Key v2 - An extremely easy to use USB device that quickly collects data on networked imaging devices. The USB key contains dozens of new features and improvements, including faster and more accurate scanning.

Print Audit Facilities Manager - Print Audit Facilities Manager is a powerful, easy to use tool designed to remotely collect meter reads, automate imaging supplies fulfillment and report service information for managing fleets of copiers, printers, fax machines, and multi-function devices.

Print Audit 5 - A print management solution. Comprehensive, detailed, client-based tracking used to analyze, reduce and recover costs and resources associated with printing and plotting to all networked, local, and direct to IP printers. Print Audit 5's three components, Analysis, Reduction and Recovery can be purchased as a suite or individually. Now supports Mac OS 10.3.9 and above. Sign-up for a free trial.

Print Audit Green - Powered by Print Audit 5, Print Audit Green is designed to help companies reduce their environmental impact and printing costs. With Print Audit Green, organizations can learn exactly what is being printed and by whom, and implement rules to create cost-conscious and earth-friendly users.

Copy, scan and fax tracking solutions - Print Audit has a variety of scan, fax and copy tracking tools to help you reduce and recover your document creation costs. These solutions range from externally connected hardware terminals to software that runs directly on supported photocopiers.

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OfficeMax Goes Dark

We saw this interesting email that Office Max sent out.

As an important partner of the OfficeMax, we wanted to make you aware that on March 6th, 2009, OfficeMax will undergo a site update. For twelve hours, beginning at midnight on Friday and ending at noon on Saturday, the OfficeMax site will go dark while we are working hard to make enhancements...

Friday at midnight must not be prime time for ordering office supplies ....Personally, I will be asleep when they go dark. I just might check it out on Saturday and see if it is true.

So when is the best time to update and deploy a new website?

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TOSHIBA Managed Print Services Solutions

Effectively managing the use and allocation of your existing hardware, Toshiba Print management Program can reduce or even eliminate the need to buy new equipment. Simplified service contracts and lower printer consumable costs.

Toshiba’s Print Management Solution - PageSmart
The Cost-Per-Print Solution to Lowering Your Printing Costs

Toshiba’s Encompass PageSmart program is a way to manage your fleet and lower printer operating costs. Toshiba’s PageSmart Print management Solution features an innovative pay-as-you-print solution to printer toner, service, and management. The program covers all aspects of your printer. There’s no paying in advance for service fees or supplies that sit in storage. All toner, parts, and service are included in the simple fixed cost per page.

• Multivendor Support - All printers are covered regardless of Manufacturer of make or model

Toshiba’s Print Management Solution – PrintSmart
The Single-Point solution to Managing Both Supplies and Service

Imagine saving money on your printer supplies and getting service included at no extra charge. With Toshiba’s Encompass PrintSmart program, you’ll get the printing supplies you need without the addi­tional expense of servicing your printing devices. Toshiba PrintSmart provides on-site service with your toner… at no additional cost.

• Toshiba’s MPS program will inspect and tag each printer to get a current and accurate inventory, so you know where they are, who uses them, and their current condition
• Toshiba will provide service for any printer under the contract, at no additional charge
• Toshiba’s Managed Print Services will make recommendations by matching needs to usage patterns so you know which products provide the most efficiency by department
• Print Toner, and Service, Included at Cost savings - ease of budgeting One Convenient Price
• Reliable, On-site Service - No additional costs for service, minimizes equipment downtime and frees your IT staff
• Multivendor Support - All printers are covered regardless of Manufacturer of make or model

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Canon Powershot A1100 IS, a Pink Camera

Again, my wife would love to have this camera. It comes in "Pink". Along with Pink Powershot A100 - 3447B005, the Canon Powershot A1100 IS comes in the following colors.

• Blue 3208B005
• Brown 2668Boo5
• Purple 3209B005
• Pink 3447B005

Some quick specs for the Canon Powershot A110o IS:

• 12.1-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality poster-size prints
• 4x optical zoom and Optical Image Stabilizer; 2.5-inch LCD screen
• DIGIC 4 Image Processor with evolved Face Detection Technology; Face Detection Self-timer
• Uses 2 AA-size batteries

Estimated Street Price $199.00