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Taking Control of
Document Workflow
Over the past couple of years,
Oki Systems UK’s new range
of multifunction printers for
the smaller business has been
extremely well received and gained
a reputation for being highly reliable
and energy-efficient.
OKI has now built on this success
and developed an equally innovative
range of A4 colour multifunction
printers for medium to large businesses
and other organisations. Multifunction
printers combine printing, scanning, fax
and copying capability and sometimes
document finishing (sorting and
stapling) in one compact device. This
cuts down on the space needed, as
well as the overhead of managing and
maintaining individual models.
OKI’s new range, the MC700
series, combines OKI’s trademark
environmentally-responsible features
with enterprise class functionality,
security and flexibility plus
comprehensive document workflow
support. These are designed to deliver
workflow efficiencies and cost-savings
as organisations improve the way
documents are handled, managed and
processed.
The series comes with OKI’s smart
Extendable Platform (sXP), an open
Andrew Hall, marketing manager, OKI looks at a new generation
of multifunction devices which combine energy efficiency and
security with document workflow support
platform architecture that enables
customisation of the user interface in
order to integrate all document-related
tasks seamlessly into an organisation’s
enterprise document workflow. The key
benefit here is that it enables the move
from a manual paper-based workflow
to an automated digital flow.
Printing speeds are impressive
– up to 40 pages per minute
– and both the scanner and
print engine are based on
OKI’s light-emitting diode
(LED) technology. LED is
now used across a range
of progressive industries
such as automotive, laptop
and contemporary lighting
design and manufacture
and has been hailed as
a new and highly-
innovative technology
offering greater cost
control and reduced
environmental impact.
OKI launched its first
generation digital
LED-based printers
as long ago as 1989
and has continued to
refine and improve
the technology over the past two
decades. As a result, the company’s
latest printers are able to offer
substantial gains across key aspects of
performance.
Further features of the MC700
series include duplex printing and
scanning. Setting printers up to print
double-sided as default is a simple but
effective way to save paper – after all
printing on both sides of a piece of
paper cuts down paper consumption by
up to 50 per cent.
These devices also provide support
for multi-scan destinations and have
an integrated stapler and some models
feature high-speed fax plus an internal
finisher for the automated collating
and stapling of document sets.
But among the main benefits of this
new range are its advanced security
features. These include an encrypted
hard disk; secure PIN printing; data
encryption; disk
cover story
OKI launched its first generation digital
LED-based printers as long ago as 1989 and
has continued to refine and improve the
technology over the past two decades.
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