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Brother brings A3 printing to the masses
Brother is hoping to build
on the huge success it has
already had in the A3 inkjet
printer market by launching
a new range of compact A3-
capable devices.
Perfect for home workers
and micro businesses with
limited space, the J4000 series
of all-in-ones can produce
occasional A3 prints from an
A4-sized device through the
combination of an A3 bypass
tray and landscape printing.
Brother says that printing in
landscape rather than portrait
mode has allowed it to reduce
machine depth by 36% and
increase print speeds to 20ipm
for colour and 18ipm for mono.
All models in the J4000
range are Airprint and Google
Cloud Print-ready and feature
an A3 bypass tray; automatic
two-sided printing; optional
high yield supplies; and
802.11n wireless, built-in
Ethernet and USB connectivity.
Prices start at £129 (inc.
VAT) for the 3-in-1 DCP-
J4110DW, rising to £229.99
for the 4-in-1 MFC-J4510DW
with a 20-sheet ADF, two-
sided copying/scanning and
smartphone-like display.
www.brother.co.uk
Finance departments are
failing to make the most of
scanners to improve business
processes, according to a
study by Redshift Research
for Eclipse Group.
Its survey of 200 financial
decision-makers reveals that
almost half of all sales and
purchase invoices are still
paper-based and just one third
of documents within finance
departments are scanned.
Almost half (46%) of finance
departments still key invoices
into the accounting system and
35% manually move invoices
around for approval.
Nine out of 10 (88%)
respondents said it was
important to remove paper
from their organisation, yet
51% have no plans to introduce
an electronic document
management system due
to fear of data loss (cited
by 34%) and a belief that
auditors require original paper
documents (33%).
Gary Waylett, CEO of the
Eclipse Group, said it was
time organisations scanned
all finance-related
documents into a
secure repository
(with back-up),
introduced workflows to
streamline invoice approval and
generated all outbound finance
documents electronically.
He said: “The majority of
organisations are already
scanning some documents as
they arrive in the building, so
why not extend the model and
take a strategic approach?
Removing the most labour
intensive element of the
finance process, namely the
handling of in-bound and
out-bound paper invoices,
delivers immediate cost
savings and provides a raft of
other benefits, from improving
payment time-scales to
eProcurement.”
Finance departments should
make better use of scanners like
Brother’s ADS2600W to digitise
paper workflows
Kyocera Document Solutions
UK Ltd is marking its 25th
anniversary by establishing a
Northern Showroom in central
Manchester and relocating
its UK head office to a central
Reading location.
Following organic growth
of 77% in the last three years,
Kyocera is moving its Reading
HQ to larger premises on
London Road and opening
its first Northern sales office
on the ground floor of the
14-storey Chancery Place
building in Manchester’s Upper
King Street Conservation Area.
The 4,000 sq ft facility is due to
be officially opened in July.
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NAPPS, the Document
Solutions Association, set
up to raise standards in the
UK’s print and print services
industry, is celebrating a
successful first year. So far, it
has signed up more than 70
dealer members and a number
of partners who will work
together to develop a code of
practice for the industry.
NAPPS Partners come from
all parts of the industry and
include Xerox, Laserfiche, Adobe,
Docuware, Balreed, BNP Paribas
Leasing Solutions and the BAPC.
PrintIT
sister publication
PrintIT Reseller
is an Associate
Member and media partner of
NAPPS.
www.napps.org.uk
Did You Know?
One in three British workers prints private documents on company
printers, according to research sponsored by employee monitoring
software specialist Safetica. One quarter of the 663 employees
surveyed said they do so knowing that it is against company policy.
www.safetica.co.uk
NAPPS celebrates
successful first year
Balreed, a NAPPS partner and
independent provider of print,
office technology and managed
print services, has signed a
three-year sponsorship deal
with Kent County Cricket Club.
Balreed MD Robin Stanton-
Gleaves said: “I’m very proud to
be the county’s major sponsor.
I started the business in Kent
10 years ago and whilst we now
operate across the country,
Maidstone is still our national
hub and over half our staff live or
work in the Kent county area.”
Kyocera opens
new HQ and first
northern sales
office
Finance departments awash with paper
Brother’s J-4510DW A3-capable
printer has already won
PrintIT
and
PrintIT
Reseller
Editor’s Choice
Awards, an iF Product
Design Award 2013 and
the EOPA New Product
Innovation Award.