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Balreed Digitec has opened a new offce in the heart of the City. The new premises in Bridewell Gate, close to Blackfriars, will act as a London hub for the Client Services and Professional Services teams and London Client Account Managers. Balreed managing director Robin Stanton-Gleaves said: “London is a key market for us and we enjoyed fantastic growth of over 50% last year as clients discovered the benefts of our Managed Print Services and the exceptional levels of support our Client Services team deliver. By investing in new multi-purpose London offces we can gain further share of the London marketplace through our MPS and production print systems in particular.”

Samsung has launched its fastest colour and B&W printers to date as it continues to strengthen its business offering.

The Samsung CLP-775ND A4 colour laser printer has a print speed of 33 pages per minute (ppm), automatic two-sided (duplex) printing and a 600MHz dual core CPU for rapid throughput, with a frst page out time of 11 seconds. It comes with a 1GB Ethernet network connection as standard and has a maximum paper capacity of 1,600 sheets from three drawers. Image quality has been enhanced with ReCP (Rendering Engine for Clean Page) technology, which automatically sharpens the focus of both graphics and text. Samsung’s Edge Resolution Enhancement (EdgeRes) adds dots to smooth the edges of characters so that

they appear much sharper. For super-fast B&W output, Samsung has introduced the ML-5510/6510 series offering print speeds of up to 62ppm. As befts devices that can support a maximum monthly duty cycle of 275,000 pages, the printers are designed to operate with minimal user intervention. They have the option of an extra high yield 30,000-page toner cartridge; a maximum paper capacity of 3,660 sheets; and the ability to check toner and paper levels at the touch of a button or over the network.

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Ricoh has launched a British Standards Institution (BSI) accredited programme that combines managed document services (MDS) with carbon offsetting to enable medium and large-sized businesses to reduce document-related costs by 30% and neutralise remaining carbon emissions.

The fve-step Sustainability Optimisation Programme starts with an analysis of a customer’s existing document workfows and feet to gauge the baseline TCO and carbon emissions from paper and energy consumption.

Once this has been done, Ricoh devises a plan to reduce costs and carbon emissions through feet optimisation, improved workfows and changes to end-user behaviour. The third and fourth stages are implementation and on-going governance, which involves comparing actual carbon emissions against set goals and implementing improvements to drive emissions down further. In the fnal stage, remaining emissions are offset by acquiring carbon credits generated by clean energy projects in which Ricoh has invested. www.ricoh-europe.com/reduce2grow

Ricoh combines MPS and carbon offsetting

Ricoh has brought its ‘eco-board’ concept from Times Square to Hounslow, with the unveiling of Europe’s frst billboard powered by wind and solar power. The board located on the M4 between Heathrow and London is powered exclusively by 96 solar panels and fve wind turbines and only lights up when it has collected suffcient energy from these sources.

Balreed moves to the City

Samsung turns on the speed

With a price tag of £159, the HP LaserJet Pro M1217nfw is HP’s most affordable wireless LaserJet MFP to date. The 18ppm B&W all-in-one includes print, scan, fax and copy functionality, as well as Ethernet and wireless networking as standard. For simplicity and convenience, the HP Smart Install feature enables CD-free driver installations in as few as fve minutes. On the downside, two-sided printing is manual not automatic and the scanner is B&W only.

Toshiba TEC is complementing its range of A3 MFDs with a selection of A4 printers and MFPs suitable for businesses or departments that print as few as 200 pages a month.

There are four models in the range, including two colour A4 MFPs, the e-STUDIO222CS (22ppm colour) and the e-STUDIO263CS (26ppm colour); and two printers, the B&W e-STUDIO382P (38ppm B&W) and the colour e-STUDIO262CP (30ppm mono/26ppm colour). The new devices print at resolutions of 1200x600dpi or 1200x1200dpi and support a variety of paper sizes up to A4 in width, including banners up to 1320mm in length.

Sharp has been quietly expanding its printer range so that it can meet a customer’s print needs in their entirety. Among its recent launches is this stylish A4 mono MFP for home offces, shops, garages and other micro businesses. Offering network print, copy, colour scan and fax functions, the AL-1035 has a built-in carrying handle, making it an ideal portable printer for use at trade fairs and corporate events. Useful features include a colour scanner; an ID

card copy feature; electronic sorting; and a scan-to-USB function. The AL-1035 shares the same attractive look and feel as other MFPs in the range including the AL-2021, AL-2041, AL-2051 and AL-2061.

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