Issue #0828/2 – This week, the UK saw a three-function mono laser All-in-One device priced at less than £50 on special offer for the first time. Xerox’s WorkCentre PE3119 was offered at a 63% discount, at £49.29 including tax, for a short period of time before reverting to the, still low, price of £56.75 inclusive.
Issue #0727/1 – Coming in a little higher up the performance scale than the colour laser printers featured in last week’s article, "Be VERY careful when choosing a 20ppm colour laser printer on a budget", Oki’s 30ppm C710 colour laser printer was also released on 1st September. Falling into a larger workgroup category, the C710 is one of the few fast A4 colour laser printers on the market. Because there are so few colour printers at such high speeds, this group effectively has to span a wide speed bracket, from 30ppm to 40ppm, in order to make sense of performance, pricing and Total Cost of Printing comparisons.
Issue #0727/2 - It is at least a decade since it was first claimed that box-shifters (companies selling only IT hardware – at low cost) would go out of business and that hardware resellers would only survive if they offered services and solutions as part of the sale. Box-shifters still exist a decade later. This is good for the pocket, especially for consumer and small/micro businesses. How and why do box-shifters still continue to thrive?
Issue #0826/1 – Hewlett-Packard has today released a series of new products based on a new 20ppm single-pass colour laser print engine. Focusing on multifunction for this article, the Colour LaserJet CM2320nf and CM2320fxi add copy, scan and fax functions to the basic print functionality of the new Colour LaserJet CP2025n and 2025dn (comparison to follow) to create a pair of fast four-function devices for small workgroups on a tight purchase budget. Here we run technical and cost comparisons to determine the desirability of the CM2320nf.
Issue #0826/2 – Hewlett-Packard’s new CP2025n and dn models are single function printer versions of the two colour laser MFPs described in the article "New Colour LaserJet MFPs from Hewlett-Packard – easy on the pocket, till you start printing". Using the same engine and same supplies, the printers represent a mid-market purchase but high cost overall, while the Total Cost of Printing for printers in the group varies by more than 100%!
