Following the success of Kyocera’s line of TASKalfa multifunctional products (MFPs), Kyocera has unveiled 11 new colour and black & white TASKalfa MFPs. In particular, the TASKalfa 5550ci Color MFP has achieved “Reliability Certified” and “Highly Recommended” ratings for efficiency and reliability from Buyers Laboratory.
The new TASKalfa MFPs include vibrant colour and crisp black & white printing, colour scanning and copying, and optional Super G3 fax/network fax for high-speed document delivery.This new Multifunctional Copier line maintains Kyocera’s award-winning technology with key features that include:
- Up to 7,650 sheet paper capacity with optional paper feed units.
- Standard Color Scanning to multiple destinations, including Scan-to-Email, Scan-to-FTP, WSD scanning, and LDAP support
- Standard USB host interface for convenient print-from and scan-to any USB drive in PDF, JPG, TIFF and XPS formats – all via the touch screen control panel.
- 12 x 47 inch banner printing on all new TASKalfa color MFPs
- A wide range of advanced finishing options, including hole punch, off-line staple, booklet and tri-fold finishing
For 2011 Kyocera has brought a full line of 11 new MFP's
Powerful Applications
Business’ can further maximize their productivity in a variety of places. There are several applications that are compatible with Kyocera MFPs that offer increased flexibility and mobility in the workplace including;
Capture2Go allows iPhone users to scan documents and print documents on any authorised Kyocera networked printer
OpenText RightFax users are able to scan and send documents to the RightFax server from TASKalfa MFPs for full fax integration.
Kyocera’s Card Authentication allows business to manage the security of their documents by controlling user access
Kyocera SharePoint connector Microsoft SharePoint users are able to access and scan documents into SharePoint directly from the Kyocera MFP device panel
DMS Link allows users to capture, index, route, search and manage paper and digital documents on the control panel of the TASKalfa MFP
All these business applications are powered by Kyocera’s HyPAS and can help streamline your documents workflow and efficiency. No business is too large or too small to reap the benefits.
I couldn’t believe my ears the other day when IT blurted it out – “configure your multifunctional device to scan directly to an account on Google docs”. Up until now, I hadn’t been too excited about cloud computing, but Google docs is something I use almost every day to share and manage documents with clients and colleagues. Everyone these days seems to have a Google account, so this kind of solution will likely appeal to at least some of those users.
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