TOSHIBA AMERICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. RANKED BEST FOR “OVERALL SUPPORT” IN OFFICE PRODUCTS ANALYST’S ANNUAL RELIABILITY STUDY

Nine Toshiba e-STUDIO™ MFPs Also Earned OPA Rankings in “Recommended Purchase” and “Most Reliable” Categories

Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) is proud to announce that it achieved the highest “Overall Support” rating in the “Annual Multifunctional Reliability Study” conducted by The Office Products Analyst (OPA), published by Industry Analysts Inc. Toshiba won “Best in Overall Support” with a cumulative rating of 8.57 out of 10, outranking seven other primary brands. Eight Toshiba multifunction products (MFPs) also earned spots on OPA’s “Recommended Purchase List” and a ninth MFP was rated “Most Reliable” in its product category.

“Anyone in the market for a reliable MFP should strongly consider Toshiba products as the company continually has proven itself throughout the years that OPA has conducted the annual study on MFP reliability,” said Andy Slawetsky, president, Industry Analysts. “We congratulate Toshiba for its outstanding performance and another fine showing in this year’s study.”

The OPA “Annual Multifunctional Reliability Study” represents opinions from 152 dealer service managers, encompassing 46,514 monochrome MFPs. Participants rated devices in a variety of categories on a scale of 1-10, lowest to highest respectively. Toshiba ranked best in 14 of 39 performance categories within the four primary categories of Products, Service Support, Product Reliability and Inventory.

Eight e-STUDIO™ MFPs earned spots on OPA’s “Recommended Purchase List” including: e-STUDIO202L (8.7), e-STUDIO232 (8.6), e-STUDIO282 (8.6), e-STUDIO352 (8.8), e-STUDIO452 (8.6), e-STUDIO650 (8.8), e-STUDIO720 (9.0) and e-STUDIO850 (8.8). The e-STUDIO120 also rated “Most Reliable” in the under 15 pages-per-minute (PPM) speed category, averaging “an impressive 28,625 pages between service calls.”

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OKI Printing Solutions Introduces New High-Speed Wide-Format Color Printer Offering Unmatched Media Flexibility

OKI Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI® Printing Solutions brand, today announced its C9650 Series digital color printers bringing professional, high-speed tabloid color printing to medium/large-sized businesses in a convenient and cost-effective manner. Ideal for environments that utilize a variety of media, such as corporate reproduction/graphics departments, retail, hospitality or real estate businesses, OKI Printing Solutions’ latest series of color printers lead the industry in media flexibility, enabling businesses to bring color in-house and on-demand.

“Businesses are always looking for new ways to increase the overall productivity and efficiency of their workplace, while keeping an eye on their bottom line,” said Mike Garofola, Senior Marketing Manager, Color Printers and MFPs at OKI Data Americas, Inc. “Boasting greater media flexibility, the new C9650 Series enables companies to take control of both traditional office and outsourced printing requirements, ultimately reducing their operating costs, saving time and allowing our customers to explore their internal creativity.”

With productivity at its forefront, the C9650 Series of color printers boast better paper handling and increased performance – all upgrades to their C9600 Series predecessor, while maintaining the same overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Cost Per Page (CPP). More and more, businesses are looking for ways to bring their outsourced printing needs in-house in order to control cost, increase productivity and save time. The C9650 Series touts the most media flexibility in its class, accommodating up to 307 grams per square meter (gsm) of paper, which is equivalent to a 54lb bond or a 75lb cover – ideal paper weight for a company’s direct mail marketing piece for example. Combined with fast printing at up to 36 pages per minute (ppm) in color and 40 ppm in black-and-white with 10.5 seconds time to first color page[i], businesses can produce exceptional corporate materials in-house with affordability, quickness and ease.

Key standard features of the C9650 Series include:

Performance

* Fast print speeds of up to 36 ppm in color and 40 ppm in black-and-white[ii] that improve productivity and efficiency
* Quick time to first page at 10.5 seconds for color and 9 seconds for black-and-white[iii] reducing time spent waiting for print jobs
* 1200 x 600 dpi resolution, ensuring exceptional color output for in-house printing of corporate and marketing materials
* Industry leading standard memory at 512 MB allowing large files to be handled with ease; an optional 40 GB hard drive offers additional storage and management of forms, logos, letterheads and fonts4

Ease-of-use

* Greater media control and flexibility, including color tabloid extra (12” x 18”) and up to 307 gsm (equivalent to a 75lb cover), allowing users to produce a variety of materials in-house, such as direct mail marketing pieces or promotional signage
* Auto Media Detect feature automatically adjusts the printer to the media type being used without the user having to intervene

Value

* Higher yield toner capacity of 16.5k for color and 18.5k for black-and-white, lessening the time and cost spent changing toner (based on 5% page coverage)
* Low cpp at 8.4 cents for color and 1.3 cents for mono printing, supporting a business’ cost-efficiency and bottom-line

The product builds on parent company OKI Data Corporation’s history of leadership and innovation in color printing. It is based on the 7th generation of printing technologies advanced by OKI Data Corporation, such as digital LED technology and Single Pass Color™. This technology allows OKI Data to manufacture products that require fewer moving parts.

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New MFP’s from Toshiba

TOSHIBA AMERICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. LAUNCHES NEW MULTIFUNCTION PRINTERS OFFERING VERSATILE AND CONVENIENT DOCUMENT HANDLING OPTIONS

New e-STUDIO™450s/500s Offers Advanced Features with an Intuitive Design for Maximum Ease-of-Use and Functionality. Toshiba recently launched the versatile e-STUDIO™450s/500s series as the latest addition to its multifunction product (MFP) offerings, providing outstanding document output performance and intuitive document handling capabilities through a bold, adjustable touch screen. The e-STUDIO450s/500s is a robust, attractively priced, multifunction printer excellent for workgroups of all sizes who need a feature-rich MFP at a reasonable price. The e-STUDIO450s/500s is an exceptional value for mid-size workgroups that need high quality printing, color scanning, copying and faxing of up to legal-sized documents.

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More Awards for Toshiba Products

TOSHIBA AMERICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. WINS FOUR ADDITIONAL 2007 “EDITOR’S CHOICE” AWARDS FROM BETTER BUYS FOR BUSINESS
Leading Independent Buyer’s Guide for Office Equipment Gives Rave Reviews to Toshiba’s e-STUDIO™166/167/207 and e-STUDIO500P.

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