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Key Research Confirms Toshiba's 13-year Long Market Leadership in the A3 MFP Market in China

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Key Research Confirms Toshiba’s 13-year Long Market Leadership in the A3 MFP Market in China

SHANGHAI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Toshiba, the global leaders in printing and imaging products, solutions and services, has for the 13th consecutive year retained its position as market leader in the A3 MFP Product Category in China, according to regional industry analysts Key Research Company.

Facts and Figures

“China‘s economic growth could be over 8 percent this year. China‘s economy supports a very large part of global demand,” Senior Industry Analysts told Reuters recently. Full year growth in the world’s second biggest economy rose to 7.8 percent in 2012.

Interestingly, the A3 MFP market in China stood at 507,300 units in 2012, a 4 percent decline from 2011 according to Key Research. Although the Color MFP devices grew 19 percent in sales units, the monochrome devices suffered a decline of 6 percent compared to last year.

Toshiba maintained its leadership in the China A3 MFP market with a market share of 17.9 percent, ranking unrivalled at No. 1 since 2000.

Leading market analysts in the APEC region Key Research put Toshiba at the top of the league table of MFP solution providers in China, the company now for the 13th year in a row confirming is strong market position in the world’s second largest economy.

Toshiba TEC Strategy

To further strengthen its market leadership in the MFP market in Asia, Toshiba TEC will soon roll out a new, compact line of the award-winning e-STUDIO MFP series. Toshiba will combine the brand’s traditional virtues of reliability and long life cycle with attractive price points.

According to market analysts, the region’s economies continue to grow at a high rate and Toshiba TEC is extremely well-positioned to meet the demand of this booming Small and Medium-sized Businesses market segment (SMB). “The company is proud to sign for a strong value proposition and a nationwide distribution network aimed at delivering top service to customers in Asia throughout the long product lifecycle of Toshiba TEC MFP solutions,” Isao Sugehara, President, Toshiba TEC China said.

Toshiba TEC’s portfolio of monochrome MFPs in combination with a strong offering of new color MFP solutions allows users from industries including, agriculture, manufacturing, construction, real estate, banking and insurance, transportation and logistics, …read more
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Review: Epson WorkForce WF-3540 All-in-One Printer

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If you’re looking for a small office inkjet MFP with a comprehensive feature set that will handle more than minimal volume printing, the $200 (as of
2/1/2013) Epson WorkForce WF-3540 is a good place to begin. It’s quick, and the output looks nice. Equipped with automatic duplex printing and scanning,
500 sheets of capacity, relatively affordable ink, and easy controls, it’s quite the bargain. It also connects via USB, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi so you can use it
in virtually any computing environment.

Installing the WorkForce WF-3540 is a mere matter of a few dialogs and about 5 minutes. As mentioned, you can connect to it wirelessly, via Ethernet, or
directly using USB. The software bundle includes the trusty Epson Scan and Abbyy Finereader Sprint 9.5 for OCR. The control panel features a 3.5-inch LCD
with contextually lit touch buttons on the panel surrounding it. The menu structure is quite easy to navigate–far easier to use than its WorkForce WF-2540
cousin we recently reviewed.

Paper handling on the WorkForce WF-3540 is top-notch. In addition to two bottom-mounted, 250-sheet paper cassettes, there’s a single-sheet rear feed for
photo paper, envelopes and the like. Tip: Push the paper down into the rear feeder until you feel it grab; the paper sits farther down than with most
printers.

The scanner features an automatic document feeder (ADF) which scans both sides automatically (by re-feed). The lid to the letter/A4-sized platen doesn’t
telescope to accommodate thicker materials, but that’s the only issue, and a minor one for an office-oriented MFP.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

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Review: Epson Expression Photo XP-850 Small-in-One Printer

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The Epson Expression Photo XP-850 Small-in-One Printer’s talents may lean toward photos, but along with the superior image quality, it’s also a full-featured, fairly fast color inkjet multifunction (MFP) with automatic duplex printing and scanning. Its $300 price (as of 01/22/2013) is steep, but it includes other premium features, like CD/DVD printing.

The Expression Photo XP-850 is generally a joy to use. Setup is easy, and the touchscreen and contextually lit buttons, plus nicely thought-out menus, make operation simple. The software is the current standard Epson bundle that includes the company’s venerable Epson Scan, as well as Abbyy FineReader 9.5 Sprint for OCR chores. There’s also mobile printing via e-mail and Wi-Fi. By ‘generally a joy’ we mean that one of these first days, Epson needs to fix a long-standing push-scan issue. This is at least our third printer from the company that has required either tweaking the Windows firewall, or waiting for a number of minutes, before PCs on the network will show up as scan destinations. No other vendor’s printers suffer this issue.

Paper and media handling are top-notch for small volumes. Duplex printing is automatic, and augmenting the 100-sheet main paper cassette and 20-sheet photo cassette is a rear, single-sheet vertical feed that allows straight-path (no bending) photo printing. The automatic document feeder (ADF) holds 30 sheets and supports automatic two-sided scanning. The scanning platen itself is letter/A4-sized, and the lid telescopes a small distance to accommodate magazine-thick media. Optical media may be on its way out for some, but on the bottom of the Expression Photo XP-850, you’ll find a removable adapter for feeding printable CD or DVD media. The adapter inserts into a slot above the 50-sheet output tray.

Before we quote speeds, note that upping the photo-printing setting from ‘Photo’ to ‘Best Photo’ slows output to a glacial pace, with little improvement in quality. At default settings, monochrome text and graphic pages print at an aggregate 7.1 pages per minute (ppm) on the PC and 6.8 ppm on the Mac—average times. Snapshot-sized (4-by-6-inch) photos print at above-average speeds of 4.6 ppm to plain paper and 1.6 ppm to glossy paper. A full-page color photo prints at about 0.4 ppm–a shade slower than average.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld