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Canon Group Donates $200,000 To Haiti Relief Efforts

(Lake Success, NY) - The Canon Group, including Canon Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc and Canon Latin America, Inc., today announced that they have pledged approximately $220,000 (20 million yen) to the Haiti relief and recovery efforts, following the devastating earthquake that struck the region, causing extensive destruction and loss of life.

The Canon Group is contributing to the relief efforts for victims of the earthquake through donations to Red Cross Organizations which will help to provide the people of Haiti with necessary supplies and services including food, water, temporary shelter, medical services and emotional support.

HP Document Capture Solutions

2010-01-14_232022 Streamline your business,share information and maintain regulatory compliance with HP’s document capture solutions.

HP Scanjet 7800 Scanner
Fast, powerful sheet-fed scanner for workgroup document management.
•25 ppm, 50 ipm
•50-page ADF plus card slot
•Up to 1200 dpi
•Complete document management software suite
     –HP Smart Document Scan Software
     –EMC Captiva ISIS and TWAIN drivers
     –Kofax SVRS image improvement software
     –ScanSoft PaperPort document management software
     –New Soft Biz card reader
     –IRIS ReadIRIS OCR software
     –Adobe Photoshop Elements

HP Scanjet 8350/8390 Scanner
Fast, powerful flatbed scanners, plus transparent media adapter for additional media-scanning flexibility.
•25 ppm/50 ipm—HP Scanjet 8350
•35 ppm/70 ipm—HP Scanjet 8390
•100-page ADF
•Complete document management software suite
     –HP Smart Document Scan Software
     –EMC Captiva ISIS and TWAIN drivers
     –Kofax SVRS image improvement software
     –ScanSoft PaperPort document management software
     –New Soft Presto! PageManager document management software for Mac users
     – IRIS ReadIRIS OCR software
     – Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Integrated 4x9-inch TMA
• Up to 4800 dpi

Canon Toner Cartridge Recycling Program Celebrates 20 Year Milestone

Lake Success, N.Y., January 11, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., today announced that, in 2010, Canon Inc. will mark the 20th anniversary of the Canon Toner Cartridge Recycling Program, a zero-landfill program in which every component of the used all-in-one toner cartridges* that the Company collects is reused, recycled or recovered.

Canon Toner Cartridge Recycling Program: First-of-its-Kind
In 1982, Canon created the world’s first personal copying machines incorporating replaceable all-in-one toner cartridges. These toner cartridges were then adapted for use in laser beam printers and rapidly gained in popularity. However, with this increase in popularity came an increase in the number of used cartridges.  Canon’s corporate philosophy of Kyosei – living and working for the common good – has constantly provided the company with a keen awareness of environmental issues such as a commitment to waste reduction and resource conservation. 

In accordance with this commitment, Canon introduced the Toner Cartridge Recycling Program.  First launched in 1990, the program has collected approximately 220,000 metric tons of used toner cartridges. The initiative, launched on a global scale by a single business group at no cost to customers, marked a watershed moment within the industry.  The cartridge return program now operates in 23 countries worldwide, supported by four global recycling bases: Canon Ecology Industry Inc. in Japan; Canon Dalian Business Machines, Inc. in China; Canon Virginia, Inc. (CVI) in the U.S.; and Canon Bretagne S.A.S. in France.       

Assessing & Benchmarking Document Costs: Developing a Future Document Strategy

2010-01-11_212722 Are You Asking Yourself…

  • How much am I really spending on desktop, workgroup, internal production print, and outside print services?
  • How do our total document expenses compare to those of our key competitors?
  • What factors contribute to these costs?
  • How much money can we save and how?
  • How much of an investment in time and money is needed to assess my document costs?
  • Does this require a detailed on-site audit?

Challenges

  • Getting to the true cost of documents across your organization
  • Cost reductions
  • Determining peer performance & benchmarking
  • Developing an enterprise document strategy
  • Increasing efficiency & optimization

Introduction & Objectives
The proliferation of output devices such as printers, copiers, fax machines, and scanners has significantly contributed to the dramatic increase in document output volume and cost over the years. While the majority of today’s organizations acknowledge the potential savings from better document management, many still lack the understanding and expertise to address the problem. Third-party providers including office equipment manufacturers, document outsourcing firms, and independent service providers are offering assessment services that focus on identifying costs and inefficiencies around document output.

Head To Head Comparison: Color Versus Black-and-White Printing

2010-01-11_211709 Printing Savings Opportunity
The temptation to save money by purchasing a black-and-white printer makes sense for anyone who is sensitive to the need to make the most prudent use of public dollars. Yet, when you consider additional cost factors, such as the price you’ll pay an outside vendor to handle your color printing needs, that black-and-white printer may not be such a bargain as the following example shows. In this case we are assuming:
a. Both printers have similar features and speed for black-and-white printing.
b. Assumed volume: 100 black-and-white pages per day, 5 days per week, 52 weeks per year for 3 years. Total: 78,000 pages.
c. All color pages are printed on both sides.
d. The organization will print 200 color pages per month over the lifetime of the printer (approximately three years) for a total of 7,200
lifetime pages.

New Frontiers In Color Printing

2010-01-08_144644 Innovations from Hewlett-Packard have had a tremendous impact on color printing. Now, the company’s long history of innovation is taking another significant turn with the introduction of HP Edgeline Technology.

The Advantages of HP Edgeline Technology

HP Edgeline Technology is an ink-based printing engine designed with printheads that span the width of a page. Basically, this means that instead of the printheads having to move across the paper, the paper itself moves. This results in several important benefits for color printing users.

Increased speed.

Because ink is dispersed across the entire width of the page as the paper passes beneath the printheads, printer speeds are among the fastest in their class.

Print-shop-quality output.

The use of large, stationary printheads enables more accurate ink-drop placement, which in turn, enables extremely crisp color output. The printheads have 10,560 nozzles each for precise ink delivery.

HP Security Solutions FAQ

2010-01-05_162214 The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has instituted a security checklist program. Checklists can be developed not only by IT vendors, but also by consortia,  cademia, industry, federal agencies and other governmental organizations, as well as other entities in the public and private sectors. A security configuration checklist (sometimes referred to as a lockdown guide, hardening guide or benchmark configuration) is essentially a document that contains instructions or procedures for configuring an IT product to a baseline level of security. Many technology devices have approved security checklists. However, HP is the first printer/MFP manufacturer to have a security checklist approved and published by NIST. Unlike other certifications, which often certify only certain features, the checklist program locks down or secures the entire MFP solution.

HP considers security checklists as a means to significantly improve the security capabilities' ease of configuration for imaging and printing products. HP submitted a security checklist for the HP LaserJet 4345 and 4370 printers in September 2006. At the time of submission, HP was the only hardcopy manufacturer to submit a checklist for review. HP plans to develop additional checklists for hardcopy devices in the future.
A checklist might include any of the following:
• Configuration files that automatically set various security settings (e.g., executables, security templates that modify settings, scripts)
• Documentation (e.g., text file) that guides the checklist user to manually configure software
• Documents that explain the recommended methods to securely install and configure a device
• Policy documents that set forth guidelines for such things as auditing, authentication security (e.g., passwords), and perimeter security

Canon U.S.A. Honored with Multiple Awards From Buyers Laboratory, Inc.

Lake Success, N.Y., December 30, 2009 – Continuing its tradition for technological innovation and high-quality imaging offerings, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging and advanced office solutions, today announced the Company has been honored with five Fall 2009 "Pick" and Outstanding Achievement Awards by Buyers Laboratory, Inc. (BLI).

"As a Company, we pride ourselves on developing and offering our end-users the most innovative solutions, and we are honored to have received these prestigious accolades once again from Buyers Lab," said Sam Yoshida, vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Group, Canon U.S.A. "These awards are a testament to Canon's dedication of providing a robust line up of high-quality, affordable imaging and document management solutions."
Spanning across a number of product lines, including the Company's new imageRUNNER ADVANCE multifunctional products (MFP), scanners and software, each award-winning product was recognized as "Outstanding" in its respective product category by BLI. Honors included:

  • Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE Series – BLI's Outstanding Achievement Award for Ease of Use & Outstanding Achievement in Scanning
    The new imageRUNNER ADVANCE Series was developed to seamlessly bridge the distance between user and MFP to transform and advance one's business and digital communications. Incorporating sophisticated workflows and innovative technologies, the Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE Series is designed to address the ever-growing needs of users, administrators and business decision makers to better manage and customize workflows, while accomplishing more tasks in less time and achieving higher levels of quality.
  • Canon imageFORMULA DR-6050C – BLI's Pick for Outstanding Low-Volume Production Sheet-fed Scanner
    Boasting scanning speeds of up to 70 pages-per-minute (ppm) and 140 images-per-minuteI (ipm), the image FORMULA DR-6050C is a fast, reliable and precise solution for several types of business environments. Designed with Canon's unique feeding mechanism, the DR-6050C production scanner features Ultrasonic Double Feed Detection, Rapid Recovery and Staple Detection to help ensure reliable document scanning, and three-line Contact Image Sensors (CIS) and dust-free shading mechanism allows for outstanding image quality.

    • HP Digital Sending And Document Capture

    2009-12-30_203007 Far too often office workflow processes are inefficient, manual, and expensive. The Association for Information and Image Management estimates upwards of 90% of all business information is still held on paper. And according to IDC, business professionals spend 60% of their time handling paper-based documents, plus more than 40% of internal office communication is still handled via hardcopy. IDC also reports producing, distributing, and storing documents accounts for up to 40% of an organization’s labor costs and 15% of its revenue. With U.S.-based businesses spending up to $100 billion per year processing paper, according to IDC estimates, the paperless office so sought after in the 1990s remains an elusive myth for the vast majority of organizations.

    While you may never be able to eliminate paper entirely from the equation, innovative HP digital-sending and document-capture technology lets you incorporate hardcopy documents into an electronic infrastructure that streamlines decentralized, paper-intense business processes and workflows to help you:

    • Reduce operational costs – Automating manual paperwork processes can significantly reduce costs since users are able to share electronic copies of documents quickly without relying on interoffice mail, couriers, or regular mail. The scan-to-email functionality inherent in every HP MFP, scanner, and digital sender also eliminates the need for standalone fax machines, for which the dedicated phone lines alone typically cost $30-50 each per month. In addition, HP digital-sending and document-capture solutions free up increasingly valuable real estate currently dedicated to storing and archiving paper documents.

    Going To The Source: The Business Case For Distributed Capture

    2009-12-28_191843 Document capture technology is not new. In the 1990s, many organizations that were generating or taking in large volumes of inbound documents and costly complex processes (think of insurance claims processing and credit card application processing) invested in sophisticated centralized scanning and document handling operations to digitize and automate paper-based processes. While the benefits of document capture are many (faster processing, improved quality and accuracy, reduced paper storage and tighter organizational control over critical content), the costs associated with this centralized approach made it inappropriate for all but those with the greatest paper pain point. Today, however, new advances in this proven technology enable IT organizations to take a less costly and more efficient decentralized or “distributed” approach to document capture.

    Just as networked computing and the Internet forever changed how information is shared, innovations in bandwidth as well as advances in imaging hardware and software are similarly changing how, where, when and by whom information is captured. Today it is not uncommon for those who process an organization’s most time-sensitive and business-critical documents to be located in satellite offices around the globe. In many cases, the expertise provided by these remote workers is applied while the information is ingested or captured. Distributed document capture hardware and software enables such workers to capture and process information directly, ensuring that valuable business information is handled quickly, cost-effectively, accurately and securely.