Samsung Electronics America, Inc., launches CLX-6240FX, a multifunction printer to expand the company’s lineup of mid range color MFP for office workgroup. The CLX- 6240FX is 4-in-1 MFP with built-in print, copy, scan and fax capabilities, and a maximum monthly duty cycle of 80,000 pages per month and standard paper capacity of 850 sheets.

The CLX- 6240FX delivers color documents at the speed of up to 25 PPM. The standard features include a legal size platen, auto duplex printing and copy and an 80GB hard drive.

Samsung CLX- 6240FX’s color CCD scanner has a high resolution up to 4800×4800 dpi. Among scanning features of this MFP you will find scan-to-network and scan-to-anywhere support for PDF, TIFF and JPEG files. The FRP also supports a Direct USB Interface for scanning to or printing from any standard USB drive. Scanning management tools include full Lightweight Directory Access Protocol support for effective networking and secure document management tools.

The CLX-6240FX MFP base unit is priced at $2,399 and can be purchased through Samsung’s authorized channel partners.

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Just a couple of months ago Samsung bolstered world’s smallest color laser printer (http://blog.tonercartridgedepot.com/2008/03/12/worlds-smallest-color-laser-printer-samsung-clp-310/). The other day the company broke its own record: it rolled out the new smallest color printer in the world - Samsung CLP-315K.

The new tiny printer measures only 388 x 313 x 243 mm and weighs around 11 kilos. Compared to previous generation, the dimensions have shrunk by 20%.

Despite the size, the Samsung CLP-315K color laser printer delivers 4 color or 16 black and white pages per minute at 2400×600 dpi resolution and has 32 Mb on board.

There is also a multifunction version of this printer, CLX-3175FNK (the left one on the picture with cute Korean girls). This MFP features not only direct print from various devices such as flash-drives, cameras, mobile phones, but it also supports scanning of documents directly to removable storage.

The two devices are yet available in Korea only, but it should not take long for them to appear on American and European markets.

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One of the exhibits on CeBIT 2008 was Samsung’s new color laser. The company claims the Samsung CLP-310 to be the world’s smallest color laser printer.

Apart from size, the CLP-310 stands out with its quietness - the company promises an ultra-low noise level of 46dB. The printer come cased in both traditional grey and stylish black, a new option aimed at sexing up the image of Samsung’s printers.

“We have emphasised the style of these devices, and we intend for them to take a proportion of the consumer inkjet market,” Joosang Eun, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing for digital printing, told PC Pro. “We believe laser technology is better for the consumer. Laser quality is better, durability is better, TCO is lower, and on our new laser printers you can even print glossy photographs. For us this is the inkjet killer.”

It remains to be seen, however, whether consumers will bite. Although prices are not set, a standard CLP-310 is estimated to cost around 200 GBP (around $400), with networked and wireless options costing extra.

Traditionally, lasers repay their higher purchase price with cheaper consumables, but few home users will print enough pages to make the CLP-310 economical. What’s more, while the CLP-310 may be the “world’s smallest color laser”, it’s no smaller than a standard color inkjet, and at only 4 color pages per minute it’s not far ahead on speed either.

A few test prints on the sample units at Samsung’s CeBIT stand indicated that print quality is fine for everyday use. There was, unfortunately, no glossy paper on hand to test promises of photo-quality prints, but plain paper output was more than satisfactory, with rich, bright colors and crisp, solid blacks. The mechanism was certainly on the quiet side, as much as the expo qualifies as a place to measure sound levels.

Yet a representative at the company’s CeBIT stand took the view that weaknesses such as this were beside the point. “At the end of the day,” he explained, “these are printers for the MacBook generation. It’s about style, rather than function. People will buy them simply because they’re cool.”

via http://www.pcpro.co.uk

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Just like any other industry, printers and printer supplies manufacturing produces lots of waste. The problem of supplies, that is toner and ink cartridges, is nowadays solved by remanufacturing or recycling.

Remanufacturing, roughly put, is a process of reconstructing of a cartridge; we’ve discussed it our previous article, you can read it to get the details. Recycling means physical destruction of an object into raw material and creating new items from it. And it is recycling that is the topic of today’s post.

Let’s suppose you like Samsung laser printers so much that you own one. Now let’s assume you are so green that mere idea of empty cartridges going into landfill makes you turn red. All that provided, there is a really good news for you.

Just the other day Samsung launched the STAR program, which stands for Samsung Takeback And Recycle program. This program offers free return and recycling of empty Samsung toner cartridges and two options to do so.

The first way is to look inside a box of new Samsung toner cartridge. Inside you will find a pre-addressed, pre-paid FedEx shipping label. You can use new cartridge’s box as a container for the used cartridges, and put the label on it. Then you just contact FedEx for a free pickup, or drop the box off at any FedEx offices.

The other was is a bit more complicated, but fun if you’re an addicted internet surfer. Go to www.samsung.com/starus where you can print out the same pre-addressed and pre-paid FedEx return shipping label. After that, repeat your action from the way one.

When done, you can rest assured you’re saving the world from waste landfills. By the way, did you ever wondered what is created from recycled cartridges? Cartridges again? Not always.

UK-based company called Waycam has found another use of plastic recycled from every toner cartridge. They claim to “have a solution for total recycling and reuse of every part of a toner cartridge, toner bottle or ink jet including most importantly the toner powder itself.”

So, what is the solution? After all metal components removed, the plastic is recycled into what is called ‘TRI-wood’, Toner Recycled into Wood. This plastic wood is then used to produce these nice fence post or comfortable chair:

Waycam promises 100% recycling and no landfill or incineration. Apart from toner cartridges, the company also recycles TVs, laptops, computers and monitors.

Isn’t it a great way to commemorate the equipment that served you long and well. Or banish what served you short and bad.

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Poor news. The sexy Samsung printers - the ML-1630 and the SCX-4500 - reported in previous post will only be available for Apple computers, according to Wired.com Blog. This is really sad, I wish I could buy one for my PC. On the other hand, the news seems like an arguement for buying a Mac, doesn’t it? Here is the press-release by Samsung:

EW SLEEK, ULTRA-COMPACT SAMSUNG PRINTERS TO BE SOLD EXCLUSIVELY AT APPLE RETAIL STORES

World’s most compact printers are both stylish and easy to use

IRVINE, Calif., September 18, 2007

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., the world’s second largest manufacturer of laser printers, today announced that its ultra-compact monochrome laser printer, the ML-1630, and multifunction printer, the SCX-4500, will be available exclusively at Apple Retail Stores nationwide and online at www.Apple.com. These two new printers are perfect products for consumers who value both style and functionality. The devices - which are two-thirds the size of traditional laser printers - feature high-glossy and seamless exteriors that create a truly ultra-minimalist design. Samsung’s new, innovative laser printers meet consumer demand for reliable electronics that aesthetically harmonize with any office or home environment. The ML-1630 and
the SCX-4500 will be sold exclusively at Apple Retail Stores until they are widely released in January 2008.

“Samsung is consistently looking for opportunities to enrich and diversify the global printer market,” said Jang-jae Lee, Senior Vice President of the Digital Printing Division, Samsung Electronics. “In turn, we are thrilled to team up with Apple, a true leader in its field, for the U.S. release of our newest printers. The ML-1630 and the SCX-4500 include button-less touch-sensor panels that reduce the user interface. Plus audible alerts and blue LED scan-process indicators ensure that the devices are extremely user-friendly.

“Among electronic products, printers are very complex and sophisticated,” said Jun Won Bae, Senior Designer, at Digital Printing Division of Samsung Electronics. “In turn, we wanted to create a printer with a simple exterior design that would serve as a counterbalance to its interior complexity.”

“Samsung has taken the printer - which is often considered as an add-on device - to an entirely new level of artistic refinement,” Lee added. “These days, consumers are looking for products that are not only functional, but that also reflect their own personal styles.” Samsung’s new printers will available at Apple Retail Stores and apple.com.

MSRP is $299 for the SCX-4500 and $199 for the ML-1630.

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Now, let’s get back from the world of innovation technologies to printer maker releases.

The Compact

The Stylish

The Sexy

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