Canon Europe announced two new additions to its black & white with Smart Colour range. The two new MFP’s have been created in response to customer feedback and extend Canon’s existing black & white with Smart colour portfolio to offer a wider choice.

Recognising that business still mainly need to print black & white documents, but with the option of colour becoming a key requirement, these devices are expected to strenghten Canon’s position in the black & white sector.

Tasked with the developing ways to extend the lifespan of printer components and reduce their impact on the environment – a group of scientiest at Xerox Corporation have developed a new chemical armour that protects photoreceptors, the light sensitive elements in xerographic machines.

Protected from normal wear to tear, a normal photoreceptor coated with the “armour” can last more than one million revolutions – nearly doubling its usable life.

“The long life of the photoreceptors reduces the need for replacement cartridges, enabling a 33% reduction in waste”, said Yonn Rasmussen, Vice President of the Xerographic Component Systems Group. “Customers experience less down time, and therefore reduced interruptions to their work flow, higher productivity and fewer service calls.”

The new photoreceptor works in the standard machine design with no additional hardware changes or added cost to the customer. This invention has a broad applicability across Xerox’s product portfolio and is being first implemented in the Xerox 4112 and 4127 light production monochrome printers.

A global, muliti-disciplinary team from the Xerox Research Center of Canada, the Xerographic Component System Group engineering team in Webster, N.Y and the manufacturing team in Venray, Netherlands, advanced the project from the pilot plant stage in Canada to production in Venray in less than one year, a record time form commercializing a new technology such as this.

The MF8100C is the first Canon colour All-In-One devise in Canon’s Laser Base range, combining a colour laser printer, colour laser copier, colour scanner and high speed fax in one unit. Colour prints are generated at 2400x600dpi enhanced quality, with Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black toner cartridges and a single drum cartridge for printing, copying and fax printing.

In conventional printers, the fixing roller is coated with oil to ensure that the paper does not adhere to the roller during the fixation process. Canon uses its originally developed S-Toner, comprised of perfectly spherical microparticles, in the MF8180C. S-Toner incorporates wax at the core of each toner particle. With S-Toner oil-less fixing becomes possible because the wax is released and spreads out during the fixation process. The result are output images without the glossiness associated with conventional toner.

The MF8180C has print speeds to cope with the demands of any busy office or work unit. Monochrome prints and copies are generated at 19ppm and colour at 4ppm. The device uses high yield cartridges (Y/M/C/K – 4’000 pages each) while the drum yield is 20’000 in monochrome (5’000 pages colour), based on 5% coverage.

Canon announced the launch of the Laser Shot LBP-5000, an exacting colour printer that features Canon Europe’s first All-In-One colour cartridge, as well as space saving, smart vertical design. With an optional Canon brand network board and a maximum capacity of 500 sheets this device makes perfect sense for small offices and professional users. The LBP-5000 is a new product in the colour Laser Shot range, positioned just below the LBP-5200.

CROSS Supplies GmbH will exhibit again at the REMAX 2010 which this year will be jointly held from January 30 to February 2 with the PAPERWORLD as a cooperation of the Recycler Magazine and the Messe Frankfurt.

With over 140 exhibitors and dayly several seminars and conferences to various topics the REMAX exhibition is the major show for the aftermarket consumable industry in Europe. The show offers a great opportunity to meet with leading suppliers, get the latest market news and collect valuable information.

If you are distributor of compatible toner for Copiers/MFPs and/or laser printer you therefore should not miss that event and visit us at our booth H54 in hall 4 of the Messe Frankfurt.

For more information about the REMAX please contact us or visit www.therecycler.com/remax-europe-2010.aspx.