Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
A 10in VGA screen on the control
panel uses full-motion video to show users how to perform tasks such as
clearing paper jams, and a series of LEDs direct their attention to the
appropriate areas of the device.
The user interface is covered by multiple patents - "it's extremely valuable," said Cutler.
Cost is a key feature of the new models. For general office printing,
reduces colour saturation for cheaper printing, while keeping black at
full strength for clarity of text. The result is good enough for 80
percent of requirements, and cheaper than 'professional quality' for
materials that are going outside the organisation.
Furthermore, jobs with a small amount of colour, such as a Word
document containing blue hyperlinks or an invoice with a colour logo,
are priced as if they were monochrome.
The CM8050/8060 is "the universal printer/copier... no compromises, no
sacrifices," said Cutler. It has "the lowest total cost of operation
that this industry has ever seen."
Greater print speed is on the cards. "Edgeline really wants to scale
up," he said, saying that 140ppm could be achieved with relatively
little work. Interestingly, Cutler claimed that even better reliability
could be achieved as print speeds increased.
HP officials were very cagey when asked about cost. The CM8050 and
CM8060 - the only difference is the average print speed (40ppm
colour/50ppm mono vs 50ppm/60ppm) - are only offered on a managed print
services basis in the Asia Pacific region, and there is therefore no
outright purchase price. Lim claimed colour printing was 30 percent
cheaper than the industry average, but then declined to put a figure on
that average cost was.
Cutler pointed out that managed print services means that it would be
HP, not the customer, that selected the most appropriate hardware for a
particular pattern of printing. An "average" customer for the CM8060
would produce around 20,000 pages per month (60 percent mono and 40
percent colour), have around 50 people using it, and would be seeking a
30-36 month contract.
Stephen Withers travelled to Beijing as the guest of HP.
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