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Xerox = copier?

Xerox announced it redesigned its logo. An unpredecented act that needs millions to implement? Why is Xerox willing to do so?

An interesting article in this respect was published in New York Times:

Xerox Hopes Its New Logo Doesn’t Say ‘Copier’

By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
Published: January 7, 2008

Still think copier when you hear the name Xerox?

The company knows that you do. And it is sick of it. Good grief, Xerox doesn’t even make stand-alone copiers any more.

These days, Xerox gets most of its revenue from machines that both print and copy, and that can be plugged into networks for use in offices and high-speed publishing. It has introduced 100 new products in the last three years. But it doesn’t want the Xerox name to conjure them up, either, given that services — like managing a company’s document flow — are a pretty fast-growing part of the product mix, too.

So this morning, Xerox unveiled what it says is the most sweeping transformation of its corporate identity since it dropped “Haloid” from the Haloid Xerox name in 1961. In a broadcast to employees, it announced that it would retire the staid red capital X that has dominated its logo for 40 years in favor of what Richard Wergan, vice president of advertising, calls “a brand identity that reflects the Xerox of today.”

The new logo consists of a bright red lowercase “xerox” that sits alongside a red sphere sketched with lines that link to form a stylized X. According to Anne M. Mulcahy, Xerox’s chief, that little piece of art represents the connection to customers, partners, industry and innovation.

Ms. Mulcahy insists that the Xerox brand already stands for all those things already, of course. But clearly she is banking that the new look will, perhaps subliminally, drive home the point that Xerox is, as she put it, “engaging and approachable” as well as “technologically savvy and eager to lead in the 21st century.” That’s a pretty tall task for a ball-and-X to accomplish. But Xerox points to a lot of research that says it is up to it.

The full text of the article is available here (click on the link).

Noritsu D701

At the 2008 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas held last week, commercial developing-system manufacturer Noritsu showed off a photo ink jet printer designed to put more retailers in the business of developing pictures. The video below gives more details.



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Spamming your printer...

Aaron Weaver has made a discovery the world could probably do without: He's found a way to spam your printer from the Web.

By using a little-known capability found in most Web browsers, Weaver can make a Web page launch a print job on just about any printer on a victim's network. The Web site could print annoying ads on the printer and theoretically issue more dangerous commands, like telling the printer to send a fax, format its hard drive, or download new firmware.

Weaver, a security manager in the financial industry, based in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, described what he calls "cross site printing" in a research paper published Tuesday on the Ha.ckers.org Web site.

For a cross-site printing attack to work, a victim would have to visit either a malicious Web site or a legitimate page that suffers from a cross-site scripting flaw, which is a common type of Web programming error. The hacker would then send JavaScript code to the browser that would guess the location of the victim's printer and send it a print job.

Weaver has launched the attack successfully with both the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. Because the attack works only on network printers, a printer plugged directly into a PC would not be vulnerable.

Full report here

Source: www.infoworld.com

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HP is "impeccable"

Today I came across a research report for ink quality. The report was ordered by HP and its goal was to "prove" HP inks are better than any other inks. The research showed HP inks are the best of all. As they say, "he who pays calls the tune". Here are some graphs with the results. In the second one I admired the 0,0%...Even statistically this result is not possible. The researchers go against the stats :)





Here is the full report available for download.

Xerox Phaser 8860

Xerox has come with a new product to break with the traditional business model of printer manufacturers. In traditional printer-manufacturing business printers are reall give-aways, while ink and toner cartridges are supposed to return their price as they user replaces them.

Xerox Phaser 8860 is a product that costs over 2500 USD and offers 3,2 cent copies, whereas very few color printers go below 10 cents for a copy. Actually, this low price per copy is due to the use of solid inks and not toner. The speed is 16 ppm, which is way lower than in competiting devices. Still, the cost per copy is unbeatable.



Photo: PC Magazine