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How Xerox goes green

Green solutions offered by a company to its customers is a good way to show the eco-advantages. Another good way bring in good dividends with the public opinion would be the green practices adapted by the company in its office and manufactures.

Following this logic, Xerox employees around the world initiated twenty projects meant to help the company make waste and energy savings. As a result, Xerox saved $7.3 million, eliminate 1.3 million pounds of waste and reduce energy use by 500,000 kilowatt hours.

Here are some of the examples of Xerox green practices:

The Webster Consumables Manufacturing Plant in Webster, New York, found ways to reuse or recycle much of the packaging that came with incoming parts, including 800,000 foam sheets, 200,000 pieces of tag board, 60,000 plastic bags, 57,000 corrugated cartons and 6,900 plastic skids.

A team in Wilsonville, Ore., USA, made the cleaning process faster, made it more environmentally responsible, eliminated 400 pounds of landfill waste a year and cut labor costs by $37,000 by using an alternative material for equipment cleaning.

A project from Venray, Netherlands, replaced an old chilled water system with one that uses ammonia, a natural refrigerant, which reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 130,000 kg in six months. The
project is expected to also reduce energy use by 300,000 kilowatt hours a year and save $15,000 a year.

A Rio, Brazil, team replaced one-time use cloths with washable cloths, replaced metal barrels with reusable bags, started composting cafeteria waste and found a new use for the more than 10 tons of toner waste it generates, sending the toner to be used as product for roadways.

Source: www.greenbiz.com

Key words: Xerox, green practices, environment

Xerox introduces two new MFUs

Xerox unveiled two new multifunctional printers WorkCentre 3210 and 3220 combining printing, copying, scanning and faxing. The new printers feature a 360 MHz processor, 128 MB of memory and USB port. They can scan directly to or print from a USB memory drive.

WorkCentre 3210 and 3220 can print at speeds of up to 24 ppm and 30 ppm, respectively. The WorkCentre 3220 comes with Adobe PostScript 3 and other features such as fax forward to e-mail and automatic two-sided printing to reduce paper consumption.

As Rick Dastin, President of Xerox Global Product Delivery Group, stated: “Small businesses typically operate on small budgets, especially when it comes to technology investments. These new MFPs have a great mix of features that deliver high performance and 'big-budget' technology to SMBs working on a shoestring.”

Source: www.xerox.com

Key words: Xerox, printers, new, MFUs

Fuji Xerox's forecast about the printing market

Japan's Fuji Xerox said it would take several years for global office equipment demand to return to levels seen before the financial crisis. Fuji Xerox, a copier and printer joint venture between Fujifilm Holdings and Xerox Corp, announced it plans to focus on growth areas such as digital commercial printing operations to drive sales. Digital commercial printers are used to produce such documents as product manuals and direct mail quickly and in large volume, and are a fast-growing segment of the printer market.

Asked when the ailing printing market would get back into positive trends, Fuji Xerox President Tadahito Yamamoto said: "My answer is still uncertain. In Japan and the United States and Europe it's still difficult to tell. I think it will take another two to three years". Yamamoto said Fuji Xerox aims to double its revenues from digital commercial printing operations and document-related by the year to March 2014.

Source: tonernews.com

Key words: Fuji Xerox, market, crisis

Ursula Burns, a new CEO of Xerox, interviewed by CNN

Xerox goes greener with its ColorQube 9200

Xerox announced the release of its new top-notch multifunctional printer ColorQube 9200, which is said to reduce waste by 90%.

Last week the US printer manufacturer unveiled its new ColorQube 9200 printer, which embodies a set of new technologies meant to reduce waste, cut energy consumption and save on supplies.

The new device is based on solid ink technology. The company says the technology is the key factor to cut on waste as the ColorQube 9200 would print more than 55,000 pages on a single block of ink.


Xerox also points out that the use of this saving technology will allow to use 9% less energy and produce 10% fewer greenhouse gases throughout the machine's lifespan as compared with similar laser printers.

The ColorQube 9200 is another product in Xerox's initiative to go green. The company has already announced the energy-efficient toner and a couple of eco-friendly technologies patented.

The new ColorQube 9200 is available already in North America. But it targets small printing companies with the price of around $23,000. The launch date for Europe is planned for September, 2009.

Key words: Xerox, green, multifunctional, printer, environment

Xerox is back on the track with its solid ink technology

According to New York Times, Xerox is planning to breathe life in its solid ink printers by adding high-volume color printers to its product list by the end of this spring. After years of research, Xerox will release the first in a new series of large machines this month that it claims will change the economics of printing large volumes of color documents at offices.

Unlike traditional laser printers that use cartridges of powdery, sometimes messy toner, the revamped products rely on hunks of ink that remain solid at room temperature and then melt when heated.

“This is something they have been working on for forever and a day,” said Brian Bissett, the editor of the MFP Report, a publication about office printers and copiers. “It does have the potential to be fairly important.”
Traditionally, printer makers have charged big corporate customers a per-page fee for printing services: up to 8 cents a page for a color document and less than 2 cents a page for black-and-white.

Xerox and its main competitors, Canon and Ricoh, typically bill customers for a color page if there is any pigment on it, whether it’s a full-color replica of a slide from a presentation or a page that just has a colorful company logo and mostly black text.
Because of the higher cost, only about 15 percent of the more than two trillion documents printed every year in offices worldwide use color.

“This isn’t because people don’t like color but because there have been lots of barriers to color,” said Ursula M. Burns, the president of Xerox. “The last barrier is that it’s expensive.”

With its new ColorQube solid ink systems, Xerox says it can pull the average cost of color documents down to about 3 cents a page. A portion of the price break comes from better tracking of how much color is used on a page. But the principal breakthrough with the solid ink technology stems from the overall simplicity of the machine’s innards. Solid ink machines need about one-third as many parts as laser printers, which require various mechanisms to fuse toner onto paper that must be replaced over time, adding materials and services costs.

And instead of putting clunky cartridges of toner into the printers, customers just pop in the sticks of ink. Once that ink runs out, another stick goes in, and there’s nothing that needs to be thrown away or recycled. Over all, Xerox claims that it takes about 272 pounds of material to produce one million pages with a solid ink machine versus 965 pounds of material with a competing laser product.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Key words: Xerox, solid inks, large-scale printers

Fall in profit for Xerox

Xerox had the following results in the 4th quarter of 2008:

* Q4 net income $1 million; revenue falls 10%
* Sales of supplies and services down 8%
* Sales to high growth markets retreated

According to Reuters, Xerox barely eked out a profit in the fourth quarter, hurt by a dramatic decline in demand from Russia and other emerging markets, and $349 million in restructuring costs, sending shares down 9 percent.

The lingering sting of higher manufacturing costs, due to the strong Japanese yen, also caused the manufacturer of digital printers and provider of document management services to forecast a first-quarter profit that fell short of analysts' targets.

Xerox saw a startling 14 percent decline in revenue from high-growth regions, after these developing markets delivered 17 percent revenue growth through the first three quarters of 2008. Xerox cited soft currency exchange rates and the rapid weakening of Russian and eastern European economies.

"Where you really saw the weakness was in the developing markets," Cross said. "Some of these areas, whether its Brazil, Argentina or Russia, were really on fire. Multinational companies are going to have a challenge dealing with currency this quarter and going into 2009."

Xerox said fourth-quarter net income was $1 million, or nil per share. That is down from $382 million, or 41 cents a share, a year earlier.

In 2008, Xerox announced a restructuring plan, including about 3,000 job cuts, aimed at saving $200 million in 2009. In the fourth quarter, restructuring charges were 27 cents a share. Revenue fell 10 percent to $4.37 billion. Revenue from sales of supplies and services -- known as "post-sale" revenue -- fell 8 percent to $3.1 billion. Equipment sale revenue declined 15 percent to $1.3 billion, reflecting "weakened economic conditions around the world," Xerox said.

Source: Reuters

Key words: Xerox, profit, 2008, Russia

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).

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

Xerox Spreads Wealth

Doling out money to shareholders is generally a sign of good fiscal health, and in this case it's a wondrous recovery from a desperate illness. Xerox announced on Nov. 19 that it's reinstating its dividend, which it hasn't paid in more than six years. True, it's not a thumping sum—0.0425 cents a share—but CEO Anne Mulcahy called the move and recent stock repurchases a sign of the "long-term value we're creating." The dividend goes into effect in January for shareholders of record as of Dec. 31. Xerox' financial woes date back to 2002, when it suffered a cash crunch, restated five years of revenue, and erased 43% of earnings.

Source: BusinessWeek Magazine

Xerox financial results in the second quarter of 2007

Xerox announced its financial results for the 2nd quarter of 2007. The overall turnover of the company grew by 6 % and was USD 4,2 billion. The turnover coming from maintenance and sales of consumables grew by 7%.

From the beginning of 2007, Xerox lauched 28 new devices, including 10 color devices. This is twice as many as in 2006. Over 2/3 of the turnover of the company belongs to the sales of the equipment launched during the last two years.

The turnover coming from the sales of color devices grew by 12% in the second quarter of 2007 and is now 38% of all the turnover of the company. This is by 4% higher than in 2006.

Source: www.xerox.ru

Xerox to leave Ireland

Xerox Europe is planning to outsource some of its activities in the EU countries with lower work costs like Bulgaria and Romania. This means that over 900 workers at Xerox Europe in Ireland will have to leave their jobs.

Xerox Europe will also outsource some of its operations to IBM.

Source: www.independent.ie

Xerox Phaser 3200MFP

Xerox's resellers and distributors started offering the new Phaser 3200MFP in Russia and CIS from July 2007.



The Phaser 3200MFP targets home users with high-end needs. The device can be also used by small work groups. The multifunctional product has the following characteristics:

Printer:

Print speed — 24 ppm (А4);
First page out time — under 10 sec;
Processor - 300 MHz;
Memory — 64Mb;

Copier:

Copying speed — 24 ppm (A4);

Scanner:

TWAIN, WAI compatible color scanner;

Fax:

Receive/print — 3 sec per page.

Source: www.xerox.ru

New Colotech+ paper from Xerox

Xerox Russia announced the expansion of the streamline of Colotech+ paper for digital color printing sold in the Russian Federation and CIS countries.



The structure (increased g and new position of fibres) of the new paper helps preserve the printed text and images for a longer period.

www.xerox.ru

Xerox, HP and Samsung to receive Buyers Lab's awards

Kicking off its prestigious Spring 2007 “Pick” awards, Buyers Lab announced that HP, Samsung and Xerox products received recognition in the important multifunction printer category.

Each year, BLI puts hundreds of products through a rigorous battery of in-depth lab tests, during which the company evaluates all critical performance areas, including reliability, multitasking, image quality, productivity, print drivers, feedback to workstations, administrative utilities, ease of use, network setup, toner yield and more. Then, twice yearly, BLI awards its “Pick of the Year” honors to the products that have given the best overall performance in their respective categories.

The 2007 Spring Picks are:

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY



HP LaserJet M3027
Outstanding Small Workgroup Monochrome Multifunction Printer



HP LaserJet M4345xs
Outstanding Large Workgroup Monochrome Multifunction Printer

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SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS



Samsung SCX-5530FN
Outstanding Small Workgroup Monochrome Multifunction Printer



Samsung SCX-6322DN
Outstanding Mid-Size Workgroup Monochrome Multifunction Printer

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XEROX CORPORATION



Xerox Phaser 8560 MFP/D
Outstanding Small Workgroup Color Multifunction Printer

How to earn money by refilling and...fast

Xerox to offer refill kits for Xerox Work Center 3119

Xerox Russia offers brand-new refill kits for its multifunctional Xerox WorkCentre 3119.



The kits are supposed for the devices with 4.01 drivers. In case the device is older the company offers to download the necessary driver and update the device.

Source: www.xerox.com