Kyocera Printers

Fairfield, N.J. – December 3, 2009 – Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the expansion of its flagship TASKalfa multifunctional product (MFP) series with the launch of its latest black & white MFP: the TASKalfa 300i (30 pages-per-minute). The TASKalfa 300i completes Kyocera Mita’s award-winning black & white MFP product series, joining the most recent introductions, the TASKalfa 520i and 420i models (52 and 42 pages per minute, ppm respectively).

With its powerful yet sleek, space-saving and energy-efficient design, the TASKalfa 300i delivers big performance for the needs of any office environment. The TASKalfa 300i is built on Kyocera’s award-winning MFP engine technology that utilizes the company’s patented long-life Amorphous Silicon drum, and an offers crisp 600 dpi image quality with fast and efficient print, copy and scan functionality and document portability.

With a 300,000 page preventative maintenance (PM) schedule, the TASKalfa 300i is a flexible and durable document imaging system that maximizes productivity performance and uptime for end-users.

“Businesses of all sizes require superior imaging and maximum performance, which is why we have engineered the TASKalfa 300i with all the features of a mid volume model but at the price point and footprint ideal for smaller offices and workgroups,” said Danielle Wolowitz, Senior Manager, MFP Products and Solutions, Kyocera Mita America. “We are excited to now offer a full range of new TASKalfa monochrome MFPs and celebrate the successful launch of 30 new MFP and printer models within the past year.”

Flexible and Versatile Features
The simplicity of the TASKalfa 300i’s 8.5 inch color touch screen control panel allows end-users to quickly and efficiently navigate functionality, imaging and finishing options. Benefits include full-color scanning, a USB host interface for portable document sharing, and optional fax and internet fax capabilities.

API Cryptek’s Netgard Appliance Helps to Secure Kyocera MFPs by Providing Access Security Through Fully Integrated CAC/PIV Authentication

FAIRFIELD, N.J. and STERLING, Va. – November 10, 2009 - Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, and API Cryptek, a leading provider of secure networking products and solutions, today announced that select Kyocera multifunctional products (MFPs) provide complete device locking security capabilities through API Cryptek’s Netgard™ MFD card reader appliance.

With the implementation of this new solution, end users who wish to access standard full functions of a Kyocera MFP, including copy, scan, e-mail and fax, will be required to authenticate with their U.S. Department of Defense-issued CAC/PIV Card (Common Access Card/Personal Identity Verification) and their personal identification number (PIN) via API Cryptek’s Netgard MFD. With this advanced security in place, Kyocera MFPs are securely locked from performing tasks until the user has been successfully identified. Utilizing the Netgard MFD with Kyocera’s MFPs effectively secures the device and prevents unauthorized users from accessing privileged materials or tampering with network resources.

“Kyocera has long been at the forefront of document security, and with our strategic alliance with API Cryptek’s securing technology, Kyocera will continue to offer advanced security options for today’s government agencies,” said Peter Hendrick, vice president, marketing for Kyocera Mita America. “As more organizations seek to further strengthen the security protection of their peripheral network access points, our technological partnership with API Cryptek will allow Kyocera to provide the most sophisticated security features to address the increasingly sophisticated nature of data security.”

FAIRFIELD, N.J. – November 5, 2009 – Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, is proud to again be named the Most Reliable Monochome multifunctional product (MFP) line, in a recent survey of service managers and dealers. Kyocera Mita’s products earned a total overall reliability score of 8.4 (out of 10), as compared to the industry average of 7.9. Kyocera Mita has won this particular award more than any other manufacturer – in three of the past five years – while this survey has been conducted by Office Products Analyst, a publication of Industry Analysts, Inc.

“Based on our research, the Kyocera monochrome MFP line is the most reliable brand available today. Kyocera has won this honor more than any other manufacturer in the past ten years, and we congratulate them on their outstanding performance,” said Andy Slawetsky, President, Industry Analysts, Inc. “The feedback from service technicians clearly indicates that Kyocera must be a top consideration for customers when selecting a black and white MFP.”

OPA conducted in-depth telephone interviews with 135 dealer service managers throughout dealerships nationwide. Responses encompassed 44,462 multifunctional units. Copier dealer service managers were questioned on the products they work closely with on a daily basis. Eighty three models from seven manufacturers were studied and assessed on performance criteria such as mean number of installs, average monthly page volume, preventive maintenance (PM) cycle, and average pages between calls.

FAIRFIELD, N.J. – October 5, 2009 – Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, is proud to announce that Better Buys for Business, a leading independent authority on document imaging equipment, has recognized Kyocera’s FS-C5400DN, FS-C5350DN, FS-C5300DN, FS-C5200DN and FS-C5100DN with 2010 Editor’s Choice Awards. As part of Kyocera’s ECOSYS® line of environmentally friendly printers, these Energy Star™ certified models utilize long-life consumables while consistently delivering high-quality image output.

According to Better Buys for Business, Kyocera color printers are powerful workgroup printers that offer respectable paper handling capabilities and provide impressive consumables costs. Better Buys indicated that the cost per page for black & white output is extraordinary and for color output Kyocera’s color printers offer a cost per page of almost half of the industry average, noting that this “alone makes these printers standout.”

“One of the key factors of businesses seeking to expand their color printing operations is the cost per page,” said Stephen Hannaford, editor-in-chief, Better Buys for Business. “Expanding on a legacy of offering leading office technology products with a low TCO, Kyocera’s new lineup of color printers offer both small and enterprise-size organizations high-quality, reliable color printing at an affordable price.”

In selecting Editor's Choice Award recipients, Better Buys for Business evaluates new products in a number of categories, including product area; features and technology; vendor profile; a detailed summary on current models from leading vendors; full specifications; and pricing information including cost per page. Kyocera’s outstanding printer technology enabled them to secure a ranking in the prestigious award winners’ category.

Fairfield, N.J. – October 1, 2009 – Kyocera Mita America, one of the world’s leading document imaging companies, today announced that it has been named Printer Manufacturer of the Year by Marketing Research Consultants, Inc. This year’s honor marked the fourth time in five years Kyocera has received the award. The Cannata Report, a Marketing Research Consultants, Inc. publication, will feature this year’s results in an upcoming issue. Winners are acknowledged based upon reactions of independent office equipment dealers nationwide.

“We congratulate Kyocera Mita on receiving the Printer Manufacturer of the Year Award,” said Frank G. Cannata, president, Marketing Research Consultants. “It is a great testament to the quality of the products as well as the people who support them in the field. This is also an acknowledgement by the independent MFP dealer community that Kyocera Mita printers represent a very important part of their product line up.”

The Printer Manufacturer of the Year award recognizes the manufacturer that provides the best overall sales and service support in the industry as determined by the 274 dealers who participated in the report’s 22nd Annual Dealer Survey. Ratings given to Manufacturers are rated on communication skills, competitive products, and programs that enable the independent copier dealer to achieve a high degree of success in a very competitive marketplace.

“Being named ‘Printer Manufacturer of the Year’ is a great honor for Kyocera,” said Peter Hendrick, vice president of marketing, Kyocera Mita America. “We have proudly accepted this award four out of the last five years, and credit our commitment to offering the highest-performing, most reliable, and one of the lowest total cost of ownership printer lines in the industry. We will continue to set the benchmark for the industry, always with the ultimate goal of providing the very best value and technology to our channel partners and their customers.”

KYOTO, Japan -- Kyocera Corporation (President: Tetsuo Kuba) today announced that it has developed the world's fastest* inkjet printhead — the key component in inkjet printing equipment. Each nozzle in the new KJ4 Series printhead ejects ink at up to 60,000 dots per second (at 60kHz drive frequency); with 2,656 nozzles per head, the device is capable of printing approximately 150 million dots per second.

Kyocera's previous inkjet printhead offered the world's fastest print speed when it was introduced in 2008 - 150 meters per minute at 600×600dpi resolution, using a drive frequency of 30kHz. The newly developed printhead sets new records for high resolution, full-color inkjet printing, offering the world's fastest print speeds in any of three resolutions: 600×360dpi (330m/min. at 40kHz), 600×600dpi (200m/min at 40kHz), and 1200×1200dpi (150m/min at 60kHz).

Recent years have brought increasing demand for on-demand printing, which allows for a larger variety of printing in smaller order volumes to meet specialized customer needs in the commercial high-speed printing market. In this way, inkjet printing is garnering attention for its flexibility on a page-by-page basis which contributes to productivity, and for its cost performance.

The new technology enabling this development was achieved by enhancing the drive frequency with Kyocera's unique elemental technology; making the interior ink channels more compact, optimizing the nozzle configuration, and improving the water-repellent coating on the printhead nozzle surface to prevent clogging, thus ejecting the ink more accurately. In addition to speed, it provides the high resolution required in the commercial printing market, with a 50 percent improvement in ink-drop placement accuracy over Kyocera's previous model. And like the original, the new printhead maintains the world's broadest single-unit print width, at 4.25 inches - enabling convenient printhead arrangement. Collectively, these features reflect Kyocera's commitment to lead the digital on-demand market with continuous technological advancement.

FAIRFIELD, N.J. – August 31, 2009 - Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the launch of the FS-C5350DN (32 page per minute) desktop color printer. As part of Kyocera’s ECOSYS line of environmentally friendly printers, this Energy Star certified model utilizes long-life consumables while consistently delivering high-quality image output.

Businesses looking to meet the demand for superior color printing while reducing overall costs, the FS-C5350DN features 600 dpi color with durable monthly maximum duty cycle of 140,000 pages. The FS-C5350DN can print on a broad range of paper stocks, and comes standard with a 500-sheet input tray and a standard 150-sheet multi-purpose tray (MPT). The printer comes standard with paper saving duplexing, and offers an optional 500-sheet paper feeder that can support media up to 120 lb index. Maximum paper capacity (with options) is an impressive 2,150 sheets from five different paper sources to minimize refilling and changing paper types.

“Kyocera’s ECOSYS printers bring new levels of efficiency and performance combined with Kyocera’s low total cost of ownership to business color printing,” said Rich Heckelmann, product and solutions marketing manager, printers for Kyocera Mita America. “With Kyocera’s ECOSYS technology, the FS-C5350DN printer delivers the high image quality, manageability and ultra reliability that Kyocera is recognized for throughout the industry.”

To maximize workgroup productivity and efficiency, the FS-C5350DN features standard networking, 256MB of memory (upgradeable to 1.28GB) and high-speed USB 2.0 connectivity. The FS-C5350DN provides departmental accounting or tracking capabilities for up to 100 account codes, and can support various network operating systems for seamless use across the office. The Kyocera FS-C-5350DN also comes standard with a USB Host Interface, allowing “on the go” users to select files (PDF and XPS) and print documents easily from a portable USB memory device directly at the printer.

FAIRFIELD, N.J. – August 19, 2009 - Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the availability of a series of advanced applications utilizing HyPAS (Hybrid Platform for Advanced Solutions) for the company’s line of TASKalfa multifunctional devices. HyPAS is a powerful and scalable software solution platform that optimizes the performance of Kyocera’s award-winning MFPs through custom, integrated software applications – all designed to meet the specific document imaging needs of every user.

Utilizing two key technologies, Web Services and Java™, HyPAS transforms a Kyocera TASKalfa MFP into a resource that evolves as its end-users business evolves – all resulting in enhanced information sharing and distribution, resource optimization and improved document workflows.

Kyocera’s new suite of HyPAS-enabled applications include:

PanelPlus
PanelPlus is a unique software tool that allows Kyocera authorized dealers to develop and deploy custom operation panel interfaces for end-user customers. PanelPlus also allows the integration of assigned settings to automate scanning tasks or workflows. PanelPlus boosts performance by providing task-focused, pre-programmed “One-Touch” Buttons such as: Scan to E-Mail; Scan to SMB (PC); or, Scan to FTP destinations, for an optimized and streamlined environment.

Equitrac
Kyocera is now offering advanced integration with both Equitrac Office and Equitrac Express products for print tracking and cost recovery. Kyocera’s embedded Equitrac solution simplifies print-copy tracking, and offers businesses and organizations greater management insight into document output volumes and helps to reduce overall print waste. The seamless integration between Equitrac and Kyocera’s HyPAS ensures that businesses and users will experience unprecedented convenience, security, productivity and cost savings.

FAIRFIELD, N.J. – August 3, 200 - Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced that it has enhanced its KYOcapture, powered by AutoStore, the latest version of its award winning, server-based Document Capture Workflow Solution with the release of version 5.0. Working in synchronization with Kyocera’s color and black & white Multifunctional Products (MFPs), KYOcapture allows organizations to easily capture, process and route their paper and electronic-based documents to virtually any document management system.

“KYOcapture is an essential enterprise office solution that provides MFP users with reliable and secure workflow processing capabilities to promote the electronic capture, processing and routing of critical information,” said Akisa Matsuda, director, software solutions for Kyocera Mita America. “KYOcapture is a solution that has the scalability and flexibility to streamline and expedite document capture workflow activities through a new, user-friendly interface that can be further customized to create an optimal environment for a variety of document management functions.”

An open-architecture middleware solution, KYOcapture serves as a gateway for documents to be stored, shared, searched or retrieved throughout the network so that end-users can access the information they want when they need it.

FAIRFIELD, N.J. – July 27, 2009 - Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the availability of the TASKalfa 750c series of color Multifunctional Products (MFPs), bringing high-speed color and advanced in-house document creation and finishing capabilities to organizations. Designed for today’s fast paced business environment, the TASKalfa 750c series offers high-speed color printing, copying, scanning and optional faxing to provide reliable, high quality document output through a user-friendly interface.

The TASKalfa 750c series features superior quality, power and performance in three new models– the TASKalfa 750c (75 pages-per-minute black/65ppm color), the TASKalfa 650c (65 ppm black/65 ppm color) and the TASKalfa 550c (55ppm black/55 ppm color).

“With the launch of the TASKalfa 750c series, Kyocera’s portfolio now includes Color MFPs featuring full color speeds from 25-65 pages per minute, and black speeds of 25-75 pages per minute, providing a vibrant set of product offerings to address the color printing needs of virtually any business,” said Danielle Wolowitz, product & solutions marketing manager, Color MFPs, Kyocera Mita America. “For organizations seeking to enhance their productivity, color output capability and keep their major projects in-house, the TASKalfa 750c series brings robust performance, quality and performance to execute an array of tasks quickly and successfully.”

Industry-leading Performance
The TASKalfa 750c series comes to market with BERTL’s Five Star/Exceptional ratings for each of the three models based on product testing by BERTL Labs. BERTL, Inc., is a leading news, research and critical analysis service for the office technology industry. To receive these high rankings, each model was evaluated with strenuous testing and analysis by BERTL technical analysts to gauge performance, capability and reliability. In recognizing the TASKalfa 750c series with Five Star/Exceptional ratings, BERTL noted the TASKalfa 750c, TASKalfa 650c and the TASKalfa 550c for vibrant color strength, superior image consistency, and long-lasting reliability under strong testing conditions. BERTL’s Five Star/Exceptional testing further acknowledged the TASKalfa 750c series as offering an impressive feature set for addressing an array of jobs with excellent results.