HP Launches 75-PPM A3 MFP and More

New offerings make digital capture more accessible; new scanners and MFPs deliver speed, efficiency
PALO ALTO, Calif., December 3, 2015 — HP Inc. today announced new solutions designed to make it easier and less expensive for customers to deploy digital capture, as well as new scanners and MFPs that provide faster scanning and printing.

“Converting paper into digital files helps businesses lower costs and operate more efficiently,” said Edmund Wingate, vice president & general manager, JetAdvantage Solutions, HP. “HP is working to eliminate the barriers of cost and complexity so more customers can deploy and benefit from digital capture.”
New JetAdvantage Solutions
HP has updated its JetAdvantage solution portfolio with new offerings that make it simpler and less expensive to deploy scanner and MFP-based digital capture. Rather than invest in a complex, extensively featured solution, the new HP offerings enable customers to deploy faster with less upfront investment. The new HP JetAdvantage solution offerings include:

-HP Scan Configuration Service provides template-based scan flows for use with HP Embedded Capture. HP has also introduced templates for healthcare and financial services, with additional industry templates to follow. These templates enable set up of repeatable digital capture processes that support common business functions for these industries. For healthcare, the supported processes are patient admission and patient discharge. The financial services template supports processes for loan application and account opening. The HP Scan Configuration Service leverages predefined templates to help reduce deployment time significantly for implementing scan flows and lower the cost for deploying custom scan flows, with pricing set at a one-time fee of $25 per device when bundled with the purchase and installation of HP Embedded Capture.

-HP Capture and Route is now available through a one button implementation on HP Enterprise MFPs and Digital Senders. For customers that only need to deploy a single process to digitally capture and manage paper documents, this option enables a simple, modular deployment, along with pricing flexibility. Businesses get the flexibility to start small, implementing a single process and add additional processes over time as needed.

New Scanners Enable Faster Digitalization
HP is further helping customers boost office productivity by making the process of scanning and converting paper documents more efficient with three new HP ScanJet devices that deliver faster scanning speeds.

• For small and medium businesses with general office scanning needs, the HP ScanJet Pro 2500f1 and the HP ScanJet Pro 3500f1 PC-connected flatbed scanners with automatic document feeders provide single pass duplex scanning and scan to cloud capabilities. The HP ScanJet Pro 2500fn1 can scan up to 40 images per minute and the HP ScanJet Pro 3500fn1 can scan up to 50 images per minute.1
• For small and medium businesses and enterprise departments in need of a scanner with network connectivity, HP is announcing the HP ScanJet Pro 4500fn1, a flatbed scanner with an ADF that includes on-device sending and scanning, Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi direct connectivity, and single pass duplex scanning of up to 60 images per minute. This scanner is available beginning Jan. 7.2
• To help further enhance productivity for converting paper documents into digital files, HP will deliver the HP JetAdvantage Capture app, which makes it easy to capture, store and route digital files from a mobile device. The app also supports using mobile devices to initiate scanning and receive scanned documents from Wi-Fi-enabled HP MFPs and scanners, such as the HP ScanJet Pro 4500fn1. This app is available beginning Jan. 7.  New MFPs deliver high volumes and fast speeds
  HP is expanding its A3 portfolio, introducing two new MFPs for managed print services customers in need of high-volume imaging and printing. The HP MFP S965dn and HP MFP S975dn are designed to support high volume document workflows and light production printing while saving up to 30 percent on printing costs.3 The HP MFP S965dn prints up to 65 pages a minute and the HP MFP S975dn prints up to 75 pages a minute, and both devices can scan up to 200 images per minute with single pass dual sided scanning.
  More information about the new HP JetAdvantage solution portfolio is available www.hp.com/go/jetadvantage.
  
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  1Scan speeds of up to 40 images per minute for the HP ScanJet 2500f1 and 50 images per minute for the HP ScanJet 3500f1 measured at 300 dpi (black-and-white, grayscale, and color). Actual processing speeds may vary depending on scan resolution, network conditions, computer performance, and application software.
  2Scan speeds of up to 60 images per minute for the HP ScanJet 4500fn1 measured at 300 dpi (black-and-white, grayscale, and color). Actual processing speeds may vary depending on scan resolution, network conditions, computer performance, and application software.
  3Estimated energy and paper savings based on analysis of select HP Managed Print Services customers’ imaging and printing operations using data gathered on devices and paper consumption, comparing with post-MPS actuals or projections. Results depend on unique business environments, the way HP products and services are used, and other factors. Overall printing costs are unique to each company and should not be relied on for savings you may achieve. According to industry analysts, savings of up to 30% are typical with managed print services.
  4Printing speed measured using ISO/IEC 24734 and excludes first set of test documents. For more information, see hp.com/go/printerclaims. Exact speed varies depending on the system configuration, software application, driver, and document complexity.
  5Scan speeds measured from ADF. Actual processing speeds may vary depending on scan resolution, network conditions, computer performance, and application software.
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Sharp Expands A4 Product Line With New Color Desktop Printer

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MAHWAH, N.J., June 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Today, Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, introduced the MX-C300P color desktop printer, the latest model in its expanding line of compact desktop document systems. The new 30 page-per-minute color printer joins two compact desktop color MFPs announced in December, and offers advanced features that include both wireless and wired networking as well as direct USB printing. The device also offers convenient printing from popular mobile devices with Sharpdesk^® mobile, a free downloadable app. The MX-C300P is built on Sharp’s newest compact color engine and is designed to fit into tight office spaces without compromising performance or reliability.

“The new MX-C300P is a powerful color desktop printer that is big on features and small on size,” said Mike Marusic, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Operations. “Sharp’s space-saving design enables this device to be placed in virtually any size office or workgroup, helping users to work more efficiently.”

The new MX-C300P color desktop printer is available immediately for purchase via authorized Dealers and direct sales.

About Sharp Electronics Corporation

Sharp Electronics Corporation is the U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of one-of-a-kind home entertainment products, appliances, networked multifunctional office solutions, solar energy solutions, LED lighting and mobile communication and information tools.

Lexmark May Be Liable For Attacking Printer-Cartridge Rivals, Supreme Court Says

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Lexmark may have crossed the line into false advertising when it told manufacturers of refurbished ink cartridges that it was illegal for them to use microchips designed to allow them to operate in Lexmark printers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today.

In a unanimous decision penned by Justice Antonin Scalia, the court ruled that  Static Control could bring a Lanham Act case against Lexmark for sending letters to the chipmaker’s customers saying it was illegal for them to use Static Control chips in refurbished ink cartridges. Static Control reverse-engineered chips that Lexmark had developed to try and prevent competitors from undercutting it in the lucrative printer ink business.

The decision gives a potentially powerful weapon to free-data advocates who say companies are using laws like the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to squelch competition and even criminalize the use of technology that gets around digital rights-management software and other controls on how customers use data. Companies will have to be careful before accusing a competitor of violating patent laws or saying unauthorized technology is inferior or illegal.

The decision goes beyond that, however, wiping away a judicially created doctrine known as “prudential standing” that had allowed courts to dismiss lawsuits simply because they didn’t think the plaintiff had the right to sue. The ruling doesn’t affect constitutional standing — the requirement that federal courts only hear cases brought by parties who have suffered an actual injury — but it broadens the number of companies that can sue over alleged violations of federal statutes. Various federal circuits, struggling to interpret some ambiguous Supreme Court decisions, had employed different tests to determine whether companies including firms that weren’t direct competitors could sue for false advertising.

“It’s a landmark case on the issue of standing,” said Miller Baker, a partner with McDermott, Will & Emery who represented Static Control. “It clears up a lot of confusion about the law that can be traced to prior Supreme Court decisions.”

Lexmark initially sued Static Control for providing chips it said facilitated patent infringement. The printer manufacturer had a “Prebate” program that encouraged customers to return their cartridges to the company for a rebate — backed up by a shrinkwrap license agreement they supposedly assented to when they opened the box — and used the microchip to try and ensure that customers couldn’t install competing cartridges in their machines.

Static Control supplied toner, replacement parts as well as chips that mimicked the Lexmark chip to companies that refilled and refurbished Lexmark cartridges. It countersued Lexmark on a variety of claims including patent abuse and false advertising. A trial court dismissed Static Control’s counterclaims but the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the Lanham Act claims, saying that even though the company wasn’t a direct competitor of Lexmark it might have suffered harm.
The Supreme Court agreed, saying Static Control deserves a shot at convincing a jury it suffered business harm because of Lexmark’s statements.

Static Control’s alle­gations suggest that if the remanufacturers sold 10,000 fewer refurbished cartridges because of Lexmark’s false advertising, then it would follow more or less automatically that Static Control sold 10,000 fewer microchips for the same reason, without the need for any “speculative . . . proceedings” or “intricate, uncertain inquiries.

The decision was assigned to Scalia because of his strong interests in standing and statutory interpretation, Baker said. In it, the conservative justice was able to sweep away the somewhat squishy doctrine of prudential standing and replace it with a directive for judges to look strictly at the text of a federal statute to determine whether a plaintiff lies within the “zone of interests” Congress intended:

Whether a plaintiff comes within “the ‘zone of interests’” is an issue that requires us to determine, using traditional tools of statutory interpretation, whether a legislatively conferred cause of action encompasses a particular plaintiff ’s claim.

What Scalia said, in a nutshell, is “it’s not legitimate for courts to not hear a case because they don’t feel like it,” said Mark McKenna, a professor at Notre Dame Law School. He studied the practical effect of prudential standing rules on false-advertising cases, along with Deborah Gerhardt and Kevin McGuire of the University of North Carolina and found significant disparities in who was allowed to sue.
This decision “basically forces all of the circuits to redo their tests,” which is rare for the Supreme Court, since it more often picks one circuit’s test and orders the rest to follow it.
The Lanham Act is a powerful tool for policing anticompetitive behavior and often appears intertwined with antitrust law. The prudential standing rule the court discarded today was adapted from similar tests used to determine who can file an antitrust suit. Today’s decision doesn’t affect well-settled law covering who has standing to sue over environmental regulations, say, or government wiretapping, and will have its biggest impact on business litigation.