Toshiba's latest multi-functional system does it all

"The importance of colour in documents cannot be stressed enough as we believe it is one of the key factors of success in any office," said Isao Sugehara, general manager of Toshiba Singapore's electronic Imaging division.

Although the trend towards more colour in business documents is not new , users have until now had to compromise by choosing between a device that produces documents in colour or a printer/copier for black-and-white only.

"With the e-Studio 4511, we can satisfy users who demand a full-scale black-and-white digital multifunctional system with a compact body, sufficiently fast output speed, high image quality, advanced paper handling capabilities, and superb network connectivity-plus full colour functions - all at a reasonable cost," said Sugehara.

Toshiba's new e-Studio range works in black-and-white mode with typical monochrome speed - 35 or 45 pages per minute (ppm) - and typical monochrome costs, while its performance in colour mode is 11 ppm.

Black-and-white documents are thus produced exclusively in monochrome mode at costs and speed that are basically the same as for a monochrome printer/copier.

This also applies to 'mixed' documents, where the machine is capable of making the distinction automatically between pages with colour information and those that only have monochrome content.

The key concept behind the e-Studio 3511/4511 is 'e-Bridge Technology', featuring an all-in-one architecture to implement copying, network printing, network scanning, internet faxing (ifax) and faxing, integrating all these features on one board.

Most MFP models require an optional printer board, network interface card, and document controller to perform as a network printer and scanner. The e-Studio 3511/4511has the e-Bridge controller built in, so that as soon as it is installed, it can be connected to the user's network configurations and is ready to serve as a network printer, scanner and ifax. This results in greater efficiency and productivity as it enables concurrent processing of copying, printing, scanning and faxing.

Toshiba Electronic Imaging Division's strategic partners will be at Toshiba stand at F2-1, Hall 2. They are Al-Futtaim Electronics, Dubai, UAE; Arabian Business Machines Co, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Badr Electric Co, Tehran, Iran; El-Araby Co. For Trading & Manufacturing, Cairo, Egypt; Elektromak Buro Makineleri San. Ve Tic. A.S., Istanbul, Turkey; and Yemen Trading & Construction Co. Ltd, Sana'a, Republic of Yemen.