Local document solutions company, Kyocera Mita, announced the local availability of its latest Wide Format range of plotters, multifunctionals and scanners at an open day held in co-operation with Reprodraft, its specialised Wide Format business partner, on 9 October.
"Kyocera Mita`s family of Wide Format devices stretches what the markets perception of `wide format` actually entails," says Wayne Holborn, manager: sales and marketing at Kyocera Mita South Africa. "Our range offers high quality plots, copies and scans without the wait and without the high cost.
"The KM-4850w, for example, will produce seven A1 copies/plots a minute with a fast first copy time of just 18 seconds." The Wide Format range is designed to meet the needs of busy offices where users require quickly produced plots and copies in A0 (down to A4), or up to 50 000mm (copying). In every KM-4800w series device (except the KM-S4850 Wide Format scanner) there are two roll paper feeders and a manual feed bypass as standard, and an optional RU-4 roll feeder. This offers a maximum paper capacity of up to three rolls, supporting different sizes and different media, thus ensuring efficient productivity.
The plotter controller supports a variety of CAD formats including HP-GL, HP-GL2, HP-RTL or raster format such as TIFF and JPEG. "KM-Plotclient makes plotting job sets easy, even where a job set includes different file formats and different output sizes. KM-Winprint makes printing wide format from Windows applications like PowerPoint or MS Project as simple as with any other Windows print drivers," says Holborn.
The plotter controller is network-ready and allows the KM-P4845w, KM-P4850w and KM-4850w with optional Scan/Plot System to plot from all platforms and operating systems, such as Windows, Macintosh and Unix. The ICP (Internet Controlled Plotter) controller has a built-in Web server that allows users to monitor the status of the plotter or plot jobs or to reprint them from a standard Web browser.
Since users can select any Kyocera Mita plotter on the network from KM-Plotclient, it is possible to check the plot queue and select the free plotter, contributing to enhanced productivity. Also, administrators can upgrade the firmware of the controller very easily via the Web browser.
"KM-Scantool, which is available with KM-S4850w and KM-4850w with the optional Scan/Plot System, gives users a full package of scanning possibilities such as scan-to-PC, batch scanning, image editor and scan-to-copy function with 150dpi up to 2 400dpi with 256 greyscales," says Holborn.
The KM-4850w and KM-S4850w have been designed to combat the problem of old, distorted or creased and torn originals, offering maximum protection to the originals with the ability to carefully align the original so that feeding mistakes can be avoided.
The KM-4800w series offers a high standard resolution of real 600 x 600dpi, 256 greyscales in scanning and plotting, and the highest standard of 16 greyscales per dot (and 256 greyscales in total) for copying.
The Wide Format family from Kyocera Mita will be the perfect office companion for engineers, architects and print-for-pay owners.
Ian Mallinson, partner at Reprodraft, Wide Format solution partner to Kyocera Mita since 1998, says that when considering the latest enhancements and features on the KM-4800w series, Reprodraft is very excited about the sales prospects for it.
"The introduction of the KM-4800 series will open up an entirely new avenue of sales prospects due to the speed and quality of the printing process, thereby offering prospective clients the productivity they have always wanted.
"As the KM-4800 series includes a standard digital zoom copier; a multifunctional unit that copies, prints and scans, plus two plotters and a scanner, we are now able to offer a solution that best suits all our clients needs," he concludes.
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Kyocera Mita Corporation is the latest member of the worldwide Kyocera group. As part of the Kyocera Corporation, Kyocera Mita joins one of the most successful technology conglomerates of the last 50 years.
Kyocera Corporation was founded in 1959 as a manufacturer of fine ceramics and is based in Kyoto, Japan, as well as Europe and the US. Its product range has diversified from microelectronic packaging and components into optical and electronic systems, including cameras, laser printers and telecommunications equipment.
The Kyocera group employs approximately 51 000 people in more than 20 nations (21 000) outside of Japan). Today, Kyocera is among the leading manufacturers of high-tech ceramics, electronic components, solar cells, cellular phones, and electronic office equipment.
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