Single-function printers now is still dominated the inkjet printer market. But the market is predicted to continue declining; it will take over by the multifunction printer. Looking at this trend, Canon printer products extend its Union multifunction. On Monday, Canon introduced three new members of the family of multifunction printer Pixma MX series, the MX347, MX357, and MX876. All three segments were created for small office or home office.

These three printers also featured with the facsimile, and also can be a scanner. They also support Wi-Fl Especially for MX357 and 876, it is available also for local network connectivity (LAN). Model MX347 and 357 is a printer that can produce a scan resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi. Both are able to store scan results in the internal memory or USB-based external data storage.

These three printers also equipped with a PictBridge socket. This is a feature that connected to Canon digital camera and enables to print photos without the help of computers. This feature also exists in the model 876. Only, at 357 and 876 models, users can display photos on the 2.5 inch screen because it is already colored.

MX876 model presents a more complete feature than his brother. In addition to its high resolution, this printer has auto duplex; a feature to print the back and forth. As printers, Canon is trying to increase the speed of the third print printer while offering a new standard called IPM, or images per minute. Usually a standard that is widely used is the PPM vendor or pages per minute.

It uses the standard method of ISO 24 734. Unlike the PPM method, which usually only includes the speed of the printer when printing a document in draft format, ISO 24 734 requires that the tests were performed on three document formats, i.e. Word, Excel, and printing speed PDE then averaged.

The scanning speed also improved. This is because Canon designed the machine to analyze the document to be scanned. Blank white part will be passed in order to save time. For safety, Canon also adds one feature to prevent squeeze when they want to use the number on the fax. The trick is to send a notion once again when they want to send a fax. In addition, the printer features fax preventing the entry of trash (junk fax).

For PDF documents, users can set up keywords so that documents could not be seen by anyone else. Printers were also equipped with an opening to the output paper tray automatically. This is to prevent jamming when users forget to open the output tray after printing is executed.

Come to enliven A3 scanner markets, today introduced the Fujitsu fi-6800. The machine is targeted for the health sector, financial, government, legal and vertical markets. Fujitsu fi-6800 is claimed easy to use, and has supported the campaign unique ‘green’. Fi-6800 can scan A4 documents in landscape orientation with a speed of 130 pages per minute in simplex mode (one side), or 260 images per minute in duplex mode (two sides). Output resolution ranges between 50 and 600 dot per inch (dpi). Fujitsu fi-6800 can scan documents from A8 size up to A3, with a length of up to 3 meters.

This scanner has been equipped with several features. One is Automatic Sorting. By using these features, this scanner can sort the documents by barcodes. Of course it can facilitate the separation of office documents. After the scan, “Automatic Stacker” will set the original document as “Automatic Image Quality Checker” will examine the images already in the form of soft-copy, to look for irregularities such as folds and former scrap of paper.

Fujitsu fi-6800 is made from environmentally friendly materials. Power consumption was only 4W in sleep mode conditions. This scanner is also equipped with technology light-emitting diode (LED) which claimed the latest is able to give brighter light in a short time. Fujitsu fi-6800 is sold USD20.000 and is available in several countries in Asia namely Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and India.