The document imaging industry continues to push forward with new technologies, and Kyocera Mita is leading the charge in enabling next-generation network, wireless and software solutions which migrate perfectly into Kyocera Mita's line of digital products.
Our goal is to become a strategic partner of superior digital imaging devices and also a valued resource for your business and solution needs. The ability to provide customers with a greater level of product integration and performance, coupled with a low total cost of ownership and IT friendly application solutions, such as wireless capabilities, are key differentiators and critical to our success.
Let us introduce Kyocera Mita, our product solutions and industry perspectives, with the hope that you will view Kyocera Mita as a valuable resource.
Kyocera Mita America is improving the document management processes of customers and making people's jobs easier through a high-performance, end-to-end digital imaging product line that delivers one of the industry's lowest total costs of ownership (TCO).
The company manufactures and markets network-ready digital copiers/printers, laser printers, color copiers/printers, digital laser facsimiles, multi-functional, wide format imaging products and a portfolio of Kyocera-developed and third-party software and network solutions. Kyocera Mita America is a group company of Kyocera Corporation, the world's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced ceramics and associated products, including telecommunications equipment, semiconductor packages and electronic components. Kyocera Corporation's consolidated net revenues totaled $11.0 billion during the year ended March 31, 2004. Kyocera employs more than 40,000 people worldwide.
Kyocera Mita America's operations in the Americas are headquartered in Fairfield, New Jersey. The company produces toner, developers and cartridges at a state-of-the art manufacturing facility in Greenville, South Carolina, and operates a training and parts distribution center in Dallas as the hub for its technical and sales training operations.
Product Leadership
Kyocera's global leadership in printer technology was combined with Mita's strength in copiers and multi-functional products when the two companies merged in 2000. Kyocera has leveraged this combined strength to manufacture a complete line of award-winning digital imaging products and their advanced ceramic components, including a long-life drum unit and engine that are common on all Kyocera-manufactured products. Kyocera introduced the world's first single-layer photo-electrostatic OPC drum in 1998, and continues to excel in the development and manufacture of long-life drums, a component it supplies to many printer and copier manufacturers around the world.
All Kyocera ECOSYS printers and multi-functional products utilize the common KX driver, which provides a standard look and feel for end users and also enables the easy set-up and management of all products running on the network.
Technology Innovation
Kyocera innovates using technology to reduce TCO, streamline advanced document imaging tasks and protect the environment. Its environmental awareness is evidenced through the ECOSYS brand of printers. Unnecessary waste of cartridges is eliminated in ECOSYS products, since toner is added to the existing unit without disposal of the drum, a feature that not only helps protect the environment but contributes to a low TCO.
Kyocera is the first player in the industry to offer complete embedded wireless connectivity for all Kyocera-developed printers and MFPs. The company's wireless offerings enable mobile printing and multi-office printing flexibility and give end users true wireless document processing at the same functionality as a hard-wired network.
Dealer Network
The award-winning, high-performance Kyocera product line is offered through a nationwide network of over 400 dealers, who add value to customers through quality integration, customization and 24/7 service and support for the products. Kyocera supports its network of dealers with a strong National and Government Accounts Division that assists with large, multi-regional opportunities and provides a focused strategy for Fortune 1000 accounts and the government.
Kyocera Mita & the environment.
Kyocera's ECOSYS Technology provides customers with a printing solution that incorporates long-life consumables and the lowest comparable cost per print - Welcome to Economical Efficiency and a Better Environment.
KYOCERA MITA'S ECOSYS PRINTER TECHNOLOGY
Conservationism Cuts Costs
Kyocera introduced the cartridge-free ECOSYS printer concept in 1992 as a means of reducing the user's Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while improving the printer's environmental impact. The ECOSYS printer technology represents a fundamental improvement over conventional laser printers.
ECOSYS Technology and TCO
Efficiency and productivity in office technology is based around TCO. This recognizes that the purchase price of the printer is only the first of a series of costs. With cartridge-based page printers, costs can easily exceed more than three times the original purchase price during the life of the product. Kyocera can claim that its toner costs are 1/3 that of competing brands.
Lower Running Costs - Up to 75% lower cost per page
The FS-3800 Series achieved the industry's best cost per page performance utilizing long-life technology. Over its life, one Kyocera ECOSYS printer can save a company thousands of dollars in printing costs. The savings for a company with 100 printers or more is astounding.
The Low Cost of Color
After analyzing two single function color laser printer segments, Current Analysis, an independent market research and competitive response firm, found that found that the Kyocera-Mita C5020N and the C5030N have the lowest total cost of ownership,[TCO},in their respective classes. At 5.3 cents, the C5020N and C5030N's cost per page {CPP} will benefit any customer interested in high volume color print needs.
Jake Wang, Senior Analyst-Digital Imaging and Printing.
Current Analysis, a competitive market intelligence analysis company.
Conventional Laser Printers
Conventional printers use an imaging cartridge that integrates a photoreceptor drum, developer and toner into a single, disposable unit. When the toner is depleted, the entire cartridge is disposed of and replaced with a new unit.
The Cartridge-Free ECOSYS Technology System
In contrast, ECOSYS printers feature a durable imaging system based on Kyocera's patented amorphous silicon print drum (a-Si), a combination of ceramic and metal. With a surface that is second only to diamond in hardness, Kyocera's durable print drum is guaranteed up to 300,000 pages on the FS-3800 Series and up to 500,000 pages on the FS-9500 Series. Tiny ceramic particles embedded in Kyocera's toner continually polish and recondition the drum during normal printing. This virtually eliminates the need for replacement of the drum and other cartridge components, which is typically performed many times over the life of a conventional printer.
The Result
Kyocera's ECOSYS printers and copiers create less waste than any competing products and have the lowest comparable cost per print.
Environmentally Proactive
Environmental consideration has also been taken in the development of the materials used in the external casing of ECOSYS printers. A bromine-free resin blend of polycarbonate and ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene stryrene) has been employed. Bromine, a fire resistant agent, is known to release toxic dioxins into the atmosphere when burned at low temperatures. We also direct our customers to ensure they comply with state and local laws when disposing of our products, as applicable. Click here for more information.
ECOSYS Environmental and Cost Benefits
The benefits of Kyocera's cartridge-free ECOSYS technology are twofold. Ecologically, ECOSYS can help to eliminate the environmental burden of used print cartridges worldwide that are now disposed of each year. Economically, by eliminating the recurring costs associated with replacement print cartridges, ECOSYS printers provide the industry's lowest TCO. This incremental savings can recoup the printer's purchase price in a year or less, particularly in network printing environments.
ECOSYS Honors and Awards
Kyocera's ECOSYS printers have been recognized around the world since 1992 for their innovative technology and environmental friendliness. |
