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Toshiba e-STUDIO360 CP
32ppm full color
3
6ppm black & white
Same Machine as the Lexmark C920
Chart entry — page 117
UNISYS
Blue Bell, PA
800 874 8647
www.unisysdirect.com
Vendor Profile
Unisys is best kno
wn as a manufacturer of mainframe
computer
s, especiall
y for large institutions suc
h as gov-
ernment, banking, and insurance companies. As such, it
is IBM’s only real competitor, though definitely a distant
second.
In recent y
ear
s, Unisys
, like IBM, has concentrat-
ed on selling services rather than hardware. It has become
expert at configuring and maintaining computer systems
for widel
y distributed corpor
ate and governmental
clients.
Unisys adopted this series of laser printers from
Le
xmark and has relabeled them. These models are sold
through Unisys’s direct-sales organization and also on
the Inter
net. It’
s unlik
el
y tha
t anyone other than a Unisys
customer w
ould buy one, but they are available for any-
one. Note that Unisys has a slightly higher price and car-
ries the netw
orked version only.
Pr
oduct Profile
Unisys UDS 579-DN1
25ppm full color
25ppm black & white
Same Machine as the Lexmark C770n (duplex version)
Chart entry — page 118
XANTE
Mobile, AL
800 926 8839
www.xante.com
Vendor Profile
Xanté Corporation specializes in prepress equipment and
printers for the graphics industry. It sells monochrome
and color laser printers as well as specialized printers for
such media as printing plates, film, and heavy stock.
Xanté has consolidated its color laser printing line,
replacing its CL30 family of printers with its Ilumina
machine. As with its previous printers, Xanté emphasizes
color quality with the Ilumina,
making tools a
vaila
ble for
creating accurate and consistent color and for proofing
pages destined for the printing press.
Xanté w
as founded in the la
te 1980s b
y former emplo
y-
ees of QMS, another printer vendor in Mobile, Alabama,
that is now a division of Konica Minolta. Xanté sells its
printer
s dir
ect and through reseller
s.
Product Profiles
Xanté Ilumina
36ppm full color
40ppm b
lack & white
Sum-up: Speedy, feature-rich ledger-size model prints on a
variety of media.
Ha
ving discontin
ued its CL30 f
amil
y, Xanté’s sole color
laser of
f
ering at present is the $6,495 Ilumina tabloid
printer, which offers 36ppm printing in color and 40ppm
in black-and-white, and prints at 1,200 x 600dpi
resolution.
T
he sing
le-pass Ilumina comes with 512MB of
memo
-
r
y tha
t can be upgraded to 1GB. It has a powerful
720MHz pr
ocessor. PostScript and PCL are standard,
and the machine has Ethernet, parallel, and USB connec-
tivity standard.
The Ilumina’s main selling point is its paper-handling
v
er
satility. It can print on up to 24pt. cover stock on up to
12.9" x 47.24" sheets
. Besides conventional paper print
jobs, the Ilumina can print 4-color business cards, post-
cards, brochures, banners, and signs.
This machine has impressive paper capacity. It comes
with a standar
d 530-sheet tr
a
y
. You can put up to five
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