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Introducing SMART Colour


What is SMART colour?

The business benefits of colour are obvious, but many organisations worry about not being able to control its use or costs. The iR3100C gives you worry-free, controllable colour, changing the way it's used forever.

Now you can control when colour appears and when it doesn't
Combining black & white with colour in one intelligent device gives you the best of both worlds. For complete peace of mind, the iR3100C defaults to black & white. Colour has to be selected as an option, ensuring you only get colour when you really want it. You can even set personal print quotas so that you can control who uses colour and how much.

Making colour affordable
With its innovative colour sensing you can now have colour just when you want it, with no loss of efficiency, and no loss of speed - and as far as running costs go, you only pay for the colour you use, which means you're in total control of your costs.

Add a professional look to your documents
Add a professional look to your documents and save time doing it. Produce booklets automatically, print traditional reports collated, stapled and even hole punched if necessary. If space is an issue, simply use the internal finisher.

It's as simple as black and white!
All functionality found in traditional MFP's is present including copy, print, fax, scan - even mailbox features are available. With its large full colour LCD panel offering an overview of the functions as well as the possibility to preview scanned documents, the iR3100C is as easy to use as your black and white MFP so there's no additional learning costs while your staff get to grips with using colour.

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Features & Benefits

  • Convenience colour: No commitment "pay as you go" colour for when you need it.
  • Default Black & White: Diverts to black & white unless colour is selected, to avoid unnecessary colour printing costs.
  • Black & White operating costs: Black and white impressions are charged as black and white, even when intermixed with colour documents in a single document.
  • Remote User Interface: Users can access the device direct from their workstations allowing them to check the status of their job or change settings.
  • LDAP functionality: Company eMail systems can be automatically accessed from the server allowing you to save time and reduce keying errors.
  • UFR printing language: In addition to the standard PCL and Postscript printing, UFR significantly speeds up printing in Windows applications by sharing the processing load between the computer and the print device.
  • Advanced file compression: Allows for fast and easy job handling, improving the ease of working with colour and at the same time decreasing network traffic.
  • ID management technology: You can set colour and volume quantity limits for all users via their individual passwords and stop the unauthorised usage that could result in high costs.
  • IW Publishing Manager software: Allows users to bring together documents from different windows based applications.
  • New spherical S toner with oil-less fixing: Gives you the perfect matt finish, ideal for business documents.


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Occasional colour for first time users

Your documents could be stunning in colour!
Colour grabs attention. It gets you noticed. It also makes complicated information easier to understand, and to remember.

Think about the documents you produce as a company: your quotes and proposals; your customer letters and flyers; your invoices and statements. Wouldn't it help your business to add some colour to these documents?

Total control of your entire document costs!
At IKON, we specialise in helping you control your document costs. Our print management software can allow you to decide who can access devices like the iR3100C, who can print in colour, and even provide functions like an activity log for you to monitor and charge back costs to departments or individuals within your office.

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Cost effective colour alternative to desktop printing

You could be cutting the cost of colour printing dramatically!
Running costs on desktop colour printers are volatile and typically much higher than users expect, with cartridges purchased locally at little discount. Desktops tend to struggle with longer print runs and can be slow, particularly when large files are printed, a common occurrence with colour documents! A lack of functionality such as no A3 capability, no double-sided printing, and no sorting or stapling can make desktop printers very expensive and inappropriate for business use, especially once the labour costs are added to the high average cost per page.

As a company who has already invested in colour capabilities, you know the benefits of adding colour to your documents. But can you afford to ignore the damage that desktop printing costs have on your bottom line?

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In-house business colour from your black & white device

Put the power of colour printing at your fingertips
You already know the value of having colour in your documents. Outsourcing the printing of these documents has allowed you to avoid purchasing your own equipment, but have you ever stopped to calculate the real cost of your external printing?

Print costs are just the tip of the iceberg
At very low volumes the high cost per page that you have printed externally, soon adds up. In addition, the convenience of external printers often leads to spiralling print volumes and costs as your staff take advantage of the service.

Losing control of your vital documentation
Send your vital colour documentation to an external printer and you give up control of the process. Production of your documents is now in their hands - do they really care about your deadline as much as you do? Are their standards of quality the same as yours? And how much time do your staff lose while their files are off site and in a non-secure environment?

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What is SMART colour?
Features & Benefits
Occasional Colour for first time users
Cost effective alternative for desktop printing
In-house business colour from your black & white device
Introducing IKON's SMART Colour Range
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