Studies suggest tha print associated costs can account for 10% of company costs!

Aspen in partnership with Xerox software are offering a FREE No Hassel Print Audit for a limited time only… Offering the following:

* Remote Audit – no sales person will attend – all you need to do is download the link that we email you.
* This will generate a FREE fully comprehensive report, with NO obligation.
* The report holds thousands of pounds worth of business SAVINGS!

Benefits to you!

* No visits from a sales person
* FREE Audit of your usage
* FREE report
* Significant SAVING of money

If you feel like your business costs are spiraling out of control and would like to save money – Email offers@aspensolutions.co.uk or call us on 08450 780 790.

Around the same time Mrs Thatcher was coming to the end of her reign and Baywatch was the X-Factor of Saturday evening TV, a company called Tektronix launched a new range of solid ink colour office printers .Back then office colour was a high-priced luxury (along with brick sized mobile phones and garishly coloured braces) .A mainstream office printer offering high speed and low running cost was destined to be a winner.

How does Solid ink work?

Solid ink technology utilizes solid ink sticks in lieu of the toner powder usually used in printers. After the ink stick is loaded into the printing device, it is melted and used to produce images on paper in a process similar to offset printing. Solid ink printing produces more vibrant colors than other methods, is easier to use, can print on a wide range of media, and is more environmentally friendly ,reducing waste by as much as 90% when compared with toner cartridges. The sticks are non-toxic and safe and clean to handle.

Solid ink’s place in todays market!

It didn’t take long for the document industry behemoth, Xerox, to sit up and pay attention to this revolutionary new technique. They were impressed, very impressed, and in true Vicotor Kiam style , so much so, they bought the company!

With the massive resources of Xerox R&D, over the past decade, the technology has been refined .Solid ink has now made its way to mainstream applications. With the 2009 launch of the Xerox ColorQube range, multifunction tabloid color printers that use solid ink technology, Xerox have now positioned solid ink to contend directly with laser/toner technology in the multifunction office printing space.

Advantages of Solid ink technology!

As mentioned, the advantages of solid ink are many, not least of which is the ongoing running costs. The machine measures actual colour coverage and uniquely, bill accordingly on one of the three-tiers of billing. This means that when printing a small percentage of Colour (286,000 colour pixels and under if you really want to know) ,such as a company logo, the job is charged at the same cost as mono print. From Xerox’s analysis of millions of documents, this may account for up to 40% of a traditional office’s total colour output. When you consider the traditional toner machine clicks as a full colour reproduction irrespective of coverage, the savings on running costs when using solid ink can be dramatic.

So from the decade that gave us Yugo cars, legwarmers and the Rubik cube, we now have a refined technology that may just go on to revolutionise office colour printing.

The solid ink era has arrived.

The designers of the  Acer TravelMate Timeline series laptops had one thing in mind for their new range of laptops – efficiency.

The TravelMate has been designed to be 40% more energy efficient than any other laptop on the market with an excellent 8 hours battery life for essential business on the move.  You can take your laptop out of the office for your full working day without worrying if you will be near an electricity port!

Even though Acer is providing a longer battery life laptop for your convenience, they have not compromised on usability, the TravelMate Timeline basically distributes its energy in a unique way to give you lasting power, keeping the features that are important to the user such as ultra slim and lightweight, a cooling system, environmentally friendly and ultra secure and reliable.

The TimeLine series laptops are a slim 24mm thick and weigh an ultra light 3.5lbs, giving you a perfect on the go solution.  Acer have gone to great lengths to make sure that their laptop exceeds expectations making it a least 5 degrees cooler than standard laptops,  and comes with a “PowerSmart Adapter”  that has awarded the TravelMate eco friendly awards such as EPEAT silver, Energy Star 5.0, WEEE and ROHS.

What is more the TimeLine laptops have excellent security with built in finger print reader and disk anti shock protector.

Therefore art Aspen we recommend the Acer TimeLine TravelMate Laptops for business on the move!

The Acer TravelMate series comes in a variety of power options and memory sizes, for more information and full specifications on the Acer TimeLine TravelMate laptops please call one of our professional advisors Monday-Friday on 08450 780 790 today!

While both are very much the cost effective option and still lead netbook innovation, most other hardware partners have now got onboard with products ranging from the fun Samsung NC10 range in a variety of colours which is ideal for home or small office use through to Sony’s top of the range VGN-P11Z series.  There’s something for everybody in the netbook range! With offerings now available from Dell, Toshiba and HP as well as a range of products with XP Pro/Vista Business, there’s never been a better time to speak to Aspen about changing to a netbook!