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IBM Infoprint 1532 Express
35 ppm Monochrome Network Printer
Key Buyer Benefits
Versatile workflow capabilities, powerful Automated URL/file printing schedule
35 ppm printing, and document utility allows commonly accessed web
management, all in a compact footprint. pages to be printed without user
intervention.
Walk-up PDF printing capability directly
from device front console interface using Common interface design between PCL
USB flash pocke
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I What’s Inside? (Click on an entry below to go to the page listed.) Product Dynamics ............................................................................................... 3 Overview................................................................................................... 3 Target Market ........................................................................................... 3 Hardware Installatio
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Product Dynamics Overview: • 3,850-sheet maximum input capacity • Extensive networking, wireless, and The user was clearly placed in the bull’s fiber-optic security options. eye when IBM sat down to redesign its • An optional 25-sheet stapler unit that popular Infoprint-series monochrome can hold up to 40 stapled sets (500 printer family. sheets maximum). A host of new innovative features have Target Market
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Product Dynamics Hardware Installation: We found this departmental device easy to install and set-up. The entire hardware installation was completed in less than one hour. No special tools were required — allowing the procedure to be performed by non-technical support personnel. Device Driver Installation: The installation of the device driver onto a PC was equally simple and quick. The IBM installation CD w
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Device Management Remote management of the IBM Infoprint 1532 Express can be accomplished through the device’s embedded Web Server. From their browsers, administrators can monitor resource levels (toner, paper, fuser), configure network and security settings, check print statistics, and establish email alert conditions. Two features that we would have like to have seen in its Web implementation are direct printin
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Device Management Overall, the software’s features, settings, and action menus provide administrators with many ways to arrange and display device data. They can also create custom “views” to display built-in graphics and tables. And they can create new tables by selecting from MarkVision’s list of device fields. MarkVision Messenger: MarkVision is designed as server- based software and supports a Web interface
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Paper Handling Input: overfills a paper tray, any paper over the limit of the tray will be pushed out, reducing The IBM Infoprint 1532 Express comes the chances of paper jams and downtime. with a 250-sheet universal and a 100-sheet multipurpose tray. Additional paper drawers stack below the standard drawer. The paper input options break out to a 250- sheet duplex paper drawer and choices of either 500-sheet or 250-sh
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Paper Handling Output: On the output side, the IBM Infoprint 1532 Express supports a high capacity output stacker (1,850-sheets), five-bin mailbox (120-sheets per bin), and an output expander (650-sheets). These additional paper handling options can all be added to the IBM Infoprint 1532 Express without increasing the device footprint, thus offering valuable additional benefits with no increase in space requiremen
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Maintenance All the consumable components on the IBM Infoprint 1532 Express can be user- replaced without the need for sophisticated tools or a high level of technical ability. To aid users with user intervention tasks such as paper jams and other events the new IBM interface now includes a larger LCD panel that supports icons. This allows the device to prompt users on how to resolve issues with a series of walk-
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Security IPsec: The networking options on the IBM Infoprint 1532 Express are extensive: fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and 802.11G wireless. LAN and WAN security is accomplished through standard IPSec. IPsec is a framework for a set of protocols for security at the network layer of the TCP/ IP protocol stack. IPsec supports both authentication and encryption. A major advantage of IPsec is that security With IBM
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Security IBM also offers a host of other security features to accommodate the need for keeping information safe. PIN Codes: To safeguard the production and storage of documents, the new ten-digit button interface now allows users to enter four- digit PIN with values from 0-9, when on previous models it was limited to only digits 1-6 in combination. We were also pleased Administrators can set the maximum retry
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Direct Print ImageQuick Drag’N’Print: Drag’N’Print is a direct print utility that is provided with the driver CD as a standard feature for the IBM Infoprint 1532 Express. IBM’s direct printing will be a popular resource among users looking for fast reproduction of high bandwidth graphic files. The reason being that IBM’s direct printing allows users to send PNG, PCX, DCX, PDF, JPEG, HTML, TIFF, GIF, BMP, and PS
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Direct Print Automatic Print Scheduled Events: This function has a broad range of real-life applications. In the example below a stock Another valuable and unique feature on the broker in New York has set up a series of IBM’s ImageQuick utility is the ability to set scheduled print events to ensure that when up automatic print scheduled events. the brokers arrive in the morning that they have the main news page of the
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Direct Print USB Flash Drive Support: There is another way in which files can be submitted directly to the IBM Infoprint 1532 Express without the need for a printer driver, or indeed without the need of a desktop PC. We were very pleased to see that, after years of asking, a manufacturer has finally included a USB flash drive reader on the device console. For years manufacturers have been boasting about their a
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Print on Demand Both drivers include a range of job delivery options. In addition to sending a job to print, we could also choose between: Verify Print: Prints the first copy of a multiple- copy print job, then holds remaining copies until you either continue printing the job or delete the job using the printer’s operator panel. Reserve Print: Stores a print job on the printer for printing at a later tim
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Print Printer Driver Functionality: IBM Infoprint 1532 Express shares the same PCL driver interface as the new color Infoprint Color 1567, the wide- format Infoprint 1585, and the rest of the Infoprint-series. So enterprise users will feel right at home when they first open up and print to this workgroup device. As with these other IBM devices, the drivers are split out into four tabs: Page The IBM Infoprint
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Print Image Quality: The image quality achieved from the IBM Infoprint series was to an acceptable level across a wide range of typical business applications. Fonts were legible down to 4 points and fine lines were accurately reproduced. While not glaringly obvious, the image quality on graphics was not as good as the output we have seen on some rival devices in this sector. Grayscales and halftones had a
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® LabCheck IBM Infoprint 1532 Express Panasonic WORKiO DP-6530 I Summing Up The IBM Infoprint 1532 Express brings The direct print facility via ImageQuick and some new life to the workgroup printer the USB interface on the device front panel monochrome market with an enviable provide a wealth of walk-up and automated number of unique features that put the printing abilities that are designed to make device on its own in terms of user- the job of printing business-critical tasks as fri
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