ColorQube 9200 series: next generation printing at affordable costsWith the Xerox ColorQube 9200 series, your business can stand out from the crowd.

The industry-leading multifunction device has a host of innovative and creative features designed to propel your print efficiency to the next level. It can be utilised by any office, regardless of size, and its advanced functionality quickly meets your needs and requirements, limiting downtime.

And because the device runs on Xerox's patented solid ink technology (take a look at the incredible benefits of solid ink technology), you get superior colour prints every day for a fraction of the cost of traditional toners.

Here are some of the innovative features available to owners of the ColorQube 9200 series:

• Flexible printing plans - pay less for your colour prints every single day
• Up to 85ppm colour print speeds on the ColorQube 9203
• Two-sided printing output as standard - save time and money
• Maximum capacity of 7300 sheets - spend less time refilling your printer and more time printing
• 20,000 page average monthly output doesn't let you down when you need it most
• Maximum duty lifecycle of up to 300,000 pages a month on the 9203 - enough to cope with the print demands of even the largest business
• Scan to network, email and searchable PDF as standard
• Free GreenPrint software helps reduce your carbon footprint and the everyday costs of your print needs
• 100-sheet duplex automatic document feeder

With these features, the ColorQube 9200 series is designed to grow as your business grows and continue supplying quality prints at a fraction of their historical cost. If you're thinking of upgrading your print functionality to cope with changing business needs, consider the benefits of the ColorQube series. For more information - and a free consultation - call First Choice Business Systems, specialists in Xerox printers - on 0800 072 3747 today.

It's no secret that humans respond better to colour, but just how exactly can printing in colour enhance your business, and what can colour actually do for you?

Increased sales, happier customers, quicker payments and improved efficiency are just some of the reasons...

Capture Attention

1. Colour emphasises critical information and conveys a sense of professionalism. Your company's first impression is the most important one, and using colour demonstrates that you mean business.  The decision whether to read or reject pamphlets and direct mail pieces is made by readers in just 2.5 seconds. Using colour can keep your materials on the desk and out of the wastebasket. 
2. Colour increases readers' attention spans and recall by 82% - Safety notices, warnings and vital technical information are more likely to be remembered if they stand out in colour.  That can help decrease costly and time consuming errors throughout your company.
3. Colour gains readership by 80% - Adding colour to product guides can help critical information get read, helping ensure that customers understand how to operate the products they buy from you.  That alone can reduce the number of unnecessary services calls and save your company time and money. 
4. Colour makes an impression that is 39% more memorable - Direct mail and collateral pieces leave a lasting impression if they're in colour. That makes follow-up calls more successful.
5. Telephone listings printed in colour can increase response by 44% - Amidst hundreds of black and white listings in a telephone directory, a colour entry can really stand out. This can lead to increased exposure and increased business.
6. People are 55% more likely to pick up a full-colour piece of mail first - How do you get a customer to open mail from you quickly? Simply use colour on the envelope.  By capturing their attention, you are more likely to get a speedy response.

Enhance Productivity

1. Colour reduces search time by as much as 80% - Contracts, insurance policies and other lengthy documents can be made more understandable by highlighting the important information with colour.  Customers will spend less time tying up your customer service representative with confusing questions, increasing your operation's overall efficiency.
2. Colour reduces errors by 80% - Improperly completed forms and applications can bog down data entry and customer service departments.  Highlighting important information and instructions can help customers fill out forms correctly the first time.
3. Information can be located 70% faster if it's in colour - Executives have little time as it is, and speeding up the time it takes to locate and understand important information can significantly improve your company's efficiency.  For example, the 1.5 hours an executive spends reading black and white documents every week can be cut to half an hour by using colour.  That means less non-essential time and more billable time.
4. Document sorting improves by 15% when highlighting colour is used - Improving the ease with which documents can be identified, sorted and filed can reduce the number of people assigned to the task.  That can mean real cost savings during peak seasons when temporary help is brought on board.
5. Highlighting with colour improves search time by 39% compared to using different fonts - Administrative personnel can spend less time looking for information and more time performing critical tasks if the information is easier to find.  Using colour to highlight it can make a difference.
6. Colour can increase payment response by up to 30% - By highlighting the amount owing and the due date with colour, a sense of urgency is added to invoices.  This can help make your customers pay their bills faster, thereby improving your cash flow.
7. People are 2.5% more likely to pay the full amount when it's shown in colour - Some companies have found that highlighting the amount due on an invoice actually causes customers to pay the full amount owing.  That reduces additional invoicing and improves your business' cash flow.

Improve Communication

1. Colour increases comprehension by as much as 73% - Your prospects and potential customers can understand your message faster and more clearly.  That speeds sales presentations and makes the whole process run more effectively.
2. Colour increases learning and retention by 78% - Educating your technical and service staff is a time-consuming process that can be drastically shortened by preparing the material in colour.
3. Colour can boost survey participation by 80% - Low response on customer satisfaction surveys can be dramatically improved and repeat mailings made unnecessary by using colour to grab attention.
4. Reader comprehension has been found to be 14% better by highlighting with colour rather than with bold text. Training sessions can be more effective when the presentation materials and guides are produced using highlight colour, rather than using just bold text.
5. Colour increases motivation by up to 80% - Getting a response from employees can often be more difficult than getting a response from customers.  Using colour on memos, correspondence and posted notices from payroll, human resources and personnel can help motivate your employees to respond in a timely fashion.



The ColorQube: Vibrant prints at 65% saving over lasersAt prices up to 0.8 cents a colour page, laser quality prints are out of the reach of many businesses and offices. In fact, only 15% of the estimated 2 trillion pages printed last year were in colour. David Bates, director of product marketing for Xerox group, says offices around the world want to print more colour, but simply cannot afford to.

Step forward, the Xerox ColorQube, which aims to revolutionalise the way colour printing is handled, allowing more and more businesses the flexibility to decide how they want to print and what they want to print.

To save you money, a clever 'price tier' plan charges you only for the colour you use. Colour prints are split into three categories: Useful, when the content is mostly black and white; Everyday, for general color printing, and Expressive, for vibrant and detailed color pages. Using this model, it is reported businesses can save up to 75% on their color printing. The ColorQube analyses each document and stores what category it was printed in, so there's no loss of efficiency or human input needed.

The revolutionary print system - labelled Solid Ink - also delivers a host of other indsutrial and environmental benefits over laser multifunction printers. Instead of using toners, the ColorQube uses patented blocks of ink that are melted down and applied to a rotating drum. The nozzles on the Colorqube can deliver over 150million drops a second, which translates to approximately 85ppm printing and 55ppm copying.

Solink Ink blocks are non-toxic, produce no ozone and are completely safe to handle. Packing is very limited and the technology produces vivid prints on recycled paper, something which lasers have traditionally struggled with. The ColorQube is also one of the most intuitive multifunction printers around. Over time, it 'learns' the office printing patterns and powers up when needed at the beginning of the day. The result? No warm up times for you and quicker first-print times.

Want to know more about this revolutionary new Xerox printer? Get in touch today with First Choice Business Systems who stock the new Xerox ColorQube and ask for a free consultation today!

Xerox ColorQube: Miles ahead in print quality and functionalityWe recently talked about the massive advantages the Xerox ColorQube can bring to your business. The revolutionary new printer from Xerox is designed for any company or business that wants to reduce their colour printing costs as well as save space and energy. If you:

• have multiple colour printers and copiers and want to consolidate colour, cost and functionality
• have black and white multi-function devices and wish you could move to colour, but find the costs prohibitive
• purchase large amounts of company letterheaded paper and wish you could find a cheaper solution
• already have A4 solid ink devices but need the advantages of A3 functionality
• wish you could enjoy the benefits of colour printing but at an affordable price
• want to reduce waste and reduce the space used for storage of consumables
• have a carbon footprint reduction target to achieve
• want to spend less time maintaining your printing devices

then you'll see increases in productivity and efficiency with the Xerox ColorQube. Recent studies have shown the Xerox ColorQube is up to 81% cheaper to own than office inkjet printers and up to 60% cheaper than comparable colour laser printers. For a free consultation on what the Xerox ColorQube can do for you, head on over to First Choice Business Systems, specialists in Xerox commercial printers.