Samsung’s industry-first Android-based printing user experience (UX) system, the Samsung Smart UX Centre, has been awarded with an Outstanding Achievement in Innovation Award at the Buyers Laboratory (BLI) Summer 2016 Awards. The BLI Awards assess leading products and recognise those that stand out for a breakthrough in document imaging hardware and software, a unique feature or other noteworthy innovation that moves a specific product class forward.
 
According to Mike van Lier, Director of Enterprise Business Division at Samsung Electronics South Africa, the Smart UX Centre embodies the printing industry’s first ever Android-based system that enables consumers to store, photocopy, print, edit and transfer documents in any form between printer, computer and mobile. “It’s not just a User Interface (UI) platform, but a totally new kind of ecosystem comprising apps, an app centre and development support,” van Lier notes.
 
Jamie Bsales, Director of Office Workflow Solutions Analysis at BLI, said: “The combination of a true Android tablet UI and accessible ‘app store’ by end users, resellers and IT administrators, puts Samsung in the vanguard as multi-functional printer (MFP) makers begin to embrace the app paradigm.”
 
BLI believes the Smart UX Centre to be a highly innovative industry advancement. At the heart of the Smart UX platform is the 10.1-inch Android tablet that functions as the MFP control panel. The panel is extraordinarily easy to use: features and functions are clearly represented by icon tiles that can be tapped to access the sub-menus and settings required to perform a given task. What makes the ecosystem unique, however, is the addition of the Printing App Center. Accessible from the Smart UX panel at the MFP, from a smartphone/tablet, or from a web browser on a PC. This online marketplace offers free and low-cost apps and widgets that enhance and expand the components of the MFP.
 
“Customers should have no trouble finding solutions to boost productivity, streamline daily workflows and realise the full potential of their MFPs,” Bsales added, though Samsung has just scratched the surface of the platform’s possibilities.
 
The Samsung Smart UX Centre is yet another Samsung innovation designed to optimise productivity within a secure, smart workplace,” says van Lier. “Since its debut in 2014, Samsung’s UX Centre has been streamlining print environments in offices around the globe.”
 
For more information visit:
http://www.samsung.com/global/printingmsp/knowledge/Smart-UX-Center.html

Samsung South Africa has launched the latest addition to its powerful MX7 Series A3 Colour Multifunction Printer (MFP) series in the local market.
 
The new MultiXpress MX7 Series X7600GX Colour MFP 60 PPM for Business delivers consistent, high-volume printing, reliability and quality. With a high maximum monthly duty of up to 300,000 pages, the X7600GX saves on the time and expense of having to change toner cartridges, drums and developer. Plus, a high-quality Laser Beam Scanning Unit produces consistently sharp prints, with smooth rasterized edges and superb 1,200 × 1,200 dpi image resolution. The wireless option with active near field communication (NFC) means users can be authenticated using an NFC-supported mobile device, while Samsung Mobile Print Pro features provide secure printing and easy Wi-Fi setup and management.
 
“Supported by MX7 series high-performance, cost-effective features and embedded security, the latest MFP offers high-volume and high-quality printing at a controlled total cost of ownership – ideal for price sensitive yet discerning local businesses seeking key components of a smart office environment,” says Mike van Lier, Director of Enterprise Business Division at Samsung Electronics South Africa.
 
In line with high pressure office demands, the X7600GX features a powerful quad-core 1.5 GHz CPU, providing the power and capacity to accomplish print and copy tasks of virtually any size or complexity. It also has the ability to dual-scan up to four pages every second, reducing digital copy processing time while raising productivity.
 
Samsung’s MX7 series allows for smarter working with an intuitive Android-based user experience, access to customised document workflow solutions with Samsung eXtensible Open Architecture (XOA), enterprise-level Samsung Cloud Print for scalability and ease of deployment, as well as and the ability to fix printing issues with the Samsung Smart Diagnostic System App (SPDS).
 
The Samsung SMART UX Centre 2.0 features an intuitive touch-to-print display screen for easy use, and is compatible with various Android-based devices. Custom widgets allow for instant, one-tap access to frequently used functions, and a customisable user interface (UI) can be tailored to your needs and shared with various fleets. Crucially, the series also offers enterprise-level encryption for end-to-end security, even when working remotely. Samsung’s Printing App Centre enables users to easily set up printers by downloading essential apps from a web portal. Options like the Workbook Composer, give users the ability to crop desired content, automatically scan it, and save it for final formatting and editing without needing a PC.
 
“Designed to support enterprise efficiency and cater for the needs of business today, the Samsung MX7 range is built around performance, reliability and important enterprise features,” says van Lier. “In addition to delivering high quality printing, the MX7 range provides for blazing fast performance at a low total cost of ownership (TCO). Samsung also offers businesses 25 customisable options that enable the MX7 Series MFPs to handle and finish more documents in less time.”

Samsung Electronics SA, has announced that it has won the ‘2016 Monochrome Printer / Multifunctional Printer (MFP) Line of the Year’ Award from Buyers Labouratory Inc. (BLI) for the fourth time since 2012. BLI, the world’s leading independent evaluator of document imaging devices and solutions, credited the monochrome printer and MFP series for the reliability, robust design, strong performance, cost and energy efficiency, environmentally friendly features, and ease of use.
 
“It’s a great honour to be recognised as the leading provider of printing solutions that help create a more productive and efficient work environment,” said Mike van Lier: Director of Enterprise Business Division (EBD) at Samsung South Africa. “We are totally focused on offering printing solutions which are optimised for the smart office environment. It is hugely rewarding to see the key strengths of our monochrome printers and MFP lines once again independently confirmed by BLI.”
 
“Samsung Electronics SA understands what customers need most from their printing products: reliability, productivity and efficiency,” said Mike. “Our company offers products that deliver strong performance and reasonable costs, maintaining its position as the leading printing solution provider in the industry.”
 
Two more BLI 2016 Winter Pick Awards
 
Samsung also won two more BLI 2016 Pick Awards, which are announced twice annually – in winter and summer.
 
The ProXpress M3825DW received the ‘Outstanding A4 Printer for Small Workgroups’ Winter Pick Award, with the ProXpress series capable of printing 40 pages per minute, and offering a range of features ideal for SMEs. For example, the eXtensible Open Architecture (XOA) web platform enables fast implementation of third-party software, as well as mobile printing through Google Cloud Print.

The ‘Outstanding A4 Printer for Large Workgroups’ Winter Pick Award was won by Samsung’s ProXpress M4530 Series, which is capable of printing up to 47 pages per minute. The M4530’s 1GHz dual-core CPU provides the power and capacity needed to accomplish print and copy jobs of all sizes and complexity, swiftly and easily. It also enables companies to reduce their operating costs and save time due to the long-life drum and extra high yield toner.
 
The most rigorous evaluation on the market
 
BLI’s Line of the Year Awards honour the manufacturers whose product line is determined to be the best overall in its category based on the cumulative test results of all models tested in BLI’s rigorous two-month labouratory evaluation. The selections are made by BLI’s highly experienced staff of technicians and analysts after subjecting scores of devices from every major OEM to BLI’s exhaustive, comprehensive lab tests.
 
The BLI Winter and Summer Pick Awards acknowledge the products that gave the best performances in BLI’s extensive suite of lab tests in the previous six months.
 
For more information on this press release including photos, infographic and related Samsung Newsroom articles, please visit news.samsung.com/global/samsung-wins-bli-monochrome-printer-mfp-line-of-the-year-award-for-the-fourth-time.