UTAX explains the benefits of the new MFP generation and how sustainable printing works on a dedicated landing page, which also includes a video clip. Here, sales partners and their customers can find out which factors support sustainability by reducing the consumption of electricity, toner and paper. This is achieved, for example, with the product family's new toner technology, which requires less heat and therefore saves energy. The heating element achieves its full performance at just 120 degrees, i.e. 20 degrees less temperature. This has not only reduced the TEC values, which are particularly important for public tenders, by 6 to 10.5 percent depending on the model. The service life of the toner cartridge is also longer. The many supposedly small adjustments that the product developers continue to optimize also have a resource-saving effect. These include EcoPrint, duplex printing and blank page detection, as well as sleep mode, in which the MFP consumes less energy when it is not in use, but wakes up as soon as someone approaches thanks to a motion sensor.

Information on other sustainability factors of the new MFP generation can be found here. You can also go directly to the video clip here.

Modern multifunctional systems only serve a secondary function as printers and copiers. First and foremost, they are digitizers that use powerful and easy-to-use scanning functions to transfer analogue documents into the digital working world. Alongside sustainability, this aspect is at the forefront of the new UTAX product family. Even the user interface is designed as a 10.1-inch color touch panel with newly designed icons and clear menu navigation to guide the user intuitively through the functions in a similar way to a tablet or smartphone. A new feature is the "MultiCrop" scan function, which is the first solution for scanning documents. This allows up to 16 small-format and non-standardized originals such as receipts, till slips and invoices to be scanned quickly and easily in a single pass via the document glass. The system cuts them automatically and saves them as separate JPG, TIFF or PDF files. There is no need to scan each receipt individually or stick them on A4 sheets of paper. This option is a great time-saver, especially for accounting departments, sales-oriented companies with a large number of expense and travel expense reports or tax offices. In general, the scanning functions have been optimized with regard to digitization: the multifunctional systems from 40 pages per minute scan 274 image pages per minute instead of the previous 200 and have increased their feed capacity by 50 to 320 sheets. The optional ultrasonic sensor detects when several sheets are being fed at the same time and the system also stops automatically if staples remain in the document.

Anyone integrating multifunctional systems into their company infrastructure expects a high level of security. All UTAX systems in the new DIN A3 family come with new security features as standard. The latest encryption protocol for data transmission in the network TLS 1.3 (Transport layer security protocol) has been integrated. With S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), e-mail traffic can be secured using digital signatures and protected against unauthorized access. The Data Security Kit, certified to ISO 15408 EAL2, protects confidential information at system level by overwriting and encrypting copy, scan and print data seven times before it is saved on the hard disk. In addition, the memory area for the output data is automatically deleted so that it cannot be recovered. A security chip, the TPM (Trusted Platform Module), is integrated directly into the system and manages the encryption keys generated on the device in its memory. External devices have no access to this. With the Secure Boot feature and the Run-Time-Intgerity Check, the firmware is checked for authenticity both when starting the MFP and during the running process.

The new toner technology of the current DIN A3 product family not only has positive effects on the TEC values, but also on image stability. According to initial feedback from the market, this is clearly visible in the quality of the printouts, for example through a more intense black and more brilliance in the colors. If you want to print low-resolution photos and logos, you can use the new "super-resolution imaging" function to convert them into higher-resolution images beforehand in order to achieve better output results.  

The UTAX systems in the new series process grammages from 52 to 300 g/m², formats from DIN A6R to SRA3 and offer space for 2 x 500 to a maximum of 7,650 sheets in the standard configuration. The latter applies to the two multifunctional systems from 60 pages per minute, which are optionally equipped with a Z-fold module as a further new feature for finishing. With this function, which is particularly relevant for tenders, letters can be folded to fit the envelope in accordance with the DIN standard. Another interesting feature is the optional offset stacker inside the MFP, which solves a task that is otherwise only performed by a finisher: separating different copy and print jobs at the same time by outputting them offset to the left and right.