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Executive Summary
The information in this document is intended to provide a summary, or where appropriate to avoid
duplication, a reference to material that may form the basis of any documentation required to be authored
by a technical author that describes how the Xerox
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WorkCentre
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5800 series with the Xerox
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ConnectKey
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Technology is different from its predecessor, the WorkCentre
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5700 series with the Xerox
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Smart Controller
software.
This white paper is intended to provide a technology overview to help field personnel and IT organizations to
understand the similarities and differences between the WorkCentre 5800 series and WorkCentre 5700
series. It will also provide information on new features added to the WorkCentre 5800 Series as Xerox
continues to build and improve our Xerox
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ConnectKey Technology. This will help minimize accreditation
efforts so we can more quickly, and cost effectively, introduce the new features and functionality offered by
the WorkCentre 5800 series to enhance the customer’s work environment.
The information presented in this “evergreen” document is broken into 3 main sections:
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Part I: Product Overview – Provides an introduction to the WorkCentre 5800 series and its value
proposition.
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Part II: Technical Considerations – Lists the new features found on ConnectKey enabled MFPs and specific
differences on the WorkCentre 5800 series.
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Part III: User Interface Differences between the Xerox
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Smart Controller and Xerox
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ConnectKey
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Technology.
Part I: Product Overview
Product Introduction
The WorkCentre 5800 series value is enhanced with the addition of the innovative Xerox
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ConnectKey
Technology that will make it easy for users to customize and optimize their unique job processes – helping
them find better ways to get their best work done. The WorkCentre 5800 series, with this software platform,
offers customers a new level of coherency and ease of use; increased productivity; and intelligent function
management. With its coherent design, this platform enables IT managers to make their annual budgets go
further, with less overhead, training time, maintenance and support.
Like their predecessors, these powerful office multifunction devices handle a customer’s document needs with
exceptional speed, optimal efficiency and worry-free security. This innovative use of Xerox technology makes
it easy to customize and optimize unique job processes – helping them find better ways to get their best work
done.
The following is the value proposition for the WorkCentre 5800 series; some which already exist today and
others have been added to support the new 1.5 software.
The features you need for more productivity.
You succeed because you’re productive, flexible and reliable. You need an office technology solution that
matches those strengths. This is why we designed the Xerox
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WorkCentre 5800 series with a powerful mix of
features and capabilities that help you get more work done in ways you never imagined.
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Same great features, your choice of speeds. With fast copying and printing – from 45 ppm up to 90 ppm –
there are more than enough speeds to meet the needs of any busy workgroup or department.
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Smarter scanning. Single-pass color scanning at up to 200 images per minute enables faster electronic
distribution of full-color documents for more effective and impressive communications.
