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BERTL has already praised Sharp for its rise from business colour laggard to
innovator in the space of one generation of product. With the introduction of
the departmental MX-series, Sharp has now rounded out its line and has the
first line to ever achieve a BERTL 5-Star status throughout.
This achievement should not to be taken lightly in a climate where new,
innovative colour devices arrive on the market every month. Sharp does lack
some novel features found on rival devices, such as colour dropout and scan
preview. However, the overall productivity, ease of use, document production,
customization, and management capabilities make the device a true innovator
and one that will be tough to beat in the market.
The Sharp MX-7000N has made great strides to provide user-friendly en-
hancements and functionalities with the following features:
• Customisable user profiles with up to eight user groups to choose from
• The ability to reload colour and black/white toner on the fly while printing
• Fewer toner reloads are needed with the large-capacity dual black toner
• The 150-sheet capacity single-pass duplexing document feeder that can
reduce operator time at the device when handling double-sided documents
• A large number of security features with up to three levels of security to
view and print secure documents on file
• The ability to scan-to-USB or to scan to a number of destinations (email,
fax, ftp, file server, desktop via SMB, internet fax)
• Internet faxes can be routed to the user’s personal folder, email address, or
to a designated person who can route them to additional personnel
• A large colour control panel and enhanced touch screen layout
• A roll-out metal rail allows greater access to the fuser unit area for jam
removal
• A double exposure feature that saves time and resources for copying insur-
ance cards
Although the Sharp MX-7000N has numerous high-quality features and
functionalities, there are a few things that BERTL would like to see added or
improved upon in the near future:
• The ability to view, manage, pause, delete, or prioritize jobs that are in the
job queue
• Accessibility features, such as a tilting control panel, and a remote copy/
scan control mechanism for physically-challenged users
• Cost accounting as a standard device management tool
• Additional scan workflow functionality built into the firmware such as colour
dropout, de-skew and de-speckle, so the device can be used as a decen-
tralized scanning resource
• Scan preview before printing/sending the document from the touch screen
control panel.
As the front office becomes increasingly motivated to convert hard copy
into intelligent softcopy the scan-friendly platform upon which Sharp has built
its MX-series will put it at an advantage against many of its rivals that need to
make the transition from age-old, copier-scanning technology to the new era
of scanning. With more attention to the scanning workflow aspects which have
made the likes of Kodak and Fujitsu major players in the document processing
industry, Sharp stands to take its next generation of products into new territory
again.
Summary
BERTL analyst inspects the optional LCT on
the Sharp MX-7000N.
