Increased productivity with high quality results for small office users
DUBAI, UAE, 01 June 2004 (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) - HP today unveils the new HP Scanjet 5590, the latest addition to its range of scanners to help small office users digitise their documents and images with ease. With a fast Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) and versatile scanning of a range of materials, including slides and negatives, the HP Scanjet 5590 offers a complete scanning solution at a great price.
Multiple documents can be digitised quickly and easily using the integrated 50 page Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), which allows for unattended scanning. The ADF also has a duplex facility, enabling double-sided document scanning. The HP Scanjet 5590 offers high quality results at impressively fast speed, scanning up to 8 pages per minute and previewing a scan in as little as 7 seconds. These features make this scanner ideal for the small office user looking for increased productivity in document scanning.
“The capture market is growing rapidly in this region and we have found that small-to-medium businesses are finding that our ScanJet’s are helping them to increase productivity, as it provides them with an easy and quick tool to share vital documents such as invoices, contracts and proposals,” said Amr Hassan, General Manager for HP Imaging and Printing Middle East.
In addition, the HP Scanjet 5590 offers true scanning versatility with the included Transparent Materials Adaptor (TMA), allowing easy scanning of negatives and slides. This scanner also gives outstanding image quality and great colour scanning (2400-dpi and 48-bit colour) for professional results – perfect for business users looking to develop creative material.
With a robust, streamlined landscape design, the HP Scanjet 5590 will fit perfectly into any small office environment. It is also fully ISIS compliant – to integrate simply into your current, or future, document management solution.
The easy to use control panel on the HP Scanjet 5590 has 10 one-touch buttons, including a Scan-to-PDF button, enabling this scanner to efficiently perform the most frequently used tasks. The HP Scanjet 5590 comes with a complete set ofscanning software to make scanning quick and simple. This scanner also offers document management capabilities with its bundled NewSoft Presto! PageManager 7.0.
The HP Scanjet 5590 is priced at US $ 459 (actual prices may vary) and will be available across the Middle East by July end.
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About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2004, HP revenue totaled $76.8 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
About HP Middle East
HP is the largest IT company in the Middle East employing about 500 professionals in the region. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968, and opened its first regional office in 1994 and has offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah and Khobar, Cairo and Ramallah servicing the GCC, the Levant and Egypt. For more information about HP in the Middle East, please visit www.hp.com/me.
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