Toshiba Unveils New Document Output Software for All of its Printing and Multifunction Devices

Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) today announced the availability of new document output software solutions designed to work with all printing and multifunction devices sold by Toshiba – Pharos Blueprint® Enterprise and Pharos Uniprint® software from Pharos Systems International.

Pharos Blueprint Enterprise helps cost-focused businesses track, monitor, audit and control print and copy expenses, therefore optimizing office administration performance, and reducing waste and overall expenses anywhere from 10 to 30 percent on average. In a typical corporate environment, it is estimated that printing expenses range from $650-$1,250 per employee per year.

Pharos Uniprint allows colleges and universities to recover as much as 30 to 50 percent of printing and copying costs, and reduce waste by 50 to 80 percent through monitoring, tracking and accounting features. Uniprint also is flexible in adapting to the individual characteristics of a host network, and supports the widest variety of devices and campus card systems to provide simple, automated and powerful campus print management.

Colleges and universities using Uniprint can encourage students to reduce printing by implementing a pay-as-you-print system, and account for and charge back departmental faculty and administration printing, or any combination in between.

“We are excited to announce this new partnership between Toshiba and Pharos, which allows our dealers to pair our award-winning MFPs with top-of-the-line asset management and cost recovery solutions," said Joseph Contreras, director, Product and Solutions Marketing, TABS. “While BluePrint Enterprise is an excellent and much-needed solution for general offices, UniPrint provides our dealers with yet another opportunity to speak to current and potential customers in the education vertical, who seek to reduce paper waste and printing costs.”

Pharos Blueprint Enterprise shows businesses exactly what is being spent on document output and also provides valuable recommendations for measurable cost savings. Easily integrated into Toshiba copiers and MFPs, the software is engineered as a modular solution that can be tailored to meet the needs of each organization, offering the following components and key attributes:

• Secure Release Here – Provides print security by releasing printing jobs from the printer only when the person who originated the job is physically present to pick up the document; unnecessary jobs are no longer automatically printed (and then either accidentally picked up by a colleague or tossed); and provides added flexibility and convenience as jobs can be “pulled” from any printer in the network.
• Print/Copy Accounting & Departmental Chargeback – Monitors copying and printing by page, by user and by device for in-depth volume and cost reporting; manages accounting down to the employee level and allows for charge-backs by employee, budget center or department; and shifts responsibility for the expense to the people with the ability to control it.
• Policy Print – Empowers employees by educating them on the spot about the optimal printing choices and informs, warns or denies print requests based on the company or group parameters.
• Fleet Optimization – Provides a comprehensive overview of print and copy spend and device usage.

The Pharos solutions for the full line of Toshiba copiers, printers and MFPs can be purchased through local Toshiba authorized dealers.