Upgrade to Color

Planning to buy a laser printer for your office? You can buy black-n-white now and upgrade it to color later–thanks to WeP’s (Wipro ePeripherals) new laser printers that come with the M2C (monochrome-to-color) technology. This can be done by inserting three color toners (Cyan, Magenta and Yellow) into the printer when

required.

The M2C laser is for corporate offices and the M2C-P for professional workgroups like ad agencies. Both can print at a speed of 20 ppm in mono and 5 ppm in color. Both have a maximum resolution of 1200 dpi and can be used to print on a variety of media.

The printers come with a standard paper cassette that has a paper-holding capacity of 500 sheets. You can increase the paper capacity by another 500 by adding a paper cassette for Rs 30,000. A Duplexer that costs Rs 30,000 lets you print on both sides of the media automatically.

Besides the parallel port, the printers come with a built-in 10/100 Base TX connectivity. You can also directly attach a WeP scanner to the printer to convert it to a standalone photocopier.

To upgrade to color, you need to purchase a color kit for Rs 30,000. This has three toners and other electronic components to fix the toners neatly inside the printer. The M2C-P is compatible with PostScript Level 2 and PCL emulation, comes with 64 MB RAM upgradeable to 384 MB and runs on a 200 MHz processor. The drivers of both are compatible with Windows 9x, Me, NT 4 and 2000. The M2C-P also supports Unix. They have a one-year on-site warranty.

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