Product Dynamics - Toshiba e-STUDIO450 Product Overview

Toshiba e-STUDIO450

Product Dynamics

The design of the e-STUDIO450 has moved
away from Toshiba's traditional philosophy of
offering multiple upgrade routes to extend
multifunctionality for its digital copier range. In
the past, Toshiba offered a 'home-grown' print/
scan controller option, plus an alternative
controller manufactured by Electronics For
Imaging (EFI), for users who prefer/require
Fiery printing solutions.
This dual controller approach made the
upgrade path from copier to multifunctional
product expensive and confusing. Toshiba no
longer uses a separate controller board per
function, and now uses an integrated board.
This offers cost savings due to the sharing of
common components such as processor
power, RAM and hard drive storage.
Toshiba markets this new design philosophy
under the brand name e-BRIDGE. While the
device ships with copy capability and upgrades
to network print and scanning a matter of
buying a plug-in upgrade which switches on
another aspect of the central controller board.
Fax still requires a separate upgrade kit which
includes a 33.6kbps modem.
Toshiba's centralized e-BRIDGE controller
board is powered by a 266MHz, 64-bit chip
with 128MB RAM and 40GB hard drive as
standard.
Alongside the introduction of this shared
resource design is the introduction of Toshiba's
e-FILING document storage utility.
In essence, Toshiba's e-FILING system allows
users to store documents on the shared 40GB
hard disk of the device. Once stored,
documents can be edited, combined with other
stored documents and reprinted by users from
both the walkup touchscreen or from the
desktop using Toshiba's web-based utility. For
more information on Toshiba's e-FILING utility
see page 4.
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