Kidde plc is a fire safety equipment manufacturer
located in bright, spacious offices in Colnbrook, Berkshire.
Deborah Short has been with the Company since April 2001, and has
been the secretary to the Marketing Department since January 2002.
She has been delighted with the Canon IRC2105 copier/printer that
they had installed at about that time. Kidde had looked at Xerox and
Canon colour machines but the IRC2105 came out on top for copy quality.
Deborah remarked that the installation had gone smoothly, the machine
was delivered in the morning and John Flack, the Falcon IT specialist,
came along in the afternoon to incorporate the IRC2105 onto their
network and to provide basic training. Suzanne Smith from Canon supplied
more comprehensive training.
Like any busy marketing department Kidde write lots of Microsoft Powerpoint
presentations as well as downloading maps and hotel information from
the internet. The IRC2105 prints them in full colour at 28 pages per
minute. They also find it useful for Word and Excel.
The end of March saw Kidde's year end and the Marketing and Secretarial
Departments were put under pressure to supply a presentation on their
results. This presentation was to be delivered to the subsidiaries
in a series of road shows, by the Managing and Financial Directors
and had to be available by 23rd March.
Deborah said, "The IRC2105 provides great
copy quality and the Command Workstation software is absolutely excellent
as it allows complete job management letting me preview, merge and
edit entire documents. I can add or delete specific pages and combine
Word, Excel or graphic files, I can then preview how these documents
will look when they are finished. To get this presentation out we
could not have managed without it."
Since writing this article Kidde have upgraded to the new high speed
CLC3220 system to enhance their presentation quality further and increase
output speed.
Superior quality prints with amazing
colour consistency
Modular document production unit with scanning, copying and
professional finishing options
32 (A4) colour prints per minute
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