As the backbone of our business, Fuji Xerox globally develops and markets digital color/monochrome multifunction devices for offices.
Major products include the ApeosPort series (digital multifunction devices that connect with mission-critical business systems), the DocuCentre series (digital multifunction devices that offer high performance and high quality) and the DocuWide series (wide-format digital multifunction devices for the engineering market).
Fuji Xerox also offers various types of software, including DocuWorks, document handling software that enables users to handle scanned paper documents and electronic documents easily on a PC. Using such software, together with multifunction devices, we offer a variety of solutions and services for document management as well as mission-critical systems.
In April 2007, Fuji Xerox consolidated Fuji Xerox Printing Systems Co., Ltd. to strengthen our integrated manufacturing system covering all processes—from technological development to product development, production and sales. Through this merger, we aim to enhance the competitiveness of our office printing systems business and expand the business further on a global scale.
Based on the Xerography technology, Fuji Xerox is developing its color/monochrome laser printer business. The flagship color laser printers incorporate compactness, high performance and high image quality, and shipments to overseas have been strong. Approximately 70 percent of all color laser printers shipped during FY2006 was destined for overseas markets.
In particular, shipments of color laser printers to the Asia-Pacific market, including China, nearly trebled over the past three years, and shipments to the European and North American markets, which include provision through original equipment manufacturing (OEM) to Xerox Corporation and other companies, almost doubled during the same period.
In the Japanese market, Fuji Xerox is making proactive efforts to solve customers’ management issues by offering network-compatible color scanners as well as software that enables IC card authentication.
Fuji Xerox is developing our production services business globally, focusing primarily on on-demand printing systems and workflow support services for the digital printing market, as well as continuous-feed and cut-sheet printers to output data from missioncritical systems.
Xerox iGen3® 110 Digital Production Press, a state-of-the-art publishing system that realizes high image quality comparable to that of offset printing as well as superior print productivity, meets the need for printing diversified, short-run jobs. It also opens up new possibilities for digital printing, including one-toone marketing that provides personalized information tailored to the individual preferences of customers.
Meanwhile, in order to support our customers globally, Fuji Xerox has opened Executive Print Innovation Centers, or “epicenters,” in Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore and Shanghai to work with customers to create new business models and applications for digital printing.
In June 2006, Fuji Xerox established the Color Center in its “epicenter” in Shinagawa, Tokyo, to maximize the utility value of documents and assist customers to create new businesses in the general realm of digital printing—from upstream (planning, proofreading, etc.) to downstream (output, processing, etc.) processes.
In April 2007, Fuji Xerox reorganized the Office Services Business Group into the Fuji Xerox Global Services based in Singapore with the aim of further reinforcing our system of providing customers with services centered on outsourcing of document-related operations in Japan as well as in other countries.
In today’s business activities, documents are positioned as an increasingly important managerial resource. In order to develop business more actively and swiftly, it is important to efficiently manage a series of documentation processes, including creation, storage, output and use of documents. In an effort to assist customers in solving these issues, Fuji Xerox provides comprehensive services in which we undertake overall document management operations starting with consulting, thereby assuring customers of genuine benefits including reduction in operational costs as well as higher productivity, so as to contribute to the growth of their businesses.
