December 14, 2009 - Irvine, CA

TOSHIBA ENHANCES PRINT ASSET MANAGEMENT AND COST RECOVERY SYSTEMS ON ITS COPIERS AND MFPS

Pharos Software for Toshiba MFPs Optimizes Office Administration Performance, while Reducing Waste and Operating Expenses; Provides Simple, Automated, and Flexible Print Management for Higher Education Institutions

IRVINE, Calif., (Dec. 14, 2009) – 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.1

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 pì¥ÁU@ø¿Â[1]