Panasonic CL500, CL510 warranty Resources of parent company play key role

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PANASONIC ANNOUNCES THE “MOST COMPACT, LIGHTWEIGHT COLOR LASER PRINTERS IN U.S.”

The WORKiO CL500 and CL510 Series delivers powerful performance in a small package

and comes with Panasonic’s Express Exchange (“Swap Out”) Warranty.

NEW YORK, NY, (June 25, 2002) — Panasonic continues its award-winning tradition of WORKiO products this week at PC EXPO by announcing what are believed to be the fastest color laser printers--CL500 and CL510--in their A4 Class4. The new series of 17-page-per- minute (ppm) 1, network-ready color laser printers also print up to 21 ppm in black and white.

Described by industry analyst Alyson Frasco from IDC as the “most compact, lightweight color laser printers in the United States,” these units, which take up 5,396 cubic inches of space and weigh only 65.7 lbs., can be summed up in five words: quality, size, speed, reliability and price-performance.

The series is comprised of four model configurations, each producing crisp output up to 1200x1200 dpi true engine resolution.

Resources of parent company play key role

Panasonic maximized the resources and document imaging technology of its parent company, Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, in developing the CL500 and CL510 series. Multiple Matsushita factories and R&D centers collaborated on the design and development of the series, which resulted in nearly 500 new patent applications for the core technology.

Barriers to workgroup color printing eliminated

Matsushita’s combined resources have enabled Panasonic to design, develop and manufacture a color laser printer that eliminates the primary barriers to the growth of this

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