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While SMB customers are most familiar with Dell as a provider of warranty support services, many of our SMB customers turn to Dell for help managing their IT as well. In this vlog, Tim Griffin, VP of SMB Global Services talks about how Dell helps SMB customers by managing their IT so they can stay focused on managing their business.

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Today, Dell announced new printers designed to help increase business productivity and lower costs for organizations of all sizes. Dell’s award winning portfolio of business printers is extended with the:

· Dell 5130cdn - the world’s fastest letter size single function color laser printer

· Dell 7130cdn, Dell’s first LED color laser printer with tabloid size printing capability

Since entering the printing business in 2003, Dell has focused on consistently delivering innovative, valuable and reliable solutions to customers. With the announcement of the Dell 3330dn (a single function mono laser printer for high performance printing) in late September and the printers announced today -- that promise of performance excellence continues.

Dell 5130cdn

Today we break a printing record. The Dell 5130cdn can print up to 47 single-sided and 37.6 double-sided Letter sized pages per minute (ppm) in both black and white and color, making it the world’s fastest LTR size single-function color laser printer!

But it isn’t just about speed - the 5130cdn also premiers ColorbyDell, a total print quality solution that delivers improved color saturation, image sharpness and outstanding print quality. This superior quality is delivered through a combination of powerful new image enhancement algorithms, advanced toner technology and improvements in print engine design that drives significant energy and cost savings.

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The 5130cdn uses EA-Eco Toner, a new toner formulation by Dell that fixes at lower temperature resulting in significant energy savings and quicker print outs.

John Vavoudis acting IT Director of the Catholic Charities of Los Angeles (CCLA), got to test drive the 5130cdn. As you can imagine, CCLA has a pretty demanding print workload, providing assistance to 290,000 different individuals across 8,500 square miles across three counties. Here’s what John had to say about the latest addition to the Dell printing portfolio:

“At the Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, we need reliable technology at all service levels.  That’s why Dell technology solutions are a standard for us.  When it comes to printing, fast and reliable departmental network printing is a priority and the Dell 5130cdn delivers.  It is extremely fast! Clients are surprised at the speed of delivery from ‘send to hum’, and with Dell warranty pro-support, we know we can print with confidence.”

Dell 7130cdn

Also launching today, is Dell’s first 11x17”/A3 (tabloid sized) color printer, the Dell 7130cdn. This high performance, enterprise class LED printer can print up to A3/tabloid-size, high quality Pantone® approved color prints, for more accurate color reproduction. This printer helps bring professional quality color printing in-house with lower costs and improved printing options that can print the first page as quickly as 6.5 seconds in both mono and color!

When it comes to printing, Dell pays attention to our customers’ needs to understand exactly what businesses look for when making critical office IT decisions. Delivering the right solution with just the features, capabilities and services needed helps employees to easily get the job done.

For photos of the new printers, check out the set on Flickr.

Today I would like to share the following article, Dell Expands the Data Center Options, which discusses the importance of simplifying the SMB IT experience. SMB datacenters have the same requirements from large data centers to remove complexity and make simple the IT process. This article does a great job presenting how well Dell is working to address these requirements from a SMB perspective. SMBs need to improve efficiency with  more flexible and agile data center requirements, while controlling the costs. With our newest enterprise offerings – servers, storage, software and services we are working to deploy to our customers the infrastructure solutions that match the SMB data center requirements.

You can check out the article on The Clipper Groups's site.