Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday combined its scanning and its inkjet printing skills to enter the copier business. The Palo Alto company launched the plain paper CopyJet at $2,500 and CopyJet M at $3,200, less than a tenth the price of most conventional colour copiers – and it doubles as a printer. Hewlett puts the cost of copies at seven cents a page compared with $1 or more in a copy shop. The lower priced model for MS-DOS and Windows workgroups; the M comes with Adobe Systems Corp’s PostScript preloaded plus additional memory and an HP JetDirect print server board for sharing copied material with users on Macintosh computers, networks or in mixed computing environments; both are out in November. The DeskJet 660Cse is a home colour printer packaged with home printing kit, a copy of Broderbund Software Inc’s Print Deluxe Software, a paper pack and a Photo CD offer from Eastman Kodak Corp; it will cost $400.
