Panasonic CL500 User Manual

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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 Class
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.  The new series of 17-page-per-
minute (ppm)
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, 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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