The WorkCentre 4118 copies and prints at 18 pages per minute (ppm) and is available in two configurations. WorkCentre 4118P copies and prints while WorkCentre 4118X adds faxing and colour scanning. Both configurations aim to offer advanced copying features, such as ID Card Copy, and to enable people to copy both sides of a document onto one side of a page.

This feature is said to be suitable for medical and healthcare organisations which want to cut the number of steps involved in creating patient files and reduce paper waste. It also offers booklet creation, a multi-up feature, a secure fax facility, as well as fax polling and forwarding, Xerox says.

Small workgroups want 'high-end' performance in one easy-to-use, compact, device, says Tanya Moodley, product manager: Office Systems Group at Bytes Document Solutions, sole authorised distributor of Xerox products and solutions in 24 sub-Saharan countries. Xerox meets these needs with an expanding array of digital copiers, printers and MFDs such as the WorkCentre 4118.

The WorkCentre 4118 comes with colour scanning up to 4 800 dots per inch (dpi) and Nuance's PaperPort SE v10.0 document and image management software, Moodley adds. It also comes with ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional, which aims to enable the conversion of paper into editable electronic documents, so providing small businesses with a tool designed to turn stacks of paper into word processing and spreadsheet documents.

A large front panel display aims to make print, copy, scan and fax selection easy, while high-capacity toner cartridges yield 8 000 pages and paper tray capacity caters for 550 sheets at a time, Moodley adds.