Products · Printing & imaging
Less printing, and better control of what is left.
Print, scan and document capture for organisations that are printing less than they used to and need tighter control of what remains — where a document is released, who released it, and what happens to the scan afterwards.
This catalogue lists what Noble supplies and how it is specified. It carries no prices, no stock or availability position, no ratings or reviews, and no manufacturer specifications — everything technical is confirmed against the requirement at quotation, because a published figure nobody has verified is a figure somebody will procure against.
What this category is for
The fleet question is usually the wrong one. Volume, device placement and whether printing is pull-released at the device account for most of the cost and nearly all of the confidentiality risk — a document sitting in an output tray in a shared corridor is an exposure that no policy fixes.
Scanning is now the more interesting half. Where a document capture feeds a workflow — an invoice into finance, a delivery note into an ERP, a form into a case file — the device is the front end of a business process rather than a peripheral, and it should be specified with that process in view.
What it covers
Product types rather than part numbers. The type is the decision; the model follows from the requirement and is confirmed at quotation.
Multifunction devices
Shared print, copy and scan for a floor or a department, with authentication at the device and accounting behind it.
Workgroup and desktop printers
Local devices where volume is low or confidentiality is high enough that a walk to a shared device is not acceptable.
Large-format plotting and scanning
Drawings and site documentation, where output is issued, marked up by hand and scanned back — still the working method on most projects.
Label and receipt printing
Barcode, asset and shipping labels at the point the item moves, in a durability that survives the environment it is going into.
What decides the specification
The questions a quotation is built from. Answering these is usually faster than sending a part number, and it catches the requirement a part number would have got wrong.
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Volume, and where it happens
Pages per month by location, and whether the pattern is steady or peaks around a reporting or project cycle.
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How a document is released
Whether a job prints immediately or waits for the person to authenticate at the device. This is the single largest control on both waste and confidentiality.
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What the scan feeds
A folder, a document system or a business process. If it is a process, the device is part of an integration and should be specified as one.
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What it prints onto
Paper sizes, label material and durability, and whether output has to survive heat, moisture or handling after it leaves the device.
The work around it
Hardware arrives configured, installed and supported, or it arrives in a box. These are the services that make the difference.
Brand and model names are used descriptively where a requirement names one. All marks belong to their owners.
Send the requirement.
A quantity, an environment and what it has to connect to is enough to start. Noble quotes against the requirement rather than from a price list, and says where a specification will not do what it is being asked to do.