Welcome to charisco.com - Field Trials

Thank you for your interest in our general office equipment field trials.

These trials are periodic and is very much dependent on requirement. Therefore there is no guarantee that there will be a trial for you to participate in - either in the near future or in the longer term.

If, however, you would like to register your interest so that we can contact you in the event that a suitable trial does arise, please complete this questionnaire by clicking on the appropriate responses and by typing in specific details, as requested. Please complete all sections.

Your Name:

Your Company:

Position:

Address:

Telephone:

Fax:

E-mail Address:

Industry:

1. Do you or any member of your household work for or act as a vendor to any of the following companies?

Brother

Canon

Epson

Hewlett-Packard

Kodak

Kyocera

Lexmark

Minolta

OKI

Olivetti

Panasonic

Ricoh

Sagem

Samsung

Sharp

Xerox

Other

2. Which of the following best describes the environment in which you work and would be using the equipment?

Home User

Income generating home-based business

Work-at-home professional

Small Office

Corporate Environment

Telecommuter

3. Approximately how many people, including yourself, are at your work location?

1

2 - 10

11 - 100

100 or more

4. Which of the following items of office equipment do you use for your work?

Fax

Copier

Printer

Scanner

Multi-function device

Personal Computer

5. Which of the following do you consider best describes your computer experience level?

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Expert

6. Approximately how many hours per week do you spend working on your work computer?

0 - 5

5 - 10

10 - 15

15 - 20

20 or more

7. Which of the following descriptions best characterises your work computer?

Standalone Desktop

Networked Desktop

Standalone Laptop

Networked Laptop

Laptop with networked docking station

8. If your answer to question 7 was that your computer is networked (or may be connected to the network), what kind of network is it?

Ethernet

LocalTalk

Novell

Other

Don't know

9. What kind of computer do you use for your business work?

IBM PC or PC Compatible

Apple Macintosh

Other

Don't know

10. What is the manufacturer and model number of your computer?

Manufacturer

Model

11. What type of processor does your work computer have?

Intel 486 or compatible

Pentium or equivalent (less than 300 MHz)

Pentium or equivalent (more than 300 MHz)

Apple 603/604

Apple G3/G4

Other

Don't know

12. How many megabytes of memory (RAM) does your computer have?

MB (megabytes)

13. Which operating system do you use to do the majority of your work?

Windows 95

Windows 98

Windows ME

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Windows NT 4.0 or higher

Mac OS (please insert version below)

Other (or Mac OS version)

Don't know

14. Do you have a CD device attached to your work computer?

yes

no

15. Do you use any of the following accessories with your work computer?

Printer

Scanner

Zip Drive

DVD ROM

Switchbox

Modem

ISDN Adapter

FireWire / iLing interface

Other

16. What device or devices do you have connected to your work computer's parallel port?

17. Do you use any of the following accessories with your work computer?

Dot Matrix

Ink Jet

Mono Laser

Colour Laser

Other

18. Approximately how many printers do you have in total at your location?

19. What types of printer connection are used at your location?

Parallel

Serial

USB

Network Sharing

Direct Network Connection

Printing (If appropriate)

20. What type of printer do you use as your primary printer with your work computer?

Laser

Ink Jet

Dot Matrix

Other

21. How is the main printer you use attached to your computer?

attached to my computer using parallel cable

attached to my computer using USB connection

attached to another computer (using parallel) and shared over the network

attached to another computer (using USB) and shared over the network

attached to office network using network adapter

22. If your printer is networked, what speed is the network?

10 Base Ethernet

10/100 Base Ethernet

10/100/1000 Base Ethernet

23. Is your normal business printer strictly a black & white printer or does it print in colour?

Colour

Black and White

24. What percentage of your business work is printed in black & white and what percentage in colour? (Record the actual percentage)

Colour

Black and White

25. If no colour pages are printed, because you don't currently have a colour printer, can you estimate the percentages that might be printed in black & white and colour if colour was available to you?

Colour

Black and White

26. Approximately how many pages per week do you print? (per printer, if more than one installed)

0 - 25 (up to approx. 100 per month)

26 - 75 (up to approx. 100 to 300 per month)

76 - 150 (up to approx. 300 to 600 per month)

151 - 250 (up to approx. 600 to 1000 per month)

251 - 500 (up to approx. 1000 to 2000 per month)

501 - 1000 (up to approx. 2000 to 4000 per month)

more than 1000 (more than approx. 4000 per month)

27. On average, what is the length of the documents you print on your work printer (number of pages per document)?

number of pages

28. On average, how many copies do you print of the documents you print on your work printer (printed on the printer, not copied using a photocopier)?

1

2

3 - 5

more than 5

29. Do you use your printer to do any of the following? (Tick all that apply)

Print Transparencies

Print Labels

Print Envelopes

Print Card Stock

Print Photographic Stock

Other

30. Name three or four applications that you regularly print from?

31. What DOS applications, if any, do you use to print?

Copying (If appropriate)

32. Approximately how many copies per week do you run? (per copier, if more than one installed)

0 - 25 (up to approx. 100 per month)

26 - 75 (up to approx. 100 to 300 per month)

76 - 150 (up to approx. 300 to 600 per month)

151 - 250 (up to approx. 600 to 1000 per month)

251 - 500 (up to approx. 1000 to 2000 per month)

501 - 1000 (up to approx. 2000 to 4000 per month)

more than 1000 (more than approx. 4000 per month)

33. Is your copier colour or black & white?

Colour

Black and White

34. If your copier is colour, what percentage of colour and of black and white pages do you print?

Colour

Black and White

35. If you do not currently have a colour copier, can you estimate the percentages that might be printed in black and white and colour if colour was availible to you?

Colour

Black and White

36. On average, what is the number of copies you run on each job?

No. of Copies

37. Can you estimate what percentage of copying is done on A3, A4 and A5?

A3

A4

A5

Faxing (If appropriate)

38. Approximately how many faxes per week do you send? (per fax machine, if more than one installed)

0 - 25 (up to approx. 100 per month)

26 - 50 (up to approx. 100 to 200 per month)

51 - 75 (up to approx. 200 to 300 per month)

more than 75 (more than approx. 300 per month)

39. Approximately how many faxes per week do you recieve? (per fax machine, if more than one installed)

0 - 25 (up to approx. 100 per month)

26 - 50 (up to approx. 100 to 200 per month)

51 - 75 (up to approx. 200 to 300 per month)

more than 75 (more than approx. 300 per month)

Scanning (If appropriate)

40. Approximately how many scans per week do you make? (per scanner, if more than one is available.)

0 - 5

6 - 10

11 - 20

21 - 50

more than 50

41. How is the scanner attached to your computer?

attached to my computer using parallel cable

attached to my computer using USB connection

attached to another computer and shared over the network

attached to my computer using an interface card

42. Which of the following is your scanner used for? (Tick all that apply)

Copy

Fax

OCR

Graphics Scanning

Photo Scanning

Overall:

43. What type of device(s) are the questions answered for? (Tick all that apply)

Dedicated Printer

Dedicated Copier

Dedicated Fax

PC Fax

Dedicated Scanner

Multi-function Device

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