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AnonymousInactiveXerox Bolsters Industry’s Largest Digital B&W Production Portfolio
Systems give customers offset-like image quality, added flexibility, new revenue opportunities
BOSTON–Xerox
Corporation has revamped its entire monochrome production printing
portfolio with an array of new products and image quality improvements
designed to help print providers of all sizes tackle complex digital
printing jobs and drive continued growth. The new offerings debut here
at AIIM/On Demand, a major conference and exhibition for the document
imaging industry.
“The black-and-white market continues to be an
important area of focus and innovation for Xerox, as well as a
significant revenue-generator for our customers,” said Quincy Allen,
president, Xerox Production Systems Group. “From light to mass
production and every niche in between, our products and tools are aimed
at meeting customer demand for high-quality output and delivering new
ways to grow their business.”
Highlights include a mix of new technology and enhancements to Xerox’s monochrome production portfolio:
* The Xerox Nuvera® 100/120/144 EA Digital Production System, a new
platform using Emulsion Aggregation Toner, enables users to custom
design the configuration that best fits their printing needs. EA Toner
also is a key feature of the now officially launched Xerox Nuvera 288
Digital Perfecting System, giving the tandem-engine architecture
black-and-white printing system a true offset look and feel.
*
The Xerox 4595 Digital Copier/Printer presents a new entry-point in the
light production monochrome category at 95 pages per minute. Also in
the light production category, Xerox is adding a new print controller
option for the award-winning Xerox 4110 Digital Copier/Printer.
* The Xerox DocuTech® Highlight Color Systems, including the 128 and
155 ppm models, have new finishing options and print stream choices. In
addition, the first custom-blended colors are available for these
systems.Next generation Xerox Nuvera EA platform
Xerox is
unveiling the next generation of its Xerox Nuvera platform: the Xerox
Nuvera EA Digital Production System line, which provides offset-quality
images and brings Xerox Nuvera reliability beyond the industry standard
set by Xerox’s DocuTech systems. It also offers broad substrate
flexibility, including coated stock.
The
Xerox Nuvera EA platform will use EA Toner, Xerox’s patented chemically
grown toner. It has extremely small particles, resulting in a smooth,
consistent offset matte finish and sharper details and images than
traditional toner. EA Toner improves the overall reliability of the
machine, requires less energy to manufacture and generates less waste.
Developed in Xerox research labs, Xerox is constructing a
state-of-the-art $59 million facility in Webster, N.Y. to manufacture
EA Toner and expand its use.
The new Xerox Nuvera EA platform
brings “mix-and-match” capabilities to mid- and high-production
environments, allowing customers to design the configuration that best
fits their needs. The platform is modular and upgradeable so products
can be tailored to current and future printing requirements. Customers
can now build a system by selecting their print controller, scanning,
feeding and finishing options, and printing speeds – 100, 120 and 144
ppm. The platform is designed to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s rigorous new ENERGY STAR® requirements. Xerox’s sheet
enhancement module, which automatically ensures the sheets of paper
stack perfectly flat, has also been incorporated into this new platform.Tandem-engine Xerox Nuvera 288 available
A
fully integrated, tandem-engine architecture makes the new Xerox Nuvera
288 Digital Perfecting System run two-sided prints twice as fast with
image quality equivalent to offset printing standards. Two Xerox Nuvera
print engines physically connected together in one system can produce
books, catalogs, bills, statements and other graphic-intensive
documents at 288 duplex impressions per minute (144 two-sided pages) –
the industry’s fastest cut-sheet duplex system. Xerox’s “Pass Through
Programming” technology – which keeps the Xerox Nuvera 288 DPS running
even if one of the engines is stopped – provides continued productivity
and uptime for commercial print operations and in-house printing
facilities.
The system, shown last year as a technology
demonstration and now available for customer installs, uses EA Toner.
At a resolution of 4800 x 600 dots per inch and 156 lines per inch, the
Xerox Nuvera 288 DPS is the highest resolution black-and-white digital
production system on the market. The offset quality of the images
coupled with the ability to run coated substrates makes the system
ideal for transactional printing and book publishing, especially
scientific, technical and medical manuals which include detailed
drawings and images.
Other key features include: the sheet
enhancement module; a Xerox FreeFlow® DocuSP® print controller
including an optional second dual-core processor to handle extremely
complex jobs with large amounts of graphics and variable images; and a
parallel RIP, proprietary software that can simultaneously process
multiple long jobs. It excels on jobs with many non-repeating scanned
images or photographs such as text books, magazines, yearbooks and
product manuals.
“As a business owner, everything is about
productivity. Our Xerox Nuvera 288 Digital Perfecting System installed
smoothly in December, and then we printed more than 5 1/2 million pages
during the next 90 days,” said David Rohe, president, The Document
Centre, Carol Stream, Ill., one of the first companies to test the
product. The Document Centre is producing saddle-stitched 8.5”x11”
booklets and 200-plus page catalogs with all tabs and additional
materials inserted as the books are printed. “We liked the machine so
much that we just ordered another one,” Rohe added.New light production entry
With
the continued growth of the light production monochrome segment, Xerox
has introduced the Xerox 4595 Digital Copier/Printer. The 95 ppm system
is based upon the same design as the award-winning Xerox 4110 Digital
Copier/Printer.
The Xerox 4595 provides customers with advanced
functions at an entry-level price point – making it ideal for K-12
educational institutions, large work groups, and quick and franchise
printers. An easy-to-use control panel and extensive in-line finishing
capabilities allow users to efficiently produce jobs including maps and
booklets and everyday business materials like reports. Scanning 100
single-sided pages per minute or 60 double-sided pages, the system
allows large networked offices and light production environments
including in-house print shops to scan directly to e-mail or a File
Transfer Protocol server. The Xerox 4595 includes an integrated print
controller or an optional Xerox FreeFlow DocuSP print controller.
Xerox
is also announcing a stand-alone FreeFlow DocuSP print controller for
the 4110 Digital Copier/Printer, a 110 page-per-minute, black-and-white
digital system. The server features expanded workflow control and
variable-data printing capabilities for Xerox 4110 customers in
corporate reprographic departments and quick printers and commercial
printing operations.DocuTech Highlight Color enhancements
Print
providers can now choose a Xerox DocuTech 128 or 155 Highlight Color
System with finishing options – stacking, stitching and tape binding –
to generate new revenue-producing, high-volume publishing jobs such as
books, manuals and direct mail. This enhanced finishing is already
available for the DocuTech 180 Highlight Color System.
Customers who
produce transactional documents including bills, statements and
invoices now have more print stream choices on the DocuTech 128, 155
and 180 Highlight Color Systems. These systems already accept data in
industry-standard formats such as Adobe® PostScript® and PDF for
printing traditional publishing documents, and VIPP® and PPML for
personalized documents. With the FreeFlow DocuSP print controller, they
can now accept data in IPDS and LCDS formats, eliminating the need to
use software to transform the data stream before it reaches the
printer, which can slow down throughput on print jobs and lead to
errors.
In addition, Xerox’s custom-blended color program is
expanding. In phase one, red, blue green, cyan and magenta were
available for blending for the DocuTech Highlight Color Systems. One
additional color, yellow, and two additional blending primary colors,
clear and black, will be added this year. Xerox’s custom-blended colors
allow print providers to match logo colors and other company branding
requirements for their clients with a vast number of highlight
colors/shades of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet,
magenta and brown.
Highlight-color jobs – documents in black plus
one other color – make documents more effective by drawing attention to
relevant information. The economical addition of color to
black-and-white documents can increase the services that a print
provider can offer their clients. In the C.P. Bourg booth, the DocuTech
180 Highlight Color System with an inline Xerox Manual + Book Factory,
will print a selection from The Little Blue Book of Advertising by Emmy
Award-winner Steve Lance, who will sign copies of the book on Wednesday.
Completing
the monochrome product portfolio revamp is the single-engine Xerox 495
Continuous Feed Duplex Printer, announced in February. The new 500
image-per-minute digital printer simultaneously prints both sides of an
18” wide web, and features a small-footprint design and innovative
flash-fusing technology that results in increased substrate
flexibility, and better image quality and productivity than competitive
systems.
Pricing and availability
The Xerox Nuvera EA DPS will be
available in North America, Europe and developing markets beginning May
15. The Xerox Nuvera 288 DPS is available immediately in North America,
Europe and developing markets. The Xerox 4595 and the Xerox 4110 with
FreeFlow DocuSP print controller are available immediately in North
America. The Xerox 495 Continuous Feed Duplex Printer is available
immediately in North America, Europe and developing markets. The
products are sold through the Xerox direct sales force, agents and
concessionaires.
The U.S. list price for the Xerox Nuvera EA DPS
starts at $90,000 (including feeder/scanner, an MFF Finisher and
ability to print PostScript). Pricing will vary depending on
configuration. The list price for the base configuration of the Xerox
Nuvera 288 DPS with two feeders, two finishing modules, an inserter and
PostScript is $460,000. The list price for the Xerox 4595 with bypass
and base finisher is $53,200, and the list price for the Xerox 4110
with FreeFlow DocuSP print controller and bypass and base finisher is
$81,900. List prices for the Xerox DocuTech 128 and 155 base
configurations with finishing options start at $325,000 and $420,000,
respectively. The list price for the Xerox 495 Continuous Feed Duplex
Printer is $425,000. -
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