Inkjet & Digital Printing
drupa announcements bring bundles of joy to Fuji Xerox customers
Friday 11. July 2008 - A selection of the new technologies introduced by Xerox at drupa are set to make an immediate impact on the Australian market, with Fuji Xerox Australia moving swiftly to bring the latest business benefits back home.
The new Xerox Automated Color Quality Suite (ACQS) Press Matching System and the drupa appointment of Fuji Xerox Australia as an exclusive distributor for the CGS Oris Press Matcher throughout Australia and New Zealand is a colour matching and productivity bonus for the local market.
“We are offering with immediate effect the ACQS and Oris Press Matcher with the Xerox FreeFlow Print Servers to all new Xerox iGen3 customers. This will create many productivity advantages for the press, including faster press set up, greater colour stability and automated Pantone colour matching,” said Henryk Kraszewski, production marketing manager, Fuji Xerox Australia.
Routine colour maintenance and adjustments, such as calibration and colour matching can now be performed with greater automation, thanks to the ACQS. , Additionally, it, offers high performance plus quality that matches offset printing. The enhancements enable quicker time to production: perfect for printing profitable full-colour applications that range from personalised direct mail and catalogues to marketing collaterals and photo books.
In turn, the Oris Press Matcher uses CGS four-dimensional colour-management software to produce high-resolution files for digital presses, conventional presses, wide-format printers, CTP systems, or any other device, by matching their colour spaces to each other. The result is simplified, standardised colour across multiple devices.
Oris Press Matcher is part of Xerox’s Colour Managed Workflow Solution, which includes Oris Certified Proof, a PC and a spectrophotometer. It integrates with the Xerox FreeFlow Process Manager system to create a highly automated workflow solution to produce printed results supporting SWOP, GRACoL and Fogra standards and the G7 process.
We are pleased that CGS chose us as an exclusive distributor for ORIS Press Matcher,” commented Kraszewski. “It is the ideal solution that enables our customers to manage colour across a number of colour output devices utilising different print technologies.” According to Kraszewski, the added productivity that users can achieve via the new ACQS/ORIS solution closely matches the performance demonstrated by the new Xerox iGen4 digital production press, seen at drupa.
The most productive and highest-quality cut-sheet digital press in the printing industry, the Xerox iGen4 increases productivity by 25 to 35 percent by automating operator tasks, reducing the need to interrupt the press for adjustments and decreasing overall operating costs. As a result, the Xerox iGen4 further improves the break-even point between digital and traditional offset printing – making it faster and more economical to run more print jobs on digital.
Operating at 110 pages per minute, the Xerox iGen4 creates offset and photo-quality images with consistent colour from the first print to the last. It is the ideal press for producing high-end collateral, direct marketing and photo specialty products – the type of applications that typically generate a profitable return for print providers.
The Xerox iGen4 is suitable for print providers who need to generate anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions of pages every month.
Innovation and emerging technologies
Xerox also demonstrated a concept press at drupa: the Xerox ConceptColor 220. It takes the speed, productivity, flexibility and reliability of the Xerox iGen3 press and doubles it, making it the fastest, full-color, cut-sheet digital press ever shown publicly. Users can achieve greater printing economics by getting twice the speed and twice the productivity with a single operator. The system also has a smaller footprint: more compact than two Xerox iGen3s sitting side-by-side, saving valuable shop floor space.
“The announcements at drupa demonstrate Xeroxs commitment to maximising productivity for print providers. Speed is just one part of the equation – when a print provider selects a digital system they need to gauge the applications they are running and evaluate which press is the most productive option. The range of our digital portfolio allows them to make the right technology choice, secure in the knowledge there is a growth path, market support and business opportunities,” said Kraszewski.