Nine new products and features focus
on boosting productivity and profit for print providers
Xerox announced a suite of production
print innovations including new presses, technology enhancements for existing
printers as well as artificial intelligence and automation features that aid
speed and productivity.
At a virtual event attended
by partners and clients around the world, Xerox unveiled the following
innovations:
- A Color
Accelerator module for Baltoro, expanding inkjet applications and adding ink-saving
automation
- Addition of fluorescent pink to the Iridesse Production Press,
enhancing its metallics, white and clear color palette
- Two new printers capable of higher volumes, more media
and extended color options in the Versant family
- Two Xerox Nuvera print speed upgrades that
best competition
- AI-enabled media manager software that enables high-quality images with
minimal set-up and staff time
- Automated workflow updates to seamlessly print embellishments with
FreeFlow Core 6.0
As the leader in the
production color market, Xerox is committed to helping customers expand their
business, enhance productivity with new technology and protect their existing
investments with new tools and features.
Digital print enhancements
increase profitability, delivering higher margins and allowing print customers
to expand into new areas. According to Keypoint Intelligence, digital print
enhancement is expected to generate $25 billion a year and can increase a
printers’ profit by 50 to 400 percent. By making it easier, customizable and
faster to produce these pages, Xerox technology provides multiple entry options
for customers to expand their business and increase profit.
“Currently, print
enhancement is the fastest-growing segment in the industry and Xerox is
committed to bring the latest innovation to its customers in India to help them
expand their business,” said Vineet Gehani, Director - Technology and
Channels, Xerox India, “With the launch of our new technology and
features, the capabilities and profit potential of the existing devices would
be further expanded. Our customers would certainly benefit from the new presses
being introduced that would help cater to the demand of higher volume, extended
media and color palettes. Our constant endeavour towards innovation and
improvement is the reason Xerox remains on top in the production print market.”
Xerox Color Accelerator for Baltoro
The Xerox Baltoro™ High Fusion Inkjet Press
platform, No. 1 in the B3 cut-sheet inkjet market, now has a field-upgradable
module that expands its range. The Xerox
Color Accelerator for Xerox Baltoro HF Inkjet Press enables
increased print quality, expanded media options and automation to make inkjet
printing viable for lucrative
applications such as direct mail, postcards and catalogs. With intelligent
automation, Baltoro uses 50% less ink than competitor presses to purge inkjet
heads, increasing uptime and productivity while delivering
consistent, reliable quality.
Introduced last year,
Baltoro is redefining the inkjet market. At a fraction of the size, weight and
power consumption of competitor presses, Baltoro offers a lower total cost of
ownership (TCO) while being the only scalable, customizable platform in
its class.
Fluorescent Pink for
Iridesse
Xerox has the
broadest color capability and Beyond CMYK offerings across any portfolio. No
one offers the range of colors, embellishments, mixed metallics, extended
gamut, media options and single-pass digital enhancement technology as Xerox.
The Xerox Iridesse® Production Press is adding
fluorescent pink specialty dry ink option to its existing Beyond CMYK palette
of gold, silver, white and clear. These embellishments allow print providers to
differentiate and offer their clients eye-popping designs and enhancements.
Two New Versants
Xerox is expanding its Versant family of
presses with two new machines that support wider media options and add
automation features that reduce staffing needs and set-up time.
The Xerox Versant® 280 Press,
a mid-production press, provides added value with thicker stock media options
(400 GSM) for applications such as business cards. With the All Stocks at Rated
Speed (ASRS) option, the Versant 280 is faster than any competitor in printing
heavy stocks. Customers can print a million specialty colors using an Adaptive
CMYK+ kit that leverages white, gold, silver, clear and fluorescents, unique to
Xerox in this class of products.
The Xerox Versant 4100 Press, handles
higher volumes and heavier production loads than the Versant 280, bringing more
jobs in-house by reducing set-up time and printing on more media types than any
competitor press. The 4100 also handles thicker paper stocks, up to 400 GSM.
Automated stock management saves time and reduces human error.
Technology-Driven Efficiencies
AI-enabled media manager software. PredictPrint Media Manager Software is
included with the new Versant 4100 and can be added to Iridesse. By using
artificial intelligence, the software automatically identifies the media being
used and provides the correct press settings. Users simply scan a barcode,
place the paper in a tray, and use the set-up wizard to walk through optimizing
the system for that application.
FreeFlow® Core 6.0 automates the
process of preparing a file to print and now includes the application of Beyond
CMYK enhancements. FreeFlow Core uses pre-built workflows to seamlessly apply
embellishments such as gold, silver, white, clear and fluorescents without
changing the source file.
- Xerox Color Accelerator for Xerox Baltoro HF Inkjet
Press - Current
Baltoro customers will be able to order Color Accelerator beginning in
2021. New Baltoro customers will be able to place orders for Color
Accelerator starting December 15 with installs expected to begin in Q1
2021.
- The Xerox Nuvera 157 MX Production System and
Xerox Nuvera 314 MX Perfecting Production System - order taking and
availability December 1, 2020.
- The Xerox Versant 280 is available now.
- The Xerox Versant 4100 with PredictPrint Media
Manager Software is available now
- Iridesse pink specialty dry ink option and the
PredictPrint Media Manager Software option are available for order taking
December 1, 2020 and availability beginning March 1, 2021.
- The XLS Automatic Feeding Kit option for
Iridesse is available immediately worldwide.
India, Jan. 27, 2021
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