July 12th, 2010
The Doc appreciates a good debate, in particular when it’s about a new technology taking over the land of an entrenched technology. In this case, there is an interesting debate rampant among a number of printing blogs as to whether or not inkjet is going to take over the printing world and replace offset technology (which uses plates and ink). Offset printing has been the mainstay of profitable printing for a number of decades, having itself replaced the more labor-intensive style of printing called letterpress.
But now offset faces a danger from two fronts. On the one side, high-speed toner-based printing devices have been taking over the short-run end of the market (usually defined as 5,000 copies or less). And now, thanks to breakthrough in speed, high-end inkjet devices are gaining ground as well.
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May 19th, 2010
The Fujifilm claims it has arrive at a “milestone” in the aptitude to remove the ink from an inkjet sheet as the manufacturer gears up to showcase its B2 sheet fed digital inkjet press, the Jet Press 720, running live as a profitable product for the first time.
The press will be display on Fujifilm’s stand, 9/CD360, with five live printing presentations taking place each day. After de-inking trials carried out by the International Association of the Deinking Industry (INGEDE), the body said the 720 hit recyclability levels “previously unseen” with inkjet print.
INGEDE’s Axel Fischer said the association was astonished by the levels of de-inking that were possible with the Jet Press 720 samples. “These types of results are in the same league as those achieved with offset inks, but we’ve never before seen such great results with inkjet print,” he added.
Fujifilm is pitching the 2,700 sheets per hour Jet Press at companies’ carrying out short-run commercial print work with Graham Leeson, marketing manager for Fujifilm Graphic Systems identifying a market between 500 and 2,000 sheets. Although the machine is capable of handling variable-data work, Leeson said such capabilities would be “application-dependent” on the customer’s requirements for the time being.
As Fujifilm would not be drawn on a price for the Jet Press 720, the manufacturer said it remained committed to a commercial launch before the end of the year and set a price of around $1m (£640,000). “We’ve had a really positive response to the Jet Press 720 so far but shows like IPEX will give us a greater idea. There is still skepticism but we look forward to proving those views wrong.”
FUJIFILM JET PRESS 720:
Speed 2,700 B2 sheets per hour
Resolution 1,200dpi
Paper size min: 542x382mm max: 750x530mm
Printable area 720x520mm
Stock range 100-300gsm
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April 28th, 2010
Xerox two lines of multifunction printers (MFPs), the Workcentre 7120 and Workcentre 5700 series are featured with fast print speeds and energy saving features.
Considering the budget of small and medium size businesses, the printer has been aimed. Xerox Workcentre 7120 color multifunction printer is designed to print high impact color documents such as presentations and budget charts.
It prints color and black & white documents with high speed up to 20 pages per minute (ppm) using Xerox emulsion aggregate high gloss (EA-HG) toner. Also, the company said it produces smaller more consistent toner particles to create crisp text and sharper color images. The Workcentre is available starting from $6,999 in the month of May in Americas and Workcentre 5700 series will be available worldwide from May for $7,475.
The Workcentre 7120 is equipped with advanced document management features like document routing to email, network and content management software, advanced color scanning up to 55 ppm, faxing over IP, fax forward to email and scan to or print from USB and Xerox Auditron which monitors color printing costs. It is an environmentally friendly printer which offers efficiency features such as sleep mode and consumes 3.08 watts of power, route and preview incoming documents on the interface or at PC to eliminate unwanted printing and earth smart print driver defaults including two sided printing with no banner pages. As part of Xerox green world alliance, all printers are energy star qualified.
Besides, Xerox is updating its line of black and white MFPs. The Workcentre 5700 series includes seven MFPs with print speed of 90 ppm and it is equipped with advanced security features including full support for IPv6 network security standard, image overwrite to electronically “shred” data, fax isolation to prevent unauthorized access to data and network authentication to restrict access to scan, email and network fax features.
The multifunction printers do far more than copy and print and also improve the way of work to be done, said rick dastin, president of Xerox global product delivery group. The Workcentre 7120 maximizes the office productivity and produce affordable, impactful color documents. With advanced document security and workflow tools, the Workcentre 5700 series help IT departments to solve their most difficult document management challenges.
Both Workcentre 7120 and 5700 Series are built on Xerox’s Extensible Interface Platform (EIP). EIP is a technology that can be used to create customized workflow applications.
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April 20th, 2010
Hewlett Packard introduced a series of LaserJet pro printers that sport the new HP smart install technology. It lets the user to print the hard copies without having to install any software or drivers that is preloaded to the printers. Just connect the devices to the computer using USB cable and similar to 3G modem, the watch software load automatically. Eco-Friendly Printing
The monochrome printers include functionality like HP LaserJet pro p1100, the multifunction LaserJet pro M1130/M1210 and the LaserJet pro P1566/P1606dn.
The price for P1100 ranges from $149 to $199 and it’s available. The M1130 and M1210 MFPs cost $ 149 and $199 respectively during the time of launch. The P1566 cost $179 in Europe and Asia and P1606dn cost $229.
Hp launched ScanJet professional 1000 mobile scanner (pdf) that doesn’t need batteries or AC adapter, instead getting power from USB connection. It scan up to 600DPI and formats includes PDF, TIFF and JPEG.
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April 13th, 2010
As printing industry has more impact over environment, in recent years they find new methods to make products more environmentally friendly printing. Traditionally, petroleum based inks were used. While green printing techniques uses soy or vegetable based inks. Soy or vegetable based inks can easily be removed from paper and reused. Moreover the waste created during recycling can easily be disposed.
Eco-friendly papers are 100% recycled and it has not been processed with chlorine. Nowadays, most of the printing companies use pulp from sustainable tree farms to limit the impact on environment. Papers are created using plant waste which is one of the varieties of green printing methods.
Eco-friendly printers take into consideration of power saving. Carbon footprint is one of the big concerns for companies. Also, the recycled paper produces large amount of CO2. Actually, an average four trees are used for a ton of recycled paper and most of the companies are looking forward to minimize the carbon footprint.
So, try to create some earth conscious to the people and protect our environment with courtesy. Green printing is one of the best techniques that reduce the effect over environment.
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