Introducing the Fuji Xerox Color 1000 Press

Fuji Xerox has designed the Color 1000 Press to bridge the divide between
digital and offset printing, with a brand new engine incorporating the latest
print and dry ink technology.

Human beings process an increasing proliferation of images every waking minute of every day, making the fight to capture attention more difficult and more competitive. The Color 1000 Press will allow digital Dashing Print to produce creative images with techniques previously only seen within the offset market.

This latest advancement, Clear Dry ink, works like CMYK dry ink but without the colour pigmentation. Clear Dry ink can be applied as a flood coat (to the entire page) or selectively applied as a “spot varnish”. Dry ink enhances the creativity, depth and impact of a document. Golds and silvers appear more metallic, and liquids have a sheen to them that makes it seem as though they are right in front of you.

On a basic level, Clear Dry ink can be used to print over a coloured ink, enhancing the colour and creating a gloss overlay. However, it can also be used to create watermarks and other colourless images to support a design. This feature, not previously available on a digital production press, has allowed digital printing to step further into the
offset market.

Create a bigger impact with your Direct Mail using texture

Traditionally, printing on textured stock has caused many difficulties. The colour consistency can become irregular because the volume of ink that passes over the hills of the stock is not always consistent with the volume that reaches the valleys. Due to the low melting temperature of the new dry ink and the new transfer and fusing technology, Clear Dry ink does not have this problem and provides a smoother matte finish with stronger colour consistency.

This ink provides designers with a great benefit, particularly with direct mail pieces. The idea of being able to feel a texture, similar to that of the actual object is completely new to the digital print industry and will give production houses and designers more freedom with their printing and design.

As well as the advancement with Clear Dry ink, the Color 1000 Press has a 2400 x 2400 dpi resolution from the patented laser technology with 5,760,000 addressable dots. This ensures exceptional image quality and fine detail for smooth colour sweeps and crisp text.

Eco-friendly and cost efficient

LARGE-scale production printing companies print hundreds of thousands of pages per month. The ink used in printing those pages can often contain solvents or harmful chemicals, requiring a significant amount of energy to melt and to adhere the ink to the paper. The Color 1000 Press is the first high-end production press to use Emulsion Aggregate-Eco Toner (EA-Eco Toner), a specific dry ink created in a controlled process combining slow-melting and sharp-melting polyester. The result has a lower melting point than standard inks, requiring 25 percent less energy. In addition, 45-50 percent less ink is required per printed page. Oil-free, the EA-Eco toner benefits printers by using a wax to create a finish that adjusts to match the gloss levels of the paper.

For more information visit the Xerox website here.



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