CANON IMAGEPRESS C800
Canon, one of the pioneers of digital colour printing, has used its 27 years of colour production experience to develop the new imagePress C800 series from a clean sheet.
The company says its latest digital press incorporates a number of new technologies to deliver reliable quality day to day on a broad range of substrates – its new CV (Consistently Vivid) toner ensures colour reproduction is accurate, rich and vibrant. Gloss optimisation technology offers a gloss finish on coated stocks and a matte finish on matte coated or uncoated stocks, while its compact registration technology (CRT) provides accurate front-to-back registration when printing one or thousands of sheets.
The imagePress C800 is capable of print speeds up to 80 pages per minute, and with easy operations, customer replaceable modules, on-the-fly toner and paper refill, Canon claims printers can maximise uptime and improve the productivity of their print room.
With a small footprint, the imagePress C800 is scalable, and offers a range of paper feeding and inline finishing options for varied print room needs. Solutions can be tailored to meet printers’ flexibility requirements, whether it is limited space or the ability to efficiently produce an array of finished jobs such as full-bleed, saddle-stitched booklets and perfect bound books.
Canon also offers a range of print controller options for the imagePress C800, including two EFI controllers featuring the latest Fiery FS150 system, the PrismaSync controller and a Creo controller. One of these controllers will offer the features and functionality that best integrates into printers’ workflows at a cost to suit their budget.
With greater scale in geographic areas and better coverage, Canon is growing its service and support team to 350 professionals Australia-wide.
For more than 26 years Canon Finance has offered finance solutions to suit printers’ cash flows and make production cost budgeting easy to reveal the profit of every job.
SPECS AT A GLANCE:
Print speed: up to 80ppm
Recommended monthly volume: 20,000 to 100,000 pages (A4)
Maximum monthly peak volume: Up to 500,000 pages (A4)
Registration tolerance front to back: 1.0 mm or less
Printing method: Colour laser beam
Print resolution: 2400 x 2400dpi, 256 gradations
Paper capacity: Standard – 3 x 550-sheet cassettes (80gsm); option – 100-sheet multi-purpose tray
Supported media types: Thin paper, plain paper, recycled paper, colour paper, heavy paper, transparency, envelopes
FUJI XEROX VERSANT 2100
Fuji Xerox says its new Versant 2100 Press has been designed from the ground up with the latest technology to make printers’ work effortless, accurate and more efficient.
Sitting between the Color J75 Press and Color 800/1000 Press, the Versant 2100 Press offers a new level of productivity for its market segment – up to 100 pages per minute, a wide array of media latitude and HD resolution delivering fine details from 1200 x 1200dpi rendering and up to 2400 x 2400dpi imaging.
Built with the market’s shifting emphasis towards short runs and quick turnarounds in mind, Fuji Xerox wants its customers to succeed with the Versant 2100 Press by processing more jobs in a shift and in a day than previously.
The company says the Versant 2100 Press has been designed to help printers expand their market relevance through a combination of capabilities including performance, automated workflow and higher quality.
With print speeds of 100ppm for stocks up to 300gsm, or 80ppm from 301-350gsm, and auto-perfecting up to 350gsm, Fuji Xerox says printers can produce more than they have before.
Workflow has been automated, with fewer touchpoints, less intervention and greater intelligence with integrated Full Width Array and the Automated Colour Quality Suite (ACQS), a set of colour management tools that automate time consuming tasks and shorten setup times. HD resolution makes for higher quality, so printers can deliver demanding marketing applications in less time.
The Versant 2100 also comes with a new support approach called Remote Production Services, which Fuji Xerox is currently implementing for a range of production devices. The company says this will transform the way its engineers service and support customers’ equipment. The new service remotely gathers information from a Fuji Xerox production solution and enables support teams to identify and diagnose potential issues before they occur, and take action to eliminate downtime by despatching an onsite engineer for preventative maintenance or resolving an issue remotely. This lets printers use increased uptime through faster resolutions and preventative maintenance services that enable technical issues to be avoided.
The Versant 2100 Press is now available for pre-launch demonstrations. Numerous finance options are available from Fuji Xerox Australia.
SPECS AT A GLANCE:
Colour capability: Four colours
Toner type: Emulsion Aggregation (EA) Low Melt Toner
Print resolution: 2400 x 2400dpi
Continuous print speed: A4 100ppm; A3 52ppm
Technology inclusions: Customisable electronic aligner adjustments (profiles), inline paper cooling module, single-pass decurler, long life photoreceptors
HP INDIGO 7600
HP says the new Indigo 7600 gives breakthrough speed and productivity. The press prints four million colour pages per month.
Using the Enhanced Productivity Mode (essentially printing without the black), throughput increases by 33 per cent to 160 colour ppm, increasing volume significantly. Hardware and software advancements and new supplies improve robustness, adding to high productivity.
Intelligent automation, powered by an enhanced Vision System, maintains and delivers quality prints, reducing operator intervention. The Automatic Alert Agent identifies print defects in real time. Automated calibrations keep registration and other key quality parameters on track.
With new, on-press, on-demand special effects, the HP Indigo 7600 digital press offers differentiation to the print service provider with a wide range of high-value applications.
Enabled by HP Indigo’s liquid ElectroInk technology and digital offset process, HP Indigo says its prints are matching or even exceeding offset, allowing them to be used interchangeably. ElectroInk provides the widest digital colour gamut, including special effect inks, using up to seven ink stations on press.
ElectroInk and the Indigo process deliver a thin ink layer that gives uniform gloss. You can use four, six or seven process colours for vivid printing and Pantone emulations. Spot colours, mixed off press, can be used for Pantone-certified solids.
Compatible with more than 2500 substrates, the press enables printers to offer jobs using dark, transparent, metallic and recycled papers, and paperboard for folding cartons.
Most of the innovations in the press are upgradable options for HP Indigo 7000 and 7500 digital presses.
The company says it is designed for the environment. The first HP Indigo press with carbon-neutral manufacturing, it is aims for sustainability at every stage of its life.
SPECS AT A GLANCE:
Colour capability: Four, six or seven colours
Monthly capacity: 4 million page
Paper size: 330 x 482mm
Toner type: ElectroInk liquid ink
Print resolution: 2400 x 2400dpi
Print speed: 120ppm, 160ppm in EPM mode
Media Types: 2800 compatible substrates
KODAK NEXPRESS SX
Kodak’s NexPress SX digital production colour platform offers production features such as special colours via a fifth imaging unit, Adobe print engine, Kodak’s HD Dry ink and developer, all included in a unit that can be upgraded.
It features Kodak’s System 15.0 with three new print mode options:
• Ink optimisation can control and match output from press to press, or over time on the same press, with the ability to reduce CMYK ink consumption
• Economy mode offers the ability to print pleasing four-colour with 10 per cent less ink
• Smart RGB smoothes skin tones while keeping detail in RGB photos
A fifth imaging unit solution is now available, in which Kodak’s Gold Dry ink can be used to add sparkle to a printed page. It can also be used for gloss and spot gloss varnishing, red fluorescing, protective coatings and MICR to expand product offerings and improve profitability. Light Black has also been introduced for the fifth unit, to produce smoother skin tones and better detail for B&W images, and improve highlight and shadow details.
The NexPress SX runs at rated speed on more than 800 substrates for both four and five colours. A long sheet option enables six-page brochures or three-up A4/letters to be produced.
Kodak says the recently reformulated Kodak NexPress HD dry inks and developers provide accurate colours and consistent spot colour matching, smooth flat fields and gradients and the ability to match the ink laydown gloss level to the substrate being printed. The matte finish option allows printers to expand their range of finishes from matte to satin to high gloss in a simple, 15 minute component change. Kodak claims the result rivals offset.
The NexPress SX features Print Genius, a suite of quality control tools and options to manage and maintain peak quality throughout production runs. The suite encompasses hardware, software and materials to optimise quality and consistency through whole runs.
Closed loop calibration analyses output and feeds data back to the Kodak Intelligent Calibration System (ICS), to automate the process of checking and maintaining print uniformity.
Modular upgradeable solutions include fifth unit solutions, inline finishing and feeding accessories, and additional front end node for the upgrade path to the Kodak NexPress SE digital production colour presses.
SPECS AT A GLANCE:
Print speed: 120ppm
Max sheet size: 356 x 520mm; 356 x 914mm (optional feeder)
Imaging technology: Dry electrophotography
Image resolution: 600dpi, multi-bit up to 8-bit
Number of colours: up to 5
Screens: Classic HD, Classic, Line, Optimum, Supra, Kodak Staccato DX Screening
Substrate weight: 60-350gsm uncoated, 80-350gsm coated
KONICA MINOLTA BIZHUB PRESS C1070
Konica Minolta says it has designed the bizhub Press C1070 to meet new generation digital challenges. It has been engineered for print providers and professionals to deliver accurate colour reproduction and registration stability, combined with excellent overall print quality.
Introducing an air-suction feeding unit to this range has increased the media capabilities and reliability of the press. It can be configured for a range of tasks with a comprehensive range of modular inline finishing options.
Konica Minolta claims that printers can now expect colour quality to rival offset printing at a fraction of the cost, taking advantage of digital flexibility.
The bizhub Press C1070 offers a print resolution of 1200 x 1200dpi and 8-bit multi-gradation processing to reproduce fine text and thin lines clearly, as well as rich colour gradations. It combines accurate laser exposure controls with SEAD IV 3600dpi equivalent resolution, ultra-fine Dot Position Control (DPC) pixel placement and multi-bit screening.
The bizhub Press C1070 uses Simitri HDE toner with a three-dimensional hybrid structure containing a functional polymer, improved magenta pigment for better reproduction of red hues, and a 10 per cent higher overall percentage of pigment for better quality in solid colour areas. It also features reduced energy usage and enhanced electrophotographic properties.
Service and support for production customers is provided from 7am to 7pm, five days a week, with a dedicated help desk for support and assistance, with direct service coverage in all capital cities on the mainland.
With a dedicated professional production print training team, Konica Minolta provides specific user training for its print systems, controllers, software and colour management. This starts with an uninterrupted day’s training at dedicated facilities. The KM training team then follows up with a site visit to cover the system in the operator’s work environment, and may cover specific print work requirements.
SPECS AT A GLANCE:
Print speed: A4 71ppm; A3 38ppm in B&W and CMYK
Max media capacity: 7500 sheets
Max output size: SRA3
Print resolution: 1200 x 1200dpi
Copy resolution: 600 x 600dpi
Max media loading: 7,750 sheets
Paper weights: 62-300gsm
MGI METEOR DP 8700 XL+
The Meteor DP8700 XL+ is the latest in MGI’s line of versatile toner-based digital presses. Created for key markets such as commercial printing, in-plants, plastic card manufacturers, book printers, photo printers and others, Australian distributor Agfa Graphics says the Meteor DP8700 XL+ is faster and more precise thanks to a new thinner toner and higher printing quality, and can print images up to 1200mm long.
While it incorporates the key features of the Meteor+ series, including true multi-substrate capabilities for paper, plastics and envelopes, laser-safe prints, offset comparable output and no click charge, MGI says the DP8700 XL+ features capabilities designed to maximise production and ease of operation.
In a format once reserved for the offset market, the Meteor DP8700 XL+ can print sheets up to 1200mm in length, which the company says is a first for digital production presses. It can print personalised banners, calendars, panoramic photographs, brochures, signage and other projects, on demand in runs as short as one.
Numerous input systems provide solutions for handling substrates. The automatically adjusting offset feeder table feeds substrates from 100 x 200mm up to the optional XL+ format of 330 x 1200mm. The pneumatic feeder can load 3000 sheets in those formats, and up to 400gsm/400μm. The two internal trays, with a total paper capacity of 1500 sheets, handle formats ranging from 140 x 182mm to 330 x 487mm.
The new automated skew and centring adjustment (ASCA) system enables on-the-fly registration. This involves several step motors and optical sensors, and works without any operator involvement. The ASCA system is enabled for each printed side, allowing consistent registration for all automatic duplex jobs.
SPECS AT A GLANCE:
Print speeds: 4260 A4 sph; 2,280 A3 sph; 1200 330 x 650mm sph; 600 330 x 1200mm sph
Print resolution: 2400dpi
Line screenings: 270lpi, five stochastic screens available
Substrates: 70-400gsm
Toner: high definition oil free synthetic toner
RIP: Fiery Pro80 – system 8.0 V3
OKI C941
Recently released by OKI Data Australia and sold by Walcar Graphics, the OKI five-colour printer has the ability to print CMYK and white or CMYK and gloss. This ability to change the fifth colour opens up the possibility of additional fifth colours in the future, such as metallic silver, gold and other colours.
Walcar Graphics’ Wal Sadlo says the OKI C941 delivers fast, short-run, on demand printing, with A3 print speeds of 28ppm in colour/mono, and up to 50ppm in colour/mono for A4. An optional EFI Fiery XF V5.0 server enables advanced colour management, including spot and process colours, optimising colour depth and print quality.
The C941 offers competitive media flexibility, able to handle a range of stock from A6 to SRA3 and banner lengths up to 1.3m. It can handle stock up to 360gsm single-side and 320gsm duplex. Compatible media include gloss paper, film, transfer paper, waterproof paper, synthetic stock and more.
With a print resolution of 1200 x 1200dpi combined with OKI’s multi-level ProQ technology, the C941’s colour print output is greatly enhanced.
The C941’s ability to use five colours for printing vibrant colour on dark backgrounds, brochures with highlights in gloss, T-shirt and merchandising transfer printing, short run packaging and concepts, window graphics on vinyl and clear film, point of sale on a range of media, stationery, business cards, invitations, menus, leaflets and more, gives printers access to new niches in on-demand, lucrative revenue streams.
It has reduced operating costs through ultra-high capacity toner cartridges (38K) and imaging drums (40K). It uses separate toners and drums for reduced wastage and is efficient to reduce energy use. The OKI C941 comes with a three-year next-day onsite service warranty in metro areas. After sales service is carried out by OKI Data Australia’s accredited service technicians.
The OKI C941 is competitively priced at approximately $20,000 (subject to options), with suitable finance arrangements available to prospective buyers.
SPECS AT A GLANCE:
Print speed: 50ppm A4 colour/mono, 28ppm A3 colour/mono
Resolution: 1200 x 1200dpi, ProQ2400 multi-level technology
Enhancements: Auto colour balance, auto registration, auto media detect
Max paper capacity: 2,950 sheets (80gsm)
Stock handling: A6 to SRA3, up to 1.3m length
Stock weights: 52-360gsm.
RICOH PRO C751
With numerous printers using Ricoh’s Pro C751, this colour digital press has runs on the board for improving business productivity and revenue streams. Drawing on significant R&D and customer requirements, Ricoh has developed this press to assist in building up the potential of print businesses.
The Ricoh Pro C751 series can expand product ranges beyond the usual applications by printing onto more exotic stocks using Ricoh’s AC Transfer technology. The company says this technology guarantees high quality on demanding textured stock, flat sheets, envelopes and longer sheet lengths. The ability to print three-to-view A4 output also enables a wider range of products such as dust covers and brochures. Ricoh claims that these capabilities provide businesses with the opportunity to offer high quality colour reproduction on varying stocks, creating a differentiator and stickiness with the customer, and in turn commanding a higher premium for products and services.
This press employs a mechanical lay registration system similar to that seen on offset. This is coupled with 4800dpi resolution and an extensive media library, supported by a technology which monitors the print file and supplies the correct amount of toner based on coverage and run length. This, along with a range of advanced fusing technologies, completes the digital press image processing and production quality assurance.
Due to the growing range of stocks available, the Ricoh Pro C751 series is flexible to target numerous engine adjustments for each specific stock, at a customer level, all through the media library. This also includes up to 300gsm and 630mm in length.
Ricoh provides a wide range of options with software to support specific requirements. Building on this, the ability to produce three-edge, full bleed booklets inline with no manual intervention improves productivity, efficiency and therefore, profitability.
Ricoh has a dedicated and comprehensively trained team of technicians to assist with any hardware and workflow issues, as well as some source applications. This customer support combines with classroom-style customer training to guarantee optimum utilisation and quality output. Ricoh’s trained customer replaceable units (TCRU) ensure minimum downtime, and most of the PM components are onsite 24/7 ensuring minimal business interruptions.
SPECS AT A GLANCE:
Imaging technology: four drum dry electrostatic transfer system with internal transfer belt
Print resolution: 1200 x 4800dpi
Output speed: 75ppm
Max media capacity: 7000 sheets (fully configured)
Max output capacity: 8250 sheets (fully configured)
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