World's Fastest Cut-Sheet Printer In Australia

Fuji Xerox Australia has unveiled its plans for Printex07 from May 24 - 26 in Sydney, focusing on technology and workflow systems to help printers and designers increase value and ultimately profits.

On show will be a number of monochrome and colour light production systems.

For the first time in Australia, Fuji Xerox will demonstrate how standards such as JDF can streamline communication across the pre-press environment and the production floor.

Visitors will be able get Australia's first look what is claimed to be the word's fastest cut sheet printer.

The just-released monochrome printing system, the Xerox Nuvera 288 digital perfecting system prints at a claimed 288 impressions per minute, which is said to be 15 per cent faster than any other cut sheet printer available.

During its maiden exhibition in Australia, the digital duplex production system is set to impress with its claimed resolution of 4,800 dots per inch (dpi) x 600dpi, partly attributed to its Emulsion Aggregate (EA) toner technology and fusing.

According to Fuji Xerox, the Nuvera 288 was designed for maximum productivity and uptime, with pass through programming that keeps the system running even if one of the engines needs service or a soft shutdown.

Visitors to the Fuji Xerox stand will also be able to see two new entrants to the Fuji Xerox digital colour light production range, the Xerox Docucolor 252 and the Xerox Docucolor 6075II.

Both the Docucolor 252 and the Docucolor 6075II utilise the same technology, with the new Docucolor 6075II said to be able to boost productivity by up to 20 per cent over the Docucolor 5065, extending the colour print speed to a claimed 60 pages per minute (ppm).

The production systems include RIPs from Xerox (DocuSP), Creo (Spire), or EFI (Fiery and Splash).

The RIPs are said to offer ease of use, colour management tools and support for variable data applications.

The new Light Production Finisher is the latest finishing choice offered by Fuji Xerox and includes hole punching, side-stitching and saddle-stitching, as well as V-fold capability, C-fold and Z-fold capabilities for mailings, as well as an interposer that allows pre-printed material to be incorporated in to print jobs.

Henryk Kraszewski, Fuji Xerox's production colour marketing manager, commented: "Fundamental to developing optimum efficiency on the production floor in any print environment, is ensuring your business systems can communicate.

Fuji Xerox's range of Freeflow systems will show how easily jobs can be directed to either offset or digital presses as required in a few simple steps." The company said it will it will team-up with Adobe and Typefi at this year's Printex to create 'a book in an hour'.

That production journey will start at the Adobe stand where Adobe and Typefi will take the book from design to composed pages using Typefi Publish and Adobe InDesign Server.

The second stage will be where the document will move to the Fuji Xerox stand where the new turbo-charged Nuvera 288 and the Docucolor 5000 printers will be driven by the Freeflow Digital Workflow Collection to produce the colour covers and monochrome content pages.

Freeflow Output Manager will show off the ease of integrating colour covers with monochrome inserts and visitors will receive their own 'Lonely Planet' guide hot off the press, said Fuji Xerox.

PrintEx07 attendees will also be able to create personalised colouring-in books for children through a web browser using XMPie uStore and Freeflow Output Manager.

Featuring personalised covers and insert pages, as well as a mix of colour and monochrome pages, the books will be created on the fly utilising Freeflow colour splitter technology on the Fuji Xerox - 4110 - and the new Xerox Docucolor 252.

Job attribute matching and print automation through Freeflow Process Manager will ensure that attendees take away a special memento from Printex07.

Fuji Xerox added that its cross-media capabilities will demonstrate a cross media workflow incorporating web, SMS, print and email through applications such as Adobe Creative Suite, XMPie Personaleffect and Freeflow Output Manager.

The application will use Hitlist to provide data profiling, analytics and data hygiene tools for direct marketing campaigns.

Henryk Kraszewski, Fuji Xerox's production colour marketing manager, explained: "The Docucolor 252 and Docucolor 6075II combine image quality, ease of use, productivity, reliability and affordability.

They will appeal to those looking to enter the fast-growing digital colour production market, or who require high quality colour output at a reasonable price.

Thouse users are specifically, commercial printers, quick printers, franchise operations, creative services, corporate and government print rooms." Nick Kugenthiran, general manager of Fuji Xerox's integrated sales and marketing division, added: "We have a program of systems never seen previously that will stop visitors in their tracks, which illustrate the many ways that our print and workflow products can be applied to their own businesses to make a bottom-line difference." He added: "By augmenting their skills with our technology and application expertise, Printxx07 visitors can garner insight in to new ways of amplifying print production efficiency and productivity, whilst providing increased profit margins through reduction in labour and increased asset utilisation.".

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