Carbonless Paper For Digital Allows Colour Logos

Xerox Corporation has announced what it claimed to be the industry's only carbonless paper designed for both digital colour and mono printing in office and production environments.

Xerox Corporation has announced what it claimed to be the industry's only carbonless paper designed for both digital colour and mono printing in office and production environments.

Carbonless paper is specially treated paper used to create multi-part forms in industries like insurance, healthcare and finance.

The new Premium Digital Carbonless paper makes it possible to quickly and economically add colourful logos and highlights to each sheet of an invoice, contract, receipt or claim form said Xerox.

"The ability to use carbonless paper in digital colour devices represents another first for Xerox innovation.

We developed the market's first digital carbonless paper for mono printing in the late 1980s and today, colour printing is possible," said Alan Sewell, the director and general manager of Xerox Document Supplies Europe.

"Customers now have the flexibility they need for creating single or multi-part forms in colour on-demand," he added.

Xerox Supplies engineers at its media technology centre in Webster (USA) worked directly with product development teams to create Premium Digital Carbonless paper.

A patented capsule-control coating of tiny beads stays intact while the paper runs through digital printers in a clean, consistent manner.

That produces high-quality documents and allows users to load and leave jobs running without machine contamination or service issues.

When people fill out forms produced with carbonless paper, the pressure breaks the capsules to create a permanent image on each sheet.

Xerox said that its research showed that producing forms in colour reduces end user errors and makes it easier for people to fill out forms faster.

In addition, the ability to design, create and print customised forms on-demand eliminates the cost and complexity involved with producing large stocks of offset pre-printed forms.

To make the paper easy to use, Xerox added that it incorporated a print-side identification arrow on the edge of each paper ream that shows which way to insert the paper into the printer, increasing productivity while helping to reduce imaging errors.

Premium Digital Carbonless paper is available from February 1 in the USA and Canada in a range of sizes and configurations and it is claimed that it can be customised for special applications.

The paper is compatible with Xerox office network colour printers - Phaser 8400, Docucolor 12 - and high-volume production Docucolor 2060, 2045, 5252, 6060 and 8000 digital presses, as well as monochrome machines, including the Docutech and Xerox NuveraM products.

A software upgrade is available at no charge from a Xerox service representative for machines already in operation.

The paper will be made available throughout Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world, from Xerox's direct sales force, authorised resellers and the web from March 1.

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