IBM Debuts Production Printers

IBM extended its printer industry leadership with the introduction of a new set of production printers at the Hunkeler Innovation Days trade show.

The company unveiled a new full-color, variable-data continuous web printer, a new monochrome continuous form printer and two new cutsheet printers. These new products build on the momentum generated by the recent announcement by IBM and Ricoh regarding their joint venture, InfoPrint Solutions, based on IBM’s Printing Systems Division.

IBM’s new Infoprint 5000, a full-color, variable-data continuous web system fills a gap between previously available industry color offerings of very high quality but lower speed and and those alternatives with lower quality but very high speed. The Infoprint 5000 utilizes piezo-electric, drop-on-demand ink-jet technology with water-based pigment inks that are resistant to fading and smearing, even on commonly used digital papers.

The Infoprint 4100 MD1/MD2 expands IBM’s line of high-speed, monochrome continuous form printers. The entry-level Infoprint 4100 will be driven by the Infoprint POWER Controller, a 64-bit, multi-processing controller that enables the latest models to run at up to 175 feet a minute.

IBM also introduced the Infoprint 2190 and 2210 cutsheet printers, which bridge the gap between workgroup printers and continuous-form printers. They are the next generation of the Infoprint 2190ES and 2105ES cutsheet printers.