Upgrading Digital Color

The iGen3 is Xerox's answer to demand for a high-end digital color press with variable data and economic short-run color capabilities. Every quarter, the company offers hardware and software releases to customers, thus upgrading the entire population of iGen3 machines.

"The older installations are equivalent in functionality to those sold last week," notes Fred Debolt, vice president of color product systems at the Xerox Production Systems Group. Although Debolt admits that the early rounds of upgrades had more to do with problem fixes and debugging, recent releases focus more on new content, features and functionality, some of which represent drastic changes to the equipment.