Xerox Debuts Inkjet System

On Monday, in Lucerne, Switzerland, Xerox unveiled its Production Inkjet System, which uses its proprietary solid ink technology. The introduction was made at Hunkeler Innovationdays, a four-day trade show. The new waterless inkjet system reportedly enables vivid image quality on low-cost paper for printers looking to produce high-volume jobs. The device on display in Lucerne was a single engine (simplex) system, but Xerox says it will also be available in a twin engine (duplex) configuration.

Driving the inkjet device are 56 durable piezo-electric, drop-on-demand print heads with more than 49,000 nozzles jetting nearly two billion ink drops per second. Each drop hits the paper with precise pixel placement as the printer produces more than 2,000 color images per minute.

Xerox has developed a patented, granulated, resin-based ink formulation, which is melted onto the paper and solidifies instantly. The key benefit is the elimination of water so that vibrant, consistent color can be printed on low-cost paper with no ink soaking through. The device is reportedly able to print on untreated, uncoated papers, and some coated papers, with a web width of 20.5˝.

The Production Inkjet System can produce nearly 2,200 pages or 500 feet per minute. It continuously monitors every page it produces and self-adjusts if an ink nozzle isn’t firing properly. Click here for more information.