Xerox Launches Versant 80, New Color Presses and Metallic Inks

Xerox's latest digital color presses were introduced on Thursday, along with true Pantone metallic gold and silver specialty dry inks. The Xerox Versant 80 press will serve as a replacement for the C75 and J75, while the Xerox Color 800i and 1000i presses will replace the 800 and 1000.

For in-plants, the Versant 80 combines new features and functionality to produce high-end applications faster on more media types. The Color 800i/1000i presses now offer true Pantone metallic gold or silver specialty dry inks—giving printers a creative, competitive advantage. With increased automation both devices keep print environments at peak performance levels.

Versant 80 Press

The Versant 80 provides production press capabilities with walk-up simplicity, offset-quality performance and automated features that remove the guesswork out of optimizing image quality, color and registration. Printing at 80 pages/min., the device delivers ultra HD, 10-bit image quality at 2400×2400 dpi and can handle a variety of media types with a compact Belt Fuser system and Xerox’s EA Low Melt Dry Ink.

Printers looking for extra productivity can add an optional Performance Package, which maintains top speeds of 80 pages/min. on all stocks up to 350 gsm along with an in-line spectrophotometer for increased color automation.

The Versant 80 comes with a choice of two servers: the Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server Powered by Fiery or the Xerox EX 80 Print Server Powered by Fiery. Printers can easily produce variable data-driven personalized communications with the addition of XMPie uDirect Classic Pro software.

Color 800i/1000i Presses

The Xerox Color 800i/1000i presses include an optional specialty dry ink station that enhances documents with metallic gold or silver dry inks or applies spot or flood creative effects with clear dry ink. Xerox is the first in the industry to offer silver dry ink at rated speed.

With the presses, printers can migrate lucrative foil stamping applications, such as invitations, certificates and business cards, to short-run, high-value digital production. Multi-pass printing with clear ink adds an extra textural/dimensional feel and the “pop” of the silver and gold inks—a Must See ‘Em award winner at GRAPH EXPO 14—produces attention-grabbing effects on a wide range of applications.

Among the devices’ productivity enhancements is a full-width array to automate critical press functions, time to production operational improvements and a new Xerox EX-P 1000i Print Server Powered by Fiery.

The new presses will be available for install in April. They will be priced competitively with the presses they will be replacing.

On Thursday, April 23, Xerox will host a Google+ Hangout titled “Ask the Experts: Looking Beyond Dots Per Inch with the Xerox Versant 80 Press.” Jim Hamilton, group director, InfoTrends, will be joined by two customers to explore the important role of print resolution. For more information or to register, click here.

Source: Xerox.