Digital Printing-Toner - Cut Sheet (Color)

Do your homework before switching to a digital copier. And consult with your IT folks to make sure you can network it later. "The buzz word impacting everyone is digital. Digital is here to stay." That's the word from Jeff Smith, director of consumer services for Buyers Laboratory, a Hackensack, N.J.-based consumer advocate for buyers of office equipment. But don't ditch that analog copier yet, Smith says. Although copier manufacturers are beginning the phasing-out process, analog copiers are going to be around longer than most people think. "It's not going to be a short-term thing," says Smith. "I believe it will take

Believe it or not, there was a time when xerography was laughed at and carbon paper was king. One man changed it all 60 years ago this month. As you route another job through the network to your Xerox DocuTech today, take a moment to reflect on the fact that xerographic technology has come a long way since it was invented 60 years ago this month. It was October 22, 1938, in Astoria, N.Y., when Chester Carlson, a patent attorney and part-time inventor, made the first successful xerographic copy. In the six decades since that historic day, xerography has grown to become

These days, copiers are in virtually every in-plant. Find out how in-plant managers are using them, the problems they're facing and the features they want. Are copiers taking over in-plants? The answer varies depending on who you talk to. But no one can deny that convenience copiers are a convenience for more than the end user—and that color copiers are a boon for short-run printing jobs. While copiers are proliferating in in-plants, features are proliferating on copiers. Customers are demanding such features as sorting/stapling, collating and even three-hole punching—and the latest generation of copiers is delivering. New designs reduce paper jams by using

If you're looking into purchasing a new copier, read what the experts have to say about the growth of current technology. No longer seen as a just another piece of machinery to rest your coffee cup on or congregate next to with your co-workers, today's copiers are lean, mean, reliable machines that provide quality service. Not that the office gossip isn't still relevant, to some, but the productive and qualitative nature of copiers rules in 1998. It's a great time to buy a copier, experts say. Current technology has provided machines with quality, faster job turnaround and lower costs per page that enable

In-plants all over the country have gone digital and are enjoying a host of big benefits. Here's a look at what they like—and what they'd like to see—in their systems. "DIGITAL PRINTING, while convenient, can never match the quality of traditional offset." Sound familiar? It does to proponents of digital printing systems. They have heard this argument plenty of times before. And, in their opinion, it's an argument without merit. "It's very high-quality printing," says Meredith's Bob Furstenau of his IBM InfoColor 70. "It's very comparable to offset." And in some cases, even better. Furstenau, director of digital content management for the

Want to increase productivity while reducing waste and costs? Read on to see if a direct digital color device is the right choice for you. Before his in-plant purchased a Xerox DocuColor 40, Dennis Moran had to send out most of his color work. "We would have to go to press and send the plates out to be made for just 40 to 50 copies or so," says Moran, supervisor of electronic printing at Guardian Life in New York. "Now, we're able to offer a lot more in four-color in less time than it would take to put on the press." For example,

In the first installment of our Great Debate series, two industry leaders discuss what went into their decisions to buy—or not buy—a digital press. When digital color printing burst upon the graphic arts world, a number of printers jumped into it, convinced they would find their fortunes. After all, "print-on-demand" was the latest catch phrase, and that was exactly what these presses were made for. But after snapping them up, a lot of commercial printers discovered that they didn't have the appropriate workloads to keep their investments busy with profitable work. In-plants, at the mercy of their parent organizations' budgets, were far more