Thursday, February 24, 2011

This Week in Xerox "TWIX Notes"

- Xerox announced it sold:


o Xerox 700 Digital Color Press to Fuller Davies, a printshop in Ipswich, England

o Two Xerox iGen4 EXP production color systems to EarthDigital of New Jersey.

- Xerox announced it terminated an undisclosed amount of employees from its research and development office in Webster, NY, in a cost cutting move.

- Xerox is showing its new production color wax printer, temporarily named “Xerox Production Inkjet System”. Details:

o uses the hot melted wax technology it acquired when it bought the Phaser printer division several years ago from Tektronix of Oregon

o this technology is also used in the Xerox ColorQube color wax copiers

o top speed of 2,200 letter size images per minute (500 feet per minute of paper on rolls)

o claims that company has several beta models in the field for testing in customer environments

o able to print on lightweight stock with no apparent ink soak through issues

o self adjusts in case wax nozzles are not firing properly

o print controller offers variable data option

o highest de-inkability rating from INGEDE, meaning it is easier to recycle pages printed on this device compared with water-based inkjet models

o supposedly based on 2,000 patents

o has intelligent scan bar that checks billions of hot wax droplets per second for registration

o pricing unknown at this time

- Xerox’s ACS office in Columbus, Ohio is in trouble after accidentally printing the social security numbers of 8,400 state child care providers on the outside of envelopes for a mailing, as part of its contract with the state.

- Xerox gave out a “Top Performer” award to XMC, a sales agent in Memphis, TN.

-=Good Selling=-

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