Fuji Xerox Australia launches Nuvera Digital Production System with offset-level image quality and ability to print on coated stocks

Nuvera 120 Pro built on newest black-and-white technology platform
Fuji Xerox Australia (FXA) today announced the launch of a new digital system that comes closer to offset image quality than any other black-and-white digital production system on the market. In addition, the Nuvera Digital Production System is capable of printing on both coated and uncoated paper stocks, offering a whole new range of revenue opportunities.


Extending FXA's latest modular technology platform to a broader base of customers in the printing industry, the Nuvera 120 Digital Production System is engineered to produce a whole new range of print jobs including many previously reserved for offset. The system brings the digital advantages of fast turnarounds, economical short runs, personalised printing and integration with the Web to commercial printing and in-plant printing operations.

“The Nuvera 120 Digital Production System addresses the full range of work produced in commercial and quick print shops, transactional printing bureaux and in corporate reprographic departments, taking digital printing to the next level,” said Simon Lane, production printing systems marketing manager.

“No other digital system in the industry handles print jobs as efficiently, offers such outstanding image quality, prints on such a wide range of paper stocks or provides as much black-and-white revenue opportunity and productivity,” he said.

Designed for high-volume production printing - with average monthly recommended page volumes from 100,000 to 1.5 million pages, and duty cycles ranging to as high as 3.5 million - the Nuvera 120 Digital Production System prints on both stocks from 56-216gsm and offers halftone density of up to 156 lines per inch (lpi), which provides high-quality imaging output.

The Nuvera 120 Digital Production System prints as many as 120 A4 pages per minute, or 72 A3 impressions per minute. It is available as a print-only device, or with a choice of a centralised or distributed scanning workflow. The Nuvera 120 Digital Production System can be ordered with an integrated 120 page-per-minute scanner, the fastest, highest quality scanner on the market, scanning 600x600 dots per inch at 120 impressions per minute, simplex or duplex, or with the new remote FreeFlow Scanner 665. The FreeFlow Scanner 665 scans as fast as 65 ppm with an automatic image enhancement capability that virtually eliminates the need to edit scanned images.

SmartPress Technologies
Several of the Nuvera system's key offset-like advances derive from SmartPress technologies developed for the Xerox DocuColor iGen3 Digital Production Press. SmartPress paper-handling technologies deliver the wide media latitude. The Nuvera 120 Digital Production System is supplied with four paper trays as standard and an additional four trays are optional. As well, an optional four-tray post-fuser insertion module can be added, for a total capacity of 17,280 sheets.

This means the machine can run for extended periods of time without re-loading paper, while the Inserter module means it is a cinch to add digital colour to any document for even greater visual impact.

Patented 'non-contact' SmartPress imaging technology delivers the benchmark image quality, with the SmartPress Sentry system continuously monitoring and adjusting image quality to improve performance and reliability. Print resolution is 4800 x 600 dpi; and screens range from 85 to 156 lpi, including a 134-lpi setting that meets the typical offset job specification for 130 lpi or greater.

Operators can choose from widely used publishing data streams, such as Adobe PostScript Level 3, PDF and multi-page TIFF. In addition, the Xerox DocuSP controller provides a common operator interface allowing for local and remote printing on any of the 32 DocuSP-driven Xerox production printers.

The Nuvera Digital Production System has a wide range of finishing options. The standard configuration offers a 5000 sheet stacker, while optional finishing systems include stacking/stapling, booklet making, square fold stitching and perfect binding. An integrated read/write CD drive provides automatic CD archiving of production jobs as part of the printing process and lets operators print jobs directly from CD or DVD.

Availability
The Nuvera 120 Digital Production System is available for order, with customer installations commencing in February.

About Fuji Xerox Australia (FXA) Production Services Business Group (PSBG)
FXA PSBG continues to lead the way, helping organisations capitalise on the dynamic world of digital printing, on-demand publishing and one-to-one personalised communications. These advanced capabilities are enabled by our workflow solutions, business development services and breakthrough technologies. For further information on Fuji Xerox, please visit www.fujixerox.com.au

Contact Information:
Simon Lane
Fuji Xerox Australia
02 9856 5000

Natalie Clayton
Just Go Write
Public Relations - Fuji Xerox Australia
02 9519 4103
nc@justgowrite.com.au