Fuji Xerox Australia launches the Xerox iGen4

New Xerox Colour Press Delivers Breakthrough Image Quality; Drives More Profitability from Digital Printing

Fuji Xerox Australia has unveiled the Xerox iGen4(tm), regarded as the most productive and highest-quality cut-sheet digital press in the printing industry.

"Building on our hugely successful Xerox iGen3, the industry's leading high-speed digital colour press, this next generation Xerox iGen4 delivers colour quality and automation that redefine the standards of printing," said Henryk Kraszewski, (pictured) the Colour Production Marketing Manager at Fuji Xerox Australia.

The Xerox iGen4 increases productivity by automating operator tasks, reducing the need to interrupt the press for adjustments and decreasing overall operating costs. As a result, the Xerox iGen4 improves the break-even point between digital and traditional offset printing - making it faster and more economical to print jobs on digital.

New components with the Xerox iGen4
Auto Density Control – Patented technology that uses a full-width sensor array to automatically detect and eliminate density variations and streaks, while the press is running. Streaks are inherent in most printing processes and often require operator intervention or a service call to resolve. With this new component, streaks are eliminated and the Xerox iGen4 remains in production.

Carrier Dispensing System – New method of combining dry ink and carrier - in place of traditional developer - that yields consistent colour uniformity from the first print to the last and from job to job. With the Carrier Dispensing System, operators no longer have to stop the machine and change the developer.

High Definition Linearisation – Patented process that eliminates time-consuming gray-scale calibration, resulting in better production of neutral greys and highlight shadows. It also improves photo smoothness, especially in faces, while maintaining sharp background details. High Definition Linearisation ensures greater colour stability from job-to-job and machine-to-machine.

Advanced Colour Profiling – Innovation that enables greater colour consistency and realism in objects such as faces and skies. This tool automatically adjusts colours to closely match offset printing standards in minutes. It can accurately match the popular GRACoL (General Requirements for Applications in Commercial Offset Lithography) standard, and takes advantage of ICC (International Colour Consortium) DeviceLink Profiling for higher performance. A colour matching industry benchmark, GRACoL offers a new source profile option for the most demanding jobs. The ICC DeviceLink Profiling allows for faster processing and improved colour rendering.

High-speed Inline Spectrophotometer – Right in the paper path, the high-speed Inline Spectrophotometer automatically creates colour samples on target sheets, registers them for accuracy and processes the data - all at the rated speed of the Xerox iGen4 - and takes the appropriate action to adjust the press. The results are offset and photo image quality along with spot colour accuracy.

Xerox iGen4 specifications
The Xerox iGen4 press runs at 110 pages per minute and includes these industry-leading features:
* largest sheet size (364mm x 571mm) of any digital colour press
* broadest array of inline finishing options
* widest range of substrate latitude
* greatest number of stocks in a single collated job (up to 12)
* total paper capacity of up to 80,000 sheets

Designed to help print providers reduce their environmental footprint, the Xerox iGen4 uses dry inks that are non-toxic and minimise waste. More than 97 percent of its components are recyclable or remanufacturable.