Xerox first past the post with carbonless paper for digital colour

Xerox Premium Digital Carbonless paper is specially treated for use in the creation multi-part forms in industries like insurance, healthcare and finance. The aim of the new product was to make it economical for businesses to add logos, highlights and other details to each sheet of an invoice, contract, receipt or claim form.

The carbon-free paper works through the use of a capsule-control coating of tiny beads on the surface, which stay intact while the paper runs through digital printers. When forms are filled out on documents created using carbonless paper, the pressure breaks the capsules to create a permanent image on each sheet.

According to Nancy Rees, senior vice president of the Xerox Supplies Business Group, the company is the first to bring this technology to the marketplace. “The ability to use carbonless paper in digital color devices represents another first for Xerox innovation,” says Rees. “We developed the market's first digital carbonless paper for black-and-white printing in the late 1980s, and today color printing is possible. Customers now have the flexibility they need for creating single or multi-part forms in color on-demand."

Xerox claims some of the benefits of using colour in multi-part forms and invoices include that it reduces end-user errors and makes it easier to fill out forms quickly. In addition, the ability of digital printing to create customized forms on-demand eliminates the cost involved with producing large inventories of offset pre-printed forms.