Xerox unveils new color printer
The new solid ink high-speed office printer developed by scientists at the Norwalk, Connecticut-based firm helps reduce color page costs by up to 62%, Xerox said in a statement.
Xerox said the new technology will help make color printing considerably more affordable. Color printing tends to be about four times more expensive per page than black and white.
The company said the new technology is featured in the Xerox ColorQube 9200 Series multifunction office printer.
Xerox said a print head increases ink flow 400% through the use of 880 microscopic nozzles, each one half the width of a human hair.
It said the print head funnels molten solid ink through a network of channels to the nozzles, enabling color printing at 85 pages per minute.
“This device opens up a huge market for Xerox,” said Don Titterington, Xerox vice president for print head and ink research and development.
“At 150 million drops per second, this is a breakthrough in how fast we can put ink on the page. That’s as many ink drops in a minute as there are people on the planet.”
Xerox also said the new technology does away with messy and expensive cartridges and toner.
The ink is solid at room temperature and melts inside the printer, it said.
The new printer can be ordered this year in the United States and Europe and in other markets in 2010.
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