Xerox Wows with Five-Color iGen5, Entry-Level Inkjet Offering
Booth 631 drew a huge crowd Monday morning with several major announcements at Graph Expo 15.
Xerox (Booth 631) drew a huge crowd Monday morning with several major announcements, including the Xerox Rialto 900, an entry-level, small-footprint inkjet device, cloud-based versions of its FreeFlow software, and its new five-color iGen5.
The press conference opened with updates to Xerox’s award-winning FreeFlow Core, a Graph Expo Must See ‘Em, now available in a cloud version. FreeFlow Digital Publisher, which offers digital and print workflow in a single, unified workflow, was introduced in a cloud version, as well. For customers looking for digital publishing only, Xerox is offering a slimmed down e-publishing-only version.
Before the packed house crowd, Xerox demonstrated XMPie’s new PersonalEffect v. 8.0. In a matter of minutes, the presenter produced multiple print and digital editions from a single PDF. The digital edition was automatically emailed to each attendee and automatically reformatted for optimum readability on their digital devices.
For show visitors who want to experience this first-hand, Xerox is offering booth visitors the opportunity to create their own personalized applications using one of Xerox’s iPad stations. “We had a lot of interest yesterday and I’m sure the stations will be jammed today,” says Kevin Horey, vice president/general manager workflow and solutions.
Center stage, however, was the new Xerox five-color iGen5. Xerox chose to go with an extended station, so the recipe is CMYK plus orange, green, or blue, which were selected to make the maximum number of matches for corporate colors shown in Western Europe and United States. “We can now read about 91% of Pantone Plus library to within 3 delta E,” said Anne Fitzpatrick-Post, worldwide general manager of Xerox-developed production cut-sheet products.
For show visitors wanting to know if their clients’ corporate colors can be hit with the iGen5’s extended color gamut, Fitzpatrick-Post said, Xerox offers a color gamut tool at www.xerox/gamut.
The spotlight was then turned in Chris Irick, worldwide product marketing manager, high entry production color, who demonstrated Xerox’s entry-level inkjet Rialto 900. “This is the world’s first fully integrated inkjet press roll to cut sheet,” said Irick. “It’s a narrow web inkjet press that fills the gap between cut sheet and continuous feed products.”
The press has a very small footprint, only 2” longer than Xerox’s color press offering on the floor, and is “the smallest of the products entering the space today, hands down. It offers a world-class, fully integrated user interface. Selecting a job is like selecting one off a service tablet or an iPad. We’ve added green button simplicity, making it simple to migrate from cut sheet or toner,” concludes Irick.