The impact of color copiers and color printing equipment on the printing industry is enormous. There are many new models that printers, design studios and printing companies can now choose. They have digital features and can produce high quality products. The growth rate of this part of the market is very fast, of which the three main market branches are: the requirements of high-quality, high-speed color copiers and printers in the printing studios and image design studios; only general color quality is required, but Requires a very large volume of output; the most active market segment is that many companies want to replicate good quality internal publications and brochures through the equipment.
Manufacturers of color ubiquitous color copiers and color printers are very concerned about the dynamics of these markets. At an international conference held this spring, Xerox announced that they will conduct large-scale market shifts in various fields, from the original monochrome equipment. Full transfer to color equipment. At the end of the meeting, Xerox and Scitex signed a letter of intent to conclude a distribution agreement to jointly sell Scitex's 2000-ppm VersaMark series of continuous, monochrome, spot, and full-color inkjet web presses.
At the same time, Xerox also introduced the fastest color printer for office use, the 21-ppm Phaser 2135. In addition, the company also talked to Edward Jones, St. Louis’s financial services company, for a $20 million business, offering 5,000 Phaser 1235 color printers, several new digital front ends, and a DocuColor series press. Xerox’s DocuColor machine has installed 2,000 units since it was launched in June of last year, and its 2,000th unit was installed at C2 Media.com, a New York-based image service provider that they purchased in late February this year. 16 DocuColor 2045 digital color printers worth US$9 million.
The advantages provided by the network Ikon office solutions company offers a variety of large-scale digital printing solutions for different grades of the market. For the mid-range market, Ikon offers Aficio 850 and 1050 from Ricoh, and for the upmarket market, Canon's ImageRunner 110. For the low-end market, Ikon can also provide systems from T/R, as well as EFI's Velocity workflow software package. T/R's MicroPress can connect up to 12 connected printers together with additional networked printing devices, including color printers.
Ikon also offers the Digital Express 2000 product, a comprehensive, web-based management, production, and distribution system designed specifically for B2B applications to manage digital files from development to physical delivery, simplifying editing And the process of reprinting many times and reducing unnecessary and inventory costs.
Digital Express 2000 allows users to access the network of print centers managed by professionals through the Internet for an unlimited number of times. Ikon describes itself as a network company that uses Oracle Suite exclusively. For Ikon, high-speed digital color or monochrome production, bookbinding/post-processing services, document management, and instant delivery are just a few mouse clicks away.
Coloured equipment for fast printing companies In March this year, Tally announced that they will introduce nine new equipment: five monochrome printers with speeds of 12 to 21 ppm, three color printers with a speed of 6 ppm, and one speed 24ppm monochrome printer. The use of color copiers and color printers has become the best choice for small commercial printing and printing companies and design studios. It is also the best output method.
For example, Kwik Kopy Express Company, located in Birmingham, Alaska for 20 years, opened a small market space with a Canon CLC1150 copy/printer and a Z40 Fiery front end. For a long time, the company had used ABDick's presses to print monochrome and color jobs. A few years ago, they installed a Canon 320 color copy/printer to test the short-run color printing market. The person in charge of the company said: "For a long time, I was not very optimistic about color photocopiers/printers. I don't think I can make money from it, but when the company installed the low-end Canon 320, my opinion was very good. A big change.†A year ago, the company upgraded the Canon320 to the Canon CLC1150, a faster, higher-quality machine. After installing the machine, the company’s color business has doubled and the owner has The performance was very satisfactory. At present, the company can print business card materials, four-color business cards, double-sided printing and four-color postcards.
Accurate Color Comparison Blackcoffee Design is an award-winning graphic design studio based in Boston, known for its unique and creative designs. It was designed for the cover of many famous corporate design icons, packaging and books. Blackcoffee's design is exactly the same as the color of the user's final print, which makes them very proud. The person in charge of the company believes: "We think that if customers spend a few thousand dollars on design, they should see the same content as the final product." For this reason, Blackcoffee recently installed a Xerox company DocuColor2006, which was installed two years ago. Xerox's Phaser 780 worked with customers. The company's operating staff produced ICC color profiles for both types of equipment to improve the color management workflow. They believe that any device purchased should have three performance indicators: improve the quality of the product, increase the speed of the machine, and can quickly recover the investment. When Blackcoffee switched from an inkjet printer to Phaser, all three conditions were met. Later introduced DocuColor2006 is faster, more stable quality, and its automatic page turning function is intended to complement the lack of Phaser780. It can be double-sided printing, and after finishing printing, it does not need dusting to fix the image and can be directly performed. Reverse printing.
Mike Cocciolillo and his wife also shared the benefits of the new equipment. They established a new company in 1996. In the past five years, the company’s sales volume has doubled. The company’s factory area is 1,500 square feet, providing high-speed copying, Copy of engineering reports, wide color desktop publishing and binding services. Cocciolillo said: "At the beginning, we installed a Canon CLC700 color photocopier/printer. It soon became unsuited to our production scale. Then we purchased a Canon CLC1120 color copier/printer, which was also unable to withstand production. The load, now we have another Canon CLC1000, which is a key element of our rapid growth.†Mr. Cocciolillo's continuous upgrade of Canon equipment is the result of continuous demand for color and quantity, according to him, five years ago, the color operation The number has increased by 80%, and now the copied R&D manuals, commercial real estate manuals, FDA medical forms, and various materials are all colored and are still growing.
Cocciolillo's company now outputs 40,000 color images, 700,000 black and white images, and 20,000 square feet of engineering data per month. As the number of company printing operations and the number of customers continues to grow, Mr. Cocciolillo intends to buy a larger office.