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New Life For An Old Idea: 4 Reasons to Look at Xerox ColorQube

July 28th, 2010 by under Xerox Printers. No Comments.

Solid Ink technology
has been around since the early 90′s when Tektronix first introduced it. Back then, office color was a high-priced luxury and Tektronix had a winner with the fastest color speeds and the lowest-cost devices in the printer space.

Xerox ColorQube Inside View

Then as costs went down and speeds came up laser took the color market just like it had done with the black and white market the decade before. Tektronix was bought by Xerox, and solid ink technology went the way of the dodo, or should I say the Laotian Rock Rat (click to read).

Unlike the inkjet and dot matrix, solid ink showed remarkable fight against laser technology and even generated some promising buzz a few years ago when HP announced they had a high speed ink printer, but were hesitant to market it due to the losses they would take in maintenance contracts.

Never one to be left behind (go watch Pirates of the Silicone Valley),  Xerox has rediscovered Solid Ink.

With the release of ColorQube, a multifunction tabloid color printer that uses solid ink technology, Xerox has finally positioned solid ink to contend with laser technology in the multifunction office printing space. Here’s why.

  1. Solid Ink finally has speed:  Previous solid ink devices could only actually deliver about 15 pages per minute, making them significantly slower than laser printers and multifunction devices that easily hit 30 to 50 pages per minute. Xerox offers ColorQube in three different speed bands (38/45/50); fast enough to be considered against multifunction printer competitors
  2. Solid Ink finally has size:  Until now, only letter/legal was available. Now solid ink can produce A3 sized (tabloid) prints/copies (11″x17″ and 12″x18″)
  3. Solid Ink finally has full multifunction capabilities:  Previous solid ink multifunction offerings had basic copy/print/scan but didn’t have scan-to-email and network faxing capabilites. No finishing options were available either. Now ColorQube has email and lan fax plus full finishing options such as hole-punching, stapling, folding, inserting..etc. Xerox uses ColorQube solid ink to change the way color documents are billed. With three different pricing plans to choose from, spot color can cost as low as about a penny. The price plans favor applications where most of the documents produced are color.
  4. It’s Best Color is Green:  With new speed, size, finishing and color cost-per-page price advantages, ColorQube finally brings solid ink to where it can now compete handily against traditional laser color office multifunction devices. And on top of that Xerox is announcing that it has significant energy use advantages making it green for everyone, and leaving the competition green with envy. Overall Xerox is projecting a 62% cost reduction in color document production.

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