DIGITAL digest

This new product introduction represents a $400 million investment in building a "new technology platform" from the ground up, Waxenberg reports. Image quality, scanning functionality and substrate flexibility are key differentiators of the platform, he says.

The devices are said to achieve a print resolution of 4,800x600 dpi in part through the use of a "toner cloud and trickle development" system that suspends uniformly sized toner particles in mid air while the photoreceptor is passed through it. Additionally, the "active air detoning cleaner" Xerox developed for the iGen3 has been adapted for use in these units. Other quality assurance features include an ultrasonic multi-feed sheet detector and wide-radius turns in the paper path to avoid scuffing and scratching, as well as support of heavier stocks.