ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 03, 2008
-- Xerox Corporation today announced a new suite of color management software
for its DocuColor™ 7000AP/8000AP Digital Presses that ensures more consistent
color image quality and more productivity.
With the Automated Color Quality Suite and its various automated
features, print providers can now achieve quicker press set up, increased production
time, better color stability and matching, and fewer operator errors.
"Color image quality demands are escalating," said
Quincy Allen, president, Xerox Production Systems Group. "By having the
Automated Color Quality Suite available across a wider range of our color systems,
more print shops can produce jobs such as photo books, corporate brochures and
marketing materials that require a high degree of color reliability and detail."
The new capabilities - available with FreeFlow™ Print
Server 7.0 - are made possible by integrating an in-line spectrophotometer,
a device that measures the color of sample prints, in the Xerox 7000AP/8000AP's
paper path. Breakthrough improvements in profile creation technology yield accurate
saturated color, even and balanced neutrals, outstanding shadow detail and smooth
highlight sweeps.
In addition, Xerox has added Variable Gloss Management to the
suite that will reduce the glossy appearance of dark colors in digital prints.
Print providers can now adjust the image rendering to a preferred level of glossiness
and appearance for any job.
Other components of the Automated Color Quality Suite - that
until now were reserved for the company's Xerox iGen3™ 90 and 110 Digital
Production Presses - include:
- Advanced Profiling
- Enables greater realism, better neutrals, increased shadow and highlight
detail, and better photo rendering. It also can accurately emulate offset
industry color standards such as GRACoL (General Requirements for Applications
in Commercial Offset Lithography).
- Automated Calibration
- Eliminates the need for manual calibrations, to reduce inconsistencies in
color caused by temperature fluctuations, humidity changes and day-to-day
use. Calibration can now be scheduled to run automatically after a certain
amount of hours have elapsed, pages have been printed or at the end of a current
job.
- Automated Spot
Color Calibration - Ensures accuracy of Pantone-licensed colors across
print engines. The system virtually eliminates the need for operator adjustments,
which can depend on visual, subjective assessment. This provides print operations
with additional hours of productivity each week, especially users that may
not have expertise in color concepts and adjustments.
The Xerox DocuColor 7000AP/8000AP
systems are 70- and 80-ppm presses that run at the rated speed of the engine
regardless of which paper weight or media type is run.
Pricing and Availability
New Xerox DocuColor 7000AP/8000AP users and existing Xerox DocuColor 7000/8000
accounts operating Xerox FreeFlow Print Server 7.0 can purchase the Automated
Color Quality Suite immediately in North America and the United Kingdom and
in 2009 in developing markets and the rest of Europe. It has a U.S. list price
of $15,000.
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