iGen4

powerful digital printing

A key driver in our decision to install the $1 million Xerox iGen4 Press press – the most powerful digital production press available – were the advancements in technology, its environmental qualities and a whole range of advantages the machine offered, providing us with a real edge in the market.

“iGen4 has simply taken our small format digital printing to an entirely new level,” explains Benefitz Managing Director Aidan Bennett. iGen3 proved to be valuable for our business but iGen4 has offered a completely new proposition. The enhancements that have been made by Xerox are significant.”

“This is a serious piece of kit that just chews through all sorts of digital printing projects very quickly and cost-effectively. The fact that it prints on a wider range of stocks and has the large 571mm x 364mm sheet size – bigger than all other flat sheet digital machines – makes it a very valuable tool for us. Put all this together with our personalised printing capability and it is easy to see why our print volumes have continued to grow.”

Key advancements and benefits of Xerox iGen4…

Auto Density Control – Automatically detects and eliminates density variations and streaks, while the press is running. Streaks are inherent in most printing processes and often require operator intervention to resolve. With this new component, streaks are eliminated automatically

Carrier Dispensing System – New method of combining dry ink and carrier - in place of traditional developer - that yields consistent colour uniformity from the first print to the last and from job to job.

High Definition Linearisation – Results in better production of neutral greys and highlight shadows. It also improves photo smoothness, especially in faces, while maintaining sharp background details.

Advanced Colour Profiling – Innovation that enables greater colour consistency and realism in objects such as faces and skies. This tool automatically adjusts colours to closely match offset printing standards in minutes.

High-speed Inline Spectrophotometer – Automatically creates colour samples on target sheets, registers them for accuracy and processes the data and takes the appropriate action to adjust the press. The results are offset and photo image quality along with spot colour accuracy. 

iGen4 printing green…
iGen4 is an environmentally better choice for many reasons:

• 97% of components are recyclable or re-manufacturable.
• Dry inks are non-toxic and have closed containers with a transfer efficiency rate of near to 100%.
• Doesn’t generate or use alcohols, chlorinated solvents, acids, or flammable materials.
  

Personalised Printing...

At Benefitz we have also invested over $200,000 in the world’s best Personalised Printing (or Variable Data) software and server. Combine these with the Digital Printing capability of iGen4 and Xerox Colour 1000 Press and we have the most powerful variable data printing package in the market. 

New Colour 1000 Digital Press

Combination with iGen4 gives Benefitz the most powerful small format digital offering in the local market.

Benefitz has made another significant investment in digital printing technology with the installation of the new Xerox Colour 1000 Press. The combination of this new press, with the iGen4 Press, means that Benefitz has the most powerful small format digital printing offering in the local market.
The Xerox Colour 1000 Press contains the latest technological advances, which highlight the improvements in dry ink and machine structure that increases further our ability to produce digital printed items much closer to offset printing quality.
One of the most significant advancements is the Clear Dry ink (overgloss-type) process on the Colour 1000 Press. This works like CMYK dry ink but without the colour pigmentation. Clear Dry ink can be applied as a flood coat (to the entire page) or selectively applied to the document (spot).
“In simple terms this allows us to spot overgloss or overgloss a digitally printed item at a fraction of the normal cost,” explains Benefitz Director Dallas Bennett. “It can also be used to create watermarks and other colourless images to support a design.”
Due to the low melting temperature of the new dry ink and the new transfer and fusing technology, Clear Dry ink also provides a smoother matte finish with stronger colour consistency on textured stocks. Dry ink not only prints well on textured stock but it has the ability to create its own texture, from a two-dimensional page to a three-dimensional image. The Colour 1000 Press prints the ink on to a specific section of an image and then when re-printed numerous times the section is raised without any discolouration or major visible difference to the image. A change is only noticed when the image is touched. For example, consider the texture of a basketball: raised and bumpy. Using dry ink, the Colour 1000 Press can create that same texture by applying the ink in a pattern and raising sections of the image, providing a tactile sensation.
As well as the advancement with Clear Dry ink, the Colour 1000 Press has a 2400 x 2400 dpi resolution from the patented laser technology with 5,760,000 addressable dots. This ensures exceptional image quality and fine detail for smooth colour sweeps and crisp text.
“The Colour 1000 provides real advantages for us in quality,” adds Dallas Bennett. “It’s a great machine on its own, but for us the combination with our iGen4 press is a very good one. They compliment one another nicely and provide us
with very significant press power in the small
format digital printing space.” 

Colour 1000 Advantages at a glance…
•    Prints on stocks up to 350gsm.
•    Spot Overgloss-like option.
•    2400 x 2400 dpi resolution.
•    Complements iGEN4 press.
•    Consistency and overall print quality.