Xeikon Revs it up for Drupa

Xeikon announced a new product for Drupa, the Xeikon 8000 (www.xeikon.com).  It’s essentially a much faster version of the Xeikon 6000. The new product produces 230 A4 pages per minute (up from the 160 ppm rate of the Xeikon 6000.)

While this toner-based product doesn’t have near the speed of the new color inkjet devices it has something they don’t have and that is 1200 dpi quality. The Xeikon delivers the level of graphic arts image quality required for many promotional commercial printing applications.

The market now has a number of high speed (1000 to 2000 ppm) ink jet device that don’t have quite have graphic arts quality. And now the market has its first 200+ ppm color printer with high quality. It will be interesting to see which vendor can get both: very high speeds and high quality.

The Xeikon 8000 offers:

*  speed of 230 A4 pages per minute

*  duty cycle of 8.5 million A4 pages per month

*  1200 dpi image quality at 4 bits per spot

*  Real-time variable data handling capabilities

*  An extended range of paper input and output options

*  Eco-friendly design and consumables