After reading the " Hot type" story on digital color printing (Jan. 21), I wanted to clarify some points.
Though HP is a world leader in desktop color printing, it couldn't wait to adapt its technology to the commercial marketplace.
Xerox claims that its printers, which can crank out 80 pages a minute, can target specific areas of a page for color printing using a material that is cheaper than what is used in standard laser printers.
From this initiative, Brother developed its Landscape Printing Technology that reoriented the way color inkjet printing is done.
ENGADGET: Brother crams all-in-one functionality into a pint-size package for Business Smart series
Even with the advantages, it won't be economical to do color digital printing commercially beyond 2, 000 pages.
So color digital printing won't be cheap--5 to 10 cents per page versus a fraction of a penny for offset.
Field has added service reps with backgrounds in color processing and printing to make sure the customers always get flesh-toned faces in their brochures.
Dye sublimation is a printing technology that uses layers of transparent color dye, special dye-receptive paper and a heated printing head to create images that are pretty close in quality to conventional photographic film and paper--up to 16.7 million colors and 403 dots per inch by 403 dots per inch.
Dye, ink and paper tend to be more expensive for this method of printing than with normal color printers.
From 1992 through 2000, Ms. Burns led several business teams including the office color and fax business and office network printing business.
On-set color management system, Image Processing System IS-100, for digital shooting (motion pictures, television, and commercials) in a high degree of precision, enabled by Fujifilm's proprietary technologies for color reproduction and color management nurtured in the fields of photography and printing.
ENGADGET: Fujifilm sees which way wind is blowing, ends production of cinema film
Simple things like printing on the black and white printer instead of making color copies, using scrap paper instead of new for everything, and scanning our surveys instead of sending them by next morning delivery can save a bundle.
FORBES: Three Essential Retirement Moves You Don't Want to Miss
It got money from Toppan, the Japanese printing company, which signed on with E Ink to help develop color displays.
Although Heidelberg dominates the traditional offset commercial printing market, Xerox leads the fast-growing digital-production color segment with a market share of 55%.
That is still twice the cost of black and white printing, but Xerox hopes it will lead to an explosion in the use of color printers.
应用推荐