Many of the production inkjet press manufacturers are moving to this type of pricing model. The Xerox inkjet pricing model is a blend of maintenance, color clicks per linear foot, mono clicks per linear foot and ink cost. You can print black only if desired or a mix, and the consumption model inkjet pricing can make that cost effective. The press supports 4-color printing (CMYK) and only CMYK with pigment inks. It includes 8 print heads per engine for each of the two included engines.

This provides smoother gradients and tints, and sharper text and fine lines. According to Xerox, this gives the output a perceived visual resolution of 1000 x 1000 dpi using the Xerox inkjet optimized screening. The print resolution is 600圆00 x 2-bit, and using Xerox Automated IQ optimization can print 4 levels of grey with 3 different drop sizes, 4, 7, and 11 picoliters. This is DoD (Drop on Demand) Piezoelectric technology using the Kyocera KJ4B 600 dpi aqueous inkjet print head. The imaging is based on the proven Impika iEngine technology. The recommended monthly print volume is 1.5 million to 5 million letter/A4 impressions per month. Other integrated finishing options will be added and made available in the future. At launch it will be available in the base platform as described above. Rialto was designed to be an extensible, evolving platform. It is also called a thermo-electric cooler or TEC for short. It is a lower energy cost solution that can be used for both heating and cooling. The peltier effect is the electric-current-driven transfer of heat from one material to another. It uses a peltier Infra Red (IR) dryer to dry the sheets. It is a short paper path, so it includes chiller rollers to condition the paper and a very efficient dryer. It supports paper weights from 60 to 160 gsm, on a web roll of up to 3.28 ft (100cm) in diameter. The printing width is 8.66” (220mm), with a web width of up to 9.84” (250mm). The Rialto 900 is a single pass duplex, tight web press which runs at up to 157 feet per minute (48 m/m), which translates into 171 one up letter size sheets (160 A4) duplex per minute. One of the ways Xerox is able to keep it small is by not using turn bars as seen in the diagram below.

This is an impressive footprint since the Xerox Color Press can exceed that length with the addition of a high capacity stacker. The standard configuration includes an unwinder, web cleaner, slitter/cutter with four side trimming, a top tray and a high capacity stacker. The base press dimensions in the standard configuration are 11’9”L x 5’1”D x 5’3”H (3580 mm x 1550 mm x 1600 mm). Putting a sheeter at the end of a web press is not necessarily a new idea, but offering it all together in one compact package is. The Rialto 900 transport ‘is’ the unique feature However, this release version highlights some of the Xerox-Impika collaborative efforts, including an increased output speed, new front end controllers, Xerox machine colors (no more green and black) and more. An earlier version of this press was shown as a concept press, introduced as Genesis, at drupa 2012. Xerox is targeting this as easy to acquire and use, similar to its sheetfed toner-based devices. It is designed as roll-to-cut-sheet press, and most importantly in a small footprint. The Xerox® Rialto™ 900 inkjet press is a major departure from the other production inkjet machines we have seen. With this new announcement, Xerox is releasing the first true collaborative effort following the acquisition. Since that last article, Xerox has integrated the Impika organization into the Xerox organization, its former offerings into the Xerox portfolio and now into the Xerox master brand. The last time we took a good look at Impika inkjet offerings was prior to drupa 2012 and the Xerox acquisition.

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