Xante Ilumina Digital Envelope Press

[oliverseemless]

Less than a year old. We original purchased for a client's monthly job but no longer needed and barely used. Purchased brand new, directly from Xante.

[postnetnc133]

Why not just take out Xante, PSI etc etc. All everyone hears is they use an OKI engine etc etc. Just buy an Oki 9650 from an Oki dealer. Get the printer, with envelope feeder and conveyor exit tray all for around $9K I believe I was told That is like half or so of what I was told for the other units.

[John Green]

i bought the Xante llumina Digital envelope press, running it on Mac laptop snow leopard.
I need information how to set up the MP tray, it runs 4 or 5 then says jam. It is not jammed
One will be about 2" in the press.
Is their a book on how to set these machines up, this one when running runs about 20 per min.

Thanks,
John Green

[John Green]

Can anyone help with set up on the lluminia Dig. Env. Press, running with Mac. OS X 6.0 lepord
I set it up and every time it stops or says jam it goes back to default. settings.

Thanks,
John Green

[DRK]

I have one of these. The concept is great. The product is so, so. Doesn't feed very well. Customer service is not so hot. But most importantly mine uses so much of there over price proprietary toner that it is almost impossible to make any money. If you have a small corner card imprint you're ok, but I just finished a job of 5000 envelopes that I bid at $800 but cost well over $900 in toner.

[OutSourceD]

I hate to hear that DRK. There are several companies who make proprietary products that behold you or every drop of oil, every nut, screw and speck of toner. These business models work very well for Xanté, HP Indigo, RISO and their ilk. They are getting wealthy off the backs of small time operators like you and me. You and I are their guinea pigs, their paying R&D, their golden eggs laid by their perfect little schemes.

A lemon law will assist you if you are unlucky enough to purchase a piece-of-crap automobile. Purchase a piece-of-crap printer and you can never come up with enough money to sic a lawyer.

Those reading this, consider yourself forewarned; watch out for Xanté, RISO, HP Indigo.

[Happyprinter]

Well said OutsourceD. I believe that most printshops that operate these machines with the chipped toners etc. have no idea what it costs them per piece to do so, other than what the company CLAIMS the cost will be. (which is generally on the very low side) When you factor in the drum, their toner, fuser unit, belt etc. I guarantee that to produce 5000 envelopes is as DRK stated. PRICEY!!

[Taneum]

We offer the Taneum Envelope X-Press color envelope printing system. And yes, we also use the Oki C9650, along with the Straight Shooter feeder/conveyor system. Our package includes "PSLenvelopeMaker" VDP software for the design phase of variable images and text, and the fast merging of variable address fields, up to 25,000 records per minute. For installed Xante, Xerox 7400, and Oki 9XXX printers, we have a package that includes the "PSLenvelopeMaker" and feeder/conveyor to extend the life of these models.

[RNRPRINTINGNMAILING]

I to ask who in their right mind would make such an investment in a machine where tech support is worthless. The consumables are so expensive. I had the Xante CL 30 and had problems with it. And I got the run around from Xante.
I now have the Oki C9300 and the 9650 and they work great.
So the long and short of it is your better off looking at an older 4 color digital press.

Stay away from Xante products

[Happyprinter]

Last time we called about a month ago the cost was around $5800.00 approx.