Advice on color/B&W inkjet for transactional printing

[David Weaver]

I am looking for advice on which systems I should look at for color/B&W inkjet printing for statements/invoices. We currently preprint color stock and over print. We run Konica 1050's and 1200's right now but have a lot of customers wanting color (usually spot or small amounts of color, not full coverage) and we also pre-print a fair amount of stock that we could convert over to a color machine.

For small color jobs we have been using a RISO but need to step up to more of a production enviroment.

What would you feel is the next step up that will give me color/black&white inkjet either as a sheet fed or roll fed system that wouldn't be overkill for 1 to 2 million impressions a month?

Thank you

David Weaver

 

[arossetti]

Have you looked at the Xerox 8250? I can't think of many inkjet presses that are ready for use and I would assume you want cut sheet or do you want B2? You also have the Fuji jPress, KM-1, and Xerox also has a CiPress and a new French printer which I forget the name that does roll fed. I personally would go with the 8250 just because it is a more proven technology. High speed inkjet is still pretty immature.

 

[David Weaver]

8250 color cost effective?

8250 color cost effective?

Have you looked at the Xerox 8250? I can't think of many inkjet presses that are ready for use and I would assume you want cut sheet or do you want B2? You also have the Fuji jPress, KM-1, and Xerox also has a CiPress and a new French printer which I forget the name that does roll fed. I personally would go with the 8250 just because it is a more proven technology. High speed inkjet is still pretty immature.

I would think that the Xerox 8250 color click would price me out of being competative for transactional types of jobs. I was looking to go the inkjet route so that I can keep my color costs low enough. Any idea what the per sheet cost would be on the 8250? I'd love to stay in the cut sheet arena if possible but I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks for the reply

 

[arossetti]

I would think that the Xerox 8250 color click would price me out of being competative for transactional types of jobs. I was looking to go the inkjet route so that I can keep my color costs low enough. Any idea what the per sheet cost would be on the 8250? I'd love to stay in the cut sheet arena if possible but I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks for the reply

It was designed to compete with high speed inkjet transactional. They told me at Print13 that because of some changes to the engine they were able to bring the click prices down. I don't have actual numbers however.