Xerox Intros Cartridge-Free to Lower Print Cost up to 62 Prcnt

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Xerox’s innovative print head and solid ink sticks combine to create its first high-speed solid ink office printer – the newly announced Xerox ColorQube 9200 Series...

Xeroxs innovative print head and solid ink sticks combine to create its first high-speed solid ink office printer the newly announced Xerox ColorQube 9200 Series.

The print head, about the size of deck of cards, packs in 880 nozzles - twice the number per linear inch compared to prior print heads - enabling molten solid ink to print 85 pages per minute. Development of the miniscule nozzles (each only 37.5 microns wide) is considered a major achievement because they deliver higher flow rates - 150 million drops of ink per second -- despite their reduced size.

New print head technology and cartridge-free ink deliver color prints for up to 62 percent lower cost and 90 percent less supplies waste in the world's first high-speed solid ink office multifunction printer.

Microscopic nozzles - half the width of a human hair - are the building blocks behind a new product unveiled by Xerox Corporation that is set to change the face of color printing in the office

- forever.

The new Xerox ColorQube 9200 Series multifunction printer vaults Xerox's proven solid ink technology to the center of the highly competitive office market. At the heart of ColorQube is a print head that increases ink flow 400 percent by packing in 880 nozzles - at twice the number per linear inch compared to prior print heads. Development of the miniscule nozzles (each only 37.5 microns wide) is considered a major achievement because they deliver higher flow rates despite their reduced size, says Steve Korol, a Xerox researcher who worked with his research and development team to engineer the print head.

Each print head is about the size of a deck of cards and funnels molten solid ink through a complex network of channels to the nozzles, enabling color printing at 85 pages per minute. The design features four print heads per printer totaling more than 3,500 ink nozzles.

"This device opens up a huge market for Xerox," said Don Titterington,