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Continuing its commitment to digital color printing customers, Agfa has recently announced the release of two newly developed consumables and an upgrade option supporting the Chromapress digital printing system: an advanced microtoner, an improved developer, and a high gloss option/field upgrade. The use of these three new enhancements contributes to higher quality output, a greater range of applications, and increased productivity for Chromapress--making digital printing an ever-more viable and profitable option for print providers.
Chromapress is a revolutionary digital printing system that handles a variety of jobs requiring high-quality, four-color printing directly from PostScript files. It is a complete system for efficient digital printing, including advanced front-end components such as a full suite of Power Macintosh-based software for workflow management, a Power Macintosh-based press server, and a PostScript Level 2 PowerRIP. The award-winning four-color print engine offers fast, full-duplex web-feed output. Chromapress provides high-quality color printing specifically designed for short runs and on-demand document production. With the use of Personalizer software, materials printed on Chromapress can be individually customized on the fly.
New Advanced Microtoner and Longer Lasting Developer
"As the sole manufacturer of these new microtoner and developer products for the Chromapress and Xeikon engines, Agfa continues to respond to market demand for a more cost effective, higher-performance printing process," says Bob Barbera, Agfa senior business line manager for Chromapress. "This new generation of consumables reduces variable cost by approximately one-third, thus adding an improved economic model to other well-established advantages of digital printing, such as short run color printing, on-demand document production, and personalized printing."
OmniGloss: Offset-Like Finish "The use of digital color printing for appearance-critical applications has spurred the need for offset quality output," said Paul Willems, Agfa director of marketing, digital printing. "In combination with heavier stocks, we are significantly widening the application areas for Chromapress. This brings Chromapress to a new level, which makes the system unique in its class and provides additional value for our customers. Developed specifically to work with the new generation of toner and developer we've announced, OmniGloss provides outstanding output quality comparable to traditional offset printing, but with the decided advantages of all-digital technology." OmniGloss benefits users in the following ways:
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