Xerox 490/980 Color Continuous Feed Printing System

Xerox Updated: 2009-02-02 RSS
Xerox 490/980 Color Continuous Feed Printing System

Benefits
* Expand your applications with a full-color, productive continuous feed printer
* Communicate your messages more effectively with color – draw attention to the areas where you want your customers to take action
* Benefit from the best combination of high speed variable data content and full color
* Minimize or eliminate the whole supply chain of pre-printed offset shells
* Easy to use, easy to maintain
* Increase response rates by producing full-color, high speed, personalized marketing messages
* Automate, enhance and simplify your workflow, enable new applications, and reduce cost by integrating with the FreeFlow™ Digital Workflow collection

Features
* The industry's fastest toner-based full-color continuous feed
printer – achieves lightning-fast color printing at up to 986 ipm or 226 feet per minute
* 19.5 inch web allows for printing 2-up US letter/A4 images or 3-up book images in 6x9 format - uses media more efficiently, saving costs and reducing waste
* Modular and adaptable configurations let you customize to fit the applications you want to print: choose one print engine for simplex or two for duplex; add pre- and post-processing systems for feeding and finishing flexibility
* Prints every page with variable data, forms and graphics in one pass on blank roll stock
* Flash-fusing technology delivers crisp image quality, expands the range of media types and weights you can print onto, and reduces paper shrinkage, paper curl and static, improving performance and reliability in both the printer and the inline finishing devices
* Precision paper registration ensures the proper alignment for two-sided printing
* Integrated onboard print controller with graphical user interface allows you to manage all print functions from the printer or remotely from an optional pc

Key Applications
* TransPromo and Transactional printing: increase response rates with variable data and decrease postal costs by integrating promotional offers with your standard transactional invoices
* Direct mail: implement cost-effective, targeted full color marketing campaigns with personalized data
* Publishing: produce manuals, newspapers, and catalogs quickly and efficiently without sacrificing image or output quality

Performance
- Rated speed: 226' per minute (69 meters per minute)
- 986 ipm 2-up duplex US letter
- 493 ipm 2-up simplex US letter
- 900 ipm 2-up duplex A4
- 450 ipm 2-up simplex A4
Resolution: Input: 240 x 240 dpi, 300 x 300 dpi, 600 x 600 dpi
Output: 600 x 600 dpi
Duty cycle: 5,500,000 feet per month

Capabilities
Printed Sides: Optional Duplex
(Requires two engines for duplex operation)
MICR: No

Technology
PDLs: PS, PDF and IPDS
Network Interfaces: TCP/IP Ethernet Gigabit
One host connection per print engine
CPU: X86 Sun Solaris with Dual-core Opteron processor
Fusing Technology: Flash Fusing – Tremolo
Print Engine: Xerographic Print Engine (Duplex requires twin configuration)
Process/Imaging: Xerographic print engine with light emitting diode (LED) technology
User Interface: 15" full-color touch-screen graphical user interface
Job setup and control while run
All functions can be controlled at the printer or via a remote GUI

Paper Handling
Media Dimensions - Minimum: Web width: 8.3"
Media Dimensions - Maximum: Web width: 19.5"
Media Weight - Minimum: 17 lb (64 gsm)
Media Weight - Maximum: 42 lb (160 gsm)
Media Types: Pinfed or pinless roll stock, using a tension pinless web

Finishing
Pre/Post: Compatible with external third party post-processing solutions such as unwinders, cutters, fanfold stackers, rewinders, saddle stitchers, and inline perfect binders. See your sales rep for details on approved vendors.

Print Controllers
Digital Front Ends: Integrated Onboard Print Controller - supports IPDS, PDF and Postscript workflows

Environmental
Dimensions: Per engine:
* Depth: 5.9' (1.8 m)
* Width: 16.4' (5.0 m)
* Height: 6.9' (2.1 m)

Electrical Requirements: With Transformer per Print Engine:
* 380–415 Volts
* Minimum 150A/Phase 50Hz
* 3 50A Triple Phase Lines

Without Transformer per Print Engine:
* 200–230 Volts
* 300 amp sole use, 60Hz
* 3 100A Triple Phase Lines

Electrical Consumption: 5.9 kVA (standby), 61 kVA (printing)