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Xerox Future of Work Survey Reveals 82% of Employees Expected to Return to the Office

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:58:00 GMT

A new global business survey commissioned by Xerox Holdings Corporation (NYSE: XRX) shows an estimated 82% of the workforce in respondents’ organizations will have returned to the workplace in 12-18 months’ time, on average. In preparation for a return, companies are investing in new resources to support a hybrid remote / in-office workforce, with 56% increasing technology budgets and 34% planning to speed their digital transformation as a result of COVID-19.

The Xerox Future of Work Survey, conducted by the independent research firm Vanson Bourne, polled 600 IT decision makers including senior C-level professionals from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany and France, whose organizations have at least 500 employees. Respondents reported challenges caused by the sudden transition to remote work, with 72% citing they were not fully prepared from a technology perspective. In addition to technology (29%), the biggest pain points during the required work from home period were communication breakdown across teams/employees (26%) and maintaining focus (25%).

“While there is no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work, our research found that over time many companies plan to have most employees back in an office environment. This could be for a variety of reasons, including communication, speed of decision-making and talent development,” said Steve Bandrowczak, Xerox president and chief operations officer. “At the same time, the sudden shutdown and ongoing hybrid work environment has exposed technology gaps that require new or additional investment in the coming months.”

Key survey findings and Xerox takeaways include:

Businesses plan to return most employees to the office, though expanded remote work policies are here to stay.
Prior to work from home requirements being imposed, 33% of respondents said network/data security and privacy was their biggest concern with a remote workforce; 24% cited employee productivity followed by 16% citing technology infrastructure. These concerns, coupled with the belief held by 95% of respondents that in-person communication is important for personal development and assessing talent, indicate widespread remote work will not replace more traditional workspaces.

However, now that businesses are more comfortable with remote work, attitudes and policies of C-suite leaders and IT decision makers are shifting. Among the countries polled, the U.S. is the most likely to have an increase in confidence in remote working (86%), followed by the U.K. (80%), Germany (80%), Canada (77%), and France (75%). Furthermore, 58% plan to change their work from home policy within the next year, highlighting the need for companies to support a hybrid workforce.

Our takeaway: Employees may not be going back to the office all at once — or even in the same capacity as before — but the need for organizations to support a hybrid workforce is here for the foreseeable future.
Sudden stay-at-home orders quickly revealed technology gaps.
The rapid transition to remote work was difficult for most businesses, with only 28% saying they were fully prepared and 29% citing technology as their biggest pain point. Among the specific countries polled, France was the least likely to be fully prepared for the sudden transition to remote work, while the U.S. was the most likely to be fully prepared. With regards to technology specifically, respondents said their top challenges were remote IT support (35%), inadequate workflow solutions (27%), lack of communications and collaboration tools (22%) and lack of cloud-based solutions (10%). 85% of business leaders also missed the accessibility and ease of use of their office printers, with U.S. respondents missing them the most (93%) followed by Germany (92%) and France (91%).

Our takeaway: To mitigate against future disruptions, such as the rapid transition to remote work resulting from COVID-19, companies will look to invest in new technologies and seek added capability from existing tools to accelerate their processes digital transformation.
Technology purchasing priorities are shifting to better support employees.
As a result of technology gaps uncovered by having a mostly remote workforce, 70% of IT decision makers globally are reevaluating their budget spend, with companies increasing investment in remote technology resources (55%) or a hybrid of remote and in-office resources (40%). The pandemic also has businesses prioritizing investments in cloud-based software (65%), remote IT (63%) support and collaboration software (52%).

Hardware such as laptops and printers were another important consideration, especially for companies based in France, with 22% of respondents citing it as the most important need when it comes to technology, productivity and their overall work experience.

Our Takeaway: COVID-19 is feeding digital transformation plans and companies are placing a renewed focus on meeting employees’ needs with both hardware and software.

For more information, visit www.Xerox.com/MakeNowWork.

Methodology
The survey of 600 respondents located in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany and France was conducted by independent research firm Vanson Bourne in May 2020. Respondents included IT decision makers (including senior C-level professionals), all from organizations with at least 500 employees across a range of sectors, including business and professional services, retail, health care, financial services, and travel and hospitality.

About Xerox
Xerox Holdings Corporation makes every day work better. We are a workplace technology company building and integrating software and hardware for enterprises large and small. As customers seek to manage information across digital and physical platforms, Xerox delivers a seamless, secure and sustainable experience. Whether inventing the copier, Ethernet, the laser printer or more, Xerox has long defined the modern work experience. Learn how that innovation continues at xerox.com.

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Xerox Selects Clear as Its Inaugural Color of The Year 2020

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:45:00 GMT

Looking ahead to 2020, Xerox today announced its inaugural Color of the Year: Clear.

While acknowledging debates as to whether the absence of all colors is itself a color (it is), Xerox stands by its choice of clear, the same color (or non-color) as fishbowls, windows and cellophane.

Just as these transparent surfaces give us a view into what lies behind them, Xerox’s Color of the Year showcases the importance of creating a fresh look into an unobstructed future, in hopeful yet clear-eyed anticipation of what lies ahead.

“It can enhance a color, it can brighten a color, it can sometimes add saturation to a color,” said Beatriz Custode, Color Customization & Engineering Services at Xerox.

For centuries, artists from Leonardo Da Vinci to Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun have used layers of clear, called glaze, in their masterpieces – to add depth and texture or make them sparkle in the light. Even for those who aren’t fine artists, clear changes how we see the world. For example, house paints are typically available in different levels of gloss or semi-gloss allowing for a similarly shiny, reflective effect, and high-gloss paint washes easier than a Rembrandt.

In printing, Xerox technology such as the iGen^® 5 Press, Iridesse^®Production Press, and new PrimeLink^® C9065/C9070 lets creatives use clear ink in their projects as readily as other colors, including metallics and fluorescents.

In the coming days, we will celebrate the art and science of clear and welcome a debate about whether clear is a color. We believe it is, and after you see our mini-documentary so will you. #Clear2020

Share your thoughts on social media with our @Xerox channels on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

About Xerox
In the era of intelligent work, we’re not just thinking about the future, we’re making it. Xerox Corporation is a technology leader focused on the intersection of digital and physical. We use automation and next-generation personalization to redefine productivity, drive growth and make the world more secure. Every day, our innovative technologies and intelligent work solutions—Powered by Xerox^®—help people communicate and work better. Discover more at www.xerox.com and follow us on Twitter at @Xerox.

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Xerox Delivers ‘Game Changing’ Embellishment Printing Capabilities

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT

With specialty printing being one of the fastest-growing digital segments, Xerox developed the Xerox Adaptive CMYK Plus Technology designed for the all-new Xerox PrimeLink^® C9065/C9070 Color Printer and the Xerox Color C60/C70 Printer.

The Adaptive CMYK Plus Technology is an accessory that has been engineered to augment the traditional cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK) offering. For the PrimeLink C9065/C9070, an entry-level production printer, the accessory expands the device’s color capabilities with fluorescents, gold, silver, white and clear embellishments when needed. A similar accessory for the C60/C70 also offers printers beyond CMYK capabilities with metallics, white and clear. This technology opens new doors to growth, allowing printers and creatives in all fields to produce brilliant and unique pieces such as greeting cards, flyers, invitations, posters and signage.

“The 2-in-1 capability of our print engine combined with our new Adaptive CMYK Plus Technology allows printers to push past the boundaries of commodity print at a price point unmatched in the market,” said Terry Antinora, vice president and general manager of Workplace Solutions, Xerox.

Also new to market is the PrimeLink C9065/C9070. Designed to flex to meet the needs of both busy offices and production environments, the printer includes a 10-inch touchscreen, making it easy to access general functions as well as cloud and productivity apps that automate tasks for the mobile, always-connected office worker and professional user alike.

Boosting productivity is the printer’s 270 ipm scanning and 70 ppm printing capabilities. Even at these speeds, quality is not sacrificed. The PrimeLink C9065/C9070 delivers best-in-class performance with 2400 x 2400 dpi color image quality, outstanding fine-line detail, images, color transitions and color accuracy.

To scale for production environments, the PrimeLink C9065/C9070 offers heavyweight media and extra-long sheet (XLS) capabilities, supporting printing materials up to 26 inches/660mm long such as banners, book jackets and calendars. Additional professional-grade feeding and finishing capabilities include oversized, high-capacity feeding; stacking; punching; two-sided and square-fold trimming for full bleed documents; and booklet, tri-fold, C/Z folding. Equipped with the Simple Image Quality Adjustment (SIQA) tool and choice of EFI servers, the PrimeLink C9065/C9070 allows printers to set up jobs seamlessly with consistent, optimal print quality in less time.

“We engineered the Xerox PrimeLink C9065/C9070 for extreme reliability and breakthrough performance on every metric,” Antinora added. “This next generation, entry-level production printer positions Xerox to continue its lead in this market.”

Order taking for the PrimeLink C9065/C9070 is available now in countries served by Xerox. Order taking for the Adaptive CMYK Plus Technology for the PrimeLink C9065/C9070 will begin in the first-quarter of 2020, and order taking for the C60/C70 accessory is available now in countries served by Xerox.

Both the Adaptive CMYK Plus Technology and PrimeLink C9065/C9070 will be on display at PRINT 19 at booth #1510 in Chicago from Oct. 3-5. The Association for Print Technologies also named the Adaptive CMYK Plus Technology an industry game changer and awarded Xerox with the Vanguard Breakthrough Award as a part of its RED HOT program. Xerox earned seven RED HOT Awards and two Vanguard Awards this year.

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Xerox unveils enhancements to iGen 5, making it the most versatile digital color production, cut-sheet press

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:00:00 GMT

Xerox announces two new optional capabilities for the iGen^® 5: the extra-long sheet (XLS) and Fluorescent Yellow Dry Ink.

“These enhancements are designed to increase the versatility, productivity and scalability of our clients’ existing investment in the Xerox iGen 5. Coupled together, they make the iGen 5 the most versatile digital color production, cut-sheet press available in the market today,” said Tracey Koziol, senior vice president of Global Offerings, Xerox.

The iGen 5 XLS enables up to a 35-inch sheet size, prints at rated speed and has production feeding and stacking. With extra-long capabilities, printers can deliver more pieces per sheet, increasing application productivity of the iGen 5 by up to 25 percent. Print providers can increase the versatility of the iGen 5 by targeting additional applications such as 4-panel brochures, book covers, banners, large-format clings, panoramic artwork and multi-up printing.

Printers also now have the option to utilize the iGen 5’s fifth print station to run Fluorescent Yellow Dry Ink in addition to orange, green and blue gamut extension colors as well as white and clear.

“The way colors are printed continues to evolve as toner technology becomes increasingly more sophisticated. As a pioneer in toner and color technology, Xerox has spearheaded developing new capabilities that allow printers to push past the boundaries of commodity print, without sacrificing productivity or quality. The Fluorescent Yellow Dry Ink for the iGen 5 is another example of this,” Koziol added.

Expanding the press’ color capabilities enables print providers to offer a distinct selection of spot and flood effects, photo and color enhancements and watermarks. Specially formulated to glow under UV light, this ink also provides optionality for high-value jobs such as Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) caution and safety signage, book covers, dust jackets, folding cartons, direct mailers and collaterals. When running specialty effects, Xerox FreeFlow^® Core batches jobs by Specialty Dry Ink, ensuring the flow of work is seamless.

These new enhancements earned Xerox two ‘RED HOT Technology’ awards from the Association for Print Technologies. Collectively, Xerox earned seven awards this year, and Xerox RED HOT technologies will be on display at PRINT 19 at booth #1510 in Chicago from Oct. 3-5.

The iGen 5 XLS and Fluorescent Yellow Dry Ink will be available for order taking starting on Oct. 3 in the Americas and in the fourth-quarter of 2019 for the other regions served by Xerox.

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Xerox Advances Inkjet Technology with Baltoro HF Inkjet Press

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:15:00 GMT

Xerox (NYSE: XRX) announces the Xerox Baltoro™ HF Inkjet Press, a cut-sheet production press that enables clients to print high-volume, transactional work and high-quality direct mail and catalogs on a single press with superior image quality and productivity. The Baltoro HF is Xerox’s first product using this platform.

“We engineered the Baltoro HF by leveraging the best of our iGen^® and High Fusion inkjet technologies. The result is a breakthrough platform that expands into the commercial print environment and supports high-quality production with economics similar to offset printing,” said Tracey Koziol, senior vice president of Global Offerings, Xerox. “Designing and manufacturing the Baltoro HF from the frame to the engine gives us a greater ability to continuously advance the platform at a faster clip.”

With innovation at its core, the Baltoro HF is the only press in the entry-level class to use automated intelligence to optimize and maintain color and image quality as well as self-correct in real-time. The press’ automated intelligence, along with its High Fusion ink and Xerox High Fusion W-Series Inkjet Heads, delivers true high definition 1200 x 1200 dpi image quality without the need to condition media with priming solutions or precoats. Eliminating the priming solution reduces press size, power consumption and total cost of ownership while increasing productivity.

The Baltoro HF also offers additional time-saving advantages. Its speed, paired with having the widest print area in its class, enables the press to increase client productivity by more than 115 percent. On the front end, Xerox FreeFlow^® Core automates the time-consuming prepress work, while Xerox FreeFlow Print Server allows clients to add new jobs while the press is running.

The Baltoro HF is now available for order taking in countries served by Xerox with the intent of making the press available to the global market. To learn more about its specifications and capabilities, a webcast will be held Tuesday, July 2, 2019 from 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. ET.

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Xerox Iridesse Wins Top European Digital Press Association Award for Innovation in Digital Production

Thu, 16 May 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Xerox Iridesse^®has won a top prize at the 2019 European Digital Press Association Awards, taking home the EDP Cut Sheet Printer Award for Innovation in Digital Production.

The Iridesse is the only digital press that can print up to six colors in a single pass with precision and the ability to embellish with decorative metallic, clear and white inks. This provides more design opportunities for digital printers while making it easier for small-sized businesses to embrace special finishes on limited print runs.

Selected for achieving a trifecta of industry achievement—cost, efficiency and quality—EDP honored the Xerox Iridesse during Europe’s largest specialty print exhibition, FESPA Global Print Expo, on Wednesday, May 15 in Munich.

“As a creative branding agency our biggest asset is our ideas,” said Ben Glazier of creative agency Glazier Design. “The Xerox Iridesse gives us many opportunities to take new and fresh ideas out to fashion companies, retailers and other industries, who love that impact they can give to their clients, helping them to stand out and make their product better. It offers fantastically quick turnaround time, which enables us to do swift and efficient work, thereby saving client cost and time.”

IPW1 in London was one of the first clients to test the Iridesse, and the successful trial has been followed by installations across Europe including leading UK commercial printers Hickling & Squires and Hobs Repro, Italy’s Furlan Grafica, Spain’s Adaequo and ByPrint Madrid, Switzerland’s ILG Druck and Benelux’s Printsalon.

“The Iridesse is Xerox innovation at full throttle,” said Tracey Koziol, senior vice president of Global Offerings for Xerox. “The Iridesse gives designers and digital printers the ability to diversify their offerings and grow their business with more features, better quality and greater flexibility at lower costs.”

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Fitch Group Targets Growth with Two New Xerox Iridesse Presses

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:00:00 GMT

After serving Wall Street for 132 years and embracing digital printing after losing its facility in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Fitch Group is reinventing itself yet again. The Manhattan-based printer recently acquired two Xerox Iridesse^® Production Presses, giving it the high-quality color output and digital embellishment capabilities it needs to enter new markets and pursue 20 percent annual growth targets.

“When we saw the Iridesse, we knew it was the perfect fit for our operation – so much so that we purchased two,” said William B. Contessa, who acquired the company in January this year, along with partners John Fitch IV, the great-great-grandson of the company’s founder, and a European investment company. “It was an easy decision as the press enables us to credibly go after key industries, such as advertising, and opens up new applications for our existing customers.”

About 80 percent of the Fitch Group’s business is with financial firms, processing sensitive financial data to produce Securities Exchange Commission filings, prospectuses and various financial reports and documents – much of it as monochrome output. While the company also produces color books, booklets and marketing materials, the new leadership team is expanding capabilities and looking to break into new markets with high-end color printing.

“We settled on Iridesse for its image quality that rivals offset, its operational ease and the creative possibilities of its digital embellishments,” said Fitch IV. “Every job we’ve run so far has been met with unanimous approval from existing clients.”

The Iridesse Production Press is the only digital press that can print metallic gold or silver, CMYK, clear or white dry ink in a single pass. In addition to providing the color image quality and embellishments the firm sought, the press’s new long-sheet capability (13" x 47") will enable Fitch Group to produce three-panel brochures it previously turned down or farmed out. Printing at 120-ppm, the new presses boost productivity and contribute to the faster turnaround that their customers demand.

“We get a lot of calls on Sunday night for things people need on Monday morning,” Contessa said. “It’s very advantageous to be in Manhattan. There’s only a handful of us left, and that’s part of our value proposition: We’re here!”

The Fitch Group plans to market their new Iridesse-based capabilities with a direct mail campaign that is currently under development, sample books based upon press explorations by Fitch Creativ, the creative arm of Fitch Group and one-on-one meetings with customers and prospects.

About the Fitch Group
The Fitch Group is a privately held print and design firm that was founded in 1886 and has been owned by members of the Fitch family ever since. The firm has been a Xerox customer since the 1950s, when Xerox was the Haloid Corporation and the Fitch Group used a Xerox Copyflo device to create plates for offset printing. Separated decades ago, credit ratings agency FitchRatings has its origins as part of the Fitch Group, then Fitch Publishing.

Following displacement from its former Cedar Street address near the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the firm reinvented itself as a digital printer.

For more information, visit: www.fitchgroup.com or LinkedIn.

About Xerox
Xerox Corporation is a technology leader that innovates the way the world communicates, connects and works. We understand what’s at the heart of sharing information – and all of the forms it can take. We embrace the integration of paper and digital, the increasing requirement for mobility, and the need for seamless integration between work and personal worlds. Every day, our innovative print technologies and intelligent work solutions help people communicate and work better. Discover more at www.xerox.com and follow us on Twitter at @Xerox.

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Xerox Shows New Ways Customers Can Connect Physical & Digital Worlds at PRINT 18

Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:00:00 GMT

New Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) printing technology, workflow software and personalization solutions to be unveiled at PRINT 18 next week will showcase innovative ways to bridge the physical and digital worlds so businesses can grow and succeed in the competitive graphic communications market.

Xerox is introducing two new features for the Xerox Iridesse^® Production Press – High Definition Emulsion Aggregate (HD EA) white dry ink and extra-long sheet sizes. The Xerox Iridesse Production Press launched in May 2018 as the first digital press that can print CMYK and up to two specialty colors in a single pass at 120 ppm with spot-on registration.

“We’ve been floored by what our Iridesse Press can do for remarkable and eye-catching ads, cards and posters,” said Ben Glazier, CEO, Glazier Design. “The Iridesse has given us exceptionally high-quality printed collateral. Even on some of our most demanding and quick turnaround jobs, we’ve been able to bring the jobs to life, and didn’t need to use any litho processes in any of the collateral, saving us days.”

With the new HD EA white dry ink, print providers can apply special spot effects to transform ordinary printed pieces into ones that tout a unique physical look and feel. It can be layered under or over CMYK – or both for double impact – on a wider range of media including black, transparent or metallic stocks, craft paper, and synthetics and polys.

Additionally, the press can print on extra-long sheets up to 13″ x 47.24″ and can auto-duplex extra-long sheets up to 28.5″ long. This makes it possible to do a tri-fold brochure that folds to 8.5″ x 11″ – useful for marketing collateral like menus, product and real estate brochures.

Highly effective, personalized cross-media
XMPie^® Circle PersonalEffect^® Edition, a software-as-a-service solution for managing your multichannel marketing campaigns, will be on display. With this software for automating the deployment of print and digital touchpoints, users can also track results and find out which messages are working best with which people, in which context and in which media.

Adobe Sign will also be integrated into the PersonalEffect platform, so customers can add fully-automated electronic signature workflows to their personalized, omnichannel customer communications campaigns. XMPie PersonalEffect users can now create fully interactive personalized PDFs including buttons and other interactive elements used for form navigation and calls to action.

Output, flexibility and applications boost for Brenva HD
The Xerox Brenva^® HD Production Press now has a 50 percent increase in output capacity, expanded stock choices and a roll feed capability for continuous operation. For customers, it creates new ways to print more jobs faster, which is essential for books and manuals, and transactional jobs. Brenva HD has an increased output of 275 ppm, or depending on the sheet size used, up to 300 letter size impressions per minute.

The Tecnau SheetFeeder™ BV roll feed system for Brenva HD delivers up to nine hours of non-stop cut sheet paper feeding. The Brenva HD now features an expanded media range, up to 270 gsm, enabling jobs such as postcards or ID cards that require heavier stocks.

Other notable updates:

A new heavy-duty envelope feeder for the Xerox Versant^® family of presses, which handles an 800 envelope “load while run” capacity for uninterrupted printing, and a conveyor for unloading from the finisher or offset catch tray.
The Xerox Iridesse Production Press Augmented Reality Demonstrations are a new way for customers to experience both the key press technologies and virtual “press in a room” on-site in their facilities.
Xerox FreeFlow^® Core Iridesse Accelerator automates the preparation process for print jobs with pre-built workflows in FreeFlow Core that allow print providers to take an existing print job and automatically change elements to gold or silver to add visual enhancement.
A variety of workflow solutions focused on automation, productivity and cloud enablement.
Business development tools and services to help customers grow their business.

Xerox will be in booth #1621 at PRINT 18, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 in Chicago.

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Xerox kicks off Print 18 with a bang, winning 7 RED HOT Technology awards with XMPie

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:00:00 GMT

From stunning metallic output to batch personalization capabilities, Xerox’s latest graphic communications innovations connect the physical and digital to give print providers the tools to set themselves apart from their competition. These innovations – including the Xerox Iridesse^® Production Press and XMPie^® Circle PersonalEffect^® Edition – head to PRINT 18 as RED HOT Technology honorees, receiving special recognition from the Association for Print Technologies as “must see” attractions at the show.

Xerox’s four RED HOT Technology recognitions are:

Xerox Iridesse Production Press with Exclusive Color FLX Technology – the press has a unique six-toner-station configuration that combines four-color printing with up to two specialty dry inks including gold, silver or clear, that give customers the flexibility to deliver eye-catching metallic results, keeping clients coming back.
Xerox Iridesse Production Press Augmented Reality Demonstrations – a new way for customers to experience both the key press technologies and virtual “press in a room” on-site in their facilities.
Xerox FreeFlow^® Core Iridesse Accelerator – Xerox is automating the preparation process for print jobs with pre-built workflows in FreeFlow Core that allow print providers to take an existing print job and automatically change elements to gold or silver to add visual enhancement.
Customized Envelope Feeder and Conveyor for the Xerox Versant^® Family of Presses – an affordable innovation that simplifies envelope production by ensuring continuous, uninterrupted printing and unloading.

Supply Concepts of Fenton, Mo., is already seeing the advantages of Iridesse’s unique embellishment capabilities.

“Iridesse’s ability to print metallic colors and specialty enhancements in one printing pass has enabled us to bring previously outsourced embellishment jobs directly in house,” said Marty Miller, president, Supply Concepts. “This means faster turnaround times for our customers and more revenue for our business. We’ll also target new markets in the coming months with these new capabilities in our arsenal.”

XMPie’s three RED HOT Technology recognitions are:

XMPie Circle PersonalEffect Edition – with this software, print providers and marketers can unite digital and print and automate the deployment of every stage of an omnichannel campaign.
XMPie Adobe Sign Integration – allows customers to add automated electronic signature workflows to their personalized omnichannel campaigns without disrupting creativity or efficiency.
XMPie StoreFlow and MyVirtualCSR Integration – XMPie users can now connect their StoreFlow storefronts with any industry-leading print management information system, allowing for workflow optimization, tighter control of print costs and real-time status updates.

Also on display at the Xerox booth is another RED HOT Technology recognition. The Avanti Slingshot Integration with XMPie StoreFlow Inventory Level allows XMPie’s StoreFlow web-to-print software to update inventory statuses automatically, enabling print providers to help their clients monitor levels of stock and demand directly on the application.

Many AlphaGraphics franchisees are gaining a competitive edge in the market using XMPie Circle to create versatile marketing campaigns.

“At AlphaGraphics, we continually evaluate the mix of products and services we provide to develop ways to better serve our customers,” said Ryan Farris, president, COO and CTO, AlphaGraphics, Inc. “In addition to adopting the right B2B print ordering e-commerce system from XMPie to meet the printing, marketing and signage needs of the communities we support, AlphaGraphics franchisees now also have access to XMPie’s Circle marketing automation software for designing and automating the deployment of their customers’ print and omnichannel campaigns.”

These winning technologies will be on display at Xerox booth #1621 at PRINT 18 Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 in Chicago.

About XMPie
XMPie^® provides powerful, variable data publishing software that unites customer databases and creative content to help print service providers, marketing service firms, and small-to-medium sized businesses and enterprises, leverage customer data and create personalized, multiphase campaigns that use today’s communication vehicles including print, web, e-mail, and mobile.

XMPie is headquartered in New York with an R&D center in Israel, and sales, support and professional service operations in the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.xmpie.com, www.facebook.com/xmpie or www.twitter.com/xmpie.

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Mercury Print acquires Xerox Trivor 2400 HF Press with Color Hike technology

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:00:00 GMT

The average book order at Mercury Print Productions of Rochester, N.Y., is less than ten units. With 200 to 300 new orders placed every day, Mercury needed a cost-effective, high-speed inkjet device that could integrate with its automated print-on-demand (POD) system and deliver greater production flexibility and high image quality on a range of paper stocks. The answer was the Xerox Trivor^® 2400 High Fusion Inkjet Press with Color Hike technology.

“To remain efficient and competitive in a market that demands personalized products at lightning-speed, we needed a press that could keep up with our needs without compromising quality,” says John Place, president and founder, Mercury Print. “With the Trivor 2400 Press, we’re not only keeping up, we are taking on new work while balancing existing offset and cut-sheet digital jobs.”

Workflow on autopilot reduces costs
The Trivor 2400’s continuous feed and state-of-the-art technology allows Mercury to integrate its automated POD workflow (E-Merx) to stream multiple jobs one after another. A hands-off workflow stream minimizes personnel and setup costs. Mercury has also seen double digit paper savings utilizing Trivor 2400’s High Fusion Ink, which allows for direct inkjet printing on standard offset coated stock without pre or post coating.

Impressive quality with Color Hike
The Trivor 2400’s new Color Hike technology delivers quality that continues to move up the spectrum towards the offset benchmark—making inkjet even more accessible to a wider range of applications that have demanding quality standards, such as direct mail, books, catalogs and general commercial work. Trivor 2400 also gives operators the option to adjust drop size and vibrancy on a job-by-job basis to meet exact customer specifications.

Flexibility
For Mercury, the small footprint, easy installation and substrate flexibility of the Trivor 2400 were key factors in the decision to acquire the press. The Trivor 2400’s High Fusion Ink not only allows inkjet printing on standard offset coated stocks but also on 100 percent post-consumer waste stock, allowing Mercury further flexibility.

“At Xerox, we work every day to remove the roadblocks that prevent our customers from migrating to inkjet technology,” said Mike Feldman, president, North American Operations, Xerox. “With the broadest portfolio of entry level continuous feed and cut sheet inkjet in the business, Xerox has the technology and commitment to ensure our customers’ growth and success.”

Availability
The Xerox Trivor 2400 High Fusion Inkjet Press with Color Hike technology is now available to order worldwide.

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