I wandered into the Xerox booth to get the latest numbers on the iGen3 Digital Production Presses and they're impressive, as I thought they would be. So here they are. With 126 Xerox customers worldwide now printing 1 million or more pages per month per machine on their iGen3 Digital Production Presses, Xerox is staying in the path to continue to help their customers boost their sales in the lucrative digital color printing market, where more pages mean more profit. One customer has gone beyond 3 million pages in a single month on a single iGen3 press. There are now more than 2000 iGen3 presses installed worldwide with 275 customers having installed two or more iGen3 presses to meet their increased demand for full-color jobs, such as marketing brochures, photo books, catalogs, personalized direct-mail pieces and invoices and statements that include customized marketing messages. Aside from Xerox's iGen3 numbers, I had what seemed like a lunch break (blogging to the tune of a handful of chocolates) with Howie Fenton as my guest. Howie was on the Security-Enabled Printing panel and shared with me that Kodak has mixed toner and varnish that can authenticate products. Not sure, but I think the product is called Trace and it's available, but you'll have to check me on this faction. It's a fairly new technology but as Howie said, "Can you imagine mixing this substance with toner on your digital press? It would automatically confirm whether or not the piece that was printed was authentic or not. This would immediately show you that the name brand product you are buying is legitimate and not a knockoff." Amazing! Hope to catch up with Howie tomorrow as he's on another panel - Super Efficiency: Enabling In-Plant Growth.
Richard S. Papale
