Everything you need to know about Digital Printing – part 3
Everything you need to know about Digital Printing – part 3 – 6th July 2009
Digital toner production printers
Today, electro photography is mainly used for smaller (or at least narrower) print formats up to A3+ sheets or 32 cm reels. True laser printers are restricted in width because the optics associated with the laser beam loses sharpness over anything much wider than that. However, that doesn’t apply to LED arrays or the alternative magentography and ion beam systems, so these can be wider. So, for instance, the LED based Xeikon machines can produce reel fed toner presses up to 52 cm wide.
In 1989 Canon introduced the world’s first commercial digital colour copier, the CLC-500. This ground breaking machine was the foundation of a whole new product sector and led directly to today’s colour production presses. The configuration was a colour scanner linked to a four colour laser printer that produced excellent, near contone images. Third party developers quickly realised that they could interrupt the live link from scanner to printer and feed in digital data from an external source, making a standalone digital colour printer.
Various companies produced hardware conversions over the nest couple of years, but it was EFI that was the most successful with its original Fiery Colour Server, hardware RIP with networking and very good colour management that could control the print engine directly. After a while Canon saw the potential and co-operated with EFI, in particular to offer the CLC-500 and its successors as what became known as multifunction devices or as speeds increased, light production printers.
To be continued…
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