Xerox 8160 and 8142 Wide Format Printer upgrade : Print providers now have more ways to profit with Xerox upgraded Xerox 8160 and 8142 wide format printer server and three new media selection tools. The enhancements help better meet market demand for large full-color posters, banners and point-of-purchase signs by improving efficiency, reducing costs and decreasing waste. According to a study by Tim Greene of InfoTrends, the retail value of wide-format digital graphics in North America this year is $9 billion, and that number is expected to reach nearly $13 billion by 2009. Printers are increasingly using digital wide-format technology as an alternative to more complex and time-consuming production methods such as screen printing.
Xerox offers HP LaserJet compatible printer cartridge : Xerox Corporation is offering Hewlett-Packard customers a way to save money and be more productive with a new printing cartridge that delivers a 36 percent lower cost-per-print than existing HP cartridges and prints 10 percent more pages. The latest addition to Xerox's "It's Compatible" line of toner cartridges can be used in HP's newest black-and-white products, the HP LaserJet 4250 and Laserjet 4350 printers, which are targeted to office workgroups and entry-level production printing environments. The Xerox cartridge contains a microchip that supports HP "smart print" functions, enabling the printer to automatically recognize the cartridge and indicate when toner is low.
