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The Xerox Corporation was founded in 1906 in Rochester New York as the Haloid Company, but in its beginnings the company produced and manufactured photographic paper and equipment. Xerox, in 1991, introduced a new ink technology to the market that was clean, easy to use, and provided great printing results. Solid ink technology was developed and then released on the Phaser series of printers. The ink is a resin based ink and is completely non-toxic; the material is similar to a crayon and created in virtually the same fashion. The technology works like this, a solid ink stick is placed within the receptacle and is then heated and ready to use.
Xerox ink is unique in that it can be used to print on any surface with no bleed through. The resin used to create and produce the solid ink naturally binds to paper products. Print full edge to edge documents with no fear of warping the medium as with inkjet printers. The technology also allows for double sided printing on any medium with absolutely no bleeding between the opposing sides of the document. Xerox solid ink technology is also extremely fast. The average first printed page is out in less than 5 seconds in full color. This technology is extensible to every printing application in business and personal use today.
The initial heating does take slightly longer than traditional technologies like laser and inkjet, but is a small downside to a simple and innovative printing technology. A specially designed single roller mechanism applies the melted solid ink to the page. Because of this, a Xerox ink technology printer’s mechanical design reduces the number of moving parts thus reducing the costs of maintenance. A solid ink technology printer from Xerox can also be filled with new solid ink while it is printing, no need to wait or have a print job interrupted by low ink or toner.
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