Device Spotlight – Meet the Xerox Versant 3100

Is your organization ready to achieve optimal workflow efficiency through high-impact automation?

Making the jump from conventional multifunction devices to a full-fledged production printer is a big decision. It's also cause for celebration – installing a printing press like the Xerox Versant 3100 is a sure sign of expansion and growth.

This printer uses state-of-the-art technology to deliver unparalleled performance. With breakneck print speeds capable of approaching 100 pages per minute, automatic color calibration, and support for ultra-high-resolution printing, this device is in a class all of its own.

The Versant 3100 combines several innovative Xerox technologies to produce results that competing models cannot match. It outperforms every other printer in its price range in key areas of automation, paper handling, and image resolution.

With the ability to deliver up to 250,000 pages per month of vivid, high-resolution print with unprecedented image consistency, it is the top choice for discriminating enterprises and organizations. It will give you the power you need to move marketing and promotional material processes entirely in-house, generating significant cost-savings and making your team less reliant on third-party print houses.

Industry-Leading Resolution Bit Depth Comes Standard

When Xerox says that the Versant 3100 offers the best image resolution in the print industry, it is not an exaggeration. This printer supports 2400 x 2400 dpi print resolution, but the true power of Xerox innovation is in the image bit depth.

Printers create images by layering individual dots of color on an imaginary grid. Conventional printing presses use 8-bit print engines to determine the exact hue of each dot. Eight bits of information translates to 256 distinct, individual states. An 8-bit print engine chooses the closest hue to the original image's color from among the 256 possible hues it can generate.

The Versant 3100 features a standard bit rate of 10. That means that every single dot it places on the 2400 x 2400 grid is colored from a selection of 1024 individual hues. This printer generates images with color depth and vibrancy four times greater than any other printer on the market.

Process Automation for Color Calibration and Registration

The Xerox Versant 3100 is not just a leader in terms of image quality. It is also a highly efficient, automated print production workhorse that uses world-class engineering to reduce the amount of time and effort it takes to produce top-quality prints.

One of the ways it does this is by automatically calibrating itself before print runs. Thanks to the inclusion of a Full Width Array and Xerox Automated Color Quality software, your print operator can save hours of time checking color table references and simply let the machine take care of calibration itself.

The Full Width Array also fine-tunes dot density uniformity, which safeguards image quality across the entire page. This prevents washed-out areas from popping up on individual pages – a frustrating yet commonplace occurrence in high-volume print environments.

The Versant 3100 also features automated image-to-media alignment that eliminates the risk of costly registration errors ruining entire print batches. Anyone with experience in a high-volume print shop knows that a tiny degree of image skew can quickly turn into a massive problem when dealing with large print runs. The Versant 3100 automates error-prone and time-consuming tasks for you.

Clear Paper Jams Easily with Automatic Sheet Clearing

Another time-saving innovation the Xerox Versant 3100 features is automatic sheet clearing. In the world of print, paper jams are the ultimate challenge. A jam at the wrong moment can ruin mission-critical print runs, and so far, the premise of a guaranteed paper-jam-free printer remains out of reach.

However, there are ways to minimize the damage and frustration the paper jams cause, and the Versant 3100 is a shining example of how this can be done. If the printing press stops in the middle of a print run because of a jam, it automatically ejects all sheets in the paper path to its top trays.

This means that the operator does not have to open every single printer door and scour the entire paper path to free papers from inside the machine before starting the run again. Clearing a paper jam from a high-volume printing press used to be a time-consuming waste – now it takes mere seconds.

With compatibility for paper weights of up to 300 gsm, there is no better first-time production printer on the market than the Xerox Versant 3100. Incorporate this tool in your arsenal and you will observe an exponential increase in productivity and efficiency from your print room.

Is it time for your company to make the jump from desktop printing to high-impact, high-volume, value-generating printing of in-house marketing materials and booklets? Talk to us!

What You Should Expect From the Xerox and Fuji Merger

In late January 2018, Xerox and Fuji Xerox announced that the two companies would merge.

The move for Fujifilm Holdings to consolidate its stake in Xerox in the landmark $6.1 billion
deal comes as both companies seek to leverage their respective strengths and offer
customers better, more powerful office solutions and graphic communications equipment.

The History of Xerox and Fuji Xerox

At first, it might seem odd that Xerox and Fuji Xerox would merge, since both companies
already share the Xerox name.

But Fuji Xerox is the result of a 1962 partnership between Fujifilm Holdings and Rank Xerox,
which was absorbed into Xerox Corporation in 1997. Fujifilm Holdings has a 75 percent
stake in the joint venture and Xerox 25 percent.

This deal would see Fuji Xerox buying back its stake from FujiFilm Holdings for
$6.1 billion dollars' worth of bank debt and using the proceeds to purchase 50.1 percent of
new Xerox shares, making it the majority stakeholder of the tech innovation giant.

This decision produces a $2.5 billion special cash dividend for corporate stakeholders and
gives the combined company a better edge developing new technologies. It gives Xerox,
an iconic technology brand with a deeply-entrenched culture of innovation and one of the
best operating margins in the industry access to Fuji Xerox's top-rated Asian market share
and world-class research and development platform.

According to Fujifilm CEO Shigetaka Komori: “The new structure will leverage the strengths
of [Fujifilm Holdings, Fuji Xerox, and Xerox Corporation]”

These strengths include Xerox's strong governance standards and capacity for innovation.
FujiFilm Holdings has growth capacity that Xerox would otherwise not have access to,
particularly in the Asian market – it is Japan's number-one print industry brand.

By the Numbers: The New Combined Fuji Xerox

The broad global scale of Fuji Xerox following the execution of the merger will encompass
more than 180 countries. The new company will enjoy number-one ranking in equipment
revenue share for the print industry, and a new addressable opportunity of approximately
$120 billion dollars. This will lead to projected revenues of $18 billion dollars.

The combined company will have an estimated $1 billion dollars invested in R&D, making it
the industry's largest innovator by market share. Both companies will merge their six
combined innovation labs, redirecting the focus of their 6,600+ engineers towards new
methods for generating value for 21st century organizations.

Fuji Xerox will now have 11,470 patents to its name, and a strong financial profile boosted
by approximately $1.7 billion in expected annual cost savings. It will achieve an industry-
leading operating margin in the high-teens by 2022, and enjoy a free cash flow of $1.5
billion dollars by 2020.

What to Expect from the Future Fuji Xerox

Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson announced that the merger unlocks significant opportunities for
growth and productivity while delivering significant value to Xerox shareholders. The $2.5
billion special cash dividend amounts to a per-share bonus of $9.80. The new company will
be better positioned to operate in fast-growing markets, and better capable of creating
innovative products for the office environments of the future.

Xerox is now poised to take advantage of a leadership position in the growing Asia-Pacific
market, worth $36 billion. The company's multi-brand reseller expansion strategies have
not traditionally been a part of Fuji Xerox's operational approach, creating an exciting
avenue for future growth.

Everyday Xerox customers can expect advances in high-speed inkjet technology, packaging,
workplace automation, and industrial print thanks to the addition of Fuji Xerox expertise
and development resources. In particular, the new company's AI initiatives stand to gain
significant traction from the synergistic combination of expertise between its two
constituent companies.

The total cost savings of the deal – $1.7 billion per year – will drive significant expansion
over the next four years. End-users can expect better prices, more complete solutions, and
increased accessibility from Xerox over this time frame. The new company enjoys revenue
synergy opportunities that play to the strength of its new global reach.

Multinational Xerox clients can expect service that better responds to their needs
irrespective of their physical location. Whereas previously organizations would have
to deal with Xerox in the United States of America and Fuji Xerox in Australia, for example,
these enterprises now have a single point of contact for meeting their business
productivity needs.

Keep a close eye on the new Fuji Xerox, an $18 billion print-industry leviathan with
newfound resources, capabilities, and ambitions.

QBSI-Xerox  is and will remain a Xerox company. Find out how the new Fuji Xerox can serve
your organization's workplace productivity needs by speaking with a QBSI-Xerox specialist.

The Xerox® Versant™ 2100

We are excited to announce the new 

Xerox® Versant™ 2100!

The Xerox® Versant™ 2100 is a revolutionary new product that gives you the amazing color control and automation tools found on the Xerox 800 and 1000 but with a modular design that allows a much smaller footprint.

The Xerox® Versant™ 2100 Press can help streamline your operation and make you more competitive and indispensable in a number of ways:

• Less waste—print in exact quantities
• Less downtime—Xerox® Connect Advantage means more press availability
• Improved efficiency—fewer steps and less operator intervention
• Reduced turnaround times—less trial and error means jobs are produced and in your customers’ hands more quickly
• Automated workflow—reduced labor costs and more accurate output

Automation is key!

When you tap into this burgeoning demand for short runs, quick turnarounds and personalized print, and have the hundreds of jobs you need to print in a day to get a return on your investment, the sobering truth can settle in.  Fifty to 100 or more jobs in a day simply can’t be produced using the same processes and equipment as in the past.

The Xerox® Versant™ 2100 Press brings together automation from beginning to end to make it possible—and productive—to produce the greater number of smaller jobs that now characterize the print marketplace.

• Automation that makes job setup faster
• Automation that makes it easier to get outstanding, consistent color
• Automation that opens up new areas of finishing versatility

For a demonstration of the new addition to the Xerox product line, let us know:

Oregon and SW Washington - CTX

Greater Washington - QBSI