High Accuracy Tandem Color Printer Technology

Abstract

FX DocuColor4040 was launched into the Japan market with the highest Xerographic color printer speed (40 ppm/A4) in the world, targeting the short run color market in November 1995. This tandem color printing technology which is able to make one-pass full color prints extremely improved the printing speed, compared with the multiple transfer one, however there existed concerns of the print quality and machine reliability due to component increase. In particular, the subject for the high accuracy color registration technology is important and difficult to deal with, so the innovation of a new technique was proposed, not to be the improvement of a conventional one. This report describes the new technology of Docucolor4040 to counteract these problems, especially about the high accuracy color registration technology.