Nexpress, Canon & Xerox Digital Presses, Oh My!

At JJ Bender we closely monitor the phone calls and e-mails we get in order to keep an eye on the fast-paced graphics industry and the needs of commercial printers and copy shop owners.

Over the past year, we've seen a revolution in color digital presses as NexPress and Canon have aggressively launched production equipment to compete with the Xerox 8000 and the Xerox iGen 3. Customers are calling us about the Nexpress 2100, Konica Minolta 1050, and Canon C3220.

All of the machines offer commercial printers the ability to generate big ticket items like a rush order of glossy brochures or variable data printing. The message, as always, is that more competition is better for the end user as manufacturers are pressed to lower prices on their digital presses. In addition, the continual innovation and launch of new products has rapidly depressed the very recent generation of high volume, digital color copiers. So, owning a digital color copier has never been more reasonable.

If you're looking into a color digital press, please consider JJ Bender.

Kodak Nexpress 2100 to rival Xerox iGen3 ?

Kodak served notice at this year's Print '05 & Converting '05 Convention that it is devoting the resources to be a major competitor of Xerox with the introduction of the Kodak Graphic Communications Group. The restructured division will focus exclusively on color digital equipment, agressively promoting the NexPress 2100 and NexPress 2500.

Credit Cary Sherburne of Whattheythink.com on a terffic breakdown of the new Kodak unit and the potential impact upon the Xerox iGen3 market. With close to $800 million in sales of Kodak digital equipment in the past quarter (including two weeks of CREO hardware sales), the demand for the NexPress 2100 has skyrocketed. It appears that Kodak is on the way to a succesful marriage between their hardware and software options by placing a renewed emphasis on consistency in delivering digital products and platforms.

If you're looking for a high volume, digital duplicator from NexPress or Xerox, please consider JJ Bender for all your equipment needs.