Digital BW, The Print

From: "awahlster" <awahlster@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 6:42 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] A question about a type of printer I never
heard of before today


> I know this is the Digital B&W group but I have a gebteral
printer
> question and you guys /gals have more knowledge base then
anywhere I
> know of on printers.
>
>
> OK today a couple of friends stopped by to watch our slides
from
> Europe. And I was showing them some of my B&W inkjets telling
them I
> am planning on up grading as soo as I can figure out what when
and
> where to get. They mentioned that the best color prints they
had ever
> seen came off of a Xerox printer that used a hard heat melted
wax
> type medium. I had never heard of anthing like this and
wondered if
> they were pulling my leg of it there is another type of tech
out
> there besides laser and inkjet or Dye sub that uses the
ribbons.
>
> Anyone heard of a Xerox WAX??? printer
>
>
> Mark W.

There have been several wax / resin printers. Some use a heated
head that will melt wax / resin off a ribbon or a sheet to the
substrate underneath. Roland and several other manufacturers. It
was Textronic I believe that introduced an inkjet printer that
used heated wax to squirt through the heads. The advantage was
that the wax became solid very fast on almost any substrate. Nice
to simulate the four colour colour screens in graphic design
shops. The wax was in CMYK blocks that were extruded, their form
made it impossible to put the wrong colour in the wrong slot.
Third party wax bacame available later on. I believe Xerox has
taken over that line of printers. I've used a printer like that
about five years ago and it had nice output but not as good as an
average Epson these days.

Ernst