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20 MARCH 2014 • INKJET'S AGE www.MyPRINTResource.com is possible to communicate successfully with huge numbers of people, utilizing in- dividualized design and content in a cost effective way, says Jammallo. "The vision of 'mass customization' has thus become reality." Canon's ColorStream 3000 series provides a modular growth path with field upgrad- able speed. Users can transition from a monochrome 3500 to a five- or six-color Océ ColorStream. Invisible and security ink for the Océ ColorStream 3900 lets us- ers include customer and control metadata in printed documents—without having to insert visible barcodes that detract from the appearance of printed documents. HP HP's broad set of offerings appropriate for transaction print environments start in the data center. Offerings from HP Enter- prise including data center hardware and software for data management, analysis, and manipulation, says McGrew. "For billing statement formatting there are several solu- tions, but the most widely used is HP Ex- stream, which offers a full suite of customer communication solutions that integrate into the billing engines, generating output in a variety of formats appropriate for printing, viewing, and archiving" For direct mail and transactional printing, HP offers the HP Inkjet Web Press portfo- lio, which includes the HP T200, T300 and T400 Color Inkjet Web Press series. HP Inkjet Web Presses natively print PDF and there are options available to print common transaction print streams. Ricoh Ricoh's inkjet offerings include the Info- Print 5000, its flagship continuous forms solution, which offers a variety of configu- ration options. "What a lot of customers are now doing with the InfoPrint 5000 is using it for all their critical communication documents, not just transaction documents, merging all their jobs into a single workflow an a single piece of equipment," says Reid. Another key component of the Ricoh critical communications solutions suite is the ProcessDirector workflow, which sup- ports different types of data streams for customers and manages devices across the platform. ProcessDiretor is designed to streamline print operations, improve process integrity, increase operator productivity, and lower costs. Ricoh's EMC Application Extender manages transactional content in a centralized repository. Xerox With the acquisition of Impika, Xerox has expanded its digital inkjet offerings to include aqueous inkjet technology to complement the waterless ink of its CiPress Production Inkjet Systems, reports Dustin Graupman, vice president, Ink Jet Business, Xerox's Graphic Communications Business Group. "Each of the two inkjet technologies has its strengths. Our waterless inks provide vivid color and excellent image quality on low-cost plain papers. And our aqueous ink prints well on virtually any surface—de- livering high density color on a variety of substrates even beyond paper." Impika's upgradeable options let printers customize their iPrint devices, selecting the colors, speed, and resolution choices to fit specific production requirements. Impika Xerox's CiPress 500 single-engine duplex (SED) production inkjet features an ink op- timization mode that reduces the amount of ink coverage on pages that have more text and fewer graphics. Ink monitoring reports let printers know the exact amount of ink used for precise job costing. ✚ VENDOR OFFERINGS for the transational market include (from top to bottom) the Xerox Impika iPrint, the HP T230 Color Inkjet Web Press, the Xerox CiPress 500, and the HP T400 Color Inkjet Web Press. QPsupp_18-20_0314 Trans.indd 20 2/18/14 11:57 AM