A huge worldwide market for variable printing

Not only is the market for transactional printing huge and extremely varied, it is also the cradle of variable printing. Covering the printing of bank statements, bills, insurance portfolios, payroll slips, customer loyalty programs and mailings, the market represents a volume of about 200 billion impressions per year, produced by some 18,000 printing systems worldwide. To print this endless data stream of transactional information, being able to flawlessly deal with variable data is a must.

An increasingly colourful world

But transactional printing is a market in transition with its centre of gravity shifting. Due to EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment) technology, traditional mass market print volumes in black on pre-printed shells are expected to decline in favour of a more personal quality-oriented approach. Marketing professionals who want to reach high value individuals, or select demographics with personalised choice offerings discover with Xeikon a world of colour and wonderful opportunities in transactional printing.

Seamlessly integrates with your workflow

The Xeikon 5000plus and Xeikon 6000 are steered by the X-800 IPDS Front-End, enabling the solution to be integrated in a full-colour, IPDS-oriented workflow. Its open and modular concept enables dealing with increased complexity and colour in a smooth way, gearing it to be the perfect DFE for the transactional market. On top of that it tackles graphical and data centre workflows with equal ease, making it unique in the market.

A complete multi-task; multi-benefit solution in full colour

Xeikon has taken today’s market requirements and challenges into consideration and has developed a total transactional printing solution. Based around the Xeikon 5000plus or Xeikon 6000 full-colour digital print engine, the solution offers state-of-the-art productivity thanks to high printing speeds typical for roll-fed solutions. Steered by the X-800 DFE - which supports an IPDSoriented workflow - and fast single-pass duplex printing it guarantees flawless frontto-back content. It also enables 2-up printing and in-line density and register control. Jobs can be easily followed up during printing. In case an error occurs, page level error recovery enables the printer to know which page was the last good one. And all file input possibilities are provided, such as PS, PDF and IPDS, with easy switching between transactional and graphical file inputs

Firm protection and flexible finishing

With the Xeikon Print Protector the output of Xeikon’s roll-fed total transactional printing solution can be protected from scuffing and scratching during post-press production or because of rough handling in mailing systems because of the supplementary protective treatment it applies. Printed matter can then be finished flexibly in all of the most common ways, such as roll-to-roll and offline converting; roll-to-sheet with the Xeikon Document Converter; and even roll-to-fanfold.

The optional Xeikon Document Converter greatly increases the flexibility of your transactional printing solution. It is a modular, full-functional product for in-line processing of roll-to-sheet printed documents that serves the post-processing needs of various markets. It can slit and merge simple, job-separated document stacks in a variety of formats (A3, A4, etc.) on the fly and it also allows for dynamic perforations in two directions, for the production of tear-off strips (reply cards, bank order payments, checks, etc.) on mailings and statements. Operation of the Document Converter is very straightforward thanks to its user-friendly touch screen. Different options such as in-line folding equipment, in-line envelope inserting equipment, etc. are possible.

Solution offering

• Supports graphical and datacenter standards: eg. IPDS, PS, EPS, PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PPML, VDX, BTF,...

• X-800 IPDS

• Xeikon 8000
• Xeikon 6000
• Xeikon 5000plus

• Xeikon Print Protector
• Document Converter
• Unwinder
• Rewinder

• Uncoated paper 40-350 gsm

 * Digital Front-End