In his keynote address at the Tiara Group Toners 2014 Conference, Robert C. Ross Jr., CEO and founder of Xanté will discuss benefits of transforming businesses from analog presses to the Xante Excelagraphix product line powered by Memjet technology. The Xante Excelagraphix solution allows both in-plant and contract manufacturing providers the ability to be more agile and print primary, secondary packaging and labels on-demand thus saving valuable time and resources thru-out the value chain. Memjet’s technology empowers Xanté to deliver a range of high speed, high impact, full color, large format pieces at an attractive price point.
Memjet supplies high-speed color printing technologies, including print-heads, driver chips, ink, and software. Memjet technologies and components, leveraged by OEMs, create high-speed color printing capabilities in office, labels, and wide format markets. Memjet supplies OEMs across the printing industry in the same way that chip makers supply OEMs across the cell phone, smart phone, and personal computing industries. Memjet technologies put more than 70,000 ink nozzles on a single print-head (click to TWEET) and produces 1600 x 800 dpi color at 60 pages per minute or 12 inches per second.
Kevin Shimamoto, VP Sales & Marketing for Memjet’s Wide Format products, will participate in the OEM panel, a special feature of the conference.
The Toners Conference, produced by The Tiara Group in partnership with the Graphic Communication Institute at Cal Poly (GrCI), has been held annually since 1984. For the first time since its beginnings, the conference is featuring presentations by OEMs and addressing production printing. There will also be presentations on the impact and future of inkjet printing in the production printing market.
Other OEMs and their dealers participating along with Memjet and Xanté include EFI, HP, Konica Minolta, Lexmark, Xerox, and Ultrex. Others will be added.
Xanté is a pioneer in production printing with a portfolio encompassing chemical and process-free technology, workflow solutions, and digital print output. Ross founded Xanté in 1989 with the goal of offering upgrade boards for Apple and HP laser printers, which increased the speed and brought the resolution to 600 x 600 dpi. Xanté was the first to offer this technology and continued to be the first on the market with 1200 x 1200 dpi, and now 2400 x 2400 dpi on graphics printing solutions. Xanté also developed patented technologies in encrypted data transfer, electrophotography, and image dimensional accuracy.
Prior to founding Xanté, Ross was QMS, Engineer/Product Manager for Adobe Postscript products from 1983-1989. Ross received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Alabama; he is a Member Board of Advisors, University of Alabama School of Engineering; a Member of the Board of Advisors, University of South Alabama School of Engineering and the School of Computing; and Former Chairman of Board of Advisors, Spring Hill College Division of Business.
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