The Truth About Xerox
Ink Sticks and Solid Ink
One question keeps coming up... Ink Sticks or Solid Ink vs. Laser Cartridges and Inkjet Cartridges; is there much difference? Well for the sake of argument we’d like to feature the truth about Xerox Solid Ink and set the stage for the Truth about Laser Cartridges and Inkjet Cartridges for future weeks.
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Ink Stick & Solid Ink Printer
Solid Ink, what is it?
Xerox offers a verified color printing technique called solid ink that uses solid sticks (actually they look more like blocks) that basically melt inside the printer. The ink is non-toxic and because it’s solid say good-bye to leaks and carpet stains. The solid ink produces amazing results with the advantage of being environmental friendly and cost-effective.
Are there any advantages?
One of our qualities here at Inkjetsuperstore.com is to be positive and look at the bright side of everything so the following are the advantages when using Solid Ink Printers and ink sticks:
a) The solid ink printing technology is based on offset printing principles. Due to that solid ink printers can print out perfect quality and vivacious text and images.
b) Avoid printer nozzle blockage because ink sticks don’t leave any residue.
c) After warm up, solid ink printers are thought of in case of speed to be one of the fastest printers in terms of first page out time as compared to other printers.
d) Environmentally friendly due to the fact that the ink sticks are manufactured using vegetable oil. For that reason they are less prone to smearing and blurring which is the common problem with Inkjet Printers and Laser Printers.
e) No cartridge, No waste! Since the inks are sold in the form of ink sticks, there is no need for these to be placed inside a cartridge.
f) Use any type of paper and get the same excellent quality when using solid ink printers. That is because they are less sensitive to paper thickness and paper fibers.
Are there any Disadvantages?
There is always a dark side to everything that shines and even though they get an A+ on printing quality, speed and recycling there are disadvantages, here are some:
a) Very long warm up time. Usually solid ink printers take as long as 15 minutes to wait for the printer to melt the solid ink sticks. If your in a hurry that is a very, very long time.
b) Do not tolerate movement. Solid Ink printers are very sensitive to movement because it is melting the ink sticks, so make sure that during the printing process you don’t touch or move the printer even just a bit.
c) Bad smell? Solid ink sticks are made of vegetable oils and have a waxy texture that releases a particular odor while it is being melted not everyone tolerates certain odors.
Is that all?
Well we found two great videos that give you an insight look at solid ink printing that you might like to take a minute to watch.
Inconvenient Truth About Solid Ink-Video
Another Inconvenient Day with Solid Ink - Video
+Karla Arostegui
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