Oki 8 Series brochure Why OKI Single Pass Color is so fast

OKI® Single Pass Color™ Digital Technology — Enhanced by Heidelberg.®

The OKICOLOR™ 8 Series are Digital LED color printers. Not laser. Not inkjet. Not solid ink. With their fixed arrays of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and precision lenses, OKICOLOR 8 printers have fewer moving parts, less complexity, and an intuitively more efficient printing method.

Consider the Single Pass Color

process: the paper medium follows a streamlined path, passing beneath four in-line OKI® printheads — one each for cyan, magenta, yellow and black — through the fuser, and out to the user. Simple, effective and fast.

Color laser technology, on the other hand, requires four passes — not one — to process a 4-color image. Only when the fourth pass is completed will all of the toner be fused to the paper. Time is wasted while the laser-produced image is completed, transferred and fused.

Why settle for a longer wait when you can have high-quality output in far less time? Single Pass Color Digital Technology puts color on the paper with the exacting accuracy of true

600 x 600 dpi output, for breathtaking reproduction and presentation-quality documents in a fraction of the time!

Why OKI Single Pass Color is so fast!

Color expertise by the world leader in color printing

FOUR DIGITAL LED ARRAYS

STREAMLINED SINGLE PASS PAPER PATH

Mention the name “Heidelberg” to anyone involved in print production and the reaction will be one of respect. This global innovator — long associated with such application creators as Adobe,® Microsoft® and Corel® — is now part- nering with OKI to bring its color expertise to business office printing. To the OKICOLOR 8 Series.

		Embedded in both models of the
		Series are Heidelberg color profiles
		and screens that provide high-quality
OKICOLOR 8 Series		color “out of the box.” Forget the band-
		ing and saturation problems that come
Engineered with four solid-state print arrays and	™
four synchronized photoconductive drums. The four		with less sophisticated profiles and
toner colors are laid onto the paper and fused in a		screens. Instead, the OKICOLOR 8
single, direct pass.
		Series employs precise screens and
		color mapping to produce outstanding

Why color laser printing is slower.

1st PASS: A laser beam “etches” the cyan toner portion of the image. Cyan toner is then transferred to the drum…

2nd PASS: The laser repeats the imaging process for the magenta portion of the image. Magenta toner is transferred to the drum…

3rd PASS: The etching and

toner transfer process is repeated yet again, this time for the yellow portion of the document…