The OEM has launched the WorkForce Pro WF-8590 TC through dealer Kayell Australia.
ProPrint reported on the launch of the WorkForce Pro WF-8590 TC inkjet machine, which will be sold through dealer Kayell Australia. The device features the OEM’s new Precision Core technology, and can print 75,000 pages with one inkjet pack utilising the RIPS (Replaceable Inkjet Pack System) technology.
The device will cost around AU$7,699 ($5,928/€5,458), and is said by Kayell Australia to be able to “produce commercial sellable print […] at less than half the per page cost of current digital colour printers”. The device features a resolution of 2,400dpi, can print up to A3-sized documents, and contains a paper capacity of 1,831 sheets with print speeds of around 24ppm.
Andreas Johansson, Sales Director at Kayell Australia, stated: “It is the culmination of Epson’s huge AU$300 million ($231 million/€212 million) investment in Precision Core technology. The quality is first-rate; Epson of course comes from a photographic heritage, so it has exacting standards. Not only does it produce pages at less than half the cost of current click-charged printers, [but] it will print on a wide substrate range, as there is no heat involved in the printing process, unlike the fuser-based systems, so the dimensional stability of the stock is not affected.”
He added: “We don’t see the new Workforce Pro RIPS range as a direct competitor to the established digital colour printers that are used by commercial printers, franchises and copy shops, more as a complementary technology. For example, while the pages of a catalogue may be being printed on a regular digital printer, the new Epson could be being used to print the covers, as the costs are much lower.”