Xerox Launches Solid-Ink Colour Printer

Many companies restrict the use of colour printers because of high costs — up to eight cents a page, compared to a penny a page for black and white. Xerox hopes to loosen up the colour purse strings with a new $20,000 printer that is says will sharply cut those costs. Xerox says printing colour using the new machine, which uses a proprietary solid ink technology, will be up to 62% cheaper than the price of current laser prints. The machine, called ColorQube, is expected to be unveiled Thursday. It’s a multi-function device that prints, copies, scans and faxes, and is designed to be shared over a computer network by several dozen people in an office