Electrophotographic machines for digital colour printing. The tendencies of development

The electrophotographic equipment of digital printing is a part of Quick Print. Here is occupied a lot of American and especially of Japanese corporations. The global necessity of the equipment by a 2001 is evaluated(1) from 1 up to 1,8 millions units. Among set of the equipment(2) for copying and output of the computer information is possible to select some categories. These categories are joined by a common electrophotographic technology of digital printing(3). All these categories concern to a known contactless technology of printing much less thanComputer-to-Printmuch greater than. It is conditionally offered all equipment to divide into categories': A. Colour digital copy machines (digital color copier); B. Colour copying - output machines (color copier/printer); C. Colour digital printed machines (digital color press); D. Colour laser printers (color printer). The objective of the present work is the analysis of the tendencies of development of an equipment of these categories.