Pazazz Gets First Xerox iGen 5 with Extended Color Gamut, Thick-Stock Options

MONTREAL—January 22, 2016—Pazazz Printing has acquired the first Xerox iGen 5 Press equipped with both the optional extended color gamut and the optional capability to print on thick stock. The new press will help the Montréal-based printer expand its product mix, particularly with short-run packaging, according to Warren Werbitt, founder and "fisherman," Pazazz Printing. It will also help enhance color quality at Pazazz, which is the first printer in Canada to gain Pantone certification for color printing.

(From left) Denis Beauchamp, general manager, and Warren Werbitt, founder and fisherman, Pazazz Printing.

"The first time I compared an image printed on the iGen 5 with four colors to the same image printed with five, I almost lost my marbles," Werbitt said. "The fifth color made it just so much more vibrant."

Pazazz also looked at presses from other vendors, "But for our needs, the iGen, with its additional pigments, the thicker stock, and the larger sheet size really made it the right choice," Werbitt said. "It helps us stay ahead of the curve."

The iGen 5’s extended color gamut is enabled by a fifth toner station that supplements CMYK with orange, green or blue to match a wider variety of spot colors, including up to 90 percent of the Pantone Plus Coated library. The thick-stock capability enables the iGen 5 to feed, image and stack media as thick as 24 points. The new press was installed in November 2015.

About Pazazz Printing
Pazazz Printing is a one-stop shop for integrated, cross-media marketing solutions, as well as UV offset printing on presses as wide as 56 inches, digital printing, wide-format printing, labels and packaging. Founded in 1992, the company has nearly 100 employees and annual revenues of more than C$15 million, and is a member of the Xerox Premier Partner Global Network, where Werbitt serves on the advisory board representing Canada. Pazazz was inducted into MarketingSherpa's Viral Hall of Fame for its "Printing’s Alive" video.

About Xerox
Xerox is helping change the way the world works. By applying its expertise in imaging, business process, analytics, automation and user-centric insights, Xerox engineers the flow of work to provide greater productivity, efficiency and personalization. It conducts business in 180 countries, and its more than 130,000 employees create meaningful innovations and provide business process services, printing equipment, software and solutions that make a real difference for its clients—and their customers.

Source: Xerox.