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DocuTech is the model name given by Xerox Corporation to an electronic production-line publishing system. Xerox Corporation ( (name ˈziːrɒks is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction This system integrated Xerox-branded scanners, processing software and production printers to produce a single workflow solution for digital publishing, and is credited with helping to start the print-on-demand industry. Print on demand (POD, sometimes called publish on demand, is a Printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book (or other document are not

With its ability to scan, edit and archive books for later retrieval, and output stitched or tape-bound books, the DocuTech 135 (DT135), introduced in 1990, was arguably the first fully-integrated "on-demand" publishing system.

The DocuTech 6135 is an improved version of the DT135, with a Sun Microsystems workstation controller replacing the original controller and scanner. Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services Additional improvements include an optional VLD laser assembly, increasing the print resolution to 600 x 1200 dpi.

The DocuTech system's main competitor in the field of print-on-demand production plant is IBM's InfoPrint system. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology

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Page at ieee. org on the Xerox's Docutech system [1]

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