Minolta-QMS has launched its new tandem laser print method, Prismlaser - a photo reactive image splitting module technology which allows colour laser printer/copiers to produce colour prints at the same speed as black and white prints, without compromising the quality of the prints.

Minolta-QMS laser printer product manager, Marc Pillay, says that while colour laser printer/copiers have traditionally produced black and white pages faster than colour pages, the advent of PrismLaser Technology means that colour printer/copiers can now print all four toner colours (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) simultaneously and deliver up to 16 laser-quality pages per minute in both full colour or black and white.

"Output devices are now two to four times faster than traditional four-pass colour laser printers and, as a result of the single-pass tandem print method, problems of mis-registration that can occur when several imaging units are used to sequentially produce an image are eliminated," says Pillay.

For more information: Marc Pillay, Minolta South Africa, 011 249 4000.