STATEMENT OF REQUIREMENT 363 ISRW.docx

STATEMENT OF REQUIREMENT

363 ISR WING XEROX PURCHASE

1. OBJECTIVE: This requirement is for procuring 1 VR280 (VERSANT 280 PRESS) OR EQUAL. Due to the contract ending for the existing production printer (Versant 80 Press), an updated contract and printer are required to continue print support for the Wing Enterprise. There were no printers within the approved DPI catalog to meet the Wing’s mission requirements.

2. MATERIALS: We are requesting qty 1 AFNET approved Brand-Name OR EQUAL Xerox Versant 280 Press printer, along with the VR280STND that meets the following requirements:

a. VR280 (VERSANT 280 PRESS)

· Manual sheet Inserter

· Crease/2 Side Trimmer

· Interface De-curler Module

· PR Booklet Maker Finisher (Must support full-bleed print capability)

· Square Fold Trimmer Module

· Production Finisher C/Z Fold

· Production Ready Interposer

b. VR280STND (EX STANDALONE PRINT SERVER (PS)

· Color Profiler Suite

· Compose With License Activation Code (LAC)

· Advanced Fiery Advanced Controller Interface (FACI) Kit

c. VR280 Maintenance/ VR280STND Maintenance

· Term: Base Year plus 4 (Four) Option Years

· Consumable Supplies Included for all prints

· Pricing Fixed for Term

· Full-Service Maintenance Included

3. REQUESTED PURCHASING FEATURES:

· TAA Compliant

· Remove existing older unit at no additional cost to the government

· Include Delivery, Analyst Support & Training on-site

· Must include on-site training for the digital press and digital front end / controller including software applications for pre-press, color management and job management

If quoting materials equal to Xerox, materials must meet below specifications:

4. PERFORMANCE & PRODUCTIVITY SPECIFICATIONS:

· Copy, Scan, Print, Finishing, Feeding, Full-Bleed, Booklet Making

· Must support printing of 8.5 x 11 paper at speed of 80 ipm (color) / 80 ipm (black & white) for supported stock weights up to 400 gsm

· Must support paper weights up to the machine maximum of 400 gsm

· Single Pass 200 ipm scanner single pass scanner

5. SUPPORTED PAPER WEIGHTS / SIZES:

· Must be able to run paper stocks in the range of 64 – 400 gsm

· Must have minimum sheet size of 3.9” x 5.8” or less

· Must have maximum sheet size of 13” x 26”

· Must be able to automatically duplex all papers weights and sizes up to a minimum of 350 gsm.

· Must support a minimum of 4 paper feed sources and 1,900 sheets input based on 24 lb. (90 gsm) substrate

· Must have auto-tray switching

· Auto-tray switching

· Load-while-run toner and paper capability

· Designed for specialty media including envelopes, poly papers, labels

· Custom Paper Profiles and Alignment, create, store, and retrieve unique paper profiles

6. INLINE FINISHING SPECIFICATIONS:

· Minimum stacking capacity of 2,000 sheets

· Second top tray holds 500-sheets

· Support multi-position stapling of up to 100 sheets

· Booklet Maker Finisher, up to 120 pdf pages, 30 sheets for booklets.

· Square Fold Booklets must have ability to put a square spine on the booklets.

· Face Trim must be able to trim the face of the book in-line.

· Top & Bottom Trim must be able to trim the top and bottom sheets in-line, this enables full bleed booklets in-line.

· Creaser must be able to crease sheets up to 5 vertical creases and on both sides for an accordion type of fold.

· Hole punching capability 2/3 hole top 2 hole for legal application

· In-line C/Z folder, able to tri-fold in line and perform engineering Z fold

· Insertion module inserts preprinted or blank media into printed documents. Innovative design places it upfront to enable other finishing on inserted sheets, such as trimming, punching, folding, and stapling.

· Built-in de-curler for coated / heavy-weight media with cooling capability

· Must support envelope printing with standard belt fuser, including #10 Commercial, Monarch (including custom size), C4, C5 (Available as Tray 5 (Bypass). Paper Size Default within tools. Run flap open at the trail edge). Custom sizes: 7.5 x 6.7 in. to 9.45 x 6.81 in./ 190 x 170 mm to 240 x 173 mm Digital Laser envelopes recommended from 75 to 90 gsm

7. IMAGE QUALITY SPECIFICATIONS:

· Ultra HD Resolution is a precise combination of increased RIP resolution, a proprietary VCSEL ROS, and a unique imaging path. This delivers extremely fine details and smooth gradients for graphic objects. The print server outputs a 1,200 x 1200 x 10 dpi RIP. The data is maintained without down-sampling throughout the imaging chain to the print engine. As a result, the print engine delivers an impressive 2400 x 2400 x 1 image resolution with fine lines, sharp text and excellent color sweeps. No down-sampling

· Must print at a minimum image resolution of 2400 x 2400 dpi

· Ultra HD Resolution is a precise combination of increased RIP resolution, a proprietary imaging path through the system, and VCSEL ROS technology (the laser used in the Xerographic printing process).

· Must perform Raster Image Processing of at least 1200 x 1200 x 10-bit color depth or 1,024 shades or gradients

· Must support halftone screening

· 150, 175, 200, 300, 600 Clustered Dot

· 150, 200 Rotated Line Screen

· FM Stochastic Screen

· Must achieve a Delta E of +/- 7.0 for Optimal Color Accuracy and Consistency

· Color Profile Suite Software and XRite ES3000 spectrophotometer

· Must utilize a belt type fuser, not a drum fuser capable of imaging oversize paper stock with uniform quality across the entire page

· Toner, environmentally friendly toner for sustainability purposes; that should be small and uniform in size to promote best Image Quality

8. IMAGE ACCURACY SPECIFICATIONS:

· Must support registration of no greater than +/- 1.0 mm front to back

· Integrated Registration Alignment (IRA) is a combination of technology that automatically delivers remarkable registration – making registration easy, accurate and automated. IRA uses image processing called IreCT which automatically and with high accuracy adjusts the placement of images on the printed page. Using a dedicated integrated circuit, IRA calculates and computes the best output possible, taking advantage of advanced paper transport components on every sheet – all automatically.

· Must be able to automatically calibrate registration with little effort/involvement from the operator or service engineer required

· Must be able to automatically calibrate skew with little effort/involvement from the operator or service engineer required

· Must be able to automatically calibrate magnification with little effort/involvement from the operator or service engineer required

· Must be able to automatically calibrate perpendicularity with little effort/involvement from the operator or service engineer required

· Must be able to automatically calibrate in-board / out-board density with little effort/involvement from the operator or service engineer required

9. AUTOMATION SPECIFICATIONS:

· Must be able to maintain consistent image quality throughout a print run using closed-loop color process controls to maintain consistent image quality throughout a print run. The press continuously monitors itself for variance from reference or centerline values, and makes corrections in the imaging path automatically, without the need for operator involvement.

this improves print consistency from page to page, and extends the time between the need for operator-initiated procedures.

· Must be able to perform spot color matching and Pantone colors

· Must allow each stock to be pre-programmed e.g., fusing temperature, roller pressure, de-curl amount etc. to automate the printing of different stocks with no operator manual reprogramming

· Must be able to perform Automated Density Uniformity Adjustment, ability to adjust the print engine tables to ensure that toner is deposited uniformly and consistently across the surface of each page

· Must have the ability to perform Automated Image Transfer Adjustment, ability to correct for mottle (uneven toner coverage) and color shift, which can occur on heavyweight or textured stocks

· Registration Tool corrects front to back registration using an automatic process

· Must support color profiling and calibration

10. SCANNING:

· Integrated Scanner must scan at speeds of at least 100 ipm simplex and 200 ipm duplex

· Integrated Scanner must hold at least 250 sheets of paper

· Integrated Scanner must have dual scan heads to enable 2-sided originals to be scanned in a single pass

· Scan to text searchable PDF, PDF/A, thumbnail preview

11. RELIABILITY:

· Must have a Duty Cycle of 750K monthly impressions or greater

· Consumable and key wear parts including the fuser, drums, and paper feed rollers must be provided as customer replaceable units

· Alignment Interface to adjustment registration, skew correction with front-to-back (registration ± 1.0 mm).

· Fine Tuned Alignment provides the option to automatically adjust the registration and set custom profiles for specific trays and paper sizes

· Must have ability for live visual assistance and guidance for remotely seeing and solving issues, anywhere, enabling service teams anywhere to instantly provide remote visual AR support. Enable access to remote experts to deflect dispatches and reduce time-sensitive resolutions, while fostering safety and improving system uptime.

12. ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS:

· The production color printer must be able to perform properly in an environment that maintains an average temperature between50° - 90° F and a relative humidity of 15 - 85% for normal stocks.

· The production color printer must perform properly without venting output out of the room.

· Energy Star Certification

· Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Certification

13. TONER:

· Must have environmentally friendly Emulsion Aggregate (“EA”) Toner for sustainability purposes; that should be small and uniform in size to promote best Image Quality

· Must be able to Load Toner while machine is running

· No Fuser Oil used or required in fusing process

14. OPEN SYSTEM HARDWARE & SOFTWARE:

· Must use an industry standard print server like an EFI Fiery, not a proprietary or one vendor only solution

· Industry-leading Ultra HD Resolution Technology and 1200 x 1200 x 10-bit RIP rendering/processing of file.

· Digital Front End / Controller Must be on Windows 10 operating system LTE

· Digital Front End / Controller Must include a Flat Panel Screen, Keyboard and mouse

· Digital Front End / Controller Must include a composition software tool similar to Fiery Compose

· Digital Front End / Controller Must include an imposition software tool similar to Fiery Impose

· Digital Front End / Controller Must include workflow software for job management similar to Fiery Command Workstation

· Print server must support the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) version 6.0

· Must be external digital front end / controller and have minimum of hardware specifications listed below

· Fiery® FS600 Pro software Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC or equal

· Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-8500 Processor

· 1 TB HDD

· Memory: 8 GB RAM

· Fiery QuickTouch™ software or equal

· Calibration/profiling: EFI ES-3000 spectrophotometer and profile software

· USB media server

· PERFORMANCE: SmartRIP, Scan-RIP-Print, Spool-RIP-Print, and Sequential Print