Xerox Corporation paved their way in the full-color, continuous feed printing market through the release of their up-to-the-minute high-speed printer. Xerox's 490/980 Color Continuous Feed Printing System produces high quality, brilliant documents such as transactional statements, invoices with promotional marketing messages, direct-mail pieces containing coupons, membership cards, newsletters and mush more. The system uses xerographic imaging and flash-fusing technology with dry toner making it compatible to wide variety of substrates to produce documents at 600dpi resolution. Capable of printing 226 feet per minute (69 meters) or 493 images per minute two-up on simplex on 8.5" x 11" paper, it also features duplex printing and easily prints 986 images per minute in duplex mode. The system is available in Japan, China and the Pacific Rim, and is supposed to be released in Europe in the first half of 2008, followed by North America and other prospective markets with an anticipated price of U.S. $1.8 million per engine.