Investment in R&D is critical for competitiveness in our fast-paced markets where more than two-thirds of our equipment sales are from products launched during the past two years. Research activities are conducted in the United States, Canada and Europe – often in collaboration with Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. (“Fuji Xerox”).
Our R&D drives innovation and customer value by:
- Creating new differentiated products and services;
- Enabling cost competitiveness through disruptive products and services;
- Enabling new ways to serve customers and
- Creating new business opportunities that drive future growth and reach new customers.
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To ensure our success, we have aligned our R&D investment portfolio with our growth initiatives of accelerating the transition to color, enhancing customer value by building on our services leadership and by driving the New Business of Printing. 2008 R&D spending focused primarily on the development of high-end business applications to drive the New Business of Printing, extending our color capabilities, expanding our services offerings and delivering lower-cost platforms and customer productivity enablers. The Xerox iGen family, advanced next-generation digital printing presses that produce photographic-quality prints indistinguishable from offset, the Xerox Nuvera 288 Digital Perfecting System which boasts the fastest (288 duplex impressions per minute) digital duplex monochrome cut-sheet printer in the industry, and Xerox’s proprietary Solid Ink technology for the office are examples of the type of breakthrough technology we have developed and that we expect will drive future growth. Sustaining engineering expenses, which are the hardware engineering and software development costs we incur after we launch a product, are included in our R,D&E expenses.