Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) We'll take our first question from Casey Flavin with CJS Securities. Go ahead please.
Casey Flavin - CJS Securities
Good morning, Marc.
Marc Giles
Good morning, Casey.
Casey Flavin - CJS Securities
Can you just give us an update on the new product flow for the remainder of the year and particularly the next generation Solara printers, and then provide a little bit more color on what the market responses then to the products that you have launched so far?
Marc Giles
Yeah. I mean, of course, the two big launches that we did in the last quarter, actually both within the last three-and-a-half weeks, were: one, the Solara ion UV wide-format printer; and the second was the Advanced Lens Processing System for Gerber Coburn. That was just about may be just a week-and-a-half ago or so.
The other important new product for us this year that has been quite successful for us and in fact is our leading new product seller this year is Gerber Technology's XLc7000 cutter that we produced in China. So, we've been very, very pleased with the performance of that new product.
Before I get into the ion and the Advanced Lens Processing System, as I mentioned earlier in the call, our contribution of new products as a percent of our total equipment sales continues to improve, and we finished in the second quarter at just over 17% of equipment sales coming from new product. So, overall, we're very pleased with the progress of our new product performance.
Now, with regard to the Solara ion, as I mentioned, this is really, we believe, a significant new product launch, not only for Gerber Scientific Products but will have we expect a significant impact in improving the overall performance of the company, and we are very excited by the reception it received at the SGIA show down in Orlando and the Viscom show in Milan more recently.
And as I mentioned, we've been taking orders for the machine pre-orders, because it's not commercially launched yet with scheduled ship dates. That now totaled well over a 100 systems. Just to put that in the frame of reference, it took us 10 months to get orders for 100 systems for the Solara UV2, the ion predecessor. So the excitement has been palpable.
We expect that for the first full year after launch, we think it's very, very reasonable to expect system sales of between the 400 units to 600 units, which depending on system makeup and composition will deliver about $20 million to $30 million of incremental new revenue in that initial 12 months and at substantially higher gross margins than GSP's or even the corporations consolidated gross margin today.
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