HP’s newest latex ink Designjet L25500
Launches at viscom Dusseldorf ’09
HP Designjet L25500 models
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HP has unveiled an expanded portfolio of HP Latex printing technology solutions designed to broaden production capabilities and provide a viable alternative to eco-solvent technologies. The new HP Designjet L25500 enables small and mid-size digital print and sign shops, copy shops and photo labs to produce indoor and outdoor applications with ease while reducing environmental impact.
Applications: HP Designjet L25500 offers easy, low-maintenance printing of a wider range of applications from indoor POP displays, exhibition graphics and interior décor like wall murals and fabrics to outdoor banners, bus shelters and vehicle wraps. Six original HP printing materials compatible with HP Latex ink printers include two recyclable substrates and three PVC-free alternatives.
Santiago Morera, vice president and GM, Designjet Large-format Printing Solutions, Imaging and Printing Group, HP said, “The expanded HP Latex Printing Technology portfolio enables us to meet and exceed this demand for a variety of customers, allowing them to create a competitive advantage and seize new growth opportunities.”
Technology: The expanded HP Latex printing portfolio builds on the proven technology of HP Designjet L65500. Available in 42- and 60-inch models, the printer delivers unmatched versatility for a broad range of high-quality and flexible, outdoor and indoor applications. In addition, it prints a wider range of applications – from durable outdoor signage to high-resolution, close-view prints – than is possible with eco-solvent or traditional water-based printing alone.
Water-based HP Latex inks and HP 789 Designjet printheads enable an easy transition into large-format or outdoor printing for entry-level sign shops, photo labs and digital printers because of unattended printing with no daily, manual printhead maintenance required.
HP Designjet L25500 printer was demonstrated publicly for the first time at viscom Dusseldorf (October 1-3, 2009) and will showcase at Visual Impact Image Expo (22-24 November 2009) at Sydney.
Eurotech’s Posterjet printer with
XAAR Proton printheads
Eurotech, a specialist manufacturer of grand and wide-format printers, has introduced a 3.2 m-wide Posterjet solvent printer. Developed as an affordable, entry-level, display graphics solution, the four-colour Posterjet is ideal for small to medium companies offering a quality but competitive, large-format print service.
Posterjet has been designed to deliver consistent photo quality results at the speed of up to 56 sq m/hour. It features the latest XAAR Proton inkjet printheads to produce 360x1440 dpi photo quality printing. XAAR Proton is a premium print-quality, wide-swathe (53.7 mm), high-resolution binary printhead designed for high-volume indoor and outdoor graphics.
Featuring the latest piezo and nozzle-processing technology, XAAR Proton delivers excellent and consistent print performance, enabling users to print even better quality without compromising on speed. The XAAR Proton jets a 35-picolitre drop size from individually-laser nozzles for excellent drop uniformity and results.
Easier, brighter and greener UV LED technology
UV system leader Air Motion Systems Inc marked first look at PEAK LED-UV product series in the recent PRINT ’09 expo. The patent-pending PEAK LED-UV design from the company is built around a high brightness chip platform that achieves at least twice the radiant power available from recent-generation UV LEDs, and operates at just 20 percent of the electricity required of a conventional mercury arc lamp.
PEAK LED-UV technology represents a revolutionary step forward in the graphic arts industry and the UV curing arena. As a 100 percent solid-state device, there are no moving parts to maintain in the LED UV module, no heat is emitted from the light source, and at a 20,000+ hour estimated life of the light-emitting diodes, and the system potentially never requires a lamp change.
M Turbo Gerber’s new flatbed cutter/router
M Turbo is a brand new flatbed cutting and routing system from Gerber Scientific Products. Gerber is proud to launch this splendid flatbed digital die-cutting system featuring a powerful one-kilowatt electric router and software improvements to provide greater routing flexibility. This flatbed cutting and routing system is an additional system configuration in the company’s M Series family.
New line of materials from Tower
Known for its outstanding supply of signage materials for outdoor and indoor signage industry, Tower Overseas Ltd keeps on expanding its material line in accordance with the changes in market demands. The company maintaining warehouses across India has recently unleashed new set of flex and vinyl materials, imported from overseas countries like China, Germany, South Korea and Belgium.
‘Tower’ brand in the company’s Low Level Segment Flex category consists of frontlit, backlit and foam board materials imported from China. The frontlit flex available between 280 gsm and 440 gsm are of all possible sizes.
The company’s Middle Level Flex brand ‘Tower-Heytex’ with its manufacturing plant in China is from Germany. Frontlit Heytex is available in 340-440 gsm with or without UV in all sizes and the backlit flex is of 610 gsm. ‘Tower-Won Poong’ from South Korea in the High Level Segment flex comprises frontlit of 340 gsm to 440 gsm with UV in all sizes and backlit flex are of 510 gsm to 610 gsm with UV. The product from China in the Low Segment Adhesive Vinyl is under the brand name ‘Tower-Nar’. The high-end products in this category include regular self adhesive vinyl, clear self adhesive vinyl and bubble-free self adhesive vinyl (glossy & matte in all sizes).
Tower-Multifix’ brand in the Middle Level Segment of Adhesive vinyl is from Belgium and the products in the category are Regular Self Adhesive Vinyl and Coloured Self Adhesives in all colours.
Kyocera develops world’s
fastest inkjet printhead
KJ4 Series
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The enhanced technology offers high-speed, high-resolution, full-colour printing at 150 million dots per second. This is Kyocera Corporation’s fastest inkjet printhead in the world—KJ4 Series. Each of 2,656 nozzles in the printhead ejects ink at up to 60,000 dots per second (at 60kHz drive frequency).
Kyocera’s previous inkjet printhead offered the world’s fastest print speed when it was introduced in 2008—150 meters per minute at 600×600dpi resolution, using a drive frequency of 30kHz. And this newly developed KJ4 Series sets new records for high-resolution, full-colour inkjet printing, offering fastest print speeds in any of three resolutions: 600×360dpi (330m/min at 40kHz), 600×600dpi (200m/min at 40kHz) and 1200×1200dpi (150m/min at 60kHz).
The new technology enabling this development was achieved by enhancing the drive frequency with Kyocera’s unique elemental technology making the interior ink channels more compact, optimising the nozzle configuration and improving the water-repellent coating on the nozzle surface to prevent clogging, thus ejecting the ink more accurately. In addition to speed, it provides the high resolution required in the commercial printing market, with a 50 percent improvement in ink-drop placement accuracy over the company’s previous model.
Mimaki launches Tx400-1800D printer
Latest in direct-to-textile and dye-sublimation printing
mimaki introduces a new ink and cost effective dye-sublimation and direct-to-textile inkjet printer Tx400-1800D. The printer employs innovative features that enable the user to adjust the ink volume jetted by the printheads according to the type of fabric and design. It can accommodate both direct-to-textile and dye-sublimation printing employing sublimation media.
Ink options: Three different inks—dye sublimation ink, reactive dye ink and acid dye ink are available and their environmental impacts are lowered as they are delivered in reusable 2l-ink containers. Newly developed dye-sublimation ink excels in low vapour emission. In comparison with the former ink, service providers will thus be able to control more than before the impact of vapour on the media.
Tx400-1800D is equipped with Bulk Ink System (BIS) and its patented UISS (Uninterrupted Ink Supply System) to ensure automatic switching of inks when one 2l-ink container runs empty without interrupting printing. Printable up to a maximum width of 1,850 mm, the printer’s print resolution is between 300x300 dpi to 900x900 dpi.
Durst unveils Rho 900 at SGIA Expo
New blend of automated media handling with added process colour
Durst introduces new Rho 900 large-format UV inkjet printer—a 98-inch printing platform—that combines more efficient automated media handling and process colour additions with high-speed printing capabilities to deliver far greater productivity and a wider colour gamut.
Rho 900 is equipped with Durst’s Quadro 30D Array print head technology to deliver high speed, improved efficiency and exceptional image quality. Its media handling incorporates an auto-feed table with belts, sheet feed gate with guides for parallel board printing, and automatic two-point pin registration system to ensure accurate front-to-back registration.
No special file preparation is necessary as the additional colours can be printed even with white ink or light colors without losing output speed. Top speed of the 6-colour Rho 900 is up to 216 boards (125x80cm) per hour.
Gerber’s latest Solara Ionz printer
Gerber Scientific Products Inc introduces its latest technology UV inkjet printer Solara Ionz. This printer is the latest addition to Gerber’s Solara family of inkjet printers. Positioned as the highest-resolution printer in the product line, Solara Ionz prints 14-pl droplets and provides output of 720 dpi. Like its siblings Ionx and Ionv, Ionz features GerberCAT cationic UV inks (CMYK) and Cold-Fire low-temperature curing technology and prints on both rigid and roll-fed materials. Rigid media up to 64”x120” and one-inch thick are supported, as are roll media up to 63” wide with a maximum speed of 319 sq ft/hr.
As Gerber introduces new print technologies or advancement in an existing technology, current Solara ion users can benefit as well through field upgrade packages. Existing users of Solara Ionx or Solara Ionv will be able to upgrade their printers to generate higher resolution output without having to invest in an entirely new printer. Arrow Digital is an authorised distributor of the products in India.
For more details, contact Arrow Digital Private Ltd at
sales@arrow-digital.com
Revolutionary new Roland Versa
LED-UV inkjet printer/cutter
Roland DGA Corp, a big name for wide-format inkjet printers and integrated printer/cutters, has introduced VersaUV LEC-330 roll-to-roll LED-UV inkjet printer/cutter. This
VersaUV series is the world’s first LED-UV inkjet printer/cutter line and the industry’s only production tool to print CMYK+White+Clear Coat and contour cut designs—all in one device through one seamless workflow.
Joining the original 30-inch LEC-300, this new printer is Roland’s newest VersaUV model. VersaUV LEC-330 prints on an unprecedented range of substrates including metallic surfaces for labels, decals, POP displays and posters as well as semi-rigid sheet stocks such as card stocks for folding cartons and thicker polycarbonate sheets for membrane switch applications.
Salient features
LEC-330 is equipped with six high-precision printheads for a maximum print speed of up to 101 sq ft/hr. An Intelligent Ink Circulation System optimises ink usage and minimises waste. The built-in ventilation hood supports third party air filtration systems and enables printing on both flexible and semi-rigid sheet stocks.
ECO-UV ink adheres to a wide range of treated and untreated substrates with exceptional colour gamut. Instant-drying and flexible, ECO-UV ink produces prints that require no degassing and can be stretched and applied around curved surfaces and edges without cracking. The low heat UV LED lamps allow printing on heat-sensitive media such as shrink-wrap, pressure sensitive media and paper stocks with no risk of damaging the substrate. And LEC-330 creates original patterns and 3D domed corporate logos directly onto synthetic and natural leathers and can customise window coverings, tapestries and other interior décor items as well.
Biodegradable Star Flex PVC
White opaque substrate for small and wide-format frontlit displays, STARFLEX BioMedia is a weather resistant landfill biodegradable PVC. This media available in the sizes ranging from 31” to 210” have been tested for biodegradation. The test procedure carried in a way that untreated flexible PVC and biodegradable treated PVC samples were collected and cleaned in alkaline soap with water. The samples were rinsed in de-ionized water, dried and mounted with double-sided conductive tape to aluminium stubs, the vacuum evaporated with gold-palladium alloy to provide a conductive coating under the electron beam.
Analysis of the samples at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences/Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico revealed that microbial colonies are found on the surface of the treated sample, but absent in untreated sample. Depressions around the colonies indicate that they are degrading the material. Since these changes are occurring on the treated sample, they could only be the result of the treated PVC.
Seamless biodegradable STARFLEX BioMedia are well matched with solvent and UV printers. Sun Sign & Technologies, Delhi are the authorised dealer of this high-quality media in India.
Revolutionary Epson StylusPro GS6000 printer
A new definition to the future of inkjet printing is Epson StylusPro GS6000 printer from Epson. This 64” solvent printer is flexible with all media including flex, adhesive vinyl, scrim banner, backlit film, canvas, polypropylene, PVC, photo and matte papers, coated and uncoated media.
Equipped with Epson dual array MicroPiezo printhead, maximum resolution of StylusPro GS6000 is up to 1440dpi x 1440dpi printed at the speeds of 5.8 m sq/hr to 25.2 m sq/hr, as per different printing modes. This eight-colour printer using Epson Solvent ink has 950 ml solvent ink capacity. Arrow Digital Pvt Ltd is an authorised distributor of this printer in India.
For further details, contact:
sales@arrow-digital.com
Sun Sign rolls out new self-adhesive films
Sun Sign & Technologies, Delhi is known for the distributorship of imported PVC films and other signage products in the Indian market. Offering best quality materials for years, the company is still on the rise with new product line. Bubble-free Speedy Air and persistent Cling Films from the Korean company–Avecal, are the latest in Sun Sign’s catalogue of self-adhesive films.
Speedy Air: designed as permanent or removable, pressure sensitive self-adhesive and air release channels for bubble-free applications, Speedy Air films are accustomed to a variety of solvent, UV-based piezo inkjet as well as screen printings. These bubble free 100-micron films are available in different widths ranging from 1.06m (41.74”) up to 1.52m (60”).
Cling Films: best for temporary applications on glass and some cleaned metal surface, Cling Films are found into two types—White Static and Clear Static. Thickness of White Static cling film is 150+5um while that of Clear Static is 150+6um.
Roland’s all new VersaCAMM SP-i
Roland DGA Corporation has announced a new VersaCAMM SP-i series of inkjet printer/cutters featuring innovative print/cut technology, which combines precision printing and contour cutting all in one device through one seamless workflow. This new Versa series includes the 30 inch SP-300i and the 54 inch SP-540i inkjet printer/cutters, engineered to enhance the productivity of creative professionals—from marketing departments and retailers to sign shops and screen printers.
VersaCAMM SP-i printer/cutter features several enhancements over the previous models including Roland Intelligent Pass Control for new levels of productivity and higher image quality, a new heavy duty media handling system for stable media feeding through long production runs and new VersaWorks 3.2 RIP software.
Integrated two-stage heater system in the printer makes prints dry quickly even in high-speed mode for immediate finishing, installation or collection by the take-up system. This series also supports an optional automated media feed and take-up system to facilitate precision unattended printing. A new heavy-duty media handling system ensures stable media feeding through long print runs. With this new system, SP-300i handles rolls weighing up to 44 pounds and the SP-540i accepts up to 66 pounds.
As an integrated printer/cutter, VersaCAMM SP-i inkjet makes it easier and faster to produce graphics of virtually any size and shape in a range of applications including POP displays, decals, vehicle and floor graphics, heat transfers for apparel, posters, banners, signs, etc.
