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PacPrint
Canon to show
imaging technology
Canon will be highlighting its large format graphics family, consisting of both the Arizona and Colorado printers. It will also have an application area focused
on industrial print, covering the iX3200 series, and the ProStream and ColorStream continuous feed series, as well as the LabelStream. Workflow will also form part of the Canon presentation.
The latest member of the fifth generation wide format Arizona printer series is the new Arizona 135 GT, which uses the same core technology of its mid-volume siblings, and VariaDot printing technology.
Arizona is the world's biggest selling flatbed printer series, and according to
Craig Nethercott, managing director, Canon Production Printing Australia, there are 7,500 installations of Arizona printers worldwide.
"In bringing the Arizona 135 GT to market, we’re looking to make the ideal flatbed platform for printing multiple applications
on both rigid and flexible media available to the display graphics and signage market,” Nethercott said, confident that it will prove to be as popular as its predecessors.
The Arizona 135 GT VariaDot greyscale printing technology can handle substrates of up to 125 x 250cm in size and up to 50.8mm thick and to print at speeds of up to 34.2sqm per hour.
VariaDot technology's variable drop sizes range from 6 to 30 picolitres, and Canon claims the the Arizona 135 GT printing
process consumes as much as 50 per cent less ink than regular flatbed printers, which says the company, makes the printer environmentally and economically attractive. The device’s environmental credentials also include the use of UL Greenguard Gold certified low- emission inks for indoor applications.
Arizona 135 GT: VariDot printing technology
ColorStream 8000
Canon has launched the ColorStream 8000 series of continuous feed inkjet printers, which it says sets a new standard for high volume offset and digital production environments, such as book production, direct mail and transactional print.
The ColorStream comprises two models, 8133 and 8160, the numbers representing the maximum print speed of each; 133m/min, and 160m/min. Both models will be available in mono and full-colour configuration, delivering high quality 1200dpi resolution.
The ColorStream 8000 series uses a new water-based pigment ink set with latex polymer, which Canon says delivers a wide colour gamut that meets Fogra process standards, along with “perfect droplet formation, and deep black and vibrant colours on uncoated paper without any pre-treatment”.
With print speeds of up to 2,152 A4 images a minute (15 – 70 million A4 images per month), Canon says the ColorStream 8000 series is set to “easily” handle production peaks, and will reduce run and labour costs by “consolidating volumes from offset and continuous feed toner presses onto the ColorStream”. 21
Canon Production Printing
Australia also has a new modular
addition to its portfolio of 64” UVgel roll-to- roll printers, the entry level Colorado 1630.
The industrial grade printer is aimed at
large format graphic providers such as sign makers, print businesses and in-house printers producing smaller volumes, by, says Canon, “giving them access to all the proven advantages of UVgel technology, at a lower cost”.
The Colorado 1630 delivers print quality of 1800dpi, and produces what Canon says are durable, odourless and instantly dry prints on a wide range of media.
It uses the same ink and print technology as the existing Colorado 1650, and will produce the same broad application range, which includes everything from films to posters, magnetics, to wallcoverings, floor graphics, soft signage, labels, packaging and decals.
In its fastest print mode, for applications such as outdoor banners and billboards, the Colorado 1630 runs at a maximum print speed of 111sqm an hour. In high quality mode it is 30sqm an hour.
The printers are available through Starleaton.
Colour Graphic Services & Idealliance at PacPrint
David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services, aka ‘The Colour Doctor’, will bring all
the latest G7 and Idealliance knowledge
to PacPrint – and also demonstrate the new range of Myiro colour measuring instruments, with ICC profiling software.
The Myiro-1 hand-held spectrophotometer and its big brother for super-fast automated chart reading, the Myiro-9, will both be on working display – with show specials to match.
Myiro instruments are manufactured in Japan to stringent tolerances by a division of Konica Minolta – Konica Minolta Sensing. The Myiro-1
can be used to measure single patches and it also comes with a silky-smooth strip and chart
measuring guide, while the Myiro-9 is an auto-scanning spectrophotometer which can accurately read a 1,500-patch chart in only four minutes – ideal when profiling multiple substrates or in a busy print shop where there are many job changes.
“Myiro colour measuring instruments are the most accurate, fastest and easy-to- use I have ever encountered,” Crowther says.
“The quality of the profiles generated are noticeably better. As they say: ‘you cannot control what you haven’t measured’ – with Myiro the measurements are ultra-precise and both the one and the nine generate M0, M1 and M2 in a single scanning action. The Myiro-1 connects using Wi-Fi, so no tangled cables. Connection can be to the majority of third-party CM software, or to Myiro Tools colour management software for analysing, displaying and profiling with ease.”
Colour Graphic Services will also be showing Techkon instruments, Eizo
monitors and Just Normlicht viewing systems. Crowther will also be talking colour training. 21
Precision: Myiro colour measurement
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