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PacPrint Review
Making life easier: Justin Webber, printIQ
t PacPrint printIQ was presenting its latest release, printIQ v44, which
it says has further enhanced its accessibility options, to open up its business applications to work from anywhere, and moving more of the estimating and quoting functions into the hands of customers and account managers
Antony Lew, CEO at printIQ said, “Even though the team was locked down in Covid, the positive is that we have been able to focus more on R&D. This latest release has been a game changer.” 21
Significantly quicker: Brad Creighton, Mimaki
Xeikon brings inkjet Panther to PacPrint
printIQ reveals atest release
Xeikon introduced its Panther PX3300 UV inkjet label press
– designed to address the industrial, chemical and household markets, as well
as the premium beer, spirits, beverages, and luxury health and beauty sectors – live on the stand at PacPrint.
It was the first showing
of the Xeikon Panther 2.0 technology in Australia, with the high-end PX3300 UV inkjet press the focal point on Xeikon’s stand.
Built for production of highly durable labels, the press was first unveiled towards the
end of last year, as the next evolution of Xeikon’s high productivity inkjet portfolio.
Flexibility: Trevor Crowley with the new Xeikon Panther PX3300
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It offers full rotary printing
at variable repeat length with CMYK, or CMYK plus white UV inks, which are sunlight, water, chemical, temperature and mechanical resistant.
Xeikon was promoting its full suite of technologies,
designed to address the labels, packaging, graphics and corrugated markets, the latter with its new Idera press technology. Xeikon offers both toner-based and inkjet technologies, according to application. 21
TFirst time at PacPrint for Kyocera
he Kyocera Taskalfa Pro 15000c cutsheet inkjet press was being demonstrated
live at PacPrint, the first time a Kyocera production press had been at a show in Australia.
Kyocera has longstanding experience in the creation of inkjet printhead technology, providing inkjet heads to other major manufacturers for 10 years, but PacPrint marked the launch of its first production print device, the Taskalfa Pro 15000c, a cut-sheet inkjet solution.
It is built to produce up to one million A4 impressions a month, and the PacPrint Stand theme was focused around this point.
POKI opening label opportunities
The Taskalfa Pro 15000c runs at more than 150 A4 ppm, printing at 600 x 600 dpi, and can
handle stocks from A6 to SRA3, envelopes such as DLX and C4.
It is available in multiple
Cutsheet inkjet: Mark
Vella with the new Kyocera Taskalfa Pro 15000c
modular configuration options, and says Kyocera, fills a gap in the market for a cost-effective, full-colour printing solution for short-run, cut-sheet applications on uncoated stocks. 21
Mimaki raises
speed levels
rint businesses option. The company says looking at providing printing on transparent, labels were on the coloured or metallic label
The Mimaki JFX 600-2513 made its official debut in Australia on the Mimaki stand. The production flatbed LED UV, with a maximum printable size of 2500 mm x 1300 mm, has a thickness of up to 60mm. It is “significantly quick”, and can run dual CMYK setup or spot colour options. 21
OKI stand, with the company showing its entry label digital colour label print system, the Pro 1050.
According to OKI, the
Pro 1050 allows for greater flexibility in label design – using digital LED together with dry toner technology, it offers a fifth colour or CMYK+1
White + CMYK: Steve Richards with the OKI Pro1050 digital label press, and printed label
media is straightforward, with the label press printing an opaque white background under the CMYK image.
OKI was on the stand
of one of its distributors, Gulmen Engineering, which was also demonstrating a
converting unit built for the OKI Pro 1050. 21
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