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52 | L&L No slowing in the inkjet pace HIGHER RESOLUTIONS, wider presses and more colors are key inkjet trends, writes Barry Hunt LABELS&LABELING
LABELS&LABELING |53 At last year's Labelexpo Europe inkjet press vendors confidently talked about targeting flexo printers. Some emphasized inkjet's versatility and its flexo-like quality, while others mentioned the lower set-up costs of a basically plateless process. With certain reservations, the inkjet fraternity has indeed delivered the goods. Modern systems have raised overall quality standards for both primary labels, as well as shrink sleeves and other flexible packaging. Besides CMYK, many single-pass machines now include options for opaque white ink and specific hexachromic colors for extended color gamuts. Drupa 2012 helped to accelerate this progress. Notable developments included the launch of several sheet-fed inkjet presses for producing folding cartons and other packaging. The huge show also reflected an industry-wide trend towards strategic partnerships between conventional press makers and all types of digital printing vendors, including the market for inline hybrid inkjet/flexo presses with integral converting facilities. Drop-on-demand CMYK printheads can achieve smooth gradations and broad tonal ranges on a variety of substrates. Many can deliver print speeds of 50 m/min or higher, depending upon resolutions and grayscale levels. An example is Xaar's 1001 piezoelectric head, which remains the most widely used: at least eight different vendors demonstrated Xaar-equipped print engines at the show. The Cambridgebased company's Hybrid Side-Shooter architecture gives a native resolution of 720 x 360 dpi. Six to eight grayscale levels extend this to an apparent 1,000 dpi image resolution. Challenging Xaar's dominant narrow web position are established giants like Kyocera. It has introduced its KJ4B-Y heads for water-based inks and KJ4A-B heads for UV-curable inks. The later can print one-and-a-half times faster than previous Kyocera types, delivering 80 million drops/second from 2,656 nozzles for high-speed, high-resolution printing on paper or filmic label stocks. Both models print with a resolution of 600 x 600dpi, with a width of 4.25 inches, at one head for feed direction. Cambridge-based Industrial Inkjet (IIJ) featured Konica Minolta's KM1024iMH printhead with its new ColourPrint 142 (142mm wide head) label press to join an existing 72mm model. As one of the latest ‘I’ series, the new printhead achieves a top print speed of 75m/min at 360 x 720dpi using three gray levels. It prints CMYK, mono, and white/varnish in HEIDELBERG launched its Linoprint L inkjet press based on CSAT technology D-FLEX hybrid press from Focus Machinery TOUCHSCREEN control panel on Landa W10 Nanographic press JULY 2012 | L&L
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