IIJ to launch new products this summer

Industrial Inkjet Ltd (IIJ) is to launch a fully automated ink system this summer, as well as a new wide print bar, both intended to allow customers to grow their market share.

The IIJ MK2 ink controller system is in direct response to increasingly sophisticated customer requirements for fully automated turnkey systems to cope with larger industrial printers

Its new MK2 ink controller system is in direct response to increasingly sophisticated customer requirements for fully automated turnkey systems to cope with larger industrial printers, IIJ said.

IIJ’s MK2 system, to launch in July and which has already been piloted at some customer sites, has numerous improvements over the former system from IIJ, including virtually no ink wastage, improved ink compatibility, a wider choice of applications and an improved user interface.

The system is also easily expandable into more colors and more heads per color.

John Corrall, IIJ managing director, said: ‘We have already had great feedback from our customers, particularly those running fully automated turnkey systems where a comprehensive inkjet system is hugely beneficial.’

IIJ will also launch a wide print bar, with a prototype to be shown at Labelexpo Americas 2014, which runs September 9-11. It has been developed in direct response to increasingly sophisticated customer requirements.

The benefits include a compact size and ease of integration, coupled with the ability to print process and spot colors, white, varnish and security inks. All these make it suitable for a wide range of packaging applications.

IIJ will be showing the print head assembly for the system on its booth, which it said will bring new opportunities in general packaging for label convertors.

Corrall said: ‘Although in the narrow web label market 280mm to 350mm print width is standard, there are opportunities in packaging that demand much wider widths. This new system is targeted at the wider packaging industry, of which labels is obviously a key part. The target for us was to produce a wide array – obviously using a large number of printheads – without losing any of the outstanding reliability and low down-time that our customers have come to expect from our narrow-width products.

‘From initial customer feedback and our own exhaustive testing procedures, we know this new system will be welcomed by the industry.’