IIJ launches inkjet print engine with 11 inch width

At the end of November last year Industrial Inkjet completed testing of its new inkjet print engine, ColourPrint 282, which has a print width of 282mm (11 inches). 

The standard module provides full color print using CMYK inks. ColourPrint uses KM1024 printheads from Konica Minolta, and in line with customer requests the unit can be fitted with different printhead models using six, 14 or 42 pl drop sizes. All KM1024 printheads can run in grayscale or high-resolution binary modes; the ideal mode can be quickly selected in software for any particular print job. The total number of printheads used in the ColourPrint 282 is 16, or four printheads for each color. 

‘Our previous model, the ColourPrint 142, has only half that print width, and for many industrial sectors we found that 142mm is just not enough. Particularly in the label and packaging market a wider solution was needed. Our new print engine comes very close to the A3 sheet format,’ said John Corrall, managing director of Industrial Inkjet. ‘We do not offer full stand-alone printing systems. Instead our print engines are sold to machine builders or system integrators who are looking for a simple easy and reliable inkjet solution. To our customers using our print engines is a way of hugely reducing the lead time before they can deliver a finished product. Our print engines are very simple and easy to integrate.’

 A ColourPrint 282 unit is now on demonstration in the UK office of Industrial Inkjet, near Cambridge. IIJ welcomes customers to try the print engine, printing their own images on their own media. The print engine will be shown on a new reel-to-reel system at the Ipex and Fespa shows this year. 

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