Mimaki enters label market with UV inkjet press

Mimaki Engineering, a manufacturer of wide format inkjet printers, has entered the label market with its new IPH-300L single pass digital inkjet press.

This newly developed press achieves print speeds of up to 12.5 m/min or 3000 sheets/h when printing A4 in 600 x 600 dpi resolution.

It features a print width of up to 30cm and employs Mimaki’s UV technology. It uses Mimaki’s UV curable inks in four colors (CMYK) and piezo electrionic inkjet heads. These inks are VOC- and ozone free which caters to an environmentally friendly work place for printers. The IPH-300L automatically performs periodical head cleaning to ensure all print heads are in immaculate condition for optimum print quality.

As the machine uses single pass technology, the heads are stationary and the substrate is moved underneath the print heads so less vibration is generated. This ensures a smooth and highly accurate media transport to counteract banding and other undesired effects. In addition single pass printing results in dramatically increased speeds.

In combination UV drying and single pass printing offers the possibility to print on a wide variety of substrates including heat sensitive materials. This broadens the range of applications considerably, e.g. label, company ID cards and much more.

The press can be run in different print modes such as copy print and variable print. While it also features an already high standard resolution of 600 x 600 dpi, it can produce even higher quality with the superfine high resolution of 600 x 1200 dpi.

The IPH-300L label print control system consists of a high performance controller incorporating Mimaki’s RIP and color management system. This system equalizes color differences between the calibrated print heads automatically. High volumes of variable data can be processed quickly and efficiently with the variable data editing system.

Its modular design consists of a number of print units for single pass printing enables custom produced machines whose print width can vary. Also it is possible to supply the print unit without transport mechanism for integration into existing production environments.

‘We are proud that we can now offer customers in the label printing market the same productivity, efficiency and high quality our customers in the sign and graphics markets have already enjoyed for over 30 years,’ said Masaaki Fujita, senior managing director from Mimaki Japan. ‘We are sure that the IPH-300L with its high productivity and outstanding efficiency as well as its future-oriented technology will make lasting impressions in the label industry.’