Durst to premiere Kappa 180 textile printer at ITMA
Durst will premiere its Kappa 180 textile printer at the ITMA trade show in Barcelona in September. Developed on the back of Durst's proprietary Quadro printhead technology the new machine offers printing speeds in excess of 600m2/hr and output resolutions up to 1056 x 600 dpi. It uses Durst’s own Kappa inks.
Hannes Fischer, head of Phototechnik AG's Textile Development Center in Kufstein, said: "Durst Kappa 180 is a genuine alternative to flatbed screen printing and with its outstanding speed and printing quality it is the new premium product in the textile printing sector."
Through the use of water-based inks, the Durst Quadro Array technology, suitably modified for textile printing, makes it possible to print on textiles by way of a specially hardened, fray-resistant nozzle plate with a drop size of 7-21 picoliters. 6,144 jets per color produce a resolution of up to 1680dpi, while a single automatic nozzle cleaning system ensures uninterrupted operation.
The QuadroZ Arrays print eight colors in CMYK, orange, red, blue and grey. An osmosis filtering system is said to eliminate the tiny gas bubbles in the inks and ensures that the printing is constant and failure-free. Durst said this means printing speeds in high-speed mode of more than 600m2/hr with an inking rate of 7g/m2 and a resolution of 1056 x 600dpi. In high-quality mode up to 320m2/hr can be achieved, with an inking rate of up to 14g/m2 and a resolution of 1056 x 600dpi.
The Kappa 180 has a fully automatic feed and guiding facilities for textiles with a maximum printing width of 195cm and a printing blanket with an integrated washing system. The drying unit is a hot air dryer powered by gas, steam of electricity.
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