Colorific has said its new UV Light will be commercially available from the end of January 2013. Pricing for a 64in wide printer conversion kit starts at £2,550 and pricing for the full solution - a Roland RE 64in printer plus Lightbar conversion kit - starts at £13,495.
The solution will be demonstrated at a number of events during Q1, 2013, (including Sign and Digital 2013 and Fespa in the UK) and Colorific will also be hosting technology briefings at its UK offices following positive feedback from recent meetings.
Colorific UV Light technology enables wide-format printer owners to convert existing solvent printers to a UV solution. Currently compatible with any Roland wide-format machine that uses Epson Piezo DX4 and DX5 printhead technologies, Colorific UV Light is a hybrid solution which combines the reliability of an eco solvent ink with the print performance of a UV ink.
The UV Lightbar System is critical to the technology. The system comprises an external, stand-alone lamp kit which fixes to the front of any compatible wide format printer. During the printing process, the pigment is fixed to the ink-receiving layer on the media and then a secondary cure - using the new system - fixes the droplet and provides an immediate cure and cross link on the media.
Over 20 end users visiting the company’s Maidenhead headquarters for the last briefing and five international distributors and five UK end users ordered demo units as a direct result of the event. One visitor, René van der Weijde, commercial director from Netherlands-based distributor, Sign Top, said: “We first saw an overview of the technology at the SGIA Expo in Las Vegas and were immediately interested in its potential. The print image and colour gamut produced is great and the output is immediately dry. We brought our own media samples with us and in testing, the transfers looked great. From an environmental point of view, the solution is extremely positive as less solvent is required and ink consumption is reduced.”
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