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Top 10 New Launches – The Mega Roundup
Drupa may have been postponed to 2021, but some suppliers are still going ahead with launches that were slated for the original drupa 2020 period. Some of the following picks are already available in the market, and meant to use drupa 2020 as a first showcase platform.
These are some top 10 picks of the most recent launches:
Heidelberg next generation Speedmaster
From April 2020, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) will be putting the most intelligent and automated Speedmaster ever into series production. The completely redesigned Prinect Press Center generation with the new Speedmaster Operating System delivers Push to Stop functionality and connection to the Prinect Cloud to every Speedmaster.
Many new digital assistance systems, such as the Wash Assistant or Intellirun on the Wallscreen XL, turn the Prinect Press Center into a modern, attractive workstation, and allow the operator to continuously call on the machine’s performance potential. However, the hardware has evolved as well. In addition to the new and significantly larger 24-inch multi-touchscreen, the standard illuminant lighting to ISO 3664:2009 was converted to LED. Instead of time-consuming tube changes, as before, switching between standard illuminant D50 and D65 with and without UV is now done simply by pressing a button.
Canon Oce Colorado Wallpaper
The Canon UVgel Wallpaper Factory is an integration between the awardwinning Colorado Printer Series and UVgel technology, and finishing partner Fotoba. Designed for outstanding throughput, high-quality, and efficiency, this solution is ideal for automated production of customized wallpapers.
The UVgel Wallpaper Factory is a fully modular workflow solution, which consists of a motorized Fotoba Jumbo Roll media loader (JRL) connected to
the front of a Colorado series printer to help customers automatically cut flexible media into custom sizes and lengths. For an added convenience, with the embedded taping unit, print jobs can be as simple as "print, cut, rewind, and tape," allowing wallpaper rolls to be available for quick delivery. For regular print jobs, the two media drawers of the Colorado remain accessible.
The UVgel Wallpaper Factory will be available soon as a complete end-toend solution for new customers and as an upgrade for existing Colorado rollto-roll large format printers.
Koenig & Bauer VariJET 106
The new VariJET 106 is the first product to come out of joint venture Koenig & Bauer Durst. The digital printing press for folding carton production
integrates inkjet technology into the platform of the high-performance Rapida 106 offset press.
VariJET 106 is a 41in sheet-fed system that combines digital inkjet with the benefits of offset printing and inline finishing, achieved by integrating inkjet technology into the platform of the high-performance Koenig & Bauer
Rapida 106 offset press. A modular platform, coating, cold foil transfer and analogue printing are examples of pre-inkjet processes that can specified, with coating, further printing and diecutting after. The system was shown as a technology demonstration at drupa 2016 and was expected to launch at drupa 2020.
Konica Minolta Cypress AccurioPress C14000
With the AccurioPress C14000 series, Konica Minolta entered the high speed, high production, cut sheet toner print market. The AccurioPress C14000 series is Konica Minolta’s new flagship model and answer to the high production print segment. The new models are designed to distinguish themselves with unprecedented print quality, amazing media flexibility and integrating with high degree of automation.
The AccurioPress C14000 series prints at 140 pages per minute (ppm) in A4 and is 40% faster than the existing toner-based line up. It offers higher print volume and longer duty cycle, to reach the high production print segment needs. The AccurioPress C14000 was recently made available to the Asian region.
Xeikon CX300
The Xeikon CX300 is a 330mm label press that can offer production capacity of over 50,000 square meters per month in a single shift operation. The full-colour press is equipped with five print stations, including CMYK and single-pass opaque white but can also support colour gamut expansion, custom or security colours.
Based on Cheetah 2.0 technology, the Xeikon CX300 can easily operate in a three-shift operation and still
deliver high value work. Strong, growing end-use markets such as food, pharmaceuticals and other markets using self-adhesive labels can be supported with the Xeikon CX300. Its dry toner technology surpasses any other digital printing technology with respect to food safety. The Cheetah toner also incorporates the recently announced QB toner technology, making it even more future-proofed against upcoming legislation and regulatory requirements.
BOBST MASTER CI
The new MASTER CI flexo press impresses with the most innovative technologies in CI flexo printing. The combination of exclusive smart technologies, including smartGPS GEN II, and advanced automation, makes all press operations easy and fast, optimizing usability and maximizing press uptime.
Productivity is exceptional; up to 7,000 jobs per year or 22 million stand-up pouches in 24 hours with one operator, helped by the smartDROID robotic system that does the entire press setup without human intervention. It features the Job Recipe Management (JRM) System for a digitalized production workflow from file to finished product with creation of a digital twin of the produced reels. The level of automation and connectivity enables dramatic reductions in waste and makes the output 100% consistent in colour and quality.
HP Indigo 100K
The HP Indigo 100K digital press, a new generation commercial printing solution, is purportedly the world’s most productive B2 sheetfed in the market. The first press in HP Indigo Series 5, the HP Indigo 100K is designed for offset players to adopt highly productive, on-demand digital printing.
The HP Indigo 100K Digital Press offers nonstop duplex digital printing, enabling PSPs to deliver more than one million B2 million duplex sheets per month. The digital press features advanced paper handling and offset-like
gripper-to-gripper design for precision registration, as well as unique Indigo digital advantages, including colour automation, calibration, fast switchover between jobs and media and five-input source feeder.
Delivering 6000 sheets per hour, the HP Indigo 100K four-colour press boosts margins on short-run digital production and introduces new calculations that confirm a lower total cost of ownership.
Kornit Vulcan Plus
Kornit’s Vulcan Plus represents the highest-capacity direct-to-garment print system in the Kornit product portfolio, achieving approximately 50% higher throughput than Kornit Atlas. Leveraging on the predecessor Vulcan, which was named a 2017 SGIA Product of the Year, Kornit has considerably improved the stability and reliability of the platform. Vulcan Plus gives the customer improved uptime
and utilization from his equipment, and thus lower overall cost of ownership.
Vulcan Plus is rated to print up to 235 impressions per hour, sized 13” by 13” on dark garments, with Kornit’s singlestep process. Depending on the job types and working hours involved, this translates to anywhere from 550,000 to more than one million impressions annually. Vulcan Plus comes with advanced NeoPigment™ Eco-Rapid ink set for amazing print quality and handfeel, and is compatible with ColorGATE RIP software, which enables easy colour matching, Pantone libraries, effects like semi-transparency and black knockouts, and PDF workflows.
Komori Impremia NS40
The Impremia NS40, which was a technical exhibit at drupa 2016 and is slated for a sales launch at drupa 2020, is a 40-inch Sheetfed Nanographic Printing System that uses Nanography® technology licensed from Landa. The press was developed incorporating the know-how and technologies that Komori has cultivated through its offset printing business. The press has a printing speed of 6,500 sheets per hour (sph), a true resolution of 1,200 dots per inch (dpi), can handle four to seven colours, with UV, LED or aqueous based in-line coating. The press can handle paper sizes up to 750 x 1050 mm, a sheet thickness of 0.06 mm to 0.8 mm, and can print on a wide range of offset paper without any special pre-processing.
Roland 900 Evolution
The Roland 900 Evolution is the newest version of the Roland 900 press, marking manroland’s re-emergence
in the very large format platform category. Based on the Evolution platform, the machine will be available at a speed of 16,000 sheets an hour in very large-format sizes of Size V 1300mm and Size VI 1450mm formats. Precise specifications will be available on its official launch.
