Printing Innovation Asia Issue 9 2021
52 reliability and low maintenance costs for a competitive total cost of ownership. It has an innovative, low-maintenance, continuous recirculation ink system equipped with a level sensor and degassing as well as a printhead crash protective system for longer printhead life and superior uptime. It can produce up to 125 linear metres per hour with a printing resolution up to 600x1200 dpi. China company makes record breaking RMGT sheetfed press order RMGT (formerly Ryobi) has secured its largest order for printing presses from Yintong Corporation in China. The order of 56 sheet fed presses comprise of 338 printing units. RMGT stated that this is “its largest ever order for printing presses, and one of the most extensive orders placed with any supplier”.The presses ordered consists of primarily RMGT 920 series of sheet fed presses, including one 8-colour perfector, twenty four 920 9-colour presses and ten RMGT 920 4-colour presses. In addition there are ten RMGT 970 4-colour presses, ten RMGT 970 5-colour presses, and one larger format RMGT 970 8-colour perfector with LED-UV. The RMGT 970 model was launched in mid-2020. Yintong is a web to print company. With the purchase, Yintong hopes to move closer to its goal of being the number one online printer in China. The presses will be delivered and installed over the next three years at a number of sites across China. The purchase was signed at China Print 2021 with RMGT’s distributor in the country, Dinga. In order to keep to timelines and ensure other customers are not neglected, RMGT has recruited additional staff. EFI launches entry-level Blaze textile digital printer At the Shanghai tradeshow, ITMA Asia, EFI Reggiani unveiled the new Blaze scanning printer for textile
printing. The printer is described as an industrial, entry-level smart solution to help “textile companies blaze their successful trail into the world of efficient, sustainable industrial inkjet printing”. The launch of Blaze is the first in a series of 2021 product introductions coming from EFI Reggiani. In July, a higher-volume EFI Reggiani HYPER is expected to debut. “Despite the impact of the pandemic, EFI Reggiani has continued to invest and develop the next trailblazing technology for the textile market,” said EFI Reggiani Senior Vice President and General Manager Adele Genoni. “Our customers are our number one priority no matter how small or big they are. With the EFI Reggiani BLAZE, we are able to offer an ideal solution for companies that want to enter the industrial textile digital printing space. We are excited to be able to offer such a solution and look forward to embarking on this journey with our customers.” The 1.8-meter wide printer EFI Reggiani BLAZE printer is a compact solution equipped with printhead
• The printer has eight 300-dpi dual channel printheads and can print in up to eight colours with full variable drop size. EFI Reggiani TERRA Silver enhancement EFI has also released an enhanced version of the EFI Reggiani TERRA Silver printer, a 1.8-metre wide printer operating with EFI Reggiani’s TERRA pigment ink with binder solution for high-quality, highly sustainable, directto-textile printing without steaming or washing. The new-version is equipped with features such as a new recirculating ink system, real-time image processing, several printing modes, and a moreefficient polymerization process. At ITMA Asia, the company announced a new service provided to Chinese customers, offering EFI Reggiani AQUA water-based reactive inks that it is now manufacturing in China. Designed to deliver outstanding quality on cotton, silk, viscose rayon, linen and lyocell, AQUA inks are ideal for producing home textile and fashion products with deep, intensive colours.
