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Impressive IP&I Cube 260UV from International Printer & Ink

The FLAAR Report on the IP&I Cube 260UV is now available since July 2007. We hope to update it in 2010, but we are concentrating on the new IP&I printer, the i-cube (FLAAR review coming soon!).

So this page on the IP&I Cube 260UV itself can be brief, because all the documentation is in the report.

Some samples printed by the IP&I Cube 260 printer, Madrid 2006.

One purpose of having the reports on the IP&I Cube as downloads on this page is so that our readers can sample a FLAAR Report and see what's inside. Many people who go to our web page that lists all the reports (on www.wide-format-printers.NET), are curious what's inside a FLAAR Report.

Here is the IP&I Cube 260 printer at VISCOM Italy 2008.

With all the new models available at ISA and FESPA 2010, FLAAR is offering personalized consulting at each trade show. You can walk-the-floor with the Senior Editor of FLAAR and get his comments on any and all printers, inks, RIP software, color management, substrates, applications, etc. So if you wish to learn about the difference between combo, hybrid, and dedicated UV printers, how latex ink compares, about textile printers, etc. contact FLAAR to obtain consulting. You can also get consulting before ISA or FESPA anywhere in the world: Dr Hellmuth was in Dubai and India last week as consultant, and will be in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and China as consultant in the next two months. He was consulting in Korea and London in late 2009.

We have a free Abstracts (at the top right of this page), but now we are making sample reports available as well.

FLAAR Reports come in many degrees of comprehensiveness:

• FLAAR Fast Facts
• FLAAR First Look
• FLAAR Second Look
• FLAAR Third Look
• Site-Visit Case Study
• Demo room testing & Factory inspection evaluation

IP&I Cube 260 in the factory. We have inspected this printer inside out.

So please realize that not all reports are as high a level as these on the IP&I. We have full access to all the IP&I staff, to their distributors, to the factory, and at their trade show booth. Already in 2007 it has been possible to visit two printshops who use IP&I printers (in fact in each print shop they had more than one IP&I UV printer, which is the best recommendation you can get). For all these reasons it is possible to obtain better information on this printer, as compared to printers where their main demo room is not available for us to test the equipment, where the manuals and documentation are not provided.

Reports on most Chinese UV flatbed printers are Fast Facts or First Look because virtually no information is available on some brands : no User Manuals, and no factory visits.

Even some major printers such as Virtu, they had virtually nothing available on their website except Success Stories, which of course are not realistic whatsoever. Nor are Success Stories published in trade magazines. The only way to learn the truth is to undertake a site-visit case study and get the true pros and cons. So I have visited installations of IP&I printers in 2007 and again in 2009, all in Korea.

Gradually every two months we try to make new factory visits. So far we have been to VUTEk several times, to Gandinnovations two days, to GRAPO two days, to MacDermid ColorSpan four times, and have brief visits to the factory of Inca Digital plus a longer visit in the adjacent factory of Sun Chemical (Fast Jet). Our most recent visit was to IP&I factory and R&D rooms, for two days, in November 2009.

Whenever a UV printer manufacturer invites us to host us at their factory, we try to arrange a date. We have been visiting UV-curable printer factories around the world for the past several years.

The IP&I UV 260 printer was exhibited at Dubai trade show 2009.

Printing on aluminum requires a whole pretreatment process that we could inspect in a recent visit to a company in Korea. FLAAR is constantly learning about new fields and uses for the inkjet printer industry.

IP&I Cube 260 inks ready for inspection by FLAAR in the IP&I factory.

 

As part of the FLAAR Reports on UV-Curable Ink Flatbed Printers by Nicholas Hellmuth, click here to learn more

 

 

 

Most recently updated December 4, 2009.

First Posted April 6, 2006. Previously updated July 25, 2007.