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NUR adds a flatbed module for the NUR Expedio 3200 printer
At Viscom Europe (Paris, Sept 2006) and at SGIA a few days later, NUR introduced a flatbed module to their Expedio 3200 printer. We will need to check it out. Seemingly the roll-to-roll aspect of the NUR Tempo had a few glitches. In effect, the flatbed module for the NUR Expedio 3200 is to improve the situation so that one printer can do both.
The only other roll-fed printer that attempts to have a full-scale dedicated flatbed accessory is the Zund 250.
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| This is what a NUR Expedio 3200 looks like in the factory. FLAAR now includes factory-visit inspections as a regular part of its evaluation process. Obviously this takes time (Grapo factory is in the Czech Republic, Inca factory is in the UK, the NUR factory is thousands of kilometers further away). So we understand that no one else can provide this level of evaluation service. But when funding is available it is quite an education to see how and where the UV printers are assembled. |
NUR Expedio 3200 was the first roll-to-roll grand format UV-curable ink printer
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The NUR Expedio 3200 printer was at DRUPA 2004; indeed I passed it by several times. But since it was roll-to-roll I never thought to ask anyone if it was a UV-printer. I at that early date I all other UV-printers would tend to be dedicated flatbed designs, combo designs (with transport belt) or hybrid designs (retrofitted solvent printers that still have their platen, pinch rollers and grit rollers).
But then the Gerber Solara came out also a roll-to-roll UV printer too, albeit at entry-level price point. So clearly someone has done enough market research (we hope) to document there is a market for a non-flatbed UV-cured printers.
It is natural, at first, to think that a hybrid would be best, so you could do both. But when you think of it. A hybrid is half-and-half. It can’t do either perfectly.
The NUR Expedio 3200 and Expedio 5000 are among the few UV-cured inkjet printer series that offers 8 colors, CMYK plus light of each color. Light black is rare in any kind of ink, other than for the Epson printers or ColorSpan. Light yellow is found almost never in other printers because light yellow does not make much difference in the color gamut. An additional light level of black would possibly make more impact.
Here is a printer that I would definitely want to talk to an owner to see how clients react to the output. This would require a site-visit case study (FLAAR staff visiting a print shop that has an Expedio at work).
Gandinnovations Jeti 3324 UV RTR and Durst Rho 351R
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NUR was the first company to bravely introduce a roll-to-roll UV printer. NowGandinnovations has introduced its Jeti 3324 UV RTR at ISA and IPEX 2006.
Indeed Durst has now come out with their own roll-to-roll UV-cured inkjet printer, the Durst Rho 350R. Durst first showed their Rho 350R at the sign trade show in Milan last year. FLAAR was there in Italy to record it. And now Durst has updated the 350R with their Durst Rho 351R. So clearly there is a market among screen printers to have a dedicated roll-to-roll printer that is not solvent-based.
In October we spent two days undertaking a site-visit case study of the Gandinnovations Jeti 3324 UV roll-to-roll printer in Europe . The FLAAR Reports on this roll-to-roll UV printer is now available.
Our FLAAR Reports are more detailed on the Gandy roll-to-roll and on the NUR roll-to-roll because I have been to each of these factories for several days (and am scheduled to be back in Israel next week and back in Toronto at the Gandy factory in several weeks). But access to the Durst demo room in Rochester and to the Durst factory and demo rooms in Europe has not been as easy. Since there are over 45 manufacturers of UV printers, with over 101 models, I tend to concentrate on the printer brands and models where they are readily available to study.
Neither VUTEk nor Inca yet has a dedicated roll-to-roll UV-curable inkjet printer. The one from VUTEk will probably come first.
Most recently updated October 1, 2007.
First posted November 28, 2005. Updated May 29, 2006, Sept. 21, 2006, October 30, 2006.
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Dilli NeoPlus |
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Interesting inks & Alternative Inks |
HP latex ink |
UV-Curable ink, OEM (in preparation) |
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| Encres Dubuit (others in preparation) |
Fine Art Photography Giclee & Proofing (on other FLAAR sites)
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