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availability, helping to use up leftovers and reduce waste while providing more flexibility, time savings and cost efficiencies. The series also includes an accounting interface, providing valuable data about ink consumption and production time, for example, for further processing in accounting packages. New print modes have been added too. These include Quality-Smooth, Production- Plus and Quality-Plus (available for 8-channel configurations), which provide exceptional print quality, print after print. The additional ‘Plus’ modes also allow users to achieve a larger colour gamut to create eye-catching applications with light cyan, light magenta and white inks in the higher-quality print modes for exceptional quality photo and fine-art applications. The new GTF and XTF models retain the third generation VariaDot printing technology, which delivers photorealistic image reproduction and an even more advanced use of different ink drop sizes in the various colours ensuring the biggest choice in quality and speed ratios. Print providers can now offer high-quality applications across an array of rigid and flexible media — as well as irregular-shaped substrates — more easily and more productively. The product lifecycle of the Arizona flatbed printer series, from design and manufacturing to use, reuse and recycling, has been developed to be sustainable. Blower boxes for creation of the FLOW and LED curing bring energy efficiencies, while it is designed to be repairable and easily disassembled –
enabling reuse and recycling of materials and supporting
the transition to a circular economy. In addition, 100% renewable electricity is used to produce the devices at the manufacturing site in Germany and VariaDot technology reduces ink consumption. GREENGUARD Gold
certified, the inks are safer for use in public environments and are free from hazardous air pollutants and volatile organic components. “With the added FLOW technology and automation enhancements, these new models deliver the proven Arizona quality and versatility, but make production quicker and easier than ever, boosting our customers’ competitiveness,” said Mathew Faulkner, EMEA director, marketing and innovation, Wide Format Printing Group, Canon Europe. Also available with the Arizona 1300 series is the new PRISMAelevate XL software, enabling customers to design creative, high value applications with tactile elevation effects by creating textured surfaces, embossing, metallic accents and raised lettering up to 2mm. PRISMAelevate extends the PRISMA XL Suite and succeeds the Arizona Touchstone software – delivering twice the elevation at up to 20% higher speeds on the Arizona 1300 and 2300 flatbed series. The Arizona 1300 series with FLOW technology is available now via accredited partners as well as Canon’s direct sales organisations, while PRISMAelevate XL will be available for ordering and delivery from July.
Arizona 1300 Series
OKI Europe announces partnership with Graphtec Europe
OKI Europe Ltd has announced a key strategic partnership with Graphtec Europe B.V. to provide solutions that address the varying applications for creating ‘ready to use’ labels and packaging in the European market. “As a part of OKI’s continued expansion in the provision of solutions for printing labels in house, we are seeing an increased demand for specialist finishing requirements,” explained Rob Brown, EMEA head of business development, Pro Series. “Customers want to make the most of the media flexibility presented by the OKI Pro10xx range of roll to roll label printers or the OKI Pro9xx range of sheet fed package/ label printers and this means being able to run blank media, which provides the freedom
to create labels of constantly changing size, shape and durability. “The Graphtec range of cutting devices enable flexibility for customers to cut, perf, slit and rewind a variety of substrate types. “Being able to perform these functions on a separate device means customers can print the next job at full production speeds whilst finishing others at the same time; one minute you can print silver paper labels and at the same time you can be cutting synthetic white labels, so regardless of whether your business is beauty or beer, cosmetics or coffee, a joint print and finish solution from OKI and Graphtec gives your business a whole host more flexibility to print a huge range of labels in-house and on-demand.”
Rob Brown EMEA head of business development, Pro Series OKI Europe
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