CANON ADDS FLXFLOW TO ARIZONA 1300
Canon has added its FLXflow know-how to the Arizona 1300 sequence, which it says brings new productiveness and efficiency options to the flatbed printer sequence.
Beforehand often called Movement know-how, the brand new FLXflow provides the unique ‘Maintain’ performance, which helps to carry media down on the flatbed desk, and the brand new non-obligatory ‘Float’ and ‘On the spot Change’ functionalities to enhance media dealing with.
Arizona is the world’s best-selling UV flatbed printer, with 8000 in use all over the world. Canon says Arizona customers can now profit from enhanced productiveness, print high quality and software versatility because of FLXflow, a spread of print modes, ease of use, workflow optimisation and UV-LED curing know-how.
Catering to rising mid-volume operations, the Arizona 1300 FLXflow helps all kinds of substrates and functions. This permits massive format graphics printers and different print service suppliers to supply clients a variety of functions for the retail, inside décor, packaging, and industrial market segments extra effectively.
Providing a patented option to maintain and to drift the media, FLXflow comes with three functionalities – Maintain, Float and On the spot Change – which Canon says permits customers to maneuver heavier and irregular-sized media sooner and extra simply across the desk. The Maintain performance, a characteristic of the unique Movement know-how, works by maintaining the media in place with a patented airflow approach. Canon says that through the use of automated measurement and adjustment of airflow ranges to firmly and precisely maintain numerous sorts of media in place, the performance leads to versatile positioning with far much less masking.
The brand new Float performance pushes air from the desk upwards to create a cushion, enabling the “straightforward positioning” of heavy or difficult substrates, and decreasing the danger of media injury or waste. Canon says it additionally leads to the smoother registration of all sorts of media, with a “floating with out drifting” performance enabling a number of items of media to be “exactly positioned” on the similar time.
The On the spot Change performance permits the operator to simply change from Maintain to Float through the use of the foot pedal(s) for easy operability of the printer, making it straightforward to take away media from the desk.
Arizona 1300 FLXflow clients can even make the most of the Superior Picture Format Controls, which permit last-minute changes on the printer, giving extra flexibility when positioning substrates on the desk and decreasing waste of costly supplies. Productiveness is additional enhanced by service assist instruments equivalent to Prismaservice, which supplies predictive upkeep and facilitates authorised distant help by certified service technicians to extend uptime.
Print companies utilizing present Arizona 1300 sequence with Movement know-how can improve their printer to the newest model with FLXflow know-how, together with the non-obligatory Float and On the spot Change functionalities. Upgrades additionally embody options just like the Superior Picture Format Controls. They will additionally add Peisma XL Suite workflow software program to supply a preview perform, which permits customers to see what the ultimate product will appear like earlier than it’s printed, whereas permitting them to make any vital changes. This makes it potential to preview complicated, multi-layered, textured jobs and to supply value estimates earlier than printing, thus saving time.
Steven Badger, head of gross sales & skilled providers, Canon Manufacturing Printing Australia mentioned, “At Canon, we’re targeted on the continual improvement of our flatbed know-how, by working carefully with the market and our clients to evolve our merchandise, from our printer ranges to the software program that helps them.
“With that in thoughts, we’re now extending the FLXflow know-how from the Arizona 2300 sequence, introduced in March this 12 months, to the Arizona 1300 sequence, giving much more of our clients the aptitude to be extra versatile and ship high-quality functions with even larger workflow effectivity and productiveness.
“And with its added Float functionality, our FLXflow know-how makes life a lot simpler for operators to deal with irregular or heavy substrates, opening up alternatives to supply an excellent wider vary of functions.”
Accessible with the Arizona 1300 FLXflow is Prismaelevate XL, which allows layered printing as much as a top of 4mm, to assist create stand-out, tactile art work for elevated print functions that Canon says will improve and broaden the product providing. Based on Canon it should allow Arizona customers to discover new functions, equivalent to high-value, textured, everlasting signage, product ornament, awards, décor supplies and package deal prototyping, in addition to functions for the visually impaired. It says Prismaelevate XL software program makes prints sturdy with out extra ending steps, equivalent to lamination, coating or spray varnishing, and leads to much less waste and better manufacturing effectivity.
Providing lowered waste and decrease power consumption than its predecessors, the Arizona 1300 FLXflow has been designed with the round financial system in thoughts. FLXflow know-how requires much less masking and underlays to carry media in place, leading to much less waste. As LED-UV printers, the sequence additionally consumes not less than 15 per cent much less power in contrast with its UV-halide predecessors, and provides power-saving options equivalent to first-time-right printing and instant-on performance. Its inks are UL Greenguard Gold licensed, which ensures prints are secure to be used in delicate environments equivalent to hospitals, faculties and different public locations.
Customers can even make the most of Canon’s remanufacturing programme, the place they’ll commerce of their Arizona printers when buying a substitute. These older programs are inspected, serviced and ready on the market as refurbished printers, additional extending the lifespan of the Arizona.
The Arizona 1300 FLXflow is offered instantly through accredited companions in addition to from Canon’s direct gross sales organisations.
