The 1,000dpi, 130msq-per-hour Columbia is designed for industrial printing and corrugated packaging.
"It fits the US 10ft market and eats into screen print in runs up to 350," said project manager Nick Cousins. Of the four firms that have had a sneak preview of the £450,000-Columbia, which will ship in January, two have placed orders and the other two are close to signing.
The Eagle H has a resolution of 800dpi, up from 720 on the Eagle, and is 10% faster with a top speed of 100m2 per hour. Price is 10% more than the Eagle, at £412,500. It is aimed at digital printers and photolabs, where the firm believes the higher quality will be popular for photographic images and close-viewed point-of-sale. Vgl and Bezier have already installed the Eagle H.
Both Columbia and the Eagle H use print heads made by US firm Spectra, rather than fellow Cambridge-based firm Xaar as used in the Eagle.
"The market demands finer resolution and higher speeds," said Cousins.
MP for Cambridge Anne Campbell opened the firm's 1,800m sq building on Monday 14 October.
"It's not often we can celebrate a manufacturing company in Cambridge" she said. "It's good to see one of these bright ideas churning out work and offering jobs that will attract the young into engineering."
Story by Barney Cox
