The UJV55-320 is a roll-to-roll inkjet which runs at up to 110m2/hr at a resolution of up to 1,200dpi. It can take materials up to 1mm thick.
At €68,000, general manager of marketing at Mimaki EMEA Mike Horsten said the printer, launched yesterday (Tuesday) on Mimaki’s stand (1-E15) delivered “exceptional speed at an amazing price”.
The UJV55-320 can be configured in either four or six colours (CMYK, light cyan and magenta) plus white.
“With that configuration you can have backlit and frontlit graphics and signs. You don’t have a difference between when the light is on and when the light is off. We significantly tested it when it came in on Sunday. For us it had the wow factor.”
Mimaki believes it has a unique feature on the UJV55-320, which has been two years in development: a built-in LED light strip, allowing printers to check backlit print on the fly, saving money on waste.
“You can immediately see what the results are, you can see it’s running, you can see it’s doing well. This is something nobody else has on their machine,” Horsten said.
The printer has the option to run single or dual rolls, ranging from 210mm to 1,524mm.
Mimaki has also developed a new ink, the LUS-120 UV, which, Horsten said, has the same quality of its LUS-150 UV ink but is 170% more stretchable. “This is great for use on banners as it doesn’t crack,” he said.
“We’re quite excited that we have been able to get this ink with this stretchability. It has all the options that everybody screams for at a price point everyone will like,” said Horsten.
Also launched at Fespa is a 3.2m-wide sublimation transfer paper inkjet printer which uses new SB310 inks, which Horsten said meant the machine required less cleaning.
The TS500P-3200 features 12 printheads in a staggered formation and can run at up to 180m2/hr using a four-colour inkset. It also features four independent controllable post heaters in response to customer demand.
