CANON ADDS FLXFLOW TO ARIZONA 1300
Canon has added its FLXflow expertise to the Arizona 1300 collection, which it says brings new productiveness and efficiency options to the flatbed printer collection.
Beforehand generally known as Move expertise, the brand new FLXflow gives the unique ‘Maintain’ performance, which helps to carry media down on the flatbed desk, and the brand new non-compulsory ‘Float’ and ‘Instantaneous Swap’ functionalities to enhance media dealing with.
Arizona is the world’s best-selling UV flatbed printer, with 8000 in use world wide. Canon says Arizona customers can now profit from enhanced productiveness, print high quality and utility versatility due to FLXflow, a variety of print modes, ease of use, workflow optimisation and UV-LED curing expertise.
Catering to rising mid-volume operations, the Arizona 1300 FLXflow helps all kinds of substrates and purposes. This allows massive format graphics printers and different print service suppliers to supply clients a variety of purposes 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 Instantaneous Swap – 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 Move expertise, works by retaining the media in place with a patented airflow approach. Canon says that by utilizing automated measurement and adjustment of airflow ranges to firmly and precisely maintain varied forms of media in place, the performance ends in 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 lowering the danger of media harm or waste. Canon says it additionally ends in the smoother registration of all forms of media, with a “floating with out drifting” performance enabling a number of items of media to be “exactly positioned” on the identical time.
The Instantaneous Swap performance permits the operator to simply change from Maintain to Float by utilizing 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 Structure Controls, which permit last-minute changes on the printer, giving further flexibility when positioning substrates on the desk and lowering waste of pricy supplies. Productiveness is additional enhanced by service assist instruments comparable to Prismaservice, which supplies predictive upkeep and facilitates authorised distant help by certified service technicians to extend uptime.
Print companies utilizing present Arizona 1300 collection with Move expertise can improve their printer to the most recent model with FLXflow expertise, together with the non-compulsory Float and Instantaneous Swap functionalities. Upgrades additionally embody options just like the Superior Picture Structure Controls. They’ll additionally add Peisma XL Suite workflow software program to supply a preview operate, which permits customers to see what the ultimate product will appear to be earlier than it’s printed, whereas permitting them to make any mandatory changes. This makes it attainable to preview advanced, 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 stated, “At Canon, we’re centered on the continual growth of our flatbed expertise, 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 expertise from the Arizona 2300 collection, introduced in March this yr, to the Arizona 1300 collection, giving much more of our clients the aptitude to be extra versatile and ship high-quality purposes with even better workflow effectivity and productiveness.
“And with its added Float functionality, our FLXflow expertise makes life a lot simpler for operators to deal with irregular or heavy substrates, opening up alternatives to provide a good wider vary of purposes.”
Accessible with the Arizona 1300 FLXflow is Prismaelevate XL, which permits layered printing as much as a top of 4mm, to assist create stand-out, tactile paintings for elevated print purposes that Canon says will improve and broaden the product providing. In response to Canon it would allow Arizona customers to discover new purposes, comparable to high-value, textured, everlasting signage, product ornament, awards, décor supplies and package deal prototyping, in addition to purposes for the visually impaired. It says Prismaelevate XL software program makes prints sturdy with out further ending steps, comparable to lamination, coating or spray varnishing, and ends in much less waste and better manufacturing effectivity.
Providing decreased waste and decrease vitality consumption than its predecessors, the Arizona 1300 FLXflow has been designed with the round financial system in thoughts. FLXflow expertise requires much less masking and underlays to carry media in place, leading to much less waste. As LED-UV printers, the collection additionally consumes a minimum of 15 per cent much less vitality in contrast with its UV-halide predecessors, and gives power-saving options comparable 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 comparable to hospitals, colleges 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 out there instantly by way of accredited companions in addition to from Canon’s direct gross sales organisations.
