Canon has added its FLXflow expertise to the Arizona 1300 sequence, which brings new productiveness and efficiency options to the flatbed printer sequence. The corporate made this announcement at Printing United.
Beforehand often called FLOW expertise, the brand new FLXflow provides not solely the unique ‘maintain’ performance, which helps to carry media down on the flatbed desk, but in addition the brand new non-obligatory ‘float’ and ‘instantaneous change’ functionalities to enhance media dealing with.
This permits Arizona customers to learn from enhanced productiveness, print high quality and software versatility due to FLXflow, a spread 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 (PSPs) to supply clients a variety of purposes for the retail, inside décor, packaging, and industrial market segments extra effectively.
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 chance of media harm or waste. It additionally leads to the smoother registration of all varieties 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 change’ 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 may also benefit from 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 pricy supplies. Productiveness is additional enhanced by service assist instruments akin to PRISMAservice, which supplies predictive upkeep and facilitates authorised distant help by certified service technicians to extend uptime.
Prospects of the present Arizona 1300 sequence with FLOW expertise can improve their printer to the most recent model with FLXflow expertise, together with the non-obligatory Float and Prompt Swap functionalities.
Upgrades additionally embrace options just like the Superior Picture Format Controls. They will additionally add PRISMA XL Suite workflow software program to offer a preview perform, which permits customers to see what the ultimate product will seem like earlier than it’s printed whereas permitting them to make any obligatory changes.
This makes it attainable to preview complicated, multi-layered, textured jobs and to offer value estimates earlier than printing, thus saving time.
“At Canon, we’re targeted 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,” Canon Manufacturing Printing Australia head of gross sales {and professional} companies Steven Badger mentioned.
“With that in thoughts, we’re now extending the FLXflow expertise from the Arizona 2300 sequence, introduced in March this yr, to the Arizona 1300 sequence, giving much more of our clients the aptitude to be extra versatile and ship high-quality purposes with even larger 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.”
Obtainable with the Arizona 1300 FLXflow is PRISMAelevate XL, which permits layered printing as much as a top of 4 mm to assist clients create stand-out, tactile art work for elevated print purposes that improve and increase their product providing.
It permits clients to discover new purposes, akin to high-value, textured, everlasting signage, product ornament, awards, décor supplies and bundle prototyping, in addition to purposes for the visually impaired.
PRISMAelevate XL software program makes prints sturdy with out extra ending steps, akin 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 requires much less masking and underlays to carry media in place, leading to much less waste.
As LED-UV printers, the sequence additionally consumes at the very least 15 per cent much less power in contrast with its UV-halide predecessors, and provides power-saving options akin 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 akin to hospitals, colleges and different public locations.
Prospects may also benefit from Canon’s remanufacturing programme, the place they will 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 on the market from accredited companions in addition to from Canon’s direct gross sales organisations.
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