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 known as Move know-how, the brand new FLXflow affords the unique ‘Maintain’ performance, which helps to carry media down on the flatbed desk, and the brand new optionally available ‘Float’ and ‘Prompt Swap’ functionalities to enhance media dealing with.
Arizona is the world’s best-selling UV flatbed printer, with 8000 in use around the globe. Canon says Arizona customers can now profit 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 know-how.
Catering to rising mid-volume operations, the Arizona 1300 FLXflow helps all kinds of substrates and functions. This allows massive format graphics printers and different print service suppliers to supply prospects a variety of functions for the retail, inside décor, packaging, and industrial market segments extra effectively.
Providing a patented method to maintain and to drift the media, FLXflow comes with three functionalities – Maintain, Float and Prompt Swap – which Canon says permits customers to maneuver heavier and irregular-sized media quicker and extra simply across the desk. The Maintain performance, a function of the unique Move know-how, works by conserving the media in place with a patented airflow approach. Canon says that through the use of computerized 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 “simple positioning” of heavy or difficult substrates, and lowering the chance of media injury 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 similar time.
The Prompt Swap 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 simple to take away media from the desk.
Arizona 1300 FLXflow prospects can even benefit from the Superior Picture Structure Controls, which permit last-minute changes on the printer, giving extra flexibility when positioning substrates on the desk and lowering waste of pricy supplies. Productiveness is additional enhanced by service help instruments akin 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 Move know-how can improve their printer to the newest model with FLXflow know-how, together with the optionally available Float and Prompt Swap functionalities. Upgrades additionally embody options just like the Superior Picture Structure Controls. They’ll additionally add Peisma XL Suite workflow software program to offer 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 obligatory changes. This makes it attainable to preview advanced, multi-layered, textured jobs and to offer value estimates earlier than printing, thus saving time.
Steven Badger, head of gross sales & skilled companies, Canon Manufacturing Printing Australia stated, “At Canon, we’re centered on the continual growth of our flatbed know-how, by working carefully with the market and our prospects 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 yr, to the Arizona 1300 sequence, giving much more of our prospects the aptitude to be extra versatile and ship high-quality functions with even better 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 provide a fair wider vary of functions.”
Accessible with the Arizona 1300 FLXflow is Prismaelevate XL, which allows layered printing as much as a peak of 4mm, to assist create stand-out, tactile art work for elevated print functions that Canon says will improve and increase the product providing. In keeping with Canon it should allow Arizona customers to discover new functions, akin to high-value, textured, everlasting signage, product ornament, awards, décor supplies and bundle prototyping, in addition to functions for the visually impaired. It says Prismaelevate XL software program makes prints sturdy with out extra ending steps, akin to lamination, coating or spray varnishing, and ends in 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 at the very least 15 per cent much less power in contrast with its UV-halide predecessors, and affords 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.
Customers can even benefit from Canon’s remanufacturing programme, the place they’ll commerce of their Arizona printers when buying a alternative. 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 accessible instantly by way of accredited companions in addition to from Canon’s direct gross sales organisations.
