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 generally known as Circulation know-how, the brand new FLXflow provides the unique ‘Maintain’ performance, which helps to carry media down on the flatbed desk, and the brand new non-obligatory ‘Float’ and ‘On the spot Change’ 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 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 purposes. This permits giant format graphics printers and different print service suppliers to supply prospects a variety of purposes for the retail, inside décor, packaging, and industrial market segments extra effectively.
Providing a patented approach to maintain and to drift the media, FLXflow comes with three functionalities – Maintain, Float and On the spot Change – which Canon says permits customers to maneuver heavier and irregular-sized media sooner and extra simply across the desk. The Maintain performance, a function of the unique Circulation know-how, works by protecting the media in place with a patented airflow method. Canon says that by utilizing computerized measurement and adjustment of airflow ranges to firmly and precisely maintain numerous 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 decreasing 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 identical time.
The On the spot 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 prospects 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 high-priced supplies. Productiveness is additional enhanced by service help instruments similar to Prismaservice, which offers predictive upkeep and facilitates authorised distant help by certified service technicians to extend uptime.
Print companies utilizing present Arizona 1300 sequence with Circulation know-how can improve their printer to the most recent model with FLXflow know-how, together with the non-obligatory Float and On the spot Change functionalities. Upgrades additionally embody options just like the Superior Picture Format Controls. They will additionally add Peisma XL Suite workflow software program to offer a preview perform, which permits customers to see what the ultimate product will appear like earlier than it’s printed, whereas permitting them to make any needed changes. This makes it doable to preview complicated, multi-layered, textured jobs and to offer price estimates earlier than printing, thus saving time.
Steven Badger, head of gross sales & skilled companies, Canon Manufacturing Printing Australia mentioned, “At Canon, we’re targeted on the continual growth of our flatbed know-how, by working intently 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 purposes with even higher 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 supply an excellent wider vary of purposes.”
Accessible with the Arizona 1300 FLXflow is Prismaelevate XL, which permits layered printing as much as a peak of 4mm, to assist create stand-out, tactile art work for elevated print purposes that Canon says will improve and develop the product providing. In accordance with Canon it should allow Arizona customers to discover new purposes, similar to high-value, textured, everlasting signage, product ornament, awards, décor supplies and bundle prototyping, in addition to purposes for the visually impaired. It says Prismaelevate XL software program makes prints sturdy with out extra ending steps, similar to lamination, coating or spray varnishing, and ends in much less waste and better manufacturing effectivity.
Providing decreased 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 provides power-saving options similar to first-time-right printing and instant-on performance. Its inks are UL Greenguard Gold licensed, which ensures prints are protected to be used in delicate environments similar to hospitals, faculties and different public locations.
Customers may also benefit from Canon’s remanufacturing programme, the place they will commerce of their Arizona printers when buying a alternative. These older methods 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 through accredited companions in addition to from Canon’s direct gross sales organisations.
