Canon has added its FLXflow expertise to the Arizona 1300 collection, which brings new productiveness and efficiency options to the flatbed printer collection. The corporate made this announcement at Printing United.
Beforehand generally known as FLOW expertise, the brand new FLXflow presents not solely the unique ‘maintain’ performance, which helps to carry media down on the flatbed desk, but in addition the brand new non-compulsory ‘float’ and ‘prompt change’ functionalities to enhance media dealing with.
This enables Arizona customers to profit from enhanced productiveness, print high quality and utility versatility because of 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 giant format graphics printers and different print service suppliers (PSPs) to supply prospects 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 lowering the danger of media injury or waste. It additionally ends in the smoother registration of all sorts 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 change’ 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 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 lowering waste of high-priced supplies. Productiveness is additional enhanced by service help instruments reminiscent of PRISMAservice, which gives predictive upkeep and facilitates authorised distant help by certified service technicians to extend uptime.
Clients of the present Arizona 1300 collection with FLOW 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 Format Controls. They’ll additionally add PRISMA 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 essential changes.
This makes it doable to preview advanced, multi-layered, textured jobs and to offer price estimates earlier than printing, thus saving time.
“At Canon, we’re targeted on the continual improvement of our flatbed expertise by working intently with the market and our prospects 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 collection, introduced in March this yr, to the Arizona 1300 collection, 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 expertise makes life a lot simpler for operators to deal with irregular or heavy substrates, opening up alternatives to provide an excellent wider vary of purposes.”
Obtainable with the Arizona 1300 FLXflow is PRISMAelevate XL, which permits layered printing as much as a peak of 4 mm to assist prospects create stand-out, tactile paintings for elevated print purposes that improve and broaden their product providing.
It permits prospects to discover new purposes, reminiscent of high-value, textured, everlasting signage, product ornament, awards, décor supplies and package deal prototyping, in addition to purposes for the visually impaired.
PRISMAelevate XL software program makes prints sturdy with out extra ending steps, reminiscent of lamination, coating or spray varnishing, and ends in much less waste and better manufacturing effectivity.
Providing lowered waste and decrease vitality 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 collection additionally consumes not less than 15 per cent much less vitality in contrast with its UV-halide predecessors, and presents power-saving options reminiscent of 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 reminiscent of hospitals, faculties and different public locations.
Clients 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 out there from accredited companions in addition to from Canon’s direct gross sales organisations.
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