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 Circulation expertise, the brand new FLXflow provides the unique ‘Maintain’ performance, which helps to carry media down on the flatbed desk, and the brand new non-compulsory ‘Float’ and ‘Immediate Swap’ functionalities to enhance media dealing with.
Arizona is the world’s best-selling UV flatbed printer, with 8000 in use all over the world. 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 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 solution to maintain and to drift the media, FLXflow comes with three functionalities – Maintain, Float and Immediate 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 Circulation expertise, works by retaining the media in place with a patented airflow approach. Canon says that by utilizing computerized measurement and adjustment of airflow ranges to firmly and precisely maintain numerous kinds 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 danger of media injury or waste. Canon says it additionally ends in the smoother registration of all kinds 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 Immediate 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 simple to take away media from the desk.
Arizona 1300 FLXflow prospects may reap the benefits of 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 costly supplies. Productiveness is additional enhanced by service assist instruments akin to Prismaservice, which offers predictive upkeep and facilitates authorised distant help by certified service technicians to extend uptime.
Print companies utilizing present Arizona 1300 collection with Circulation expertise can improve their printer to the most recent model with FLXflow expertise, together with the non-compulsory Float and Immediate Swap functionalities. Upgrades additionally embrace options just like the Superior Picture Structure Controls. They will additionally add Peisma XL Suite workflow software program to offer a preview operate, which permits customers to see what the ultimate product will appear like earlier than it’s printed, whereas permitting them to make any essential changes. This makes it attainable to preview complicated, 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 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.
“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 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 supply a fair wider vary of purposes.”
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 purposes that Canon says will improve and broaden the product providing. Based on Canon it can allow Arizona customers to discover new purposes, akin 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 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 economic 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 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.
Customers may reap the benefits of Canon’s remanufacturing programme, the place they’ll commerce of their Arizona printers when buying a substitute. These older techniques 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.
