Agfa supplies Dotrix digital UV inkjet press

Unit Safety Signs (USS), a producer of signs and products for the safety industry, is able to handle shorter run lengths and expand its media assortment with a Dotrix press from Agfa Graphics.

According to Agfa, USS was prompted to install Agfa's Dotrix UV inkjet press because of the trend to shorter run lengths and quicker turn-around times requested by clients.

USS has also seen reductions in demand for signs printed on rigid media and board, due to the growth in signs printed on roll or flexible sheet material.

The Dotrix digital UV inkjet press has a printing width of 63cm and is a very productive UV, single-pass printing press, said Afga.

The digital press is also said to print with high production capacity on a variety of substrates ranging from flexible foils, 20 micron over self-adhesives, to folding cartons up to 600 micron.

With its modular construction, traditional UV flexo printing stations that can serve as coating and varnishing alleys can be added to the roll-to-roll basic configuration.

Slitting and die-cutting as well as sheeter installations can also be integrated to complete the system.

Keijiro Kuroda, USS's production manager, said: 'We also need the ability of the Dotrix to print on demand and reduce inventory of finished product by turning work around quicker than before.

'We can now complete work very quickly compared to traditional print methods.

'Unlike the silk screen method, the Dotrix doesn't need a drying oven, which is another cash and energy saving,' he added.

Agfa said that traditional silk screen production is good for producing certain types of print work but is slow and labour intensive.

Analogue silk screen plates are made manually, which takes too much time.

For USS, Dotrix works much faster and is still able to produce high-quality print using vivid, durable UV inks on a wide variety of substrates.

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