Inca wide format printer shortens job turn-rounds

Daelprinting in Belgium has expanded its services with the installation of an Inca Onset S20 with added Ultratone colour option supplied by Fujifilm Sericol.

The large format print service provider can now offer its customers shorter turn-around times with higher quality print, while simultaneously making it an environmentally friendly option.

The company provides a variety of wide format materials, including POS materials and wide format banners to customers throughout northern France and the Benelux region.

The six-colour Onset S20, combined with Fujifilm Sericol's Uvijet Ultratone inks, is claimed to allow printers to widen the printable gamut of colours to 85 per cent of the Pantone colour spectrum.

It also features a gloss level control to produce finishes from matt, through satin to high gloss, depending on the application, providing versatility to the range of products that can be printed, such as display POS, exhibition graphics, backlit and frontlit displays and outdoor signage printing.

Arjan D'haene, commercial director at Daelprinting, said: 'Up to now, our business has comprised 50 per cent screen printing and 50 per cent digital services.

But, as most of our customers require materials to be printed in two, three or sometimes four different languages with print runs never exceeding 500 sheets, we were keen to invest in a high performance digital printer to offer them a better service with shorter turn-around times and high quality print.

We wanted to make an investment through a company with a proven, trusted, track and service record and Fujifilm Sericol ticked all the boxes.

We've used its UV curable inks for a few years and have been impressed with their fantastic durability.

So, when we decided the Inca Onset S20 was the right product for us, we knew Fujifilm Sericol could deliver to our standards.

The Inca Onset S20, a UV curing inkjet flatbed printer prints edge to edge onto substrates of 3.14m x 1.6m and up to 50mm thick, at claimed speeds of up to 250 square metres per hour.

The vacuum table with pin positioning allows users to print single and double-sided on a variety of media sizes.

D'haene said: 'With the S20, we are now able to turn a job around in three to four days, shortening our lead times by 75 per cent.

Not only that, but the print quality is much better than we've produced before and it has resolved a problem with banding we've had with all of our previous digital machines.

We are delighted that we can now offer our customers an improved service and wider selection of materials, while lowering our print cost per square metre.

Digital printing used to be a high price opttion for us, but with the S20 we can offer a competitive price up to 500 square metres.

This is beneficial to us and our customers, as they can now get so much more out of their marketing budgets.

As the Onset prints on a variety of substrates, Dael's environmentally conscious customers now have more options to choose from, added the company.

Arjan D'haene continued: 'More of our customers want environmentally friendly print, and the combination of Fujiflim Sericol's UV curable inks with the S20's ability to print on paper, cardboard and re-board allow us to offer them a number of "green" options to choose from.

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