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News Release from: Inca Digital Printers | Subject: Spyder 320
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 July 2006
Inkjet Printer Doubles POS And Signage
Capacity
An Inca Spyder 320 inkjet printer has transformed production at Indianapolis (USA) company Matrix Imaging.
An Inca Spyder 320 inkjet printer has transformed production at Indianapolis (USA) company Matrix Imaging The company is using the flatbed Spyder 320 machine to produce a range of high-quality point-of-sale, signage and indoor display work
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Matrix Imaging has been running the Spyder 320 for 12 hours-a-day since its installation earlier in the year and has used the Inca machine to print a wide variety of materials, including aluminium, steel and glass.
It is also operating with other substrates, such as polystyrene, foamcore, corrugated, vinyl, paper and fabrics.
Print runs have ranged from a few copies to 300.
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Dan Clark, Matrix Imaging's vice president of corporate development, commented: "In our 25 years as a company we've never had anything like the Spyder 320.
The Inca printer has not only doubled our capacity but has enabled us to break in to new markets, such as the production of lenticular work.
This process previously required several individual tasks, but the Spyder 320's extremely high accuracy and its ability to print directly on to the substrate means that lenticular print can be created in one pass." He added: "That is a phenomenal achievement.
Indeed, the Spyder 320 is the only flatbed printer we have come across that can print at 1,000 dots per inch." And Clark explained: "The speed of the Spyder 320 is exceptional and with its capacity to output outstanding four-colour print at 540 square feet an hour we have been able to pass on cost savings.
The Inca printer has opened doors to new customers, whilst gaining us a larger percentage of work from existing customers.
Specialist work, such as backlit displays, has been easier to produce and the Spyder 320 has certainly allowed us to meet deadlines that would have been impossible before its installation." The worldwide distributor for the Spyder 320 is Fujifilm Sericol, which also makes the Uvijet UV inks that are used in all of Inca's flatbed inkjet printers.
The 126" x 63" print format of the Spyder 320 has allowed Matrix Imaging to produce work in multiples to view.
At the same time as the installation of the Inca printer the company took delivery of an MGE digital finishing system, which uses the XL series Kongsberg cutting table and the MGE i-cut vision system.
Specially written software converts the file of the job sent to the Inca printer to control the cutting head of the digital router, enabling any shape to be cut with great accuracy.
Matrix Imaging has its roots in the custom professional photographic finishing field, so staff have knowledge of colour and what makes a quality image.
The company moved in to digital images early on, supplying the retail and corporate sectors with point-of-sale, displays and specialist graphics - an area in which it now specialises.
Dan Clark said: "To those clients that need it we provide a design service, which is part of our one- stop shop facility, with the new Inca printer and router creating the final link in the production chain.
Throughout all our dealings, Inca and Sericol have given us a first class service and after-sales support.".
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