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News Release from: Xaar | Subject: Omnidot
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 February 2006
Inkjet Printheads Develop Further With
UV Inks
Xaar has strengthened its partnership with ink producer, Sunjet, with the approval of four of the company's Crystal range of UV-curable inks.
Xaar has strengthened its partnership with ink producer, Sunjet, with the approval of four of the company's Crystal range of UV-curable inks The piezoelectric inkjet manufacturer has completed what it described as full and rigorous testing on the inks which, together with its printheads, presents customers with a combination to achieve the flexibility, durability and high-quality benefits UV-inks can offer, said Xaar
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 5 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Dr Jill Woods, Xaar's ink product manager, explained: "We are seeing inkjet technology make inroads in to new areas, such as CD printing and ID cards, and UV-ink development is one of the major factors to this success.
Our partnership with leading ink companies, like Sunjet, means we can offer comprehensive support to customers adopting this technology and ensure they can truly capitalise on the opportunities." Sunjet's range of UV-ink is claimed to offer adhesion to a range of substrates and high scuff resistance, which combined with their flexible properties makes them suitable for the demanding requirements of wide format graphics, label, packaging and promotional printing applications.
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"These latest approvals are a significant step forward in our partnership with Xaar," commented Peter Saunders, Sunjet's sales and marketing manager.
"Together we are making real advances in achieving our aim to deliver a complete range of innovative products to support our customers - even in the most challenging and diverse applications.
We are particularly pleased to have achieved approval in the Omnidot series of print heads as they can open up applications requiring higher print quality and single pass processing." Sunjet's Crystal UFX, UNW, UOX and UGT inks were specifically designed for use with Xaar's patented drop-on-demand (DOD) inkjet technology to optimise printhead jetting reliability, said Xaar.
The Crystal UFX acrylate based, and UNW white pigment based inks were developed for jetting through Xaar's XJ126 and high performance XJ500 printheads, and are suitable for flexible and semi-flexible display and coding and marking applications respectively.
The Crystal UOX UV-ink is approved for Xaar's Omnidot 760 GS8, offering single-pass, multi-pulse, greyscale technology for precision printing on non-porous substrates.
Whilst the Crystal UGT UV-ink is combined with the company's Omnidot 318 printhead to support printing on a variety of non-porous substrates within industrial and packaging applications. Request a free brochure from Xaar ...
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