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News Release from: Xaar | Subject: 128 drop on demand inkjet printhead
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 March 2008
Printhead Helps Coder's Print At Speed
Prodigit 18 is a high resolution drop on demand coding and marking printer for porous and non-porous substrates that features the Xaar 128 printhead with an 18mm print width.
The Prodigit 70 has been developed with the Xaar 500 printhead to print on 70mm (maximum) width porous substrates At the same time, the Prodigit Eggsprint printer features Xaar 128 printheads jetting CE-approved food grade pigment based solvent ink
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 16 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Eggsprint is said to have been designed to print logos and up to four lines of text on each egg at speeds reaching 22,000 eggs per hour.
Maplejet is to introduce its three new Xaar-enabled inkjet Prodigit coding and marking printers at the Interpack exhibition from April 24 - 30 in Dusseldorf (Germany).
The 128 is an entry level piezo drop on demand printhead, which, according to Xaar, is recognised as the de facto standard within industrial graphics applications.
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Its claimed quality, ease of integration, reliability and speed are said to be suitable for robust coding and marking applications.
The Xaar 500 binary inkjet printhead is said to provide a range of capability that give added flexibility and productivity.
Xaar's ink approval programme gives users a choice of ink suppliers and the design of the printhead assembly protects the process from contamination and blockages, which is an important feature in coding and marking, added the company.
The new Prodigit printers were designed by Sorveh for the needs of the American market and they are said to build on the success of the Metsa range sold by Honaz, its sister company in Dubai.
Honaz has sold 5,000 machines to the Middle East, Africa and Asia to date.
Chris Coyne, vice president of sales and marketing of MapleJet, explained: "We aim to become America's first choice in the specialist coding and marking sector and key to our success will be the performance, versatility and reliability of the Xaar printheads within our printers.
Our machines operate in demanding and dusty environments and it is critical that the printheads keep working with minimum maintenance." He continued: "The Xaar printheads are ideal for all coding and marking applications.
They have also transformed printing on to eggs.
In our new printer an array of six heads allows high-speed single pass printing without the need to repeat pass and so ensure continuous production.
The printhead unit is lightweight, simple to use and very cost effective. Request a free brochure from Xaar ...
The Xaar 128 printhead also allows us to achieve a large print height so there is no need for the Eggsprint to touch the eggs at all, which gives us the ability to print at such high speed.".
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