Xaar launches its latest wide-format inkjet printing technology

Xaar, founded in 1990, is headquartered in Cambridge, England. Although it was not a long time to establish, but because the company relied on the world-famous Cambridge University as a strong technical backing, it has rapidly developed into one of the most important manufacturers in the field of inkjet printing, and it is in a leading position in terms of technology. . Xaar's print heads mainly include the XJ126 series and the XJ500 series, which have a wide range of applications. The most important and direct market is the large and wide-format inkjet printing market. The XaarJet128 printhead has been deployed in a series of major printers in recent years, such as the NUR/Salsa, Scitex series inkjet printers in the large inkjet market, and the Xerox and Gretag Imaging printers in the wide format market. This series of market-leading brands has made the XaarJet print head synonymous with quality and speed in the large and wide inkjet market. Xaar's newly developed XJ500 print head series is being used in the latest platform printing equipment. At Drupa 2000, Perfecta, SiasPrint and Inca DigitalPrinters demonstrated this new type of equipment. In addition to the traditional screen-printing process, they have created a new world for customers to choose digital options, enabling inkjet printing to be implemented on a variety of hard bottom materials such as cardboard, vinyl, plastics, metals and Wood and so on. This type of ink-jet printing uses UV-curable inks, printing speeds of 80 to 100 Square meters per hour and a resolution of 360 dpi. At the Drupa 2000 exhibition, thefactory (TheDotFactory) printing equipment produced by the Barco company of Belgium was assembled with the Xaar XJ500 gray ladder print head with a resolution of over 1000 dpi. Barco combined it into a fixed-width printhead set. This compact flexible material printer has a web width of 5.5 inches to 23 inches and a print line speed of 0.36 meters/second. In September 2000, Barco and Mark Andy announced that they would cooperate to develop and produce the MarkAndy 2200 series flexographic printing press, which will enable full digitization of the label printing process. This device will also be equipped with an inkjet printing device. In Asia, Xaar has also partnered with many manufacturers to bring the latest wide-format printing technology to the Asian market. Not long ago, DGI launched Omega wide-format textile printing presses in Seoul. Her OJ-52 and OJ-62 ink jet plotters, equipped with Xaar's XJ128 print heads, can print at high speed using fast-drying oil-based pigment inks with print widths of 52 inches and 62 inches respectively. Xaar expects to introduce several wide-format printing devices equipped with such print heads in the future. The success of Xaar's print heads in the large and wide format market can be attributed to four major factors: print speed, high print quality, print head width, and a variety of inks. The Xaar inkjet printhead can achieve line speeds of up to 0.56 meters per second in the 360 ​​dpi mode of operation, and up to 0.36 meters per second in the gray ladder mode. In the summer of 2001, Xaar will introduce the XJ126R, the newest, faster printhead product. In the width of the print head, the XJ500 series print head with a width of 70 mm is one of the widest piezoelectric inkjet print heads in the industry. They can use a variety of inks, including oil-based inks, solvent-based inks, UV-curable inks, sublimation inks, and the like. It is the combination of these key factors that has made Xaar's success in the wide-format and overall industrial printing industry.