Inca Onset: the world’s fastest digital UV flatbed printer

A breakthrough in digital printing technology that redefines wide format speed and productivity, Inca Onset sets new levels of digital production throughput. High productivity opens up new opportunities within display and commercial print markets. Handling print sizes up to 3.2 x 1.5m (10.5x 5 ft) and achieving production throughput of 500 sq m/hr (5382 sq ft /hr), the automated Inca Onset delivers an amazing 100+ full bed sheets an hour.

“The Onset represents a major advance in inkjet print production and has been engineered from the ground up to achieve new levels of performance,” says Bill Baxter, Managing Director at Inca Digital. “Its design draws on our vast experience of jetting inks and includes some of the core technologies we have developed to produce the Columbia Turbo and Spyder presses that already lead the wide format display market in speed and quality. Onset’s design also draws on our experience in developing the high-speed, single-pass FastJet press specifically developed for the corrugated market.

”The Inca Onset’s speed and quality is delivered by a massive array of 576 Spectra printheads addressing a total of 73,728 inkjet nozzles in easy plug-in Inca print bars, supported by innovative head alignment systems. Inkjet printer quality is determined by inkjet nozzle performance and, while output from other printers can be affected by occasional nozzle failure, the Inca Onset has been designed with a high level of fault tolerance to ensure maximum print quality. “In demanding and high-volume production environments it is important to achieve sustainable quality and the Onset features the highest level of nozzle redundancy to ensure the best sustained performance,” explains Bill Baxter.

For all its sophistication, the Inca Onset is extremely easy to operate by one operator with a minimal 20 minute set up time at the start of each day. It includes a fully automatic load/unload system as standard, however it is designed to allow users to move to manual mode within seconds if required for immediate fast proofing or production of single prints.

Edge-to-edge printing allows images to be printed to bleed on substrates up to 10 mm thick and up to 10 kg at full speed, providing enormous versatility in terms of what can be printed as well as the ability to proof a job on the material on which it will finally be produced.

For more information on Inca Machines, please contact Fujfilm Sericol's Digital Business Manager, Robert Wilson on +61 417 237 325 or email robert.wilson@fujifilmsericol.com

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