EFI has announced its first UV LED inkjet inks for thermoformed 3D sign and display applications, plus the 1.4m-wide Nozomi 14000 SD single-pass printer for the sign and display market.
The new printer - available later this year - has white, orange and violet ink options in addition to CMYK and according to EFI offers “speeds up to 10 times faster than multi-pass printers on the market”. The modular, base-model, four-colour Nozomi 14000 SD prints paper, synthetic media and board at speeds up to 30 linear metres per minute. At that speed, users will be able to produce up to 740 1.4 x 2.4m sheets per hour.
The base configuration features an analogue UV or water-based primer station, registration table, printer with LED curing, up to six printing bars and an advanced vision camera, and is available with several ink options, including CMYK, CMYK+W, CMYK+O, CMYK+OV and CMYK+W+O. There’s also an optional post UV or water-based analogue coater.
The new EFI Transform-TF thermoforming ink is UV LED curable and said to have outstanding elongation characteristics for heat bending and routing without chipping or adhesion problems. It is available now for the EFI Pro 30f flatbed and EFI Vutek 32h hybrid flatbed/roll-to-roll printer models. The inks will be available for EFI Vutek h3 and h5 printers in Q3.