Brother Industries has launched itself into the wide-format digital inkjet market at Fespa Global by presenting its new WF1-L640 Latex printer for the first time.
Brother has made expanding the industrial print area one of its goals as part of its ‘At your side 2030’ vision. In order to achieve this vision, the medium-term business strategy is to create an inkjet portfolio. The WF1-L640, developed for the sign and display market, marks a new business area for Brother, which will aim to leverage the ink and piezo-electric printhead technology it has cultivated through its garment/fabric print history.
The WF1-L640 is based on the Roland DG TrueVIS AP-640 chassis, and through collaboration with Roland DG uses its VersaWorks Rip. The machine has a printable width of 1615mm, a 1200x1200dpi print resolution, and top speed of 15m2/hr. It uses Brother’s in-house developed water-based ink with Greenguard Gold certification. The printer holds six cartridges at once, CMYK plus two optimisers.