The Larger Profile (TLP), a display print specialist in Letchworth, has completed beta testing of Europe’s first Screen Truepress Jet W3200UV flatbed UV inkjet printer.
Established in 2010, TLP works in close partnership with Benchmark, a specialist retail design manufacturing group. TLP MD Gary Orsman said: “We started with an Océ Arizona 550 UV flatbed and it was ideal, however none of the printers at the time could do white ink, and we wanted that. So, earlier this year, when Screen asked me to be the beta site for this new machine with white – I jumped at the chance.”
He added: “It can print 85m2/hr with CMYK and, even for top quality with maximum passes, we rarely drop below 66sqm per hour. Also the Truepress’s bed size means we can handle 3 x 1.65m panels and fill the bed with several panels if we wish to get maximum use.”
“What I always wanted from a digital printer with my background in quality packaging, we are now getting from the Truepress,” he says. “It gives me the quality and speed that I couldn’t get anywhere else.”
The Truepress Jet W3200UV is a moving bed printer that can take rigid board or paper sheets up to 3.2 x 1.6m format and up to 50mm thick, or multiple smaller sheets at once. It features a 14 picolitre drop size and prints at 10, 14, 18 and 22 passes with a thin ink film that helps with flexibility on the media. The bed travels under the head carriage gantry, which builds up the image with between eight and 22 passes depending on the speed and quality required. The ‘realistic production speed’ is 85m2/hr. The configuration used at TLP is the top model, with eight ink channels for CMYK, light cyan and magenta, and two white.