Endless flatbed
Now there is a novel transport method for continuous printing. To the Oryx and Impala inkjet systems it brings a new option for printing oversized formats with seamless precision. Thanks to intelligent control working in the background, the carefully thought-out principle sets new benchmarks for quality.
Oversized panels and difficult roll media can now be printed to the highest standards. An Oryx or Impala equipped with the new transport method fixate these and similar materials during printing with full-power vacuum.
The substrate holds rock-steady until the printing beam reaches the end of the table, at which point a clever feed technique takes over and advances the substrate to a precise new zero origin. Printing then resumes seamlessly. The appeal of this approach lies in absolute precision on the one hand, with high efficiency on the other. Flawless end-to-end printing onto rigid media up to 4 metres long is a routine performance. And for an encore, the system can repeat the act with stretchy, heat-sensitive, or very slippery substrates.
Intelligent feed
Transporting print media with high precision by purely mechanical means is one thing. The underlying intelli- gence is something else, because every print job is different. The best moment to feed the substrate and the optimal choice of printing origin must be carefully considered if results are to be impeccable all the time. This is just what the controller that runs the new continuous flatbed option for Oryx and Impala is capable of doing automatically.
Clustering
Situation: a variety of print images arranged in over-length rows. Intelligent solution: the controller identifies the optimal nesting and masks out other print images. After the printing pass completes, the controller advances the media, unmasks the next group of images, and sets the machine to work printing them. Result: each and every print image is laid down on the medium in a single pass.