HD inkjet, LED-UV the tops for InterTech awards

Jul 24, 2017 at 08:38 pm by Staff


Two inkjet web presses with quality to rival offset, and a curing system based on LED light are among winners of this year's InterTech Technology Awards.

America's PIA - which administers the awards since 1978 - has named 14 technologies it predicts will have a major impact on graphic arts and related industries.

The newspaper-capable digital presses honoured are HP's T490HD PageWide Web Press and Screen's Truepress Jet 520HD. HP also wins an award for its PrintOS production operating system, which works with web and mobile apps.

The 1067mm-wide T490 HD is claimed to be the industry's most productive digital colour duplex press, delivering up to 305 metres/minute in what the company calls "performance mode" - a 67 per cent speed increase - or 152 metres/minute in quality mode. There is also a monochrome variant, the T490M HD, aimed at high-volume book production.

Screen says its Jet520HD web press is differentiated by its printhead technology - able to place tiny two-picolitre droplets - and "maximum true resolution" of 1200 dpi, together able to resolve image detail smaller than 0.1 of a point.

Another InterTech winner with the potential to expand newspaper press capability is Baldwin Technology's AMS LED UV curing system, developed as part of its AMS Spectral X-series. LED-UV curing offers an alternative to IR drying and UV curing solutions for drying inks and coatings, with advantages the others do not have.

LED-UV curing use inks free of the volatile organic compounds needed for IR, making it environmentally safer, and use less energy. Unlike conventional UV, no ozone is produced.

Other winners of the 2017 InterTech awards are: CGS Publishing's ORIS Flex Pack/Web Visualiser; ColorLogic's ColorAnt 4.0; Esko's XPS Crystal; Gallus' Labelfire 340; Heidelberg's Prinect Press Center XL 2 with Intellistart 2; Just Normlicht's LED moduLight Dual Illuminant D50/D65; Komori's Impremia IS29; MGI Digital Technology's AIS SmartScanner intelligent registration system; Scodix' Ultra Pro with Foil digital enhancement press; and TechnologyWatc's Image Test Labs Image Grader.

More details on the winning technologies will be available in time for the Print17 trade show in Chicago in September

Pictured: Checking quality on HP's Page Wide inkjet press


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