December 2012/January 2013 - Low Resolution - PAWPRINT ...

PANELS & PANEL PROCESSING
Print finishing panels — serious investmen
CoJet will print any image on any substrate — including curves; inks are stored for use in pull-out trays beneath the work table.
THE REVOLUTIONARY CoJet
2612 industrial inkjet printer
made its UK exhibition debut on
the RW Machines stand at this
year’s W12.
Enabling high definition flatbed
printing of anything from woodgrains
to colour photo images or
complex graphic artworks onto a
wide range of flat 8 ft x 4 ft panels,
CoJet will also print batches or
random smaller panel components
— such as cabinet doors, for
example.
CoJet not only prints with inks
that are warranted UV stable for
eight years, it can even add texture
to the printed surface.
The generously proportioned
table (2,600 mm x 1,200 mm printable
area) takes individual workpieces
up to 500 kg in weight and
CoJet 2612 will also print several
different designs bi-directionally
at a single pass and with a print
definition of 720 dpi. A new 1440
dpi ultra high-speed printing option
was also launched the last
Atlanta exhibition; for comparison,
the images on this page were
printed at 300 dpi using a coarser
screen.
The inkjet heads will return to
overprint an image up to eight
times, building a surface with real
depth and covering around 20
m 2 /hr in normal production mode.
The resulting image of a natural
woodgrain like oak, or other deeppored
timbers, is convincing to
both eye and touch. And in addition
to wood-based panels, CoJet
Print heads will accommodate a working thickness of 100 mm.
Only imagination limits the printing scope of CoJet.
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