New Mimaki UJF-3042 compact desktop LED UV printer available from GPT

22/01/2010

Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) has announced the new Mimaki UJF-3042, a desktop size UV LED inkjet printer, will be available by Spring 2010. The new machine produces high quality output up to A3 in size (300 x 420mm) with stunning, vibrant images onto uncoated substrates.

Stuart Cole, Managing Director of GPT, comments, “This is an exciting product for the market and our customers in particular. It fills an important role in the portfolio of services our customers can deliver, with an affordable, high quality desktop printing solution. We see the Mimaki UJF offering companies the chance to fulfil even more of their customers’ printing requirements by delivering flexible, low-cost output for a range of applications.”

The UJF-3042 is a versatile compact printer offering exceptionally good value for money. Its cost-effective features include very low energy consumption through the implementation of LED UV curing as well as its ability to print to a vast choice of uncoated media. It is ideal for badges, cards, packaging, labels, stickers and display products, as well as personalised imprinting of novelties, nameplates, electronics cases and other industrial products.

Stuart Cole concludes, “GPT’s relationship with Mimaki continues to go from strength to strength. We are particularly pleased with this new product because it helps to complete a range of printing systems that cover almost all the potential requirements of our existing and potential customers. We also know that because it is Mimaki, it will be well built, reliable and be backed by a hugely effective support infrastructure.”

The Mimaki UJF-3042 will be available from GPT in the Spring and is anticipated to be very competitively priced for such a high end solution.

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Product Information

Capable of outputting process and white ink at up to 1,440 x 1,200dpi and printing with a variable dot, the Mimaki UJF-3042 accommodates uncoated materials up to 50mm thick. Glass, metal, wood, plastic and acrylic can all be printed to, and with high speed printing of around 4 minutes for an A3 imprint, including white, it’s an impressively quick solution. The inherent nature of a UV print forms a raised finish, so Braille and textured effects can also be produced on small signs and packaging mockups.

The LED UV Curing technology has multiple advantages over competing technologies – the aforementioned low power consumption not only benefits running costs, but also – because of the small amount of heat generated – materials that are heat sensitive can be printed to without fear of the media deforming. The inclusion of white ink means coloured, transparent and metallic substrates can be printed to with the white as an over or under printed feature, either as a pad or in perfect registration.

Mimaki include their powerful 16 bit Postscript RIP software as part of the package and with its relatively compact size, the printer is designed to fit through a standard door to facilitate ease of installation.

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