Mimaki reveals 4 new printers
Mimaki unveiled 4 new units at Printing United in Las Vegas this week, together with a brand-new machine designed to assist cloth printers sort out a blended bag of jobs by permitting for each dye-sublimation and direct print to textiles.
Out there to buy in This fall 2024, the 4 include the three.2m TS330-3200DS, which prints with a single inkset on each switch paper and textiles; the entry-level print and lower CJV200; the 1.6m direct-to-film (DTF) TXF300-1600; and the 1.213×1.213mm flatbed JFX200-1213 EX for compact printing and signage.
Based mostly on Mimaki’s 330-series structure, the TS330 is able to print speeds as much as 90sqm/hr. Fitted with a platen below the print space for switch sublimation, the printer then might be reconfigured for direct-to-fabric or switch paper printing by eradicating the platen. As soon as eliminated, the TS330 can be utilized for flags and banners that want ink pass-through, polyester supplies, or thick and stretchy materials that require dealing with with switch paper.
The TS330 will likely be launched at a worth of $99,000 (£76,000) within the US market.
“There’s nothing on the market prefer it at that worth level,” mentioned Josh Hope, the agency’s US advertising and marketing director.
“Being able to do a paper switch sublimation for sure materials, after which print direct for others, however with a single machine and single inkset, it actually helps printers’ versatility. And at below $100,000, we consider there’s actually no different competitors.
“People who find themselves presently purchasing for a 3.2m textile machine, are procuring within the neighbourhood of twice that worth. So I feel persons are going to should take discover.”
Two of the opposite printers are resized variations of current expertise: the JFX200-1213 being a square-bed model of the JFX-2513, developed in response to buyer demand; and the TXF300-1600 a widened model of the TXF300-75 movie printer that may accordingly print 30% sooner than its predecessor.
“DTF has taken off rather a lot sooner, and extra extensively, than most individuals anticipated,” Hope mentioned.
“It’s a regular trade width – so we’re not arising with something loopy right here, simply benefiting from a typical dimension and bringing it into this new expertise. It’s about offering throughput and giving printers extra alternative in dimension.”
The ultimate machine, the CJV200, is a print-and-cut machine designed for smaller corporations taking their first steps into industrial manufacturing.
“It’s entry-level,” Hope mentioned, “however severe entry-level”.
Out there in 0.89m, 1.37m and 1.6m widths, the CJV is an upgraded model of Mimaki’s earlier entry-level mannequin, the CJV150 providing practically double the manufacturing velocity on the similar high quality.
A crew of engineers from Mimaki’s Japanese headquarters are in attendance on the present, together with Mimaki’s president Kazuaki Ikeda, who comes to each commerce present the place the corporate displays, Hope mentioned.
“Mimaki is absolutely an engineering firm, primarily, so that they’re very to listen to the suggestions and see what persons are doing [with the machines] and the way we will be taught from that.
“A whole lot of the printing market is absolutely commoditised, and it’s arduous to make an enormous distinction. So we actually try to seek out these areas the place we will remedy a particular drawback in a manner that others can’t.”
Printing United runs untl 12 September in Las Vegas.
Mimaki’s unique distributor for the UK and Eire, Hybrid Providers, will present all the new printers at The Print Present, going down on the NEC, Birmingham from 17 to 19 September, with the occasion marking the European launch of each the CJV200 and the TS330-3200DS.
All the new machines will likely be commercially obtainable in Europe in direction of the tip of 2024.
