Xaar’s Versatex Printbar enables specialist label and flexible packaging producers to digitally print the highest opacity whites and colours and add a wide range of features to their existing presses.
Building on the Versatex Print Engine and Evaluation Kit, the Versatex Printbar provides an opacity of 82% at 50 metres per minute, achieving the most brilliant whites and vibrant colours for labels and packaging. Textured and high-build print effects, varnishes, foils and mass personalisation become available with the Versatex Printbar, which can be integrated with new machine configurations or retrofitted onto existing presses.
Powered by Nitrox printheads with Xaar’s TF Technology, High Laydown and Ultra High Viscosity Technologies, the Versatex Printbar can handle a wide range of inks and fluids, printing at widths of 410 mm and at up to 720 dpi with eight grey levels at speeds of up to 75 metres per minute.
Adding a Versatex Printbar to existing machines facilitates printers in meeting the growing demand for embellishments on packaging and labels. Xaar’s High Laydown Technology delivers very high volumes of fluid in a single pass with exact temperature control, enabling the creation of high-build inks and varnishes to deliver an extensive array of tactile effects more efficiently. By complying with European standards for tactile warning triangles on labels, their application onto packaging is now much easier without the added complexity of screen printing.
Ease of use and flexibility are key. The Versatex Printbar’s ‘TIFF catching’ workflow enables operators to simply drop a printable job into the software and make amendments ‘on the fly’. It can also be fully integrated with industry standard workflows, such as Esko, to send the output directly to print for maximum efficiency.
Dynamic synchronisation technology also ensures maximum uptime and quick registration with pre-printed substrates. The integrated sync to mark reader can be moved into any position across the web, and once running, can be in full registration within three or four image repeats.
The Versatex Printbar includes a fully integrated and flexible control cabinet that houses all the necessary electronics and controls, and can be easily located up to five metres away for ease of operation and access.
With sustainability in mind, the innovative Versatex Printbar, when compared to screen printing, offers shorter setup times and a higher utilisation rate, resulting in small-run jobs being completed faster. In addition, the ability to jet higher volumes and viscosities of fluids improves the efficiency of print processes, reducing the need for multiple passes, delivering faster print speeds and cutting energy use and costs.
Find out more on the Versatex Printbar here The ANZ representative is Jet Technologies
