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ARDEJE One, the first French wide-format flatbed inkjet printer
ARDEJE One is a unique wide-format inkjet printer: it is produced by what could be considered a think-tank in part affiliated with capable professors from French technical universities. At present it appears as a “concept car,” to show what is possible if intelligent engineers such as Patrice Giraud put their heads together.
GRAPO in the Czech Republic also built their own UV flatbed. This is a billboard printing company. They wanted to buy a Zund 215, but found it was not adequate for their needs. So they built a printer themselves. But they then commercialized it, which requires building a dealer network and a tech support system.
NEOLT is another example of a company that had never built their own printer previously. They now have three sizes of flatbed hybrid printers available from their factory in Italy. To commercialize it Neolt had many advantages: they already have a dealer network in Europe and already exhibit in American trade shows (though don’t yet have a dealer network for their printer in the US). Both the Neolt and Grapo printers are selling well in Europe; their main competition would be the ColorSpan 72UVX and newer ColorSpan 5440uv series (four different models).
ARDEJE UV printer has never appeared in the US, never at FESPA, and not outside France
I wrote the company and no one replied.
For a while they tried to find distributors suggesting that they did indeed have ideas of trying to sell this printer.
But if they don't exhibit at pertinent trade shows, and if close to zero information is available, most printshops will skip this and prefer UV printers that they can find easily at international trade shows.
FLAAR Reports exist on over 50 models of UV printers. We have visited ColorSpan, Gandinnovations, GRAPO, NUR, VUTEk, Zund. Even Chinese UV printers have gone to the effort to get us to their factory: Teckwin and "Infiniti." But there does not appear to be much movement at Ardeje, so this is a printer on which we provide absolutely no FLAAR evaluation. The other printers we skip are those of Scitex Vision, since the VEEjet is such old technology that no one asks about it.
Most recently updated August 8, 2007.
First posted November 28, 2005.
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