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IP&I Cube 260UV from International Printer & Ink

The new updated FLAAR Report on the IP&I Cube 260UV is now available since July.

So this page itself can be brief, because all the documentation is in the report.

One purpose of having the reports on the IP&I Cube as downloads on this page is so that our readers can sample a FLAAR Report and see what's inside. Many people who go to our web page that lists all the reports (on www.wide-format-printers.NET), are curious what's inside a FLAAR Report.

We have a free Abstracts (at the top right of this page), but now we are making sample reports available as well.

FLAAR Reports come in many degrees of comprehensiveness:

• FLAAR Fast Facts
• FLAAR First Look
• FLAAR Second Look
• FLAAR Third Look
• Site-Visit Case Study
• Demo room testing & Factory inspection evaluation

So please realize that not all reports are as high a level as these on the IP&I. We have full access to all the IP&I staff, to their distributors, to the factory, and at their trade show booth. It has been possible to visit two printshops who use IP&I printers (in fact in each print shop they had more than one IP&I UV printer, which is the best recommendation you can get). For all these reasons it is possible to obtain better information on this printer, as compared to printers where their main demo room is not available for us to test the equipment, where the manuals and documentation are not provided.

IP&I Cube 260 in the factory. We have inspected this printer inside out.

Reports on most Chinese UV flatbed printers are Fast Facts or First Look because virtually no information is available: no User Manuals, and no factory visits.

Even some major printers such as L&P Virtu, they have virtually nothing available on their website except Success Stories, which of course are not realistic whatsoever. Nor are Success Stories published in trade magazines. The only way to learn the truth is to undertake a site-visit case study and get the true pros and cons.

Gradually every two months we try to make new factory visits. So far we have been to VUTEk several times, to Gandinnovations two days, to GRAPO two days, to MacDermid ColorSpan four times, and have brief visits to the factory of Inca Digital plus a longer visit in the adjacent factory of Sun Chemical (Fast Jet).

Whenever a UV printer manufacturer invites us to host us at their factory, we try to arrange a date. We have visits pendig in Taiwan and to several European manufacturers and intend to return to Gandinnovations as soon as their new factory expansion area is finished.

Here is the IP&I Cube 260 printer at VISCOM Italy 2008.

 

Some samples printed by the IP&I Cube 260 printer, Madrid 2006.

 

IP&I Cube 260 inks ready for inspection by FLAAR in the IP&I factory.

 

As part of the FLAAR Reports on UV-Curable Ink Flatbed Printers by Nicholas Hellmuth , click here to learn more

 

Most recently updated July 25, 2007.

First Posted April 6, 2006.