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NUR Expedio Inspiration roll-to-roll printer
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| NUR Expedio rollers at VISCOM 2007 |
Some companies take a good basic design and improve it year after year: they don’t depart from the basic chassis; they make it better. L&P Virtu is such an example.
Other UV manufacturers abandon their earlier models after a year or so and build a completely new one, trying to upgrade and improve what they found out from end-users was not such a good design as they first thought. These companies probably prefer not to be listed here, so we will spare them embarrassment.
How does NUR do their new models?
NUR follows a comparable approach to L&P: they take a solid structure and add new features. The current upgrade to the original NUR Expedio 3200 is the NUR Expedio Inspiration. You will see it at FESPA ’07 in Berlin. FLAAR was there all five days. It was possible to inspect it again at VISCOM Germany in Dusseldorf in September.
Optional Flatbed Module
The optional flatbed module was presented at ISA 2007. When I first heard about it I figured it was a simple roll-up table. But no, this is designed and made in Israel, so it’s a sophisticated system that you have to see operating to comprehend how clever it is.
We will be inspecting this in more detail again, and updating this page with more information on the NUR Expedio Inspiration.
NUR was the first to offer roll-to-roll UV
Durst offers their Rho 350R and now their Rho 351R for roll-to-roll printing. I just spent an entire week inspecting Durst Rho printers in the Durst headquarters and their two factories. Several new FLAAR Reports are being issued.
NUR comes from many years prior experience building roll-to-roll solvent printers for serious production of banners and billboards. Scitex Vision has comparable experience.
Several Chinese manufacturers are now trying to offer a roll-to-roll UV-curable printer, but that same company’s hybrid UV printers fall apart after a few months (that’s what two different print shops told us who had bought these Chinese UV printers).
Gandinnovations now offers two widths of roll-to-roll printers. These are definitely not low-bid Chinese machines. Gandinnovations has plenty of experience constructing serious production printers for solvent-based inks, as well as designing UV-flatbed systems. But whereas Gandy concentrates on flatbeds, and NUR concentrates on roll-to-roll UV, it’s not surprising that the NUR Expedio has been successful. When I was in the NUR factory in Israel you could see all the effort dedicated to manufacturing the Expedio models because they had so many orders.
Recently VUTEk came out with a roll-to-roll UV printer, the QS3200r. There is no FLAAR Report on this printer because we have been so busy with other brands and models. But we do have reports on the Durst, the NUR, and the Gandinnovations roll-to-roll UV printers.
But NUR was the first to offer a roll-to-roll UV-cured wide format printer. I can still remember it at DRUPA 2004. Since no other roll-fed UV printer existed at that time, I assumed it was solvent-based when I first saw it. No, it’s UV-cured.
A dedicated roll-to-roll system has many benefits over a combo or hybrid system. A true roll-fed system is more reliable than trying to add a roll-fed system to a combo or hybrid design. Since the market for roll-to-roll UV-cured printers is rising, FLAAR is taking a special interest in the roll-fed segment.
NUR also offers a regular 3.2 meter Expedio UV-curable roll-to-roll printer and a 5-meter Expedio in two models: the basic Expedio 5000 and the Expedio Revolution with special ink for lowering the cost of producing banners and billboards.
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After NUR was acquired by HP, the Expedio receive new designations in 2008
Now the NUR Expedio 5000 and NUR Revolution are the HP Scitex XP5100 and HP Scitex XP 5300.
The NUR Expedio 3200 and NUR Expedio Inspiration are the HP Scitex XP2100 and XP2700.
The NUR Tempo Q is the HP Scitex FB6100.
Most recently updated March 10, 2008.
First posted May 23, 2007. Updated Oct. 1, 2007.
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Dilli NeoPlus |
| HP Scitex XP5100 and HP Scitex XP5300 |
| HP Scitex XP2100 and HP Scitex XP2700 |
| HP Scitex FB6100 |
| L&P Spuhl RS |
| Sun FastJet |
| RIP Software |
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| Caldera RIP software |
Interesting inks & Alternative Inks |
HP latex ink |
UV-Curable ink, OEM (in preparation) |
UV-Curable, third-party ink |
| Encres Dubuit (others in preparation) |
Fine Art Photography Giclee & Proofing (on other FLAAR sites)
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Epson 4880 |
Epson 7880 |
Epson 9880 |
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Most of our updates for 2008 onward are in FLAAR Reports in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It is more efficient for us to make new information available in PDF format. So if the web page itself is not updated, check out www.wide-format-printers.NET to see if the printer, RIP, or other subject is covered in an update in a PDF download.
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