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Apollo UV R160, Apollo UV R220 and Apollo UVR 260 are new names

I am a bit confused between the difference DYSS Lasco and DYSS Apollo but I will figure it out eventually. The Apollo UV R160, Apollo UV R220 and Apollo UVR 260 are the current combo-style UV flatbed printers. Combo means they have a moving transport belt.

In distinction, a “hybrid” really means a non-moving platen with pinch rollers on grit rollers that can take some flat material if you add a table. A combo is more sophisticated.

Another new model is a newer concept: a combo but with the belt large enough that it can also function as a dedicated flatbed. This is the Apollo UV RF250.

This is the DYSS Apollo UV R220 at FESPA Amsterdam trade show 2009.

DYSS UV250 and DYSS Lasco UV320 are new models

DYSS UV250 and Lasco UV320 are new wider models of combo UV-cured flatbed printers from Dae Young System Co. in Korea.

DYSS Lasco UV160, DYSS Lasco UV200 combo UV printer

The DYSS Lasco UV200 combo UV printer was introduced at SGIA ’07. This had previously been displayed at FESPA ’07, but virtually no UV printer specialist noticed it, heard about it, or asked about it (including myself). The DYSS Lasco UV160, DYSS Lasco UV200 combo UV printers were overlooked at FESPA because they were exhibited in the screen printing equipment hall.

The DYSS Lasco UV160 printing some samples.

Here is the DYSS Lasco UV260 at ISA 2008.

Everyone who was working on wide-format digital inkjet printers was kept occupied every day in the large halls that were filled with digital printing equipment. I never had time to even enter the screen printing halls. That printing technique is gradually being supplemented by UV-curable flatbed printing, so not really anyone evaluates screen printing equipment any more.

DYSS is a company name known to most people in the screen printing industry, so here they will have a ready market, to some degree.

The problem is that everyone else, from solvent ink sign printing market, these thousands of printshop owners have never heard of DYSS. Since IP&I, Dilli, and Keundo are already brand names known to digital print shops, and as I have visited the IP&I factory and thus know their CUBE 260 and CUBE 1606 printers inside out, FLAAR naturally has more information available on IP&I Cube printers. GCC also offers competition from Taiwan , especially their new GCC StellarJet K100uv. I have been to the factory of GCC in Taiwan for several days, so know their capability, but have never visited the DYSS company.

If it becomes possible to visit the DYSS company in Korea , then we can do an evaluation of their printers in the future. There is not time or space at a trade show to undertake a review of a complex UV-curable flatbed inkjet printer. FLAAR does all its tests at the factory, main demo room, or during site-visit case studies of printshops that own the respective UV printer.

The spec sheet and brochure were nicely done, and provide abundant specs (better than the half-million dollar L&P Virtu HD8 printer, which has the most incomplete spec sheets of any UV printer in the world).

DYSS Lasco UV160 at Shanghai 2008.

The DYSS Lasco UV160 combo UV printers were exhibited at SGIA 2008.

 

 

Most recently updated October 8, 2008, before SGIA.

First posted March 17, 2008.