EFI Rastek T1000, a 4'x8' dedicated flatbed
EFI purchased Raster Printers and renamed it Rastek.
The Rastek T1000 (seemingly minus the name Daytona) is a 4x8’ update of the smaller Daytona T600.
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| EFI Rastek T1000 UV-cured flatbed inkjet printer at Fespa Munich, 2010. |
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| EFI Rastek T1000 UV-cured flatbed inkjet printer at Fespa Munich, 2010. Although the printer was exhibited at ISA and then at FESPA 2010, it was officially launched at SGIA 2010. |
The current version of the Rastek T1000 uses Toshiba Tec printheads. The original version of the T600 and T1000 use high quality Spectra M Class printheads (MEMS technology). But MEMS printheads are a new and complex technology. Unfortunately MEMS printheads have two issues, best and first known from the X2 printhead of HP Scitex. The MEMS heads of Specta, although different, have similar problems. So most printers that started with MEMS heads are gradually switching to other printheads.
Rastek T1000 offers impressive print quality
The print quality of the EFI Rastek T1000 and the InkTec Jetrix were the two printers at SGIA that had the absolute best quality.
The Oce Arizona 350 GT is also among the best quality at SGIA ‘08. Various Durst Rho combo style UV flatbed printers have the highest quality of any combo printer at SGIA ’08. The L&P Virtu HD8, which also uses MEMS printheads, was not at SGIA. The HD8 is a remarkable engineering feat, but has more banding that should be allowed for a printer of its price class.
There is presently no FLAAR Reports on the EFI Rastek T1000 because we prefer to do the evaluation at the factory and main demo room, and would need to check the newer printheads also. Since Raster Printers already has plenty of experience with Toshiba Tec printheads, it is not complex to switch from MEMS to Toshiba Tec (if that is the direction that they decide to move).
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| EFI Rastek T1000 UV-cured flatbed inkjet printer at Reklama, Moscow 2010. |
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| EFI Rastek T1000 UV-cured flatbed inkjet printer at APPPEXPO, Shanghai 2010. |
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| EFI Rastek T1000 UV-cured flatbed inkjet printer at APPPEXPO, Shanghai 2010. |
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| EFI Rastek T1000 UV-cured flatbed inkjet printer at SGIA 2010. As you can see the Rastek T1000 has had a worldwide presence at trade shows during 2010. The United States, Russia, Germany, China, are some of the countries where the printer has been exhibited |
But in the meantime I can say that the beta version of the Rastek T1000 offers remarkable print quality for photographic images and small fonts.
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| The Rastek T1000 showed some samples at SGIA 2008. |
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| The beta version of the EFI Rastek T1000 UV-cured flatbed inkjet printer exhibited at SGIA 2008 used Spectra M Class printheads (MEMS technology). But those printheads were dropped and the new version exhibited during 2010 uses Toshiba Tec heads. |
Most recently updated December 8, 2010
First posted November 4, 2008.
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