The EFI Rastek H650 UV Combo (with transport belt) printer

The Rastek H650 UV is a new, more affordable combo printer from EFI. This printer comes with four-color plus optional white ink support for spot color and under and overprinting. The H650 carriage design incorporates five Toshiba Tec CA-4, one for each of the four colors (CMYK) and one head for printing white. These printheads offer grayscale capability, which means it can produce drops of different sizes. This heads produce drops from 6pl to 42pl, resulting in images of a higher quality.

The EFI Rastek H650 UV Combo can print roll-to-roll media as well as rigid media type. Sign Africa trade show, 2009.

The EFI Rastek H650 was designed under the philosophy of building a very user-friendly printer that offers high quality printing at a lower price than the older EFI Rastek H700.

Although this printer is manufactured by another company, it was designed according to the requirements of EFI Rastek which has the exclusive distributorship over this model. So you won't find a version of this printer under another brand.

The printer handles both rigid and flatbed media up to 65” (165 cm) wide. Among the materials listed are: Foamcore, PVC, styrene, corrugated plastic, plywood, MDO, Aluminum, plastic composite, cardboard, paper, acrylic, Plexiglas.

Some samples printed by the EFI Rastek H650 UV Combo (with transport belt) printer.

Here you can see the UV Lamps, the H650 carriage design incorporates five Toshiba Tec CA-4.

This printer was first introduced at ISA '09 in a private room, and was officially launched at FESPA Amsterdam '09. It has also been exhibited in several trade shows like Sign Africa '09, APPPEXPO '09 and Dubai '09.

Jose Melgar visited the EFI Rastek headquarters, in San Jose, California, to evaluate the H650. The resulting report also contains notes taken at FESPA Amsterdam '09.

Here is Jose Melgar in EFI Rastek company, evaluating the EFI Rastek H650 Combo printer. San Jose, California 2009.

EFI Rastek H650 Combo printing samples at factory visit. San Jose, California 2009.

The H650 combo printer is a good choice for production print shop businesses that want to jump from solvent printers to UV applications but are looking for an affordable printer than those combo printers in the market. The base price is $64,995. Of course you can find cheaper printers, but with the H650 you have the support of the knowledge, capability and experience of EFI Rastek.

The EFI Rastek H650 UV Combo (with transport belt) printer showing several samples at PRINT' 09.

 

 

First posted September 25, 2009.