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Eastech Scutum UV8720s, Eastech Scutum UV6440S flatbed UV-curable ink printer

Eastech Scutum printer UV at Photokina 2004.

Eastech is a Taiwan company that has exhibited for many years at US trade shows. Eastech was also present at DRUPA 2004 and at Photokina 2004, showing they are ahead of Chinese and Korean companies that did not make it to either trade show. Eastech also exhibited their Scutum UV6440S printer at SGIA '04 trade show in Minneapolis.

But during 2005, Eastech has concentrated itself on the German market, and no longer exhibited at US trade shows. We inspected the Eastech Scutum UV8720s, and Eastech Scutum UV6440S at FESPA in Munich during June 2005 and in Duesseldorf in October.

FLAAR had been invited to Taiwan and Thailand to inspect their new non-UV inks

but it when we arrived in Taipei it was not feasible to inspect the Eastech office, so instead I spent a week inspecting the GCC factory, R&D department, demo room, etc. As a result there are updated reports on the GCC StellarJet 250 and GCC StellarJet 183UV. The next week it was possible to spend several days at the Dilli UV printer factory in Korea: this resulted in three new reports: Dilli Neo Titan, Dilli Neo Venus, and Dilli Neo Plus. It was also possible to take notes on the dedicated Dilli flatbed printer, the Neo Deluxe (but there is no report on this model yet).

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Eastech Scutum UV printers

It is hard to distinguish one brand from another, so FLAAR now offers a report on the Eastech Octra UV 8720e, Eastech Octra UV 6440e roll to roll, UV curable ink flatbed printer, Eastech Scutum UV8720s, and Eastech Scutum UV6440S.

At SGIA 2005 and again at ISA 2006, an Eastech printer was shown OEMed (rebadged) as the GO Fuzion.

Eastech booth with several samples at DRUPA 2008.

Also at ISA 2006, another reseller showed the industrial version of the Eastech Scutum. We cover this in the FLAAR Reports on UV printers at ISA trade show (a new report).

But during 2007 Eastech gradually began to withdraw from the UV-cured printer market. GraphcsOne dropped the rebranded Eastech printer as well. At DRUPA 2008 Eastech was exhibiting small textile printers and desktop printers using a lite-solvent or eco-solvent ink for printing on diverse flat and rigid materials.

Eastech Scutum UV printer was exhibited at VISCOM Duesseldorf 2005.

 

 

Most recently updated January 26, 2009.

First posted November 2, 2004. Updated November 28, 2005, May 30, 2006, Oct. 30, 2006, Jan 14, 2008.