Aellora SureFire UV, white ink for B&W Fine Art exhibits
Aellora was best known for high quality UV-curable inkjet printing with while ink. Of course, what you defined as high-quality back in 2002-2003. The output was comparable to the quality of the Mimaki UV-cured inkjet flatbed printers. One reason for the image quality of both printers was keeping the print mode in uni-directional mode. Professor Nicholas Hellmuth explains in the FLAAR Reports why this is better than bi-directional mode. Recently, the Gandy Digital Pred8tor prints in uni-directional. The Pred8tor has only one industrial-sized UV lamp. You might think one lamp is not enough, but at SGIA 2011, the Pred8tor was curing with the lamp at 20% strength.
Since Aellora was one of the references in white ink chemistry, they expanded into the other ink colors. The Aellora SureFire UV was a starter digital printing system to print small labels, plaques, and anything where your logo needs to look nice.
The company was owned by a larger corporation called Markem. Aellora went out of business circa 2005. If Markem is the same as Markem-Imaje, then now the company is focused only on labeling and coding equipment and has totally abandoned the inkjet line of printers.
We show samples of Aellora printing in the FLAAR Reports on white ink.
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Aellora SureFire UV, white ink. SGIA trade show 2004. |
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Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth holding samples printed by the Aellora SureFire UV printer. |
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Sample printed by the Aellora SureFire UV printer. SGIA, 2005. |
Aellora SureFire TKMP1000 UV-cured flatbed printer for photo-realistic color
At ISA 2006 Aellora unveiled its SureFire TKMP1000. The quality is close to photo-realistic and the output is relatively fast for such quality.
Previously the only way to achieve good output with UV-curing inkjet technology was with the Mimaki UJF-605c flatbed printer, and UJF-605R roll-to-roll printer printers. But now (2012) you can achieve even higher quality with lots of other UV-curing models.
If you need high quality at larger sizes, look at the JETRIX flatbed printers.
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Aellora SureFire TKMP1000 UV-cured flatbed printer at FESPA Digital 2006. |
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Most recently updated February 2, 2012.
First posted November 28, 2005. Updated April 17, 2006.
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We are adding new pages and new features every month so it is not always realistic to update old pages from past years. All the old equipment is still available on eBay, so we keep even our old pages. If you wish only the more up to date product reviews, these are in PDFs (not in the web pages, but in PDFs which are linked in the columns at the right of every page). Please realize that we tend to update a page (or a PDF) primarily when it is clear that our readers ask about this brand or model frequently. With over 45 brands of UV printers and over 200 models in the past ten years, it is not realistic to update pages on obsolete brands or unpopular models. If you prefer to speak with Nicholas Hellmuth in person about a printer, you can bring him to your company anywhere in the world as consultant. By later in 2011 each of our web sites will be in 36 different languages with instant translation (and better than old fashioned web page translators of several years ago). So far all the languages are available on www.FLAAR.org and www.3d-scanners-3d-software-reviews.org. Next will be our fine art photography, giclee, decor web site. |
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