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Sun Chemical Digital FastJet UV printer for corrugated packaging
The FastJet was introduced as a prototype at DRUPA 2000. Then it disappeared for several years. Now it is gradually appearing as a test prototype at a few locations but has not been shown at any recent digital imaging trade show. Perhaps it will be at ISA 2007?
In the meantime, the competition is the Scitex Vision CORjet (formerly the Belcom 2000 and now the HP Scitex FB6700) and the Durst Rhopac. We have a FLAAR Report on the Durst Rhopac.
Since the FastJet from Sun and Inca is so hard to find, we don’t yet have a FLAAR Report on it, but will as soon as it reappears (during 2007). Indeed we are very much looking forward to seeing the FastJet and seeing how it compares with the HP Scitex FB6700. The HP Scitex FB6700 we have seen recently at the Sign Spain and the Graph Expo trade shows, both in 2006. This is a very impressive printer, that produces high quality considering its speed and the cheap cardboard it is printing on.
The politics is complex on this printer: Inca (which manufactures the FastJet for Sun chemical ink company) is owned by Screen but distributed by Sericol ink company which is owned by Fujifilm.
FLAAR will feature Printers for Corrugated Packaging Materials during 2007
We at FLAAR are especially interested in all printers that can handle flat and rigid materials as a way to make cut-outs for museum display.
The Durst Rhopac and FastJet both use UV-curing ink chemistry with traditional industrial piezo printheads. The Scitex CORjet uses Aprion printheads and water-based inks.
The Durst Rhopac is a relatively straightforward combo-style UV printer accommodated for packaging materials. The FastJet is a million dollar production factory.
The HP Scitex printer has a three or more year head start. Yet the FastJet, because it is brand new, may have advantages.
These are all questions that FLAAR will be asking, and answering, during 2007. Since this is complex technology we will rely on industry funding for training and visits to the respective factories and demo rooms of each company. No university in the world has money to send its professors around the world to receive in-person documentation, training, and experience of this nature. All universities depend on sponsorship and funding from industry.
Being an independent research institute offers advantages. Since we are not a trade magazine, we don’t have to accept advertising. Since FLAAR is a non-profit educational institute, we do not need to accept sales commissions. Our reward comes when we get an e-mail back from our readers thanking us for having helped them learn about the new inkjet printing technologies. When we have a booth at a trade show, every hour print shop owners come up to thank us for having helped them decide which printer, which RIP, which color management solution to consider. But for us to be able to provide these services, we do need sufficient income, which is why we appreciate sponsorship and when you, our readers, when you order FLAAR Reports.
Most recently updated November 27, 2006.
First posted Jan. 5, 2006. Updated Oct 30, 2006.
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Dilli NeoPlus |
| HP Scitex XP5100 and HP Scitex XP5300 |
| HP Scitex XP2100 and HP Scitex XP2700 |
| HP Scitex FB6100 |
| L&P Spuhl RS |
| Sun FastJet |
| RIP Software |
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| Caldera RIP software |
Interesting inks & Alternative Inks |
HP latex ink |
UV-Curable ink, OEM (in preparation) |
UV-Curable, third-party ink |
| Encres Dubuit (others in preparation) |
Fine Art Photography Giclee & Proofing (on other FLAAR sites)
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Epson 4880 |
Epson 7880 |
Epson 9880 |
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Most of our updates for 2008 onward are in FLAAR Reports in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It is more efficient for us to make new information available in PDF format. So if the web page itself is not updated, check out www.wide-format-printers.NET to see if the printer, RIP, or other subject is covered in an update in a PDF download.
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