Sericol Inca Spyder 320 UV-cured inkjet flatbed printer

The Inca Spyder 150 was our favorite printer at DRUPA 2004. Its color gamut and bright satin finish made the Inca Spyder 150 stand out. If you want to find out why, read the FLAAR Reports on UV lamps: the Inca Spyder is the first wide format UV printer that uses a unique and innovative UV light source (now, in 2007, two other UV manufacturers tried to use the same unique UV lamp technology; one failed and the other succeeded; FLAAR will be giving a 2-day lecture at the company of the unique UV lamp technology that succeeded).. 

Now the Inca Spyder 320 is available. It uses a more traditional mercury arc UV lamp source. The larger size of the 320 is to appeal to the needs for POP signage, screen printing shops, photo labs, and digital printing companies that need a larger size. 

How to compare and contrast the UV printer choices from over 45 manufacturers?

Today the owners of these screen printing shops face a plethora of choices: Gandinnovations Jeti UV? Vutek PressVu or QS2000? Zund 215 or the newer Zund 250? The Zund offers impressive potential for white layering techniques and is the only hybrid or combi printer that offers a complete dedicated flatbed as an option. We spent two days at the Zund factory to test this plus lots of time in their booth at FESPA '07 in Berlin to see more results of their white layering capabilities (for backlit you can create wonders using white ink on transparent (translucent) materials).

Since most people ask about the Gandy flatbeds or the VUTEk, we have spent two days at the Gandinnovations factory taking notes and inspecting test prints, plus spending four hours with their ink chemist. To improve our reports on the VUTEk QS3200 two visits have been made for testing and evaluating this model (with one more visit still being programmed later this year as a follow-up). Also have made an initial intense inspection of the NUR factory and are now scheduling a return, and spent two days at the IP&I factory plus a day visiting several printshops that own the IP&I Cube 260uv, to see how it functions in real life.

So FLAAR has prepared reports on as many competing UV-flatbed printer as time and funding allows. FLAAR is a university-based institute dedicated to advanced technology in digital imaging, Independent, authoritative, this is the de-facto source of practical factual documentation  on UV-cured inkjet printers.

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