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Vacuum formable ink for UV-curable flatbed printers to mold three-dimensional signage
Three years ago the way you made digital 3-dimensional signage was to use an Oce Arizona T220 solvent ink printer with Sign-Tronic inks. Merely to be trained in this ink and printer cost more than two HP Designjet printers.
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Today (2007), that solvent ink technology is no longer exhibited at trade shows. Today you get the same and possibly better results from FlexForm UV-cured ink offered by Gandinnovations.
Hexion Specialty Chemicals has also exhibited a thermo-formable UV ink. Mimaki exhibited thermo-formed vacuum pressed UV inks but they can only create images one or two centimeters in 3-dimensional format. The Gandinnovations Jeti UV printers can do double or triple that.
This is not really extruding the image, it is heat-forming it with a vacuum press.
FLAAR sees tremendous potential in this and will be working up some possible projects for this new ink chemistry shortly. This is exactly the kind of research that we can do with corporate sponsorship.
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Samples of Gandinnovations FlexForm |
First posted July 23, 2007.
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| Dilli Neo Jupiter |
| Gandinnovations NanoJet UV-curable |
| Gandinnovations Jeti 3348 JetStream |
| GCC StellarJet K100UV |
| HP Scitex XP5100 and HP Scitex XP5300 |
| HP Scitex XP2100 and HP Scitex XP2700 |
| HP Scitex FB6100 |
| L&P Spuhl RS |
| Seiko ColorPainter H-104S reviews |
| 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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