Océ Arizona makes its way down under

“The Arizona 250 GT has a number of breakthrough features which have already proven to be very appealing to the Australian display graphics market,” said Adrian Morris, product manager, display graphics imaging systems for Océ-Australia Limited.

Capable of printing onto rigid media up to 1.25m wide x 2.5m long x 48mm thick, the upcoming optional roll-to-roll module can print onto flexible roll media up to 2.2m wide. Using four-colour (CMYK) UV curable inks with near-photographic image resolution it delivers a true production print speed of 16m2 per hour.

“The Océ VariaDot imaging technology enables a print head to produce dots of variable size versus print heads using fixed-droplet technology. Océ VariaDot technology creates these variable dots by dispensing ink droplets that vary in size from six to 42 picolitres.

“This ability to go as low as six picolitres produces sharp images with smoother gradients and quarter-tones. The larger droplets up to 42 picolitres produce dense, uniform solids. The result is near-photographic image quality with sharpness only before seen at resolutions of 1,440 dpi or higher. You can actually read text as small as six point,” Morris said.

Morris believes the Océ Arizona 250 GT meets market demands for image quality but is also designed to also provide media flexibility, enhanced productivity, investment protection and a lower total cost of completing most applications which he described as “a total package that provides breakthrough performance and efficiency thanks to Océ’s intelligent design.”

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