The new UVgel ink technology on Canon's Océ Colorado 1640 wide-format roll-fed digital printer has earned it a Print21 Technology Hot Pick for PacPrint 2017.
Yusuke Mizoguchi, managing director of Canon New Zealand, accepted the award alongside Kim Conner, New Zealand CEO; Gavin Gomes, business services director; and Paul Whitehead, director of international marketing for production print products - wide-format printing systems at Océ.
The Colorado 1640's UVgel ink technology uses a gel-based ink, ensuring instant pinning and dot gain control, low-temperature curing suitable for thin and heat-sensitive media, and odourless, instant-dry printout. "It has the consistency of a hair gel. It's warmed up to a liquid and jetted onto the page, and lands on the media as a gel drop. That technology allows us to lay a lot more ink down, a lot more quickly, than you could do with just water," Whitehead said.
Several Colorado 1640 machines will be installed in Europe and the US this month, with the first Australian placements expected in August and September of this year.