Eight years after Screen introduced its first high-speed web-fed inkjet press, the company has launched the Truepress Jet520HD to offer improved print quality and wider range of materials to print on.
The company has manufactured more than 700 inkjet presses since the Truepress Jet520 was originally launched and it remains today a popular inkjet press for the transactional, direct mail and book printing markets.
However, the company has recognised that the market for inkjet can be extended by offering a significant improvement in print quality and by widening the range of materials that can be printed.
The result is the Truepress Jet520HD, a design with new paper transport, new drying techniques, new printheads and new screening technologies that make the most of new wide gamut inks.
This new model is 520 mm wide with the highest quality output achieved at 50 m/min with a resolution of 1200×1200 dpi while the fastest speed is 120 m/min at a resolution of 600×600 dpi.
In addition to the high resolution, the unit benefits from the printhead’s ability to produce variable size droplets. In combination with the company’s screening algorithms, different size droplets can be precisely placed to maximize print quality and minimize ink consumption.
Another feature is a new high density ink which is very close to the standards used in offset printing worldwide. Using ink with such a high density allows the operator to choose between printing with the highest quality or to minimise costs by using less ink than current inkjet technologies.
The Truepress Jet520HD can print on material from 40 gsm to 250 gsm which significantly increases the flexibility of the machine in terms of the work that can be produced. Printing high-quality variable colour on 250 gsm board creates many new direct mail opportunities such as post cards and one-piece mailers.
While the initial machines will be launched as four-colour units, the Truepress Jet520HD has a modular structure to allow for extra head units to be added in the future. Each printhead will be controlled independently so that if you are only printing with one colour, all of the other printheads remain capped. However, there is no time delay when switching from a single-colour to multi-colour job.
The Truepress Jet520HD will be launched with an optional inspection unit based on Screen’s highly regarded JetInspection. JetInspection is a system that checks the whole page and compares the printed result to the RIP data to give a high level of security. JetInspection has been redesigned for use with the new press, including complete integration with the machine’s GUI.
