The launch of a new web-fed production drop on demand press from Kern marks the company’s entry into the production printing sector of the document output management industry.
The printer will be supplied under OEM license agreement between Kern and Graph-Tech, AG, a Domino Group Company.
The new iMpres is a monochrome high-speed inkjet printing press aimed at transactional/TransPromo production mail, book-on-demand and security print applications. It has 1200 dpi quality and a speed of up to 492 feet per minute with web widths ranging from 17.5″ to 30″.
Thomas J. Brock, CEO, said, ‘We are excited to enter into this new, dynamic market segment for Kern and to continue to expand our product coverage in document output management for our customers. We are pleased to partner with Graph-Tech as an industry leader in DOD technologies with some powerful differentiators and advantages that we can now offer our customers.’
The machine is a departure from traditional continuous feed printer designs with a compact footprint and paper path that enables simplex, duplex and even duplex plus MICR in a single print engine enclosure.
