EFI has released the QS Series 2 of UV Ink, for use in the company’s QS2000 and QS3200 superwide format printers. The company says the new ink enhances quality and durability and will enable an expanded list of substrates as new materials are tested.
According to Scott Schinlever, general manager of EFI Ink Business, extensive pre-launch testing concludes the ink significantly improves performance and flexibility on a wide range of materials as compared to traditional QS UV-curable inks.Schinlever says, “In a challenging economic environment, such as we face today, customers are looking for new sources of revenue, and these next generation inks add new capabilities that will enable them to develop those new sources.”
The company claims the finished output with the QS Series 2 Ink includes flags and banners, which will hang more uniformly and consistently as well as rigid output that will not chip or crack during post production cutting and routing steps.
Recognised as 2007’s best superwide format printer of the year by the European Digital Press Association, the QS3200 is a 3.2 meter printer that produces high quality prints on both rigid and flexible substrates up to 3.2 meters wide and up to 5.08 cm thick, with changeover from flexible to rigid substrates in less than a minute. The QS2000 offers the same characteristics in a 2 meter printing width.
