Durst Tau 330 UV inkjet label press sold at Drupa.
Italian inkjet specialist Durst has announced further upgrades to the Tau narrow web inkjet presses and several installations in EUrope and North America.
Durst has reported that the company has further upgraded its UV inkjet label press, the Tau 330 following multiple installations in Europe and North America of the previous narrower Tau150 machine. The Tau 330 has a maximum print width of 330mm, with the more economic version Tau 330/200 up to 200mm. Both versions have a top speed of 48m per minute. The standard configuration is CMYK, and there is an optional white and two further process colors Orange and Violet that will be available in late 2012.
At Labelexpo in Chicago the Tau 330 Variable Data Print option will be shown. This has insetter functionality to print on pre-die-cut or pre-printed labels, allowing full label-to-label variability as well as late stage customisation applications at full speed.
The durable UV inks are useful for converters supplying product identification labels as UL / cUL recognised components for consumer electronic equipment where the label identification system must be durable for the lifetime of the product. The Durst Tau UV inks and 3M media combinations jointly carry PGJI2 recognition simplifying the UL recognition for converters who currently need to maintain their own ink registrations with UL for many of the traditional press ink applications. An in-line Corona Unit is available for on-board surface treatment of substrates to optimise print quality and ink adhesion.
Durst’s CEO, Dr. Richard Piock, commented: “Beside our well recognized white ink with very high opacity and the 2 additional process colors for high pantone color coverage, the new Tau 330 with its greatly expanded print width offers very high size flexibility and at the same time an industry-leading production capacity, two additional and important features which will be source of competitive advantage for our future customers”.
