Mimaki's new Tx400-1800D DTT printer employs a feature that enables the user to adjust the ink volume.
The new feature offers the possibility of printing different colour depths to achieve design effects.
In addition, according to the print job, Tx400-1800D can accommodate both direct-to-textile and dye-sublimation printing employing sublimation media. It ensures that the machine’s possibilities enable broader product portfolios and higher productivity at print service providers.
Three different inks, dye sublimation ink, reactive dye ink and acid dye ink are available. Environmental impact is lowered as the ink is delivered in 2l-ink containers, whose outer case is reusable. This is also reflected in substantially lower ink costs.
The newly developed dye-sublimation ink excels in low vapour emission. In comparison with the former ink service providers will thus be able to control more than before the impact of vapour on the media as well as see a significant enhancement in image quality and sharpness.Mimaki has equipped the Tx400-1800D with its Bulk Ink System (MBIS) and its patented UISS (Uninterrupted Ink Supply System) to ensure automatic switching of inks when one 2l-ink container runs empty without interrupting printing. A maximum of four liters of ink (2x2l per colour) enables unattended printing for longer periods and to ensure bigger print runs.The Tx400-1800D for direct-to-textile as well as dye-sublimation printing thus combines modern technologies for textile applications that are the driving force behind the move from screen printing to on-demand digital textile printing.An additional model within the Tx400 series, that will be shipped from spring ’10 onwards, will feature an adhesion belt carrier system to stabilize flexible materials that tend to stretch and contract during printing.
“Tx400-1800D is a revolutionary development in uniting dye sublimation and direct-to-textile printing in one machine thus offering an unlimited choice in applications. We are happy that we can offer such a business enhancing machine to our customers”, says Kazuhide Yokoyama from Mimaki’s TA Business Unit.
At the time of publishing this announcement, Wide Format Online has not determined whether local Mimaki distributor, DGS Mimaki will make this unit available in our region.
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