26 email: news@printmonthly.co.uk March / April 2023 - Issue 341 holder for the TS330-1600 where it can handle mini-jumbo rolls of substrate when media paper is needed for the job. The JV330-160 and CJV330-160 are both equipped with an XY slitter to help reduce post production activity by being able to slit and cut the printed product online. Cropmarks can be read by the printer and this makes major in-roads into getting the product to the client quicker avoiding post production work. Plenty of colours Ink on the series of printers is broken down into the solvent and dye-sublimation models. The former has capacity for eight colours being CMYK along with LC, LM & Lk plus orange and white. The combination can be changed to match up a double set of CMYK or double white. The inks come in two-litre packs and the white in 500ml packs, with an ink circulation unit (MCTv2) recommended for white inks. The TS330-1600 comes with CMYK along with LC, LM and Lk colours but with fluorescent pink and yellow which are much more in demand for the products the printer is designed for. Another change with this printer is that the ink capacity unit can be upgraded to a 10kg ink tank. Due to the nature of the product produced on the TS330-1600 the Sb411 inks all come with an ECO PASSPORT meaning they are safe for direct contact with the skin and have high ecological credentials. The 330 series has a new tool which is pre-set in whichever RIP software you choose (RasterLink 7 for the solvent models) and it is called ‘Deep Color Natural’. This has a number of functions but basically it can print with more vivid and high contrast colours giving brighter highlights and deeper blacks. The tagline ‘Loved, Evolved, Developed’ seems very simple, but you can see where it has produced some very impressive developments on already well-proven printers. Brian Sims Principal Consultant, Metis Print Consultancy, www.metis-uk.eu equipped with Mimaki’s Waveform Control technology (WFC). With this system, the printheads are able to round nearly perfect circles of ink droplets rather than the deformed circles that can form once the ink is deployed. The benefit of this is that it allows the eco-solvent inks and Plus Series printers to produce high-quality images with sharp letters and lines and almost perfect-sized dots. With regard to maintaining the inkjet heads there is a Nozzle Check Unit (NCU) which checks and cleans each nozzle automatically but if the cleaning process has not been successful, the Nozzle Recovery System (NRS) monitors and swaps nozzles when any become clogged or blocked. Both NCU and NRS allow the Mimaki to keep production stable meter upon meter. The final part of the puzzle is the new drop technology called Mimaki Weaving Dot Technology (MWDT). This technology monitors and changes the firing order of each of the print head nozzles which greatly improves ink droplet placement. The implication of using MWDT is there is far smoother and deeper photographic reproduction of images. The nitty gritty As described earlier, there are three machines in the 330 series, two solvent printers and one dye-sublimation printer; the JV330-160 and CJV330-160 (with cutter) and the TS330-1600. The two solvent printers are very similar in design and specification, both having the same technology described but the difference is the CJV330-160 has a cutter station in the machine which can produce cut images on the substrate to within 0.2mm of repeatable accuracy. All the printers have a new conveyance mechanism in them which can handle substrates up to 250mm in diameter and the media changer can handle up to three of your most commonly used substrates on one printer saving both space and time when it comes to the interchange between jobs. There is another version of media CJV330-160 Print resolution: 300,600,900,1,200 dpi Print head technology: On-demand piezo head (2 staggered printheads) Max printable width: 1,610mm Media width: 1,620mm Media diameter: 250mm Statistics ◄ The JV330-160 is equipped with an XY slitter to help reduce postproduction activity by slitting and cutting the printed product online UNDER THE HOOD / MIMAKI’S 330 SERIES ►The range is made up of two solvent printers, one with an in-built cutter and a dye-sublimation printer
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