Canon in the present day broadcasts the Arizona 2300 collection with FLXflow expertise, which brings new productiveness options to the flatbed printer collection. Constructing on the present expertise, the brand new FLXflow affords not solely the unique ‘Maintain’ performance, which helps to carry media on the zoneless flatbed desk, but additionally the brand new non-compulsory ‘Float’ and ‘Immediate Change’ functionalities to enhance media dealing with. Additional options, akin to further high quality modes, picture structure controls and improved workflow integration, along with an interface that connects automation programs for steady loading and unloading media, ship elevated workflow effectivity and productiveness.
Additionally being launched is the newest PRISMAelevate XL launch 2.1, which doubles the printing top of supported Arizona flatbed printers to 4 mm to assist customers create stand-out, tactile paintings for elevated print functions that improve and broaden their product providing.
Optimised usability
Catering to the mid-to-high quantity marketplace for giant format graphics, the Arizona 2300 FLXflow helps all kinds of substrates and functions. This permits prospects, each in-house or business print service suppliers (PSPs), to constantly adapt to evolving client traits, such because the rising demand for personalised and made-to-order functions, whereas making certain that customisation stays economically viable, even for samples and one-off orders.
Providing distinctive, patented performance that not solely permits customers to carry but additionally to drift the media, FLXflow comes with three functionalities – Maintain, Float and Immediate Change – permitting customers to maneuver heavier and irregular-sized media sooner and extra simply across the desk. The Maintain performance, a function of the unique FLOW expertise, works by holding the media in place with a patented airflow method. Utilizing computerized measurement and adjustment of airflow ranges to firmly and precisely maintain numerous forms of media in place, the performance ends in versatile positioning with far much less masking and taping, enabling operators to finish jobs extra shortly.
The brand new Float performance is an non-compulsory function that pushes air from the desk upwards to create a cushion, enabling the straightforward positioning of heavy or difficult substrates, akin to glass or giant Dibond and plywood sheets, and lowering the chance of media injury or waste. It additionally ends in the smoother registration of all forms of media, with a ‘floating with out drifting’ performance enabling a number of items of media to be exactly positioned on the similar time. The Immediate Change function permits the operator to simply change from Maintain to Float through the use of the foot pedals for easy operability of the printer, making it simple to take away media from the desk and lowering the chance of injury.
Elevated and textured printing for infinite creativity
The newest launch 2.1 of PRISMAelevate XL doubles the printing top to 4 mm to assist customers create stand-out, tactile paintings for elevated print functions that improve and broaden their product providing. It permits customers to discover new functions, akin to high-value, textured, everlasting signage, product ornament, awards, décor supplies and bundle prototyping, in addition to functions for the visually impaired. Prints are sturdy with out the necessity for extra ending steps, akin to lamination, coating or spray varnishing, which leads to much less waste and better manufacturing effectivity.
Maximise Uptime
Arizona 2300 FLXflow customers may also make the most of the brand new Superior Picture Structure Controls, which permit last-minute changes on the printer, giving further flexibility when positioning substrates on the desk and lowering waste of costly supplies. Productiveness is additional enhanced by service assist instruments akin to PRISMAservice, which gives predictive upkeep and facilitates authorised distant help by certified service technicians to maximise uptime.
In-field upgradability
Clients of the present Arizona 2300 with FLOW expertise can improve their printer to the newest model with FLXflow functionalities, together with the non-compulsory Float and Immediate Change options. Upgrades additionally embody new options just like the Superior Picture Structure Controls. Or they’ll add PRISMA XL Suite workflow software program to offer a preview perform, which permits customers to see what the ultimate product will appear like earlier than it’s printed, whereas permitting them to make any mandatory changes. Saving time, this makes it doable to preview advanced, multi-layered, textured jobs and to offer value estimates earlier than printing.
Mathew Faulkner, Director, Advertising & Innovation, Large Format Printing Group, Canon EMEA says: “At Canon we’re centered on the continual growth of our flatbed expertise by working carefully with the market and our prospects to evolve our merchandise, from our printer ranges to the software program that helps them. With that in thoughts, we’ve designed our Arizona 2300 FLXflow to be versatile and ship high-quality, functions with larger workflow effectivity and productiveness, whereas our service assist instruments akin to PRISMAservice, assist to take care of the very best uptime for our prospects for optimum productiveness. And with the brand new functionalities of our FLXflow expertise, with its added ‘Float’ functionality, it’s making life a lot simpler for operators to deal with irregular or heavy substrates, opening up alternatives to supply a wider vary of high-value functions.
“Mixed with our newest launch of PRISMAelevate XL, able to delivering prints at 4 mm elevation, the probabilities have been opened up even additional. Clients constantly shock us with the inventive functions they produce, and we will’t wait to see what they create with these new functionalities.”
Designed with the setting in thoughts
With diminished waste and decrease vitality consumption than its predecessors, the Arizona 2300 FLXflow has been designed to be extra sustainable. FLXflow expertise requires much less masking and underlays to carry media in place, leading to much less waste. The collection additionally consumes no less than 15% much less vitality in contrast with its UV-halide predecessors, and affords power-saving options akin to first-time-right printing and instant-on performance. Its inks are GREENGUARD Gold licensed, which ensures prints are protected to be used in delicate environments, akin to hospitals, faculties and different public locations.
The Arizona 2300 with FLXflow expertise is modular, providing in-field upgradability with a Roll Media Possibility and FLXflow expertise. The modular construct is in step with different latest improvements in Canon flatbed and roll-to-roll merchandise such because the Colorado M-series and will increase the longevity of the gadget and gives a sensible and extra sustainable technique to spend money on expertise as a enterprise grows, moderately than needing to spend money on a brand new gadget.
Clients may also make the most of Canon’s remanufacturing programme, the place they’ll commerce of their well-loved, used Arizona printers when buying a substitute. These older programs are inspected, serviced and ready on the market as refurbished printers, additional extending the lifespan of the Arizona.
The Arizona 2300 FLXflow can be out there from June 2024, and it’ll have its reside debut at ISA, Orlando (FL), USA from 10-12th April, 2024. For its first public exhibiting in Europe, the Arizona 2300 FLXflow can be producing reside at drupa 2024 at Canon’s stand in Corridor 8a, Stand B41-1 to B41-8. PRISMAelevate XL 2.1 is obtainable from 10th April by way of accredited companions in addition to Canon’s direct gross sales organisations.
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