Océ Arizona 6100 series launched by OEM for sign and display service providers.
What They Think reported on the launch of two new flatbed wide-format printers by Canon – the six-colour Océ Arizona 6160 XTS and seven-colour Océ Arizona 6170 XTS, which are designed for use by “sign and digital display service providers who produce approximately 325,000 square-feet of printed rigid media per year”.
The printer series features an eight-by-10-foot vacuum table “to keep media and objects stationery during printing for optimal print quality and rigid media application versatility”; with the devices supporting a range of rigid media applications; including “odd-shaped, heavy, smooth or pre-cut” media. They also offer double-sided printing and edge-to-edge printing, and can produce “large prints tiled over multiple boards”.
Non-stop production is enabled due to the flatbed table having “two independent printing zones”, which can also be combined into one to enable larger prints. To ease the loading of media, the devices have “pneumatic registration pins” along with a “high-flow vacuum system for effective pull-down of rigid media”. Canon therefore states that a single operator should be able to use two printers simultaneously, “producing almost 50 boards per hour in Production mode”.
Inkjet print output can reach speeds of up to 1,668 square-feet per hour due to the nearly “27,000 piezoelectric nozzles in a seven-row printing carriage”; while the Automated Printhead Maintenance System enables “automated, hands-free printhead cleaning in less than 25 seconds per colour” so that the nozzles are “available and ready to print at virtually any time”.
The Océ Arizona 6160 XTS printers can be upgraded to the 6170 XTS model by adding an extra ink channel for white ink application; with both models also set to support an additional ink channel for future development.
Junichi Yoshitake, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Business Imaging Solutions Group at Canon USA, said: “For users who require high-volume, rigid media printing capacity, these new printers deliver outstanding output quality at high speeds with the broad application range of true flatbed architecture, enabling users to potentially expand the boundaries of their service offerings.”