The new engine is “flexible” and aimed at “custom” OEM designs.
A Memjet printhead
The new engine was announced by Memjet as being a “compact print engine” for “flexible, custom OEM designs” that will enable “easy integration into custom application configurations”. The Sirius-12G sub-system, the company added, was developed for OEMs who need to create a “compact, cost-effective printer” that would integrate into media handling systems.
The engine “facilitates” printhead maintenance without any need to “break the plane of the media”, which in turn enables a “wide range” of applications, including label printing, package printing, mail processing and print-and-apply labels for product manufacturing. Memjet added that the engine “empowers” OEMs to design solutions with “greater control and flexibility”, with one example being “more efficient printhead cleaning” from its “above the web” configuration.
In turn, the Sirius-powered printers are able to “move the print zone up and down to accommodate varying material thickness”, which offers a “greater range of media handling options for unique applications”. The colour print engine is available with the print mechanism assembled or separated into core components, and if the components are ordered, OEMs can “leverage” the printhead as a “development kit of components to be integrated based on specific needs”.
Additionally, the ink delivery system is said to be “highly flexible” and compatible with a “wide range” of ink supply cartridges, including any customer’s specific solutions.
Gus Piccin, Senior Vice President of Global Business Development at Memjet, commented: “Commercial print shops must balance the varying needs of individual, custom print jobs. Sirius makes this possible by enabling OEMs to develop printers that align with customers’ unique printing needs, whether it be longer runs or diverse print materials, at an attractive price point.”