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marketplace Xerox increases its portfolio of wide format color printers with two new offerings. The new systems lead print providers to bigger profits by allowing them to produce large format applications such as full-color banners, presentation graphics, and vehicle wraps. The Xerox 8265/8290 and 8365/8390 color wide format printers, designed for commercial printers and in-plant operations, are available in 65 and 90-inch models. The new printers open up an entirely new set of high-value print jobs for customers looking to compliment their current capabilities or enter the expanding graphic communications color wide format market. “We’ve experienced great success in the European markets with both models and are pleased to introduce the third generation to North America,” says Karen Serrano, marketing manager, Xerox. industry products & news Adchem Offers Banner and Seaming Tape Adchem Corporation adds the AdMount 8130 Series plasticizer-tolerant adhesive system acrylic banner and seaming tape with hi-initial tack, high shear to its digital wide format mounting, photo mount, and foam tape sign mounting systems. The new AdMount 8130M Series high mass adhesive system demonstrates immediate bonds and excellent long-term shear strength. The system uses a flexible but strong PET carrier to allow for conformance to scrim reinforced banner materials. The tape is also hand-tearable, allowing for easy application and assembly. The 8130M Series combines 150 degree Fahrenheit heat strength with outstanding UV resistance for long-term indoor and outdoor use. Circle 109 Xerox Unveils New Wide Format Color Printers The 8265/8290 printer is compatible with a wide range of media types and produces vibrant graphics on indoor and outdoor POP displays, banners, life-size photos, and floor graphics. The printers use eco-solvent inks, which means no ventilation or purification systems are required during production and prints last up to three years without lamination. The 8265/8290 print at resolutions ranging from 360 to 1,440 dpi at typical quality production speeds from 62 to 215 sf/h. Designed specifically for outdoor applications, the Xerox 8365/8390 use mild solvent-based inks. The inks are waterproof, highly abrasion resistant, and UV stable allowing printed images to last up to three years without the need for any form of protection. The 8300 family prints directly onto a wide variety of uncoated materials such as adhesive film and banner material, at resolutions that range from 360 to 720 dpi at typical quality production speeds from 162 to 215 sf/h. Circle 106 Legend 72HUV Printer Offers Versatility and Reliability at an Entry-Level Price The affordable Legend 72HUV industrial inkjet printer from LexJet enables graphics firms of all sizes to cost-effectively produce signs, banners, displays, and exhibits on a huge variety of popular sign materials. Engineered and built by the Digital Equipment Company, the Legend 72HUV uses UV-curable inks to print photo-quality images and graphics up to 72 inches wide on rolls of flexible materials or sheets of rigid substrates. Because the printer is built for reliability and easily switches from rolls to rigid sheets, users can produce a higher number of jobs every day, as well as the wide assortment of signs and displays commonly required for graphics packages. Now available from LexJet, the Legend 72HUV includes top-grade components, built-in automated maintenance technology, and a 24-month written warranty. To provide smooth, trouble-free production immediately after installation, the price also includes a comprehensive, rigorous training program for current and future operators. Circle 107 Xaar Extends Range of Approved Fujifilm Sericol UV Inks Xaar extends its partnership with Fujifilm Sericol with the approval of the company’s innovative UVcurable inks for use with Xaar’s piezoelectric dropon-demand inkjet technology. The combination of Fujifilm Sericol’s high-performance Uvijet inks and Xaar’s inkjet printheads offers a reliable, consistent, and flexible inkjet solution for display and specialty graphics printers. Xaar’s range of printheads are used in a variety of inkjet printers producing products for the wide format indoor and outdoor graphics, banners, POS, and coding and marking industries. In addition to existing approval for the Uvijet Versa UV-curable general purpose ink for use with Xaar’s 126 and 500 high-performance printheads, Xaar confirms approved status for several more Fujifilm Sericol Uvijet ink ranges. These include the Xaar 126 Uvijet Versa, Uvijet Boost, Uvijet Enhance; Xaar 318 Uvijet Rapide and Uvijet Ident White; and Xaar 500 Uvijet Versa, Uvijet Boost, and Uvijet Indent White. Designed with maximum color brilliance, light fastness, and durability, Uvijet inks are ideal for both internal and external applications including internal and external graphics, POS, vehicle and exhibition graphics, plus backlit graphics and window displays. Circle 110 Third Generation Cast Vinyl from Hexis H exis, a sign vinyl manufacturer, launches the third generation of high performance cast vinyl The adhesive compound facilitates air egress and makes the product repositionable during application while allowing convenient elimination of any folds or air bubbles. films for cutting plotters. The HX10000 carries enhanced 2-mil cast vinyl film and comes with the proven structured PE-coated liner with Hex’Press adhesive technology. Because of its extreme flexibility and conformability this cast vinyl ensures fast and risk free transfers and is particularly recommended for long term applications on complex and compound curved surfaces such as full vehicle wraps. The product provides an exceptional outdoor durability of up to ten years and is the ideal high-end solution for difficult curved substrates and rivets and all substrates with long life cycles.The new HX10000 series is available in 60 high-gloss colors. The roll size is 33 yards long and 48 inches wide. Circle 108 6 Digital Output March 2008 www.digitaloutput.net http://www.xerox.com http://www.adchem.com http://www.lexjet.com http://www.xaar.com http://www.hexis.net http://www.digitaloutput.net

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