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Full-Color Books Roll Off Screen Truepress Jet520 at Graph Expo 2010
Tuesday 05. October 2010 - Visitors to the Screen (USA) booth at Graph Expo 2010 can see full-color book printing on demand performed on the Truepress Jet520 inkjet web press.
The continuous-feed, single-pass inkjet printing system will be equipped with Standard Hunkeler paper handling. The roll-to-cut/stack system featuring the UW6 unwinder, CS6-I rotary cutter, SE6 offset stacker module and LS6 nonstop stacker delivers straight and fully separated book blocks for near-line finishing.
Standard Finishing Systems will process rolls printed on the Truepress Jet520 into saddle-stitched books. The Truepress Jet520 can print each full-color book in under two minutes.
High-speed inkjet printing
The Truepress Jet520 excels at printing books, newspapers, transpromo pieces and customized direct mail. The press has a print width of 20 inches and a paper width of 20.4 inches. It can produce two-up 8 1/2 x 11-inch pages and three-up 6 x 9-inch book images with exceptional color. It achieves speeds up to 420 feet per minute, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 impressions per hour.
Key features and benefits
Low cost of operation: Does not require click, per-impression or ongoing usage charges
Piezo drop-on-demand inkjet head: Four-level grayscale printheads for high speed while maintaining quality
Single-pass, multiple-head array: Enabling extremely high printing precision
Photographic quality: Maximum image resolution of 720 dpi x 720 dpi
Flexible configuration: Simplex or duplex printing, full-web or half-web, with single or dual printing engines
Wide range of paper types: Efficiently handles inkjet paper, standard paper, recycled paper, newsprint and card stock
Screen (USA) will demonstrate the Truepress Jet520 book-printing solution at Graph Expo in booth #1637, October 3-6 at Chicagos McCormick Place.