The industrial inkjet OEM will showcase its latest innovations and developments in the large-format printing segment at FESPA Digital 2016, March 8-11 in Amsterdam, including Durst Water Technology, as well as innovations in textile printing and advances in automation. This includes the company’s new WT printer class, which starts with the Rho WT 250 HS, aimed at sustainable and odour-free advertising media and POS displays. Other wide-format printers being featured include the Rhotex 500, Alpha 190 ‘Soft’ Printers, and Automated Rho 1312 AF.
Durst Water Technology is a long-term strategy that offers digital printing systems with aqueous inks as an alternative to UV-based and solvent-based inks/printer systems for more ‘green’ solutions – especially if large-format printing is to access further market potential for the interior and packaging industries at point of sale. With the Rho WT 250 HS, Durst has “developed a new machine category that can print in litho-like print quality, odourless and environment friendly, on a large variety of rigid and flexible large-format media using functional aqueous inks.”
Durst had previously conducted pioneering work for the soft signage sector and had promoted ‘green’ solutions at point-of-sale with its Rhotex Textile Printer Systems and the application of textiles as an advertising and informational media. For example, the Rhotex 500 was the first 5-metre, dye-sublimation printing system for seamless and extra-wide soft-signage/fabric applications. The new Alpha 190 multi-pass is a new printing system born from traditional textile printing technology. Durst also offers one-step pigment inks and automatic material pre-treatment “to give even large-format printing specialists an easy route towards the production of home textiles, clothing and upholstery coverings.” The company added that new standards of automation (a crucial factor in the Durst UV portfolio for further increasing overall system efficiency), is found in the new Rho 1312 AF UV digital flatbed printer. This specific platform features high-automation, high-productivity feeder, alignment and stacking units developed exclusively by Durst.
