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Investment security and reliability as well as innovation and sustainability are the key topics of its trade show presence
Brixen, Italy – 04/12/2017 – Durst, manufacturer of advanced digital production technologies, will be presenting new products in its large format printing portfolio in Hall B7, Stand A20, at FESPA Digital 2017. Its trade show presence addresses two core topics. The company will be presenting its commercially successful Rho P10 250 HS Plus and Rho 512R Plus printing systems under the slogan of investment security and reliability; they offer a “plus” in productivity and economy with new features and enhancements. The products are complemented by new service options, including extended warranty periods and new virtual support and analytics functions. Innovation and sustainability are the keywords applied to the new Rhotex 325 and Rho WT 250 printing systems that are being showcased. Thanks to Durst Water Technology and economically friendly applications, they open up new market opportunities outside of the UV production portfolio. With the DSR Automatica E, Durst will also be unveiling an initial system in its imaging segment. It is a standalone kiosk system equipped with 120° camera technology, which at the trade show will be integrated into a textile workflow process in order to demonstrate new design and product variations from a range of perspectives ad hoc. Durst will hold a press briefing at its stand on the second day of the trade show – at 10:00 a.m. on May 9, 2017 – to provide in-depth information about the new systems, and will also be available for individual meetings. To arrange an appointment, send an e-mail to press@durst-group.com.
Innovation & Sustainability
Rhotex 325:
A new industrial printing system with a print width of 3.2 m for the area of soft signage. It allows environmentally friendly textile applications based on Durst Water Technology and delivers productivity of up to 390 m2/hour through either direct-to-textile printing or printing on transfer paper. The Rhotex 325 can be equipped with jumbo rolls to handle large print jobs and for unattended production, and also offers remote control and analytics functions to ensure continuous uptime.Rho WT 250:
A new flatbed printing system featuring an uncompromising development of Durst’s Water Technology for environmentally friendly applications on paper media, corrugated boards, and plastics such as acrylic, polycarbonate, and polypropylene. It provides offset printing quality in look and feel and is economically viable from a batch size of 1.
Investment Security & Reliability
Rho P10 250 HS Plus:
A further development of the successful P10 series with 40% greater productivity. It offers an ink-saver function, saving up to 15% of ink as well as an advanced application for hapt printing and roll-to-roll double-sided printing.Rho 512R Plus:
A further development of the successful 5-meter extra-wide printing system with a new Fine Art printing mode at 1,200 dpi. Productivity is assured universally, even with light and process colors, and its robust design enables unattended 24/7 production. The Rho 512R Plus offers a new V-cut system and requires only minimal maintenance, guaranteeing continuous uptime. Moreover, new additional colors allow even finer color transitions and the faithful production of corporate brand standards.Durst Analytics: A new software solution as a future element of the Durst OS.
A preventive service option to guarantee user uptime by monitoring important machine parameters and taking proactive service measures.Extended Service Options: Durst is extending its warranty period for new installations in the LFP segment up to 36 months in combination with newly designed service agreements. Besides machine availability – or uptime – Durst is also addressing “total cost of ownership” as a relevant factor for investment security and commercial success.
DURST WORKFLOW-LABEL
Connectivity and planning gets more and more important in a modern production environment. Durst offers a straightforward and powerful ecosystem for printing processes and order processing.
For the Tau 330 series, Durst offers a separate label workflow system. This comprehensive solution covers all processes from data management and print data preparation to output on the printer and reporting. Access to the software is browser-based and can also be managed without any additional installations from mobile devices.
The Durst Label Workflow system offers a range of modules that can be expanded at any time and adapted to the requirements at hand. The various modules include solutions for variable data printing, ink cost calculations, the digital color management system, job management and much more.
IN THE PROCESS CHAIN, THE DW-L ENSURES THAT:
- The print data is displayed clearly and in a modern manner in the browser window
- True-color measurement values are available for spe- cial colors (Delta E94/Delta E2000 material-related)
- The variable data printing (texts, numbering, images and bar codes) can be carried out directly via the browser or via Adobe Illustrator
- Informative reposts are available for customer communication
- All process steps are documented and can be retrieved and repeated at any time
Durst Water Technology
Durst Water Technology is a long-term strategy designed to offer digital printing systems with water-based, non-hazardous inks as a sustainable alternative to UV- and solventbased printing systems in all segments. The Delta 130 SPC uses Durst Water Technology inks in keeping with the quality, productivity and environmental demands of corrugated cardboard manufacturers and converters.
They represent the next technological milestone in water-based ink systems, as they allow premium quality, odorless, abrasion-resistant, glossy and lightfast end products to be produced in a single process.
Durst Water Technology means that pre-treatment, interim drying and laminating steps can be saved.
Thanks to its core competences in machine engineering, ink technology and print head technology (the magical triangle of inkjet printing), Durst stands for maximum print quality, uptime and productivity with minimum ink consumption.
Lightfast
Premium Quality
High gloss level
Odorless
Flexible
Durst Delta SPC 130 FlexLine Concept
Durst offers the Delta SPC 130 in an integrated production line, thus enabling corrugated cardboard manufacturers and converters to achieve fully automated production and exploit the potential of digitalization. The Durst FlexLine concept provides a range of different options.
Delta SPC 130 can also be integrated into existing production lines.
Fullautomatic stacker with integrated discharge lock of the detected failed boards.
Cooling down of the printed boards to ensure fast further processing.
Printing on a wide range of fiber-based materials without primer. Minimum set-up times when changing jobs. Repeat accuracy and color stability from the very first sheet.
High-precision positioning, exact print alignment. No color bleeds required.
High-precision positioning, exact print alignment. No color bleeds required.
Fullautomatic nonstop feeder with integrated board cleaning section, detection of boards quality issues and automatic discharge lock for these detected boards.
Élément empileur
Fullautomatic stacker with integrated discharge lock of the detected failed boards.
Cooling Section
Cooling down of the printed boards to ensure fast further processing.
Inspection qualité
Detection of issues during the printing process. (optional)
Sécheur hybride
Hybride, adaptive Trockungstechnologie. Hoher Glanz und hohe Haftung auf gestrichenen Fasermaterialien ohne Vorbehandlung.
Dünne Schichtdicke und hohe Haftreibung an der Tintenoberfläche verhindert Verrutschen des Stapels.
Dünne Schichtdicke und hohe Haftreibung an der Tintenoberfläche verhindert Verrutschen des Stapels.
Single-Pass-Printer
Printing on a wide range of fiber-based materials without primer. Minimum set-up times when changing jobs. Repeat accuracy and color stability from the very first sheet.
High-precision positioning, exact print alignment. No color bleeds required.
High-precision positioning, exact print alignment. No color bleeds required.
Priming Station
Pre-treatment of coated and uncoated boards.
Feeder Section
Fullautomatic nonstop feeder with integrated board cleaning section, detection of boards quality issues and automatic discharge lock for these detected boards.
Counter Ejector
Turner & Stacker
Turner & Pre-Feeder
Board Quality Control Table
Detection of faulty material before it enters the printing system without interruption to the printing process.
Board Cleaning Section
Double-sided automatic board cleaning. (optional)
Non-Crush-Feeder
Transport of boards without damaging the board structure.
Fullautomatic Line | 48 m
FlexLine Basic | 38 m
FlexLine Standard | 45 m
TAU 330 SERIES
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Durst CEO interview in Image Reports magazine
As Durst celebrates its 80th year Lesley Simpson asked CEO Christoph Gamper about the company’s future direction and its commitment to large-format inkjet.
“It’s time to extend beyond print.” So says Durst CEO Christoph Gamper, speaking with Image Reports not long after the company announced it had established a joint venture with American photographer Steven Sebring called the Durst Sebring Revolution (DSR) to develop camera systems for the creation of 4D visual content – a system displayed to the public for the first time at Photokina last month (September).
“The DSR system is a disruptive technology, not only in terms of photography but in the way that content is created and distributed today,” Gamper said at the time of the announcement this summer. He added: “It offers visual content in the highest quality within a few minutes for various applications and platforms. This will enable entirely new concepts and experiences, especially in the retail sector.”
So how big a focus is this development for Durst, and is there potential for PSPs - especially those operating in the retail space - to benefit from the technology? “In a year I can tell you more, but I don’t want to give too much away to the competition yet,” says Gamper, explaining that Durst has an “incubator that looks at start-up projects - like DSR - and helps get product to market.”
He explains: “Durst has already reinvented itself four times, and we will continue to reinvent. We want to grow but remain a private company, and although we have a nice portfolio of products we want to extend it with whatever we think will make an impact in the market. With DSR what we are doing is creating another visual experience. It’s way too early to connect the dots yet, but yes, I think that will bring new opportunities for our existing users [PSPs] too.”
Durst’s existing large-format inkjet users - those owning Rho and Rhotex (soft signage) machines - account for 35 - 40% of the company’s turnover, which last year stood at 250m Euro. Gamper says it will be “a bit more in 2016”. At the minute a quarter of turnover comes from the ceramic market, around 20% from textile, and the rest from labels print systems. Packaging is still too new to be in the figures since the technology was only introduced at Drupa 2016.
Of Durst’s 700 employees, about a third are in engineering and R&D at the company’s Brixen and Lienz sites. Gamper says 11 - 13% of annual turnover goes into R&D. From that pot large-format, ceramic, textile and packaging each take near equal shares, though as Gamper points out, “while we work in business units in R&D a lot of the work overlaps.”
He expands: “Seven years ago we entered the ceramics and started paying real attention to the industrial print market because it’s natural to leverage the technology we’ve been developing for the large-format inkjet market into new, growing ones. We’re doing that with textile too, which is why we’re looking at the likes of the Technijet deal (see News). An on-demand pre-treatment for textiles can be useful for other things too - so we’ll learn lessons and apply it elsewhere.
“It’s too early to talk about specific applications for large-format - competitors are always looking at what we’re doing! But I can say that there are likely to be ramifications there. For instance, a large-format PSPS starting to do some interiors textile print and wanting to do customised bed linen couldn’t do it five years ago because real material [cotton] textile print systems were so complex. A customer in one of our field tests can now produce on-demand customised bed linen because we have the whole system - the textile pre-treatment, the printer and the inks. By next Fespa [2017] we’ll be able to show a lot more.”
Gamper believes the requirement and demands of the textile market will also push the environment up the agenda once again. “I know environmental issues have been a bit out of focus but it’s coming back into sharp relief,” he says as he sits at his desk looking over the Alps and admitting that, for him personally, the environment is an important issue.
Of course Durst made something of a splash when it introduced its Water Technology, now incorporated in all the Rhotex machines, plus the Rho WT 250 and CPD corrugated printer. Including the Rhotex printers Durst has sold 200 Water Technology enabled machines, but only five otherwise “as they’re still in field tests.”
Gamper says: “We won’t drop UV ink, but Water Technology opens new applications in areas where environmental concerns are important. I think that further down the line it will become a ‘must have’, but when that will be depends on how the markets develop. If environmental regulations demand it, it will happen more quickly - after all, it’s a question of how much it makes sense for a PSP to invest in the technology.”
At Durst there’s plenty of continued R&D surrounding Water Technology. As Gamper points out: “There are still a lot of problems that can be solved in the area of inks for large-format systems. We’re in field tests now for instance to optimise the adhesion process so that it works with more media etc.”
But there are other key focus areas too when it comes to large-format R&D.
“Large-format inkjet is coming out of baby shoes when it comes to Industry 4.0 and the focus now is on creating efficiencies.
“We don’t need another speed bump because the machines in the market are generally considered fast enough. And print quality is established. Plus, a lot of capacity has been installed over the last couple of years, and people don’t know what is coming around the corner, so what we are seeing is a focus on anything that creates business efficiencies,” outlines Gamper.
“PSPs want machines to run for longer with less need for attendance and the whole workflow issue is now really up there, so there’s a shift towards software and workflow rather than machinery development.
“Also, in large-format in the last few years a lot of players have concentrated into bigger groups and there’s a need to look beyond the actual system to things like networking. We are at a point where large-format is becoming a mature market and so the R&D focus is now on inks yes, but also very much on surrounding systems.
“At Durst, we will certainly look at new growth markets, but in large-format we will also continue to be innovative because there’s still a lot to be done.”
Christoph Gamper, CEO at Durst Phototechnik AG
Technijet
Durst is expanding its textile printing portfolio with Technijet
Brixen, Italy/Carnforth, England - 08.22.2016 - Durst, the industrial inkjet specialist, and the English company Technijet Ltd., a manufacturer of industrial high-pressure cleaning systems, have founded a joint venture on the development of peripheral solutions for digital textile production. Technijet is known in the textile sector primarily for its ROTOVAC washing system which removes lint and dust from printing substrates. The common conceptual design of the patented Swiftjet pre-treatment system is the basis of the joint venture. The system was presented at ITMA 2015 in Milan by Durst as a feasibility study. Swiftjet is a spraying and drying unit which is connected upstream of the actual printing machine and, depending on the desired printing result, takes over the chemical pre-treatment of the textile thread. Technijet's long-term experience with high-pressure jets comes in useful when ensuring the exact application of the composition on the material surface. Since the introduction of the Alpha Series at ITMA 2015, Durst has continuously striven to optimize the economic efficiency and environmental safety of inkjet print production. For example, by introducing the soft pigment ink system (Alpha P), which can be printed on standard material like cotton and polyester without additional binders and wet processes. Alpha P is convincing with its soft grip and color brilliance and at the same time, it reduces water and energy consumption in production. With the market introduction of the Swiftjet Solution, flexibility is further increased, since pre-treatment can be added upstream depending on material and need. Previously independent processes can thus be consolidated and automized which also contributes to an environmentally friendly production. The Swiftjet pre-treatment system is adapted for the Durst Alpha Series high-performance inkjet printer and can process print widths of up to 330 cm. Durst will also offer the pre-treatment system as a standalone solution for existing third party technologies.
"In all market segments, our highest aim is to replace 'old' technologies with new, disruptive systems", says Christoph Gamper, CEO of Durst Phototechnik AG. "This isn't just about switching from 'analog' to 'digital' - it's a redefinition of the production processes. In this redefinition, economic efficiency and environmental criteria are not mutually exclusive, but complementary. With our printing systems and the new pre-treatment technology we can significantly reduce our ecological footprint, particularly in textile printing.
"Since ITMA 2015, we have continued on our chosen path and have maximized the potential of inkjet technology", says Martin Winkler, Segment Manager Textile Printing, Durst Phototechnik AG. "With the Alpha Series, we're providing productivity, the soft pigment ink system adds flexibility and Swiftjet offers, the process optimization for increasing economic efficiency in textile printing. In many textile markets the additional ecological benefit provided by our technologies is not just a side effect anymore but it is a central requirement for complying with new regulatory and environmental requirements and to live up to new social awareness."
Technijet - process optimisation with Swiftjet
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