Ricoh leaks more details on upcoming Print Production
More details of the Z75 sheetfed color inkjet press are coming to light as the time for revealing the hugely important press draws ever closer
- ramping up the prelaunch marketing for its B2 Z75 sheetfed inkjet press following a hiatus of several months.
- outside of the machine is encased in black or dark grey panels and silver highlights
- Apart from the delivery stack, everything is fully enclosed, from two paper bins onwards.
- These bins hold sheets of any material from 60-400gsm
- seven sizes from A3 to 585x737mm
- prints on standard offset litho papers without coating
- using extended gamut aqueous inks
- no slowdown when using thicker stocks
- paper is fed portrait fashion with sucker pick up and air blowers to separate sheets
- sheet is positioned for accuracy of register between a pair of rollers before passing to the vacuum drum
- uses an adjustable vacuum to hold the sheet in place and to move it from feeder to delivery
- There are 3 vacuum sections on the imaging drum, with 3 sheets are in place on the drum at any one time.
- device can have up to six printheads, offering white, metallics (gold or silver) or a coating in addition to CMYK
- also provision for application of a primer
- drying section uses multiple heat sources to ensure a fully dry sheet in the delivery or for printing on the reverse side.
- 4,500sph in single-side mode
- 1200dpi stainless steel temperature controlled piezo crystal inkjet printheads
- firing the aqueous ink using variable droplet sizes
- technology to avoid clumping effects
- controlled by a Fiery DFE developed for the Z75