LFP - Large-Format-Printing
Octopus II KM8/720 UV
Monday 26. May 2008 - The Octopus II is ideal opportunity for exchanging your old technology for a new one based on UV. This printing machine has a cooling regulation of UV lamps providing highest quality curing, laser ray for loading material and powerfull suction system. With both roll-to-roll and flatbed feed, you can print on either flexible or rigid materials up to 2050 mm wide and 60 mm thick.
The Octopus II prints onto a wide range of media types including PVC, plexi, wood, glass, metals, ceramics, textiles, paper,cardboard etc. The Octopus II produces instant-dry prints ready to cut and apply. Creates long-lasting outdoor signage with the fastest printer in its class.
Octopus II is an excellent tool to boost production and profitability, increase your print volume, improve your services, and reduce your costs. The new Octopus II is designed to optimize your production process, it is easy to operate, requires easy maintenance and delivers the print speed you need for your successful business.
Octopus II is our new improved version of the printer from the series of Octopus. It is GRAPO s.r.o.s answer to the steadily growing demand for UV technologies. Complete Grapo Control and RIP software together with colormanagement for CMYK print are developed by company GRAPO.
Highly versatile printer
The Grapo machines are equipped with eight Konica Minolta heads KM 512MH. Complete control software and RIP software together with colormanagement for CMYK include ICC color management are developed by GRAPO. The printers are built from automation industry components, selected for their high performance and endurance in longrun operational load. The Grapo machines are designed to optimize your production process. It is easy to operate, requires easy maintenance, can be easily switched to different print applications on rigid and flexible materials to reduced scale.
Application of sufficiently rigid and flexible inks provides print outputs for a wide range of indoor and outdoor applications, for example show windows, backlit products, metal desks, prints on furniture for design studios, glass, wall-pictures and from small stickers to large format banner too. The possibilities of our printer are really wide – it is a rigid and flexible materials for creative people. Combination of the print heads and specially formulated UV inks achieves the best print results.
Inks
Specially formulated UV GRAPO Svang inks achieve resistant surface and shiny colours. The inks adhere to rigid and flexible materials (eg. plastics, wood, metal, glass and from small stickers to large format banner too). It is possible to increase adhesion on media by application of special Primer coatings, that enable to achieve the best results on materials. The very good quality of prints and low operating costs are the main advantages for our customers which are using Grapo Svang Inks.
Quick recovery of investment
Reasonable price, low operating costs, easy maintainance and high productivity makes from the Grapo machines ideal choice for large scale of operations in the digital print.
The Printers
Each KONICA MINOLTA KM 512 head has perfect temperature control system (which works according to information coming from the print head) and ink input with mechanical closure. Cleaning of printheads is performed by inlet of air pressure into subtanks. The UV curing lamps with high output are air cooled. The printheads carriage is height adjustable up to 60 mm above the aluminium sandwich desk with extra solid surface.
The ink supply is based on four large-capacity ink tanks. Metal design of the tanks prevents contact with UV irradiation and ink. Ink is transported per nilon hoses with minimal UV irradiation penetrability. Impurities in ink are caught by special filters. Underpressure for the printheads is provided by the underpressure regulator. The print is made on special aluminium sandwich desk with unique suction system which is uniform at any given point on a desk.
Electronics
Power-circuit parts control the motor operations, UV bulbs, antistatics, vacuum sucking and cooling. The electronical parts control the data output, power supply for the carriage and the print heads, regulate temperature of the print heads and ink supply into the subtanks.
Grapo software and RIP control
Total control of the printer is executed from the PC work station working under Windows XP, NT. Control application drives UV bulbs, indicates level of ink in the maintanks, gives information about the print, offers correction of the media movement, etc. RIP software used in the Grapo machines is developed by GRAPO and is equipped with all standard functions like change of file size, rotation, cutting marks, tilling, etc. Software has also ICC colormanagement and and multi-language graphical users interface.