Users nettled about managing and operating proofing products may now feel at ease. Well, Espon has recently taken the veil off its new proofing system tagged Espon Stylus Pro WT7900. It is particularly designed to dramatically enhance how package designers and flexographic and gravure professionals generate packaging mock-ups and proofs.
Claimed to be the world’s first aqueous-based white ink printing technology, the device significantly benefits from the company’s high-resolution ink jet technology. These advancements help in producing a new way of printing with the color white on a broad range of substrates including ink jet coated transparent and metallic films.
“For years, proofing products in this market have been very expensive for customers to purchase, maintain and operate,” commented Mark Radogna, group product manager, Epson America. “When a white ink is required in the printing process, the Epson Stylus Pro WT7900 represents an exciting new way for proofing and prototyping both flexographic and gravure printing products.”
The Espon Stylus Pro WT7900 also comes equipped with Espon UltraChrome HDR White Ink that introduces an all-new Organic Hollow Resin Particle Technology, which forces light to randomly scatter, producing the illusion of seeing the color white. This innovative approach to producing the color white results in an extremely high white ink density, as well as the ability for custom white color toning. It also offers professional short-term color stability for mission-critical color proofing on a range of new substrates including ink jet coated transparent and metallic films. Laid out to be safer, the Espon UltraChrome HDR White Ink is a water-based resin particle that is void of any known carcinogens.
Further, the system can proof virtually any size print job thrown at it. Efficiently created, it can skillfully create contract proofs of various packaging products requiring a clear or metallic base, or producing color accurate packaging mock-ups or prototypes.
The Espon Stylus Pro WT7900 is anticipated to be available through Espon resellers in February 2010 with a price tag that reads at $8,495 (approx Rs. 397,102).
