3M has certified Canon’s Colorado 1650 printer and its UVgel 460 ink with the 3M Performance Guarantee. Canon has worked closely with 3M on securing the quality and performance of UVgel prints on a broad range of 3M media.
“When we started developing our breakthrough UVgel technology, it was our ambition to combine all advantages of the existing ink technologies into one solution and offer our customers the opportunity to work with the widest range of media possible,” says Dirk Brouns, vice president large format graphics at Canon Production Printing.
“It is great to see that media manufacturer 3M has certified UVgel ink and Colorado 1650 prints with the 3M Performance Guarantee, demonstrating that our customers can consistently achieve high quality and reliable prints. Our ever-growing customer base is rapidly adopting UVgel as their preferred technology, both for media that are widely used today, as well as emerging categories of the future, such as PVC free print media.”
From testing the UVgel 460 inks on a wide range of 3M media, this certification demonstrates applications such as wall murals, window graphics, and fleet and vehicle graphics printed on the Colorado 1650 in combination with 3M’s approved media achieve exceptional quality standards, says a media release from Canon USA, a leader in digital imaging solutions.
“The Colorado 1650 printer is an award-winning roll-to-roll printer featuring a flexible yet, robust ink set and FLXfinish, a new approach to LED curing that allows the user to choose between matte or gloss modes for each individual print. This means customers can achieve different aesthetic finishes without the need to change inks or media.
“The Colorado 1650, introduced at FESPA 2019 in Munich, was an immediate success and is recognized by customers for the ability to print a wide variety of different applications, both for indoor and outdoor use.”
Peter Kowalczuk, president, Canon Solutions America, adds: “This certification builds confidence and assures peace of mind in the applications that our customers provide to their end users when printing on 3M substrates.
“With the 3M Performance Guarantee certification, the Colorado 1650 continues to help customers create new revenue opportunities through expanded applications, while helping to lower costs due to reduced ink usage, automation and unattended printing, and consistency of output helping to reduce rework.”
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