The new Kyocera G5A Series is ideal for use in industrial ultraviolet (UV) ink printing applications, including billboard printing, as well as UV-cured coating and adhesive processes.
The proprietary technology results in high UV intensity (24W/square centimetre) among air-cooled curing lights for UV printing. This product sets a new industry standard by offering the highest performance in a package that is also both the world’s lightest and smallest, at about half the size of a conventional air-cooled UV curing light offering high UV intensity (16W/square centimetre).
In addition to its convenience, this printing method is more environmentally friendly, using energy-efficient LED lights. The G5A Series incorporates Kyocera’s proprietary ceramic substrate with excellent heat conductivity in a heat-radiating modular design, which allows LED elements to be mounted at an exceptionally high density. Since it employs an integrated air-cooling system that eliminates the need for supplemental liquid cooling equipment, it can help reduce total equipment costs while saving space. Furthermore, its scalable structure allows users to adjust irradiation width, enabling full design optimisation to suit a wide range of applications and printing media.
In addition, it can achieve 350megajoule/square centimetre (50m/min) of accumulated light, an important indicator of curing performance, thus enabling high-speed curing.
The G5A Series requires less space, and is the industry’s most lightweight system, as it employs its own air-cooling technology with no additional equipment, whereas conventional water-cooled LED lamps require circulating water cooling equipment such as a chiller. Accordingly, the air-cooled UV-LED curing light reduces initial equipment investment costs.
Connecting the units can support diverse applications and media, from fine characters, figures and barcodes to printing on large-scale building materials. The irradiation width can be controlled from 80mm to 1600mm, in addition to permitting unnecessary light sections to be turned off in 26.5mm increments via serial communications, so the system focuses on the printed area.
A monitoring system allows users to track irradiation conditions, including LED temperature and current, fan operating time and accumulated irradiation time, via serial communications. The system notifies the user when it’s time to replace filters, or if abnormalities are detected, ensuring stable operation and optimal performance.
kyocera
www.kyocera.com.sg/
