Welcome to Spring. Let’s dig into the inkjet installation information we found in March 2023. We are reporting on 15 installations across 14 companies. A number of these companies have been very active in their inkjet acquisitions in the past year.

• Rehms Druck in Borken Germany has replaced 2 existing inkjet and 2 toner presses with 2 new Konica Minolta Accurioject KM1e UV inkjet presses configured with the Motioncutter digital laser cutting system and an MGI JETvarnish 3D 9000L system
• Delta Group has installed their second EFI Nozomi C18000 in in Hertfordshire, England
• Advantage in Anaheim has added a Canon VarioPrint iX3200 to an inket fleet that includes a Landa S10P purchased in March of 2022 and and HP PageWide T240 purchased in 2019.
• Mele Printing of Louisianna added their second Canon VarioPrint iX3200 after only 6 months along with Tecnau inline finishing, perforation, and scoring
• Walker 360 has replaced their entire Alabama printing operation with inkjet including, most recently, a Screen TruePress 520HD/SC
• March also saw the  first installation of the Canon ProStream 3000 that was announced at Hunkeler innovation days. Pixart, based in Quarto D’Altino Italy, was an early adopter of the ProStream 1000 in 2019 and then signed up for 2 ProStream 1800 presses in 2021.

Installing companies are evenly split between the US and EU (6 each), plus one each in South Africa and UK, but the EU edged out the US in number of devices with 7. In February we had the first report where roll installations ran parallel with sheet, but in March we are back to the runaway train of sheet-fed installations. We had 4 roll fed (2-up) and 1 roll label install as compared to 10 sheet fed installations. As usual, the B3 format led but only by a nose. We had 4 B3, 3 B2, 2 B1 and one very interesting industrial sheet installation.

Bendeim in New York City installed a very cool Tecglass VitroJet ceramic inkjet system for printing on architectural glass. It can print glass sheets up to 8 x 15 FEET (2.4 x 5.7 meters). See a picture they shared from their testing process.

[caption id="attachment_6293" align="aligncenter" width="419"] Source: Bendheim[/caption]

Applications and OEMs

By the numbers (without earlier installs) we saw 4 Canon, 3 Konica Minolta, 3 Screen, 2 Ricoh, and one each for EFI, Landa and Tecglass. Applications were all over the map from architectural glass and point of sale displays to packaging and the full range of the document market , so check the table for details.

Here’s the March table with helpful links to the company website. You can find more details on individual press models on the Inkjet Device Finder.

March 2023 Roundup

Vendor	Press Installed	Product Type	Company	Location	Segment
Canon	Océ VarioPrint iX3200	B3 Sheet	Advantage Inc. (Advantage ColorGraphics)	Anaheim, CA	Direct Marketing
Tecglass	VitroJet I	Industrial Sheet	Bendheim	NY, NY	Architectural Glass
Konica Minolta	AccurioJet KM-1e	B2 sheet	CCG Marketing Solutions	West Caldwell and Towaco, NJ	Direct Marketing, Promotional,
EFI	C18000	B1 Sheet	Delta Group	Hertfordshire, England	Point of sale graphics
Ricoh	Pro VC70000	Roll 2-up	Eurographic Group	Szczecin, Poland	Commercial
Screen	Truepress Jet 520HD mono	B3 sheet	Group Joos	Belgium	Transaction, Direct Mail
Screen	TruePress Jet L350UV	Roll Label	GTV Label Master	Durban, SA	Labels
Canon	VarioPrint i300	B3 sheet	Kopak	Tilburg, Netherlands	Direct mail, Packaging
Ricoh	Pro V20100	Roll 2-up	Liberduplex	Barcelona, Spain	Books
Canon	VarioPrint iX3200	B3 sheet	Mele Printing	Covington, LA	Transaction, Direct Mail
Canon	ProStream 3000	Roll 2-up	Pixart	Quarto D'Altino	Commercial
Konica Minolta	KM-1e	B2 sheet	Rehms Druck	Borken, Germany	Commercial, Direct Mail, Packaging
Landa		B1 Sheet	Superior Packaging and Finishing	Braintree, MA	Packaging
Screen	TruePress Jet 520HD/SC	Roll 2-up	Walker 360	Montgomery, AL	Books, Magazines, Transactional Documents, Direct Mail Pieces, and General Commercial

If you are an OEM and want to report a recent installation, please get in touch with [email protected] or [email protected]  and we will happily share your announcement.