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"]Image featuring a painting of a white woman's face with red, orange, blue, black and teal mosaic makeup 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

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