(Read the original release here.)

Well, the folks at Epson have certainly been busy in this pandemic year. In the past six months alone, they’ve launched a new resin-based wide-format series for soft signage and other applications, a desktop dye-sub printer for specialty printing, an industrial-scale dye-sub printer, and expanded their T-Series technical printers for the AEC market (and for the second time this year). Not content with all that, the company last week announced its brand new SureColor V7000 UV flatbed. With this product launch, Epson now fills what had been a conspicuous gap in their portfolio and now offers the full gamut, as it were, of wide-format and display graphics ink technologies—from solvent, to resin (aka latex), to dye-sub, and now to UV.

The debut model in this new flatbed series, the SureColor V7000, is a 10-color, LED UV-curing 4 x 8-foot printer. The 10 colors comprise black, cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan, light magenta, gray, red, white, and varnish. (Red is an unusual color choice, but Epson has included red in some previous SureColor series, for users who need to closely match certain PMS or brand colors where orange or green won’t do.) The eight MicroPiezo printheads include four color, two white, and two varnish heads. It can also output three-layer prints with minimal loss of speed. In “everyday production mode” the SureColor V7000 can print up to nine boards an hour.