Flatbed fortitude: Inca Spyder 150 (left) and the Inca Columbia Turbo from Sericol, both launched at drupa 2004
Two new flatbed printers, together with a growing Australian install base is ensuring Sericol has a bright future in wide format printing. Sericol showed two new additions to the Inca range of flatbed inkjet printers at the drupa exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany in May. The new line up included the Columbia Turbo, a faster version of the current Columbia, and a totally new, compact and affordable printer, the Spyder 150.
At the exhibition, Sericol demonstrated the Columbia Turbo – the latest and by far the fastest addition to the Columbia family of digital flatbeds. With a maximum speed of 160sqm an hour and a huge bed size of 3.2x1.6m, Sericol says it provides a cost effective method of producing large format work.
The company says that like its smaller predecessor the Inca Eagle, Columbia Turbo guarantees exceptional accuracy, quality and print speeds which once again revolutionises the production of display graphics in markets around the world by allowing high quality finished prints to be printed economically in a fraction of the time previously taken.
Sericol also launched the newly developed Spyder 150 – a smaller flatbed piezo inkjet printer designed for those printers who require the greatest print resolution on smaller format images. With a print format of 1x1.5m long, the Spyder 150 has been designed to print directly onto rigid and flexible media up to and 30mm thick. The print finish is glossy with near-photographic quality.
The Columbia Turbo and the Spyder 150 round out the Inca machine offering of digital flatbeds and consolidate the equipment manufacturers position as producer of the fastest and most reliable production flatbeds.
Inca flatbed digital machines are distributed in Australia by Sericol Australia.
Flat Bed Imaging buys second Inca flatbed
One Australian company that will attest to the benefits, and the quality, of the Inca range of flatbed printers is Melbourne based Flat Bed Imaging (FBI), which has recently purchased its second Inca wide format printer from Sericol Australia.
Flat Bed Imaging was formed in an alliance between Port Melbourne-based printers The Print Centre and Resolution Imaging. The company produces a large range of point of purchase (POP), outdoor advertising and pressure sensitive label work.
After looking at various wide format printers at trade shows overseas, the company – a joint venture between The Print Centre and Resolution Imaging – decided on the 3.2 metre Inca Columbia.
FBI has attracted a wide variety of work since installing the Inca Eagle H a year ago and the added workload made the decision to buy a second wide format printer inevitable.
FBI co-director David Mudford sums up the company’s decision to buy the Columbia by saying, "The performance of the Eagle has exceeded our expectations, and we’ve had first class service and back up from Sericol Australia and Adco International, so the decision to stay with the Inca machine was easy."
Mudford says the addition of the Columbia will double the company’s output capacity.
