Countdown to Drupa: Xeikon to debut Trillium One, Tonnik ink

Aimed at the commercial print market – direct mail, direct marketing and catalogue printing, the press is designed to compete, against both toner and inkjet presses.

 

Alongside, Xeikon also announced the development of its liquid toner, naming it Tonnik, and calling it a perfect marriage of convention and digital technology.

 

“There is a market in the direct mail, marketing and transactional printing with more colour and images, as well as high volumes. The Trillium One does not have inkjet heads nor plates. And in areas of print where the ink coverage is 40-50%, we expect to be more competitive than inkjet,” said Wim Maes, president of Xeikon, which is now digital printing solutions division of Flint Group, after its acquisition in November last year.

 

 

A joint development project between Xeikon and Miyakoshi, the Trillium One is a two tower press with an intermediary fusing and is based on two primary principles – micro-gapping and liquid toner. “The small five micron gaps between the anilox and the doctor rollers, the doctor and the photoconductor drum, and the photoconductor drum and the intermediate drum which then transfers the toner to the media means that this mechanism accurately and efficiently disperses the liquid toner at a very high speed as the substrate progresses through the imaging process,” said Maes.

 

The Trillium One has a print width of 19.7inch (500mm), prints at 60m/min (200fpm) and is capable of a target volume of 5 to 15-mn A3 prints per months. 

 

Maes said that since no optimisation or coating is required for the fusing process, it can run a wide range of substrates. “Besides, the toner contains no evaporating of carrier oil, only recycling; de-inkability at 94%, which is based on the Ingede Germany test, all makes it a design that reduces environmental impact.”  Xeikon is in the process of getting the substrates certified.

 

The Trillium One will be driven by the Xeikon X-800 DFE and will not push a click model, but will operate on an a la carte model as it has with its presses, where the presses will be sold with maintenance and consumables on demand.

 

While concluding Maes said, the Trillium One combines the strength of offset litho and digital printing, enabling variable data printing at higher volumes with lower costs, thus creating a powerful production solution. “It will allow operations to transform their print quality and at the same time open up new markets. We are excited to be presenting this revolutionary press to visitors at Drupa 2016.”

 

At the Xeikon stand, there will be a central team – the 3D team with the theme of direct, dedicated, digital, where Trillium One’s production flexibility will be showcased five times daily using a range of applications during 30-minute demonstrations.