Velocity technology from Canon at Drupa
Canon is hoping to lure customers from the large-format offset market with a top-secret Océ inkjet device co-developed with Memjet, codenamed 'Project Velocity'.
12 May 2012 | By Rahul Kumar
(l-r) Dr Alok Bharadwaj and Puneet Datta, Canon India
The machine is on display at the Canon stand (Hall 8a, stand C06–1), where customers can see it blaze through large-format work such as maps and posters at a lightning-fast 500 A0-format sheets per hour.
This speed is thanks to Memjet’s printheads, and means the velocity is more than four times as fast as Océ’s next quickest wide-format printer, the ColorWave 650, which is being launched at Drupa 2012.
The ColorWave 650 and 650 Poster Printer models, which use Océ’s Crystal Point toner pearl technology, offer a productivity improvement of around 20% over the earlier 600 series.
The Velocity features an array of five Memjet heads to offer resolutions of 1,600x800dpi by applying more than 3 billion drops of ink per second.
The Velocity has been tested on substrates from 65-175gsm, though Canon stressed the machine at Drupa is a technology demonstration and will be further developed before it ships.
Thanks to Memjet printheads, the Velocity is more than four times as fast as the new Océ ColorWave 650
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