Product Choice
John E Wright buys three Canon Colorado printers from CMYUK
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ohn E Wright was founded in Nottingham in 1900, and today owns six print centres in the UK. Throughout its 123-year history, it has continually invested in state-of-the-art technology. During its long-trusted partnership with CMYUK, it has looked to the latter to help guide it toward greater efficiencies, profitability, and sustainability.
The investment in three new Colorado M5W PRO printers from CMYUK has reshaped the company’s production landscape, saving time and money. “We’re moving so much work from the HP Latex now to the Colorado because the speed and the quality is there. We used to do lots of aqueous work on HP DesignJets such as posters and maps for example, but while the quality is comparable, the speed is between 30 – 40 times faster on a Colorado, and it’s so much cheaper,” says Alan Edwards, Technical Director, John E Wright.
The Colorado M Series
The Colorado M series was launched in March 2023 and is the fourth generation of Canon’s UVgel, 1.6m wide, roll-to-roll production printers. It’s unique in that it offers a modular, configurable, and in-field upgrade platform so customers can add additional features to their base model as and when required, all of which can all be done in the field. The M3 model with output speeds of 111 sq. m per hour can be upgraded to an M5 model that offers 159 sq. m per hour. Additional upgrades that can be made to the platform include a white ink option, the availability of larger 1L ink bottles or smaller 0.7L ones, FLXfinish+ for gloss or matt at the flick of a switch, or both printed in a single pass, double-sided printing, and a magnetic media kit.
John E Wright chose the M Series flagship model – the M5W Pro . “We’ve had such brilliant success with our first two Colorado 1650s, we just love them. When we found out that the Colorado M series with white was coming, we thought yes, we’ll have some of that,” says Alan.
White with no worry | 18 | March-April 2024
As well as operator friendliness, Canon prides itself on manufacturing equipment that puts the health and safety of users first
Canon UVgel White ink has been universally hailed as a triumph. It treats white like any other colour and doesn’t require set-up or dedicated printer treatment. It can do this because of the unique suspension chemistry that UVgel inks have. They resist clotting and sedimentation, so they don’t clump around inkjet nozzles, and are performance underpinned by Canon’s printer circulation system. UVgel white can be applied in any configuration – printed first, second, 3 or 5 layer – and prints fast. UVgel ink is also very efficient and when compared to other chemistries uses up to 30-40% less ink to achieve the same density. The UVgel white ink follows the same trajectory. By using 50-70% less ink, it can achieve the same density targets as other chemistries, ensuring a significant reduction in production running costs. “The fact that you can also print 5-layers of ink is a real game-changer. We’ve had to upgrade our ONYX RIPS to ONYX Thrive and this running in conjunction with Canon’s make-ready software PRISMAguide XL provides much better control of sophisticated multilayer ink files. The white ink is superb and application results are fast, easy, and fantastic,” says Alan. As well as operator friendliness, Canon
prides itself on manufacturing equipment that puts the health and safety of users first. It has added a new Aerosol Filter upgrade to the M series that captures all UV aerosol particles, directing and storing them in a sealed enclosure. The speed of colour profiling has also been advanced, and now it takes 50% less time to perform a new media calibration.
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