Premiere of Durst Kappa 180, high-performance inkjet printer

24 Sep '11

5 min read

Inks: For textile printing applications, Durst has developed its own high-performance inks (Kappa Inks) for the piezo inkjet multipass technology. These are used for printing with absolutely environmentally friendly, waterbased dispersion, reactive and acid inks on the different textile fibers by way of the QuadroZ Arrays. The characteristics of Kappa Inks are deep black, outstanding luminosity and excellent stability.

• Kappa Ink R (Reactive Ink System) for cotton and cotton mixtures with more than 60% cotton
• Kappa Ink D (Dispersion Ink System) for synthetic fibers, polyester and polyester mixtures with more than 50% polyester
• Kappa Ink A (Acid Ink System) for silk and silk mixtures

Workflow: Besides the printing machine itself, the RIP is the most important and also the most error-prone component in the printing process. For this reason, Durst – together with specialist Caldera – has developed GrandRIP+ software for digital textile printing, tailoring it to match the Kappa 180. The speedy, reliable and high-performing workflow solution encompasses all the functions required for the creation and management of printing orders.

These include such features as tiling, embedded color profiles and ICC-compliant output, Photoshop plug-ins, coloring and color coordination of textile print data, a dashboard with a preview function and rapid access to printing orders, multitasking control for distributed printing machines and enhanced ink management. The digital printing data can be collated and configured individually by means of the layout & compose function. To this end, GrandRIP+ supports the standard image formats EPS, PS, PDF, JPG, Photoshop and TIF.

Transparency: The Kappa 180 Costview software ensures precise calculation of the production costs and environmental factors for each printing order. All relevant parameters, including ink, material, power and other factors, are analyzed via a dashboard, while at the same time the CO2 emissions are calculated for each production stage. Costview has a web interface, which means that all analyses can be interchanged with other departments at any point in time.

Support: With Durst Advanced Remote Diagnostics (DARD), the Kappa 180 has an innovative remote maintenance and alert system which monitors all relevant parameters, including printheads, humidity, temperature, voltage, etc., in order to maintain an even production process and prevent unscheduled machine downtimes.

Feeding-in: Being a top-quality textile printing machine, the Durst Kappa 180 has fully automatic feeding-in and guiding facilities for textiles with a maximum printing width of 195 cm and a printing blanket with an integrated washing system. The drying unit is a hot air dryer powered by gas, steam or electricity.

Durst Kappa 180 at the ITMA 2011 trade show
Durst Kappa is being premiered at ITMA 2011 and will be demonstrated at Stand B117 in Hall 7 from September 22-29, 2011. Prospective customers can see for themselves the capabilities of the highperformance digital printer and obtain first-hand information about the new product.

Durst Phototechnik AG

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