Key Features
Don’t limit yourself to just beautifully printed jobs – It is time to bring more value and creativity to your customers. The JETVARNISH 3DS turns your printed jobs into spectacular and irresistible printouts, which will immediately gain the full attention of your customer. You can easily spot varnish all your digital prints, highlight defined areas or add 3D effects, which makes your print jobs more vivid and tactile.
With the new varnish formula in combination with the Konica Minolta print heads you can create a 3D effect on laminated surfaces or on toner directly. The variable data option adds full personalization capabilities for a maximum one-to-one marketing impact.
The digitalization of the spot UV finishing allows you to take a few sheets from each job and spot UV coat it, producing sellable proofs so your customers can see, touch and feel effect that their jobs could have.
With the JETVARNISH 3DS as a completely digital solution you can prepare all this on demand and safe pure time and money.
- HIGH PRODUCTIVITY – With the single pass printing, the JETVARNISH 3DS is a UV spot varnish device, which offers high speed and high productivity. The customer can spot varnish up to 2298 A3 pages per hour
- THE DIGITAL ADVANTAGE The digitalization of the spot UV finishing allows you to take a few sheets from each job and spot UV coat it, so your customers can SEE and FEEL the effect that their jobs could have. With the JETVARNISH 3DS your customer can 3D spot UV varnish on digital prints directly. Take advantage of the specially designed varnish formula coupled with the ability to precisely vary the thickness of coating thickness on each sheet to give your digital prints an individual and special touch. The thickness of the varnish can be adapted to the needs of the customer very flexible and on demand. The MGI JETVARNISH 3DS is ideal for lucrative short- and medium printing.
- UV INKJET TECHNOLOGY The smart combination of MGI’s exclusive inkjet technology with KONICA MINOLTAs Drop-on-Demand Piezoelectric print heads, brings you the quality you deserve, from the first page to the very last. Konica Minoltas inkjet print heads enable lines as small as 0.5 mm or as wide as the sheet.
- SOFTWARE SUITE INCLUDED – The JETVARNISH 3DS HubManager allows you to follow your jobs, manage your job queue, create job tickets, recall reprints and adjust your ARC camera system in one simple and self-explaining tool. A powerful function allows you to easily export all your detailed production data for internal costs for analysis and reports. The Spot Varnish Editor is designed for editing job files on-the-fly. That gives your customer the needed flexibility to adjust and modify his print jobs on the fly and safe pure time and money. The Product Cost Analyzer can anticipates production cost to the tenth of a cent and give your customer the precise information on consumable costs are per print job even before the job has been printed.
- ON BOARD REGISTRATIION CAMERAS – The JETVARNISH 3DS is equipped with Automated Registration Camera (ARC) technology designed to calibrate (on-the-fly) coating registration from sheet to sheet. The first camera reads printed marks and automatically corrects for changes in X and Y portions of each sheet. The second camera detects the paper skew and adjusted it on-the-fly. The ARC system ensures accurate spot UV coating, even on jobs with inconsistent print registration.
- VARNISH ON OFFSET AND DIGITAL PRINTS – With the JETVARNISH 3DS your customer can spot varnish on toner or offset prints with and without lamination. That makes the workflows of your customer so much more flexible and easier.
Specifications
| Printing Technology | MGI’s exclusive inkjet engine technology Drop-on-Demand (DoD) technology Piezoelectric printheads,developed and manufactured by Konica Minolta Single pass printing Flexible & scalable printing architecture |
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| Coating Thicknesses | Depending on your file, the inks used and the type of surface of your sheet, the coating thickness can vary. On laminated and aqueous coating: 15 μm – 100 μm for 3D raised effects and tactile finish. On toner and coated paper: 30 μm – 100 μm for 3D raised effects and a tactile finish |
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| Production speed | In 2D/flat mode – up to 2,298 A3 sheets per hour (with 15 µm) In 3D/raised mode – up to 1,624 A3 sheets per hour (with 30 µm) |
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| Registration | Fully motorized and automatic left side lay guide. Automated registration featuring MGI ARC system with optical detection of printed crop marks. Overall registration of ± 200 μm |
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| Formats | Min. 21×30 cm / 8 x 11.8” Max. 36.4×102 cm / 14.33×40.15” Max. Printable Width 35.5 cm |
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| Substrate Thickness | Min: 135 Gsm and not less than 150 μm or 6 mil before printing & lamination Max: 450 Gsm and not more than 450 μm or 24 mil before printing & lamination Motorized height-adjustment print heads |
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| Substrates | Printing on most matte or glossy laminated surfaces, with or without aqueous coating, layered paper, plastic, PVC and other coated materials. Spot 3DS coat directly onto most digital prints (ie. bizhub) with no lamination or coating required. |
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| UV Coatings and capacity | 3D varnish delivered with a 10-litre tank capacity | |
| High Capacity Automatic Feeder |
Feeder able to handle a paper pile up to 30 cm 3,000 sheets at 135 gsm |
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| High Pile Output Stacker | Stacker able to handle a paper pile up to 30 cm / 11.86” high 3,000 sheets at 135 gsm |
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| Paper Path | 100% flat paper path Vacuum feed system Air feed system Automatic double sheet detection In-line LED dryer “On-the-fly” drying & curing via integrated LED Spot Coated sheets can be immediately finished or handled, no additional drying time required |
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| Front End System | Dedicated PC; CPU + touch-screen + keyboard/mouse Ethernet connection 10/100/1000 BT (RJ 45) Built-in Application Software Suite Comprehensive job queue management Predictive printing cost calculator (coating consumption) Dedicated image editor to do local and fast image editing prior to production |
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| Maintenance & Remote Technical Support |
Daily maintenance completed in less than 10 minutes Majority of procedures are automated Automatic cleaning system From cold start to production in less than 10 minutes Remote troubleshooting & support via included video/ web camera (high speed internet connection required) |
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| Operator Panel | Integrated user-friendly LCD touch-screen | |
| Options | Twin option 2nd print engine to increase 3D print speed and coating thickness, up to 200 μm variable data option. Variable Data Option: |
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| Dimensions (L x W x H) & Weight |
4.25 (5.50) x 1.06 x 1.80 meter 1 meter / 3.3’ clearance required on all 4 sides ± 1,400 kg / ± 3,100 lbs Weight |
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| Electrical | 7.5 kW (32 A) at 220–240 Volts; 2 plug CEE/IP44 32A (1P+N+E) | |
| Operating Environment | Temperature: 18 to 30°C / 64 to 86°F Relative humidity: between 30 and 50% (no condensation) |
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| Respecting the Environment |
Eliminates resource waste (wasted electricity, paper and varnish) No plates (offset) or screens (screen printing) No messy cleanup or preparation between jobs Drastic reduction in amount of consumables and use of bulk packaging. Coating without volatile solvent. |
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The default sheet format is A3, unless otherwise stated
1) with an additional option installed
2) speed will vary according to printing parameter used
3) confirm substrate/toner compability with KM
- The support and availability of the listed specifications and functionalities varies depending on operating systems, applications, network protocols as well as network and system configurations.
- Some of the product illustrations contain optional accessories.
- Specifications and accessories are based on the information available at the time of printing and are subject to change without notice.
- Konica Minolta does not warrant that all specifications mentioned will be error-free.
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