The Viper TX Professional is an all new digital direct to fabric production printer with a moving adhesive belt system.
This heavy-duty piezo drop-on-demand inkjet printer has been purpose-built for direct printing onto stretchable, knitted, woven and open structure fabrics, such as PES flag, cotton, nylon, lycra, silk and poplin.
The new industrial printer from Mutoh is targeted at sample creation and production runs of customized and personalised fabrics, home decoration fabrics, sportswear and swimwear.
Available at 1.6m and 2.2m widths, Mutoh’s Viper TX Professional printer will provide reliable and high quality fabric printing for the traditional textile and apparel markets at costs well below those associated with screen printing. At the same time it will drastically improve lead times for a flexible and fast design-to-delivery cycle. The new Mutoh printer incorporates all the features required to accurately load, transport, meander control and tension, dry and roll up printed fabrics.
A fully motorised heavy-duty unwinding system for rolls up to 150kg incorporates a pneumatic shaft in combination with a fabric spreader and curved tension bar. The system delivers straight unwinding of stretch, knitted, woven, open structure fabrics and fabrics, which are challenging to transport.
A precise meander control system with photo cells left and right will accurately guide the fabric onto the integrated adhesive belt. The moving adhesive belt transports the fabric through the print area of the Viper TX Professional, guaranteeing perfect control over the fabric feeding and ensuring a stable and flat fabric surface during printing.
An incorporated washing unit, consisting of a rotating brush and spray bar with a stainless steel water tank, cleans the adhesive belt to prevent ‘back printing’. A motorised heavy-duty winding system for media rolls up to 150kg automatically rolls up the printed fabrics, ready for after-treatment. Proper fabric behaviour is monitored by sensors along the fabric path.
The new Viper TX Professional printers incorporate eight drop-on-demand piezo inkjet heads. Each head has 2 x 180 nozzles. Using Dynamic Variable Dot Imaging Technology, each ink droplet is individually adjustable to provide high speed and high quality printing. The printers incorporate Mutoh’s award-winning and patented Intelligent Interweaving print technology, avoiding trial and error printing and therefore reducing media waste.
Viper TX Professional printers will deliver typical production speeds for close viewing distances between 11 and 32 m²/h. Top engine speed at 165cm amounts to 63 m²/h. The Viper TX Professional offers full freedom of ink set up: eight colours (possible mix of process and/or spot colours for maximum colour gamut), six colours, CMYK + CMYK (mixed ink type) and 2x4 CMYK (speed & ink autonomy set-up).
Mutoh Australia
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