In a world first, Epson has unveiled the company’s new SureColor F9560 dye sublimation printer at Visual Impact 2024.
Replacing the SC-F9460 and SC-F9460H with a more compact package, the new printer offers improved image quality and speed, extended colour support and more convenient consumables management.
The company says the SC-F9560 represents its Visual Impact show theme ‘Beauty in Every Dimension’ on a stand that highlights the print market’s current trends and opportunities for future growth into the key areas of merchandise production and signage and fabric production.
Epson says the easy to operate SC-F9560 offers a large touch panel display complete with integrated help and comes supplied with Edge Print software that shows users on-screen what they can expect to get on paper.
It achieves high productivity levels with heavy duty motors and a large 6.7cm PrecisionCore printhead that delivers production output at low pass rates. Further production efficiencies include support for a wide range of media types, widths and thicknesses on rolls up to 45kg and a bulk ink system that uses pouch-based ink with dual sets and hot swap.
The SC-F9560’s new compact design features include a low profile with flat top, integrated heater and high precision auto take-up, and it is supplied with a roll loader to enable single operator management.
The 6c SC-F9560H model can be configured with LcLm ink for fine gradation and an extended gamut, OrVi for maximum gamut or FyFp fluorescent ink for maximum brightness. The fluorescent ink can be applied as spot colour and process colour.
Other benefits include lower running costs with low power consumption, support for cost-effective media and a high degree of self-maintenance. Epson claims an overall low total cost of ownership with a durable printhead covered under a comprehensive 12-month warranty which includes the printhead and is extendable up to five years via Epson’s CoverPlus.
Cloud solution
As with all of Epson’s latest LFP models the SC-F9560 integrates with the company’s free Cloud Solution PORT service. This advanced management platform provides web-based access from any desktop, app-based access for mobile devices and includes a range of reporting, tracking and costing tools. It enables users to optimise productivity and profit while ensuring maximum uptime with enhanced Epson support. With this model it even facilitates the option of user self-replacement of the printhead.
The SC-F9560 also works with the optional Epson SD-10 ultra-compact high-precision spectrophotometer, which enables easy spot colour matching with an additional Auto Table for enhanced work including profiling.
Epson adds that the SC-F9560 conforms to Epson’s corporate environmental goals with reduced packaging, incorporation of recycled content and use of consumables that contain less plastic and produce less waste.
Epson lists the SureColor F9560 other key features:
- Produces quality output at up to 80 square metres per hour and sellable output at up to 147 square metres per hour.
- User replaceable PrecisionCore printhead features 6400 micro-fine nozzles on the 4c model and 9,600 nozzles on the 6c.
- Variable dot sizing enables optimal colour expression with minimum grain and reduced ink consumption.
- Ink-less nozzle status monitoring, user adjustable nozzle replacement and auto head cleaning for reliable and consistent operation with minimal wastage.
- Supports media as thin as 0.04 mm thick in widths up to 1625 mm wide in rolls up to 250 mm diameter.
- Quiet at only 59 dB when operating.
Other Epson products at Visual Impact 2024 include:
• First Australasian showing of the new SureColor F1060 compact desktop DTG and DTFilm printer purpose-built for in store and in-house fabric customisation.
• First Australasian showing of the new SureColor V1060 compact desktop UV printer purpose built for customising consumer goods, merchandise and making small signs.
• First Australasian showing of the new SureColor P20560 64” aqueous printer that combines an enhanced gamut with a new bulk ink system to enable cost-effective production of fine art and large format interior POS.
• SureColor F160 compact dye sublimation printer designed to enable production of fabric goods, customised accessories and merchandise.
• SureColor S80660L 64” eco-solvent printer that continues to lead the market when it comes to image brightness, print quality, colour gamut and colour accuracy.
• Epson SD-10 spectrophotometer with new Auto Table which determines the exact colour of a test item and compares it with another or with a known standard such as Pantone.
