Gross sales are up at Xaar, and prospects have embraced its Aquinox printhead with two new machines already in improvement – forward of the group’s expectations.
Xaar invested Euro 1.2-m in reorganising its manufacturing facility
Saying Xaar’s outcomes for calendar yr 2022 on 28 March, CEO John Mills stated that Aquinox had been nicely acquired by prospects who’ve taken take a look at kits.
The aqueous head was launched 4 months in the past, and is billed as having a probably transformative impact on quite a few markets attributable to its jetting capabilities.
“We’ve made assertions concerning the product and the actually gratifying factor is that prospects which have examined it have validated the factors we made,” Mills stated.
He added, “What we’ve discovered is that we will really formulate the ink to be a lot larger viscosity, with far more pigment, and due to that you simply don’t want a primer. And since you’re placing twice as a lot pigment into the ink, you successfully print faster.”
He stated that prospects had discovered internet productiveness to be considerably larger due to these components.
The primary machines being developed will probably be for textiles and direct-to-garment (DTG) printing utilizing pigmented ink. Aquinox also can deal with reactive dye inks.
(Supply: PrintWeek.com)