Industrial sized inkjet press installed at Visy Displays in Melbourne

The Scitex Vision CORjet machine, which will boost Visy Displays’ product offering, has already enabled the company to expand into new markets, while offering new services to existing clients.

Maintaining high environmental standards is something that is extremely important to Visy. Sybil Clyne, General Manager of Visy Displays says, “Our aim is to supply our customers with environmentally sound, leading edge, packaging and display solutions. The Scitex Vision CORjet meet these needs, so it was an easy descision. Trials on our 100% recycled clay coated corrugated board proved the best fit to our existing business, and the machine uses water-based inks, which corresponds well with our high profile environmental policies.”

“The CORjet’s ability to carry out cost effective short runs was a big draw for us, with its automatic feed system proving to be a real benefit. It is perfect for POP, packaging prototypes and print on demand solutions where time is of the essence, it has given us the edge in the area of new product development.”

Visy Displays’ six-colour CORjet was installed at the end of September 2003 and produced its first commercial job in October.

“We had previously steered away from fast turn-around, short run work,” says Sybil Clyne, “but the CORjet has opened new doors for us. Now, we are producing an increasing number of bright, colourful merchandisers for in-store promotions of FMCG products for well known national and international brands.”

Clay-coated corrugated board is a specialty of Visy’s production and the stock is well suited to POP displays because of the high definition and vibrancy of the colours that can be produced. Visy Displays installed a flatbed CAD-operated digital die-cutter alongside the CORjet, so displays and packaging can be quickly scored and die-cut, ready for assembly. The combination of this of state-of-the-art equipment enables fast and economical production of concept mock-ups of displays and packaging.

“We can show clients an excellent sample of proposed displays very quickly,” Sybil Clyne says. “It’s helped the sales and marketing effort enormously not only for our own sales team but also our clients’.”

The CORjet is the first digital inkjet press developed for the corrugated market. It can print sheet sizes up to 160 cm x 320 cm (63” x 126”) at a rate of up to 150 m2/hour (1614 sq ft/hr) delivering up to 29 full format sheets per hour in high quality 600dpi “two-pass mode.” The printing process is completely automatic from the high-capacity automatic loader that feeds the print unit, to the dryer and finally to the automatic unloader. The CORjet has 3.8 litre (one gallon) ink reservoirs and so can be run with minimal supervision.

At the heart of the CORjet is the proprietary Aprion® Technology including the piezoelectric print heads that can be arranged in multiple arrays and a wide range of configurations. The result is a robust system that can deliver more than 25,000 drops per second from each of 512 nozzles on each print head. This not only gives speed, but quality and a stability that ensures repeatability.