The new Epson Stylus Pro GS6000 64” (1626mm) wide-format digital printer for durable outdoor or interior signage will get its first public showing at Perth’s Image Expo on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th August at the Claremont Showgrounds – only on the Starleaton Digital Solutions booth. Epson’s release date is Spring of 2008..”
Running with the same Rip controller that Epson featured at the recent Drupa exhibition in Germany – ColorGate Production Server 5 – the Epson Stylus Pro GS6000 offers unprecedented colour gamut, image quality, productivity and safety in a solvent printer. The key is Epson’s new UltraChrome GS eco-solvent inks; they contain no Nickel compounds, have greatly reduced VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) and are virtually odourless, eliminating the need for expensive ventilation and air-scrubbing units associated with traditional solvent signage printing.
Starleaton director Gary Smith says: “We are rapt to be the first company to publicly show the Epson Stylus Pro GS6000 in Australia. It’s due for release in our Spring but we will be printing away with it, via the ColorGate Production Server Rip, at Image Expo in Perth at the end of August. Signage production has never before been as clean, high-resolution or colourful.”
At 1440 x1440dpi and a minimum ink droplet size of 3.7 picoliters, sign printers using the Epson Stylus Pro GS6000 will be able to offer their clients photographic-quality results at anything up to 25 square metres per hour throughput. The eight-colour UltraChrome GS inkset comes in recyclable 950ml cartridges and will produce stunning images on a variety of solvent-compatible vinyls, plastics, films, textiles and papers.
ColorGate’s Production Server 5 is the ultimate ‘front-end’ for commercial signage applications. It is a scalable Rip that drives almost all available large format printers, up to any size. It compensates for colour variances and can plan the positioning of different sized output for most efficient use of the roll media. Because of the Epson Stylus Pro GS6000’s increased colour capability, ColorGate’s MIM (Media-Ink-Metamode) can take full advantage of the entire available gamut – something that four and six colour printers with ordinary ‘poster’ Rips just can’t do.
“It’s an industry-shifting combination,” says Gary Smith, “the ColorGate Production Server with the new Epson Stylus Pro GS6000 – and our range of Neschen solvent media – makes durable UV-resistant signage production as clean and easy as water-based wide format inkjet. We welcome all signage producers to our booth at Image Expo Perth to see for themselves.
Starleaton Digital Solutions Pty Ltd
www.starleaton.com.au
