OKI launches compact decoration with white toner technology

IndPrint Print Solutions

OKI Europe has unveiled the next generation white toner graphic arts printer, full of commercial potential and specifically designed to enable a rapid response to today's changing market.

The Pro8432WT next generation A3 white toner printer boasts the smallest footprint compact design without compromise, offering unrivalled functionality and specification where it counts. As well as performance, OKI has also reduced the real terms cost of white toner printing and included an incredible two additional white toner cartridges in the box, shipping with the equivalent of 13,000 white pages. The Pro8432WT is supplied with enough toner as standard to easily make the profit to cover the capital costs, providing a compelling return on investments opportunity, ideal for print houses, graphic arts organisations and other businesses serious about high quality decoration on everything from garments to trophies and signs. The Pro8432WT is big on quality with fantastic white opacity and designed to print on all relevant transfer media.

‘The Pro8432WT is designed to fit any print shop or design studio where space is at a premium, as a fast turnaround, short run alternative to silk screen and other decorative methods. Thanks to its fast and easy set up, it also provides an accelerated route to new revenue streams for high street print shops and businesses or organisations majoring in light production printing,’ explained Lee Webster, general manager, product marketing, OKI Europe.

Printing with white toner, the Pro8432WT can produce full colour transfers which are already weeded and ready to decorate substrates of any colour. Self weeding capability removes the time consuming, multi step processes previously required when decorating coloured garments and products with traditional methods. Manufactured to be compatible with all the major transfer media brands the Pro8432WT offers access to new, high value revenue streams. Combined with the flexibility of the latest low temperature transfer media to decorate virtually any substrate from cotton and man made synthetic fabrics, to metal, glass, acrylic and even wood. With new light single step transfer media the strong opacity of white toner permits lighter colour garment decoration in a single step process for superfast, cost effective production. The innovative transfer system is fast, easy and set up costs are substantially lower than other digital printing techniques such as direct to garment, and overcomes the limitations of sublimation white only polyester blank decoration.

The Pro8432WT design is optimised for transfer media printing using speciality fuser and toner technology which deliver strong white opacity and vivid colours which last in the wash.

‘The Pro8432WT excels at answering many of the challenges facing today's industry, delivering innovation, significant ROI and real versatility in a small-footprint device,’ added Lee.

About the Pro8432WT

Colour speed: Up to 35 pages per minute.

Resolution: 1200 x 600 dpi.

Processor speed: 800 MHz.

Paper input: main paper tray 100 sheets; first tray 300.

Maximum paper weight: 220 g/m2 tray, 256 g/m2 main paper tray.

Toner Cartridge Yield (colour/white): 10,000/4500 pages.

Dimensions (hxwxd): 360 x 449 x 552 mm; weight: 37kg