KYOCERA introduces New KC-91 Protective Overcoat for Thermal Printheads Used in Digital Photo Printing
Contributing to improvements in print speed and print quality of dye-sublimation printers
Kyoto/Neuss – Kyocera Corporation announced the KC-91, a new protective overcoat that can be applied to Kyocera’s thin-film thermal printheads commonly used in dye-sublimation printing applications such as the self-service digital photo printing machines increasingly found in public locations. Kyocera thermal printheads (up to a maximum A4-size) featuring the KC-91 protective overcoat will be sold starting Tuesday, February 7, 2012.
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Kyocera Announces Development & Commercialization of LED-UV Curing System which Supports the Industry’s Fastest Label Printing
Contributing to faster inkjet label printing with 70% reduced power consumption
Kyoto/Neuss – Kyocera Corporation today announced that it has developed the KVL-G3 Series LED-UV curing system, a key component in industrial printing machines, which supports the industry’s fastest label printing (80m/min.)*¹ for use in UV curing-type printing — a printing method that hardens and fixes ink with irradiating ultraviolet (UV) rays. Moreover, the new product achieves a 70% reduction*² in power consumption by using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in place of conventional lamp-system products (metal halide*³). The KVL-G3 Series was made available to the market on July 8.
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KYOCERA Develops World’s Fastest Thermal Printhead for Card Printers
Start of mass production
Kyoto/ Neuss, 08 March 2010 — Kyocera Corporation announced that it has successfully developed the new KLE Series thermal printhead for desktop card printers used to print onto rigid materials such as ID cards and credit cards. The new printhead is capable of 300-dpi, full-color, high-resolution printing at 50mm per second — the industry’s highest speed*1 for this type of printhead. The company started mass production March 1, 2010.
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