Canon officially opened a new production facility for UVgel ink at its innovation and development campus in Venlo, The Netherlands, to keep up with growing demand from users of its Colorado roll-to-roll large-format printers. Global production volumes of UVgel ink for Colorado printers doubled in the last year. In 2019, Canon completed more than 1,200 global customer installations of its UVgel Colorado roll-to-roll large-format printer series. To support this increasing customer base and its ever-growing roll-to-roll print volumes, Canon has ramped up its UVgel ink production capacity.
The new ink production centre features an innovative workflow to process the raw ingredients in multiple steps and in barrels of 200 litres for each colour. At the end of the automated production line, the ink is transferred into Canon UVgel ink bottles, ready for immediate shipment to the customer.With the new UVgel ink production facility, Canon further underlines its continued commitment and growth ambitions in the large format graphics roll-to-roll market, the company says.
