Cambridge – Xaar, the leading inkjet printing technology Group, has launched its revolutionary printhead – the Xaar Aquinox – delivering exceptional reliability, creativity, and sustainability for printing aqueous fluids.
The Aquinox is the latest development from Xaar’s ImagineX platform, and its revolutionary aQ Power Technology provides a radically new approach to how water-based fluids are jetted reliably, delivering a truly transformational industrial printhead.
Xaar’s aQ Power is a combination of ground-breaking technologies designed to optimise the Aquinox’s lifespan and robustness when handling aqueous fluids. They include a new internal architecture, water-compatible materials that can withstand a wider range of pH levels and a new drive system that allows for optimal drop ejection. This, together with Xaar’s TF Technology ink recirculation, ensures the Aquinox delivers significantly increased nozzle open time compared to typical aqueous printheads.
Water-based inkjet printing has never been more effective or versatile thanks to the Xaar Aquinox’s unique technologies, exceptional print speeds and compatibility with multiple aqueous fluid types. You can achieve speeds of more than 100m/min. The Xaar Aquinox’s high native resolution of 720-dpi and high firing frequency of 48kHz allow for high fluid laydown and maximum productivity. And with Xaar’s High Laydown Technology the drop size capability is extended, making the Aquinox ideal for printing textiles, highly absorbent substrates, or thick film coatings.
Thanks to Xaar’s Ultra High Viscosity Technology the Aquinox is capable of jetting fluid viscosities of up to 100cP. The Xaar Aquinox allows for a wider range of colours and fluids with larger particles, more pigment, and higher opacity. This makes colours more vivid and whites and blacks more powerful.
The Xaar Aquinox can handle all the latest aqueous dyes. This not only allows for creativity and impact, but also makes it possible to help users plan for the future. Xaar’s technology and its chevron architecture provides a very energy efficient operation, reducing the power required for printheads, printers and end users alike. In addition, the Aquinox’s improved nozzle open time and latency reduces maintenance and ink waste, helping to minimise the total cost of ownership for users.
John Mills, CEO of Xaar, said: “The introduction of the Xaar Aquinox, powered by our ImagineX platform, is our most significant product launch in recent years.
“The Aquinox demonstrates our commitment to driving the future of inkjet into new and ever more sustainable applications, and we are proud of this revolutionary transformation in aqueous inkjet printing.”
Supported by the robust and proven Hydra ink supply system, with its ‘plug and print’ capability and easy to use, intuitive user interface each Xaar Aquinox printhead is easily integrated into new print machines.
The Aquinox also comes with a development kit, which gives OEMs everything that they need in order to get up-and-running. This includes the ink supply and printhead drive electronics.
To improve performance, the Xaar Aquinox was developed with some of the most respected manufacturers and developers in aqueous Inkjet Inks.
John concluded: “The Aquinox seamlessly combines all Xaar’s proven technologies and innovations into a truly transformational and reliable aqueous printhead, providing a real step change in reliable aqueous inkjet printing.
“From textiles to ceramics and packaging, we see the Xaar Aquinox breaking new ground, enabling new water-based print applications, many of which were previously not possible with inkjet.
“The Xaar Aquinox will revolutionise aqueous printing, helping to deliver a world where you can truly print anything you imagine.”