Mutoh America just announced a new line of high-performance variable drop mild-solvent printers. The Blizzard series will make its debut at the SGIA in Orlando. Mutoh promises these printers offer impeccable output quality at 430 square feet an hour and can reach top speeds up to 861 square feet an hour in production mode.

The new Blizzard printer series is an addition to Mutoh’s existing Spitfire Extreme mild-solvent printer family. This new Mutoh printer line consists of two models: Blizzard 65, printing widths of 64.5 inches and Blizzard 90, offering a printing width of 87.8 inches.

“Our new Blizzard printers are specifically targeted at sign shops looking for a flexible machine capable of speeds up to 860 square feet an hour, as well as top quality print work,” says Randy Rickert, Director of Sales, Service and Marketing.

Mutoh’s Blizzard series printers print directly onto standard available uncoated vinyl, banner and soft signage. The machines are targeted at small sign businesses needing versatility or larger operations wanting to extend capacity while gaining flexibility. Application possibilities encompass corporate signs, stage and window graphics, backlit box signage, construction announcements, vehicle graphics, indoor graphics such as photo blow ups, and floor graphics.

The new printers feature a completely innovative look, a high end LCD display with blue background and white text and a large viewing window providing an excellent view on the output. The integrated light source allows for production monitoring and facilitates maintenance operations.

The Blizzard utilizes Mutoh’s high-performance mild-solvent ink, specifically tuned for the sign industry. The ink will resist cleaners, detergents and commercially available degreaser’s as good as true solvent printer inks and offers an outdoor durability on compatible media up to 3 years without lamination. For heavy duty applications where mechanical stress is involved (floor & vehicle graphics), lamination is required. The Mutoh mild-solvent inks are available in 220 ml and 440 ml cassettes. The Blizzard printers also accept Mutoh’s award-winning Eco-Solvent Ultra inks, for users wanting to use the printer in regular office environments without forced ventilation.

The Blizzard features two head sets in a micro-staggered layout (one color per head), allowing both speed oriented production work at impeccable print quality and top quality print work. Each of the eight incorporated drop-on-demand piezo inkjet heads has 2 x 180 nozzles. Each 180 nozzle row is delivered by an independent ink channel. Using Dynamic Variable Dot Imaging Technology, each ink droplet is individually adjusted to provide high speed and high quality with low ink consumption. Each head allows print resolutions of 360 x 360 dpi, 720 x 360 dpi, 540 x 720 dpi and 720 x 720 dpi.

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