PrintEngine™ Colour Label
- Introduction
- PrintEngine™ Colour Label offers a complete variable data solution for drop on demand inkjet systems.
Welcome to colour variable printing
Printing colour labels is a new and growing market. Even adding a small amount of colour has huge impact. For short runs being able to print a label and its colour background in one pass can simplify production.
ixPressia colour label technology has full support for colour and is simple to implement and use. Full CMYK colour label printing, with variable images. Advanced features like transparency (useful for security printing). ICC colour profile import for accurate colours. All optimised for speed.
Professional Workflow support
Design of the label is separated from printing. The ixPressia label designer is a simple to use layout package designed to run on a standard PC. Labels can incorporate backgrounds generated by professional designers.
- Step 1
- Design labels and save as a template file using the ixPressia label designer off-line from the printer.
- Step 2
- Import template and print labels using the ixPressia PrintEngine™ in real-time.
Greyscale Head Support for ultra high quality
There is support for the new greyscale head technologies to give stunning print quality.
Variable Data for production systems
Data can be internally generated from counters (for barcodes, serial numbers, batch codes etc), or read from an external source (CSV file).
Labels are generated on the fly when needed, making for quick print start-up. Variable data can also be fed in from another computer via TCP/IP over a network connection. This makes it easy to interface to existing production control systems.
Full range of 1D, 2D and composite barcodes
ixPressia variable data technology supports a comprehensive range of 2D and 3D barcodes, including the new composite barcode types.
Barcodes are printed in pure black to ensure readability when printed in a colour environment.
Variable Bitmaps
Hydra can print bitmaps as either static images (the same for every print) or variable (where the image is read from a different file for each print), or any combination of the two. Bitmaps are extracted using a simple sequential numbered filename system. The benefit: your printer can be used for printing ID cards, passbooks, loyalty cards with individuals photographs.
Features
The information contained in this table may be subject to change due to our continuous development process. If you have a specific requirement please contact us.
| Graphical Design | |
|---|---|
| Text | Set orientation, size, font name Use for static text, serial numbers, date & time, database and remotely populated data |
| Barcodes | Use for static text, serial numbers, date & time, database and remotely populated data |
| Polygons | Filled or unfilled. Straight lines & arcs |
| Rectangles | Filled or unfilled. Square corners or rounded |
| Ellipses | Filled or unfilled |
| Bitmaps | Static or variable. Set scaling & cropping |
| Transparency | Set the transparency of any item to allow the background to show through |
| Fills | Solid or gradient |
| Layers | A foreground and background layer makes layout easier |
| Number of objects | No practical limit |
| Variable Data (text or barcodes) | |
|---|---|
| Serial Numbers | Start value, step, batch size |
| Time & Date | Now, or Now + offset; settable element order; settable element formats |
| File import | CSV file import of data |
| Variable bitmaps | Use a different bitmap per label specified in a directory |
| 3rd party control systems | Use the remote control interface to send data to populate the label with whilst printing |
| Barcodes | |
|---|---|
| 1D & 2D supported barcodes | (See below for full list) |
| Quality control | Automatic to ensure a barcode fits exactly on a pixel |
| Pixel Shaving | % of bar widths |
| Quiet zones | % of bar widths |
| System integration | |
|---|---|
| Remote control printing via TCP/IP control interface | Control the start, stop, label data and monitor the printing process |
| Bitmaps | |
|---|---|
| File types supported | JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG & GIF |
| Transparent bitmaps | GIF & PNG transparency fully supported |
| Postscript | EPS & PDF import |
| Language Support | |
|---|---|
| User interface | Translate the entire user interface to any language via a translation file |
| Asian languages | Full Unicode support for Asian languages, including top-down written text |
| Arabic languages | Full Unicode support for Arabic languages, including top-down written text |
| Date & Time | Specify the locale of the date and time to ensure the correct order of element, the correct separator and the correct language used for names of days & months |
| Label Design features | |
|---|---|
| Easy to use user Interface | Advanced user interface that can be translated to any language |
| Layout options | Snap to grid, align objects to other objects |
| Layout aids | Non-printing objects. Guide rulers |
| Lanes | Specify the location of the printhead lanes |
| Label layout options | |
|---|---|
| Multiple labels per page | Specify rows & columns and inter-label spacings |
| Templates | Template files for common designs |
| Non-printed objects | Any drawing object can be placed on the non-printing template layer |
| Colour Support | |
|---|---|
| Colour modes | Monochrome, Greyscale and Colour |
| Colour correction | Supports ICC colour profiles (imported into the ixPressia PrintEngine™) |
| Screening | Uses a very fast error-diffusion screening in the ixPressia PrintEngine™. |
| Print Heads | |
|---|---|
| Xaar | Xaar 318 (Leopard), Xaar 500, Xaar 760, Xaar 1001 |
| Dimatix | S-Class |
| Konica Minolta | KM512 |
| PrintOS | H8, T8 and P16 |
| Head Layout | Configurable at design time from single head to multiple heads per colour. |
| Hardware options | |
|---|---|
| Hardware supported | Xaar: XUSB datapath, binary and greyscale heads supported Konica-Minolta, TTP Meteor |
| Windows’ printer support | Print to any standard windows’ printer |
Barcodes Supported
The barcodes listed below may be subject to change due to our continuous development process. If you have a specific barcode requirement please contact us.
| Barcodes Supported | |
|---|---|
| Australian Post Custom Australian Post Custom2 Australian Post Custom3 Code 11 Code 20F5 Standard Code128A EAN13 EAN8P5 LOGMARS |
PDF417 PDF417 Truncated Pharmacode One-Track Pharmacode Two-Track Planet 12 digit Planet 14 digit RSS Expanded RSS-14 UCC/EAN-128 Composite UPCAv USPS OneCode (4-CB) USPS PostNet9 (ZIP+4) |