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Page 87: Mutoh ColorVerify Product Review

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Page 49: Mutoh’s On-Printer Color Verifier

Mutoh’s newest printers offer incredible print speeds (up to 313 sq. /ft. per hour on the 1624) and exceptional image quality. Users can Enhance Your Image, Reduce Your Costs by equipping the 1324 and 1624 with a SpectroVue VM-10 spectrophotometer. Combined with the FREE on-printer ColorVerify service, the SpectroVue will assist users with process control by maintaining consistent print output and minimizing wasted time and materials.

Mutoh will host the “Enhance Your Image, Reduce Your Costs” seminar through NBM’s Education Station. The seminar will be hosted daily at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Mutoh will also be showcasing the ValueJet 1608HS Hybrid printer. This flatbed printer can be used for both roll-to-roll and rigid substrates with equal ease. The Hybrid now runs on the all-new MP Ink. A BIO based ink composed of 60 percent plant derived materials. MP Ink contains no harmful HAPs (Hazardous Air Pollutants) and provides for faster drying times.

For a limited time only, Mutoh will be offering the ValueJet 1608HS Hybrid for $39,995 (normal MSRP $49,995). Every 1608HS comes with a SpectroVue VM-10 spectrophotometer and free ColorVerify service.

Other products shown at Mutoh’s booth will be the GBC Arctic 1000 series laminator and a Fletcher-Terry Company’s FSC Mutli-Material Cutter. Both companies plan to offer show specials in conjunction with Mutoh.
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About Mutoh
Mutoh Industries, Ltd. founded in 1952 in Tokyo, manufactured and distributed mechanical drafting products. Since then, ISO 9000-certified Mutoh Industries, Ltd. & has become the world’s foremost manufacturer of large format piezoelectric printers. In April, 2007, Mutoh Holdings Co, Ltd was established as a holding company of affiliates including Mutoh Industries, Ltd. Mutoh has engineering, manufacturing and distribution centers in Japan, Belgium and Phoenix, Arizona. Please visit the websites: www.mutoh-hd.co.jp for Mutoh Holdings Co, Ltd and www.mutoh.com for Mutoh America Inc., call 1-800-99-MUTOH (800-996-8864) or e-mail us at sales@mutoh.com

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ColorVerify is a quick and easy way to save time and money by verifying the printer’s color output before running a print job. Mutoh’s ColorVerify service provides a check for color ‘drift’ before it results in rejected jobs. The process takes just a few minutes to complete and can be done without sheeting off, so it fits into the operator’s workflow.

How it works: When the SpectroVue option is added to a new ValueJet 1324 or 1624 printer, it automatically activates Mutoh’s free ColorVerify service. With this service, the operator simply prints the built-in ColorVerify Color Check test strip at the beginning of a print run and stores the measured values as a “baseline” in the printer’s on-board nonvolatile memory. Then, at any point throughout the print run, the operator can reprint the test strip and re-measure. The printer will analyze the measured values, compare them to the baseline values, and report how much color variation has occurred between the current print and the baseline measurement.

In addition to checking for color drift, ColorVerify also notifies the operator if the printer is reproducing color consistently across the full platen width, which is critical when printing multi-panel jobs such as billboards, tradeshow murals and vehicle wraps.

“Mutoh is the first in its industry to provide customers with an effortless and accurate color verification system,” shares Brian Phipps, General Manager of Mutoh America Inc. “In this economy, maximizing color efficiency is critical. ColorVerify quickly alerts the operator if something within the production workflow has changed that could impact color accuracy. Process control has been a relatively unaddressed issue until now.”

Faster and more efficient than a manually operated spectrophotometer, the SpectroVue provides accurate and consistent color measurements. The SpectroVue mounts directly to the side of the print head and takes its measurements from the same sample spot every time a ColorVerify Color Check test strip is run.

The ValueJet 1324-54” and 1624-64” are Mutoh America’s newest additions to the ValueJet printer line. Not only can they be equipped with the SpectroVue spectrophotometer, but they offer an automatic sheet off function, adaptation to different ink cartridge sizes and print at blazing speeds (up to 313 sq/ft per hour on the 1624).

To learn more about ColorVerify and the ValueJet line visit www.MUTOH.com or call 1.800.99.MUTOH.

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