The press uses UV inkjets which have been designed specifically for FastJet and are produced by SunJet, a division of Sun Chemical.

Stefan Slembrouck, business manager for Sun Chemical’s digital print solutions division, said lots of positive progress has been made since it first demonstrated the concept machine at Drupa 2004.

He said: “In order to validate that the initial technology was stable in a realistic corrugated environment with dust, temperature changes and humidity, we built an alpha press with a full print width of 1,040mm.”

The prototype was installed in the UK in 2006 and has since been demonstrated to dozens of corrugated packaging printers.

FastJet was developed for printing corrugated sheets five years ago by Sun Chemical and Inca Digital Partners.

It is based on fixed colour arrays, with nearly 500 printheads that allow full-colour printing at speeds of less than one-second per square meter.

A second FastJet press is being commissioned in the UK and a third will go to America later this year.

Elsewhere at Drupa, Sun Chemical announced details of new partnerships with environmental and health sciences consultancy Environ, Radius Solutions and Sigma Breakthrough Technologies.

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