There are five models in the AniDigi range with roller widths from 33cm to 90cm that incorporate six different types of texture pattern rollers to make coated finishes more attractive.

Neil Gomez, business development manager, finishing products at Anitech says, “Liquid coaters have many advantages over film laminators. One great plus factor is the ability to recycle the finished product like normal paper since a laminated finish means that neither the substrate nor plastic laminate can be recycled.”

The model on show at VIIE will be the AniDigi-UV24R2T, a 610mm wide system that Anitech claims is the world’s first fully automatic micro format UV coater and primer. The fully automatic operation includes cleaning, a filtered recirculation system and enclosed media path for dust free prints on papers up to 400gsm with a gloss, matt, lustre or primer coating.

Anitech continues that the AniDigi coaters are two-in-one systems for UV and water based liquid primer coatings and they are compatible with most offset, digital, and ink jet equipment including Canon, Ricoh, HP Indigo, Konica Minolta, Shinohara, Komori, Ryobi and Heidelberg.

Designed for simple operation, the warm-up, preparation, finish selection, coating and cleaning are fully automated and controlled through the user-friendly touch screen and two separate coating paths allowing the use of both matt and gloss finishes or primer in the lower coating station.

Gomez continues, “The AniDigi coaters have product features not available in other machines such as the ability to use gloss or matt coating plus the optional textured rollers, which can add value to finishing.

“All machines have a small foot print for restricted print shops, castors for maximum manoeuvrability and all models conform to Australian safety standards.”

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