Above: The new Epson SureColor F9560 dye sublimation printer
In a world first, Epson Australia has unveiled the company’s new SureColor F9560 dye sublimation printer at Visual Impact 2024.
The new model replaces the previous SC-F9460 and SC-F9460H with a more compact package that offers significant speed improvements, extended colour support, and more convenient consumables management.
Epson’s Visual Impact show theme is “Beauty in Every Dimension”, represented squarely by the SC-F9560 on a stand that highlights the print market’s current trends and opportunities for future growth into the key areas of merchandise production and signage and fabric production.
The SureColor F9560H ink supply system with fluorescent inks
The SC-F9560 is easy to operate with a large touch panel display complete with integrated help and comes supplied with Edge Print software that shows users on-screen what they can expect to get on paper.
It also offers users high productivity levels with heavy duty motors and a large 2.64” PrecisionCore printhead that delivers production output at low pass rates. There are further production efficiencies too with support for a wide range of media types, widths and thicknesses on rolls up to 45 kg and a bulk ink system that uses convenient pouch-based ink with dual sets and hot swap.
The SureColor F9560’s large PrecisionCore printhead
The SC-F9560’s new compact design features include a low profile with flat top, integrated heater and high precision auto take-up, and it is supplied with a roll loader to enable single operator management.
The 6c SC-F9560H model can be configured with LcLm ink for fine gradation and an extended gamut, OrVi for maximum gamut or FyFp fluorescent ink for maximum brightness. The fluorescent ink can be applied as spot colour and process colour.
As with all of Epson’s latest LFP models the SC-F9560 integrates with the company’s free Cloud Solution PORT service. This advanced management platform provides web-based access from any desktop, app-based access for mobile devices and includes a range of reporting, tracking and costing tools. It enables users to optimise productivity and profit while ensuring maximum uptime with enhanced Epson support. With this model it even facilitates the option of user self-replacement of the printhead.
The SC-F9560 also works seamlessly with the optional Epson SD-10 ultra-compact high-precision spectrophotometer, which enables easy spot colour matching with an additional Auto Table for enhanced work including profiling.
Finally, the SC-F9560 conforms to Epson’s corporate environmental goals with reduced packaging, incorporation of recycled content and use of consumables that contain less plastic and produce less waste.
Epson’s other key products being demonstrated at Visual Impact 2024 include:
- First Australian showing of the new SureColor F1060 compact desktop DTG and DTFilm printer purpose-built for in store and in-house fabric customisation
- First Australian showing of the new SureColor V1060 compactdesktop UV printer purpose built for customising consumer goods, merchandise and making small signs
- First Australian showing of the new SureColor P20560 64” aqueous printer that combines an enhanced gamut with a new bulk ink system to enable cost-effective production of fine art and large format interior POS
- SureColor F160 compact dye sublimation printer designed to enable production of fabric goods, customised accessories and merchandise
- SureColor S80660L 64” eco-solvent printer that continues to lead the market when it comes to image brightness, print quality, colour gamut and colour accuracy
- Epson SD-10 spectrophotometer with new Auto Table which determines the exact colour of a test item and compares it with another or with a known standard such as Pantone
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