The company says that these new additions to Kyocera’s KJ series are key components for commercial inkjet printers. The company will initially produce 1,000 units per month (total for both types combined) and will gradually increase production volume.

It says the KJ4B-Y print head for water-based ink provides high-resolution printing combined with a print speed that is approximately 1.3 times faster than Kyocera’s conventional products, by ejecting ink up to 40,000 times per second (at 40kHz drive frequency) from each ink nozzle, resulting in approximately 100 million drops per second from a print head with 2,656 nozzles. Kyocera says that this allows for higher-speed and higher-resolution printing for large-volume print jobs with individualised data, such as invoices and statements, in a short period of time using water-based ink suitable for paper printing.

The KJ4A-B print head for UV-curable ink provides high-resolution printing combined with a print speed that is approximately 1.5 times faster than Kyocera’s conventional products, by ejecting ink up to 30,000 times per second (at 30kHz drive frequency) from each ink nozzle, resulting in approximately 80 million drops per second from a print head with 2,656 nozzles, according to Kyocera. The company says that this allows high-speed and high-resolution printing for commercial products, such as label printing for plastic and glass bottles and containers using UV-curable ink that enables printing on non-absorbent materials including films and plastics.

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