Mutoh has released its Embossed Print Environment pre-set files for its VerteLith RIP software and Adobe Illustrator Texture Library which will allow embossing on its LED flatbed printers.
The files are optimised for embossed printing on Mutoh’s XPJ-461UF and XPJ-661UF printers and are available via the Mutoh Club, a website exclusively for Mutoh users.
Mutoh said embossed printing (thick layered print) with varnish ink on the UV printers can be set up simply by loading the Print Environment (pre-set) into VerteLith. Six different surface texture combinations are available with three varying thickness levels with a gloss finish and three varying thickness levels with a matte finish.
The Mutoh Texture Library, in combination with the Embossed Print Environment, provides texture patterns that are ideal for decorative printing of goods and other items with 2.5D texture, in addition to flat designs.
The Mutoh UV LED printers, XPJ-461UF and XPJ-661UF, are equipped with UV LED Lamp Local Dimming Control Technology that enables fine adjustment of printed surface texture by controlling UV LED lamp irradiation. To achieve a gloss or matte finish, Mutoh says the irradiation parameters of the UV LED lamps must be fine-tuned according to the purpose.
The Mutoh genuine RIP software VerteLith can pre-register complex settings, including irradiation parameters as print environments, which can then be exported and imported. Mutoh has now created the Print Environment in which the settings necessary for embossed printing are registered. This can be downloaded Print from the Mutoh Club and loaded it into VerteLith to complete the embossed print settings.
Mutoh has prepared 100 different texture patterns for embossed prints, which can be used as patterns in Adobe Illustrator.
To register and access the Mutoh Club click here.
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