GAMMA XD SERIES

Digital Single Pass Ceramic Printer for the inline decoration of ceramic tiles and fibre cement using pigmented ceramic inks

Key features

Best rated single pass décor printers
Exceptional high print quality without banding, high versatility without design limits and without requiring the use of 2 color bars to compensate for any defects
Very high production efficiency (printer availability / average uptime ranging between 98-100%)
Total nozzle stability - proven by customers who printed up to 10 million m² without changing a single print head
Very stable large drop Durst DM (Digital Materials) print heads for effect inks, even with 100% coverage and non-stop printing
Easy maintenance and very low service and maintenance costs

INNOVATIVE HIGH PRECISION PRINTER DESIGN

Compare to the previous Gamma printers, the Gamma XD Series feature a new, innovative printer design with new technologies that have significantly enhanced its performance. This new series of digital printers for pigmented ceramic inks, in fact, is the result of the experience developed by Durst, the first company to develop and introduce a digital printer dedicated to the ceramic industry back in 2004. The Gamma XD Series, thanks to its new printer concept with a new high performance and cost efficient printhead design and ink management system, provides an unreached print quality, reliability, and design flexibility. Gamma XD printers are rated the best single pass digital ceramic printers in terms of long-term repeatability, important for re-reproducing the same tile collections over time, uptime and very low service and maintenance costs.

THE EXCLUSIVITY OF GAMMA XD: THE PROPRIETARY DIMATIX PRINTHEADS BY DURST

Among the exclusive features of the system, the excellent print quality and the absence of lines or banding, the unique uniformity that also allows the reproduction of difficult uniform designs, the versatility that sets no design limits and the use of proprietary heads based on Dimatix components. Characterized by total nozzle stability and an extremely long-life cycle, Durst's redesigned print heads are suitable for solvent based and waterbased inks and ensure the highest quality even for complex processes such as direct printing on a white background. With a significant initial investment, the long-term Gamma XD proves to be a cost-effective solution with optimized performance and extremely low total cost of ownership.

Exclusive Advantages:

Straightness of drop placement (resulting in more defined image details)
High drop volume consistency across the single print heads (to assure high uniformity/evenness to avoid banding or modulations)
Total nozzle stability, also at higher ink loads
Extremely long print head life cycle (to guarantee low service & maintenance costs – customers producing 10 million sqm per year have not replaced any print heads)
Very tight tolerances between print heads compare to the standard print heads used by other printer manufacturers

ULTIMATE GAMMA XD PERFORMANCE & UPTIME

Gamma XD guarantees high repeatability and reliability, essential for ceramic companies to assure a total printer availability and to run 24/7 production. Analyses of Durst Gamma XD systems installed at customers' premises show an average availability/uptime ranging from 98-100% and this without the need of changing print heads, even after having produced over 10 million m² of tiles in one year with one single printer.

UNATTENDED PRODUCTION

Thickness scanner and fast movement of the print engine to automatically maintain a constant and closest possible tile to print head distance for best image quality, details and sharpness independently from the tile thickness and shape.
Reliable performance at any speed up to 76m/min.
Total Print head crash protection - No line stops

PRODUCT DESIGN FLEXIBILITY

Latest trend in the tile design are almost uniform colors with very smooth density changes to follow the need for larger spaces. Such designs as illustrated look easy, but are the most difficult ones to print repeatably, but require a 100% print uniformity and total nozzle stability as offered by the Durst Gamma XD Series printers.

REDUCED PRODUCTION COSTS

The need to reduce inventories of finished products, and thus optimize warehouses by producing smaller batches, is the basis for the great interest of customers in the much higher performance of the Durst Gamma XD series compared to alternative technologies.

Among the features of Gamma XD most appreciated by the many established and new customers, the guarantee of a continuous, repetitive and perfect uniformity of printing, the absence of banding and downtime. This also applies to complex processes with direct printing on a white background without the need to color the glaze or to use colored glazes to hide printing defects. This allows to optimize the production by bringing the products with colored glazes to white glazes, increasing the flexibility and reducing the number of glazes in use. Results obtained thanks to the performance of these printers that ensure a constant level of very high quality without the need for adjustments before or during each new start of production.

TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP (TCO)

When deciding to purchase a new printer, an increasing number of customers, based on their experience with various printer technologies, consider the following points to be more important than just the pure purchase price:

print quality in terms of uniformity and long-term stability, printer repeatability to assure low production costs with high uptime and high first selection tiles as well as to fulfill the new and coming needs in ceramics
the total cost of ownership (printer cost + annual service & maintenance costs + all costs related to downtime/lost in production/sales opportunities, waste due to printing defects, shades in the inventory, labor looking after the printers, etc.)

When taking into consideration and calculating all costs and time invested to obtain and/or repeat the same results over time a “good enough” decision when purchasing a new digital printer is not always the most economical one over an average life span of 4 years.

Optionals

Gamma PrepStation: central job preparation and print monitoring system
Industry 4.0 with real-time bidirectional data management
Connection and control to central ink supply system
Gamma Vision System for automatically recognizing the embossed structure or images printed on ceramic tiles upstream of Gamma XD to create unique and extraordinary effects
Multishaker for inks in Jerry cans and Cubitainer