New high performance variable drop solvent printer offering impeccable production output quality up to 40 m²/h and top speeds up to 80m²/h.

The new Brigadier wide format printers are an addition to Uniform’s existing Uniform Lancer G2 solvent printer family. This new Uniform printer line consists of two models : Brigadier G2 64, offering a printing width of 1640 mm and Brigadier G2 88, offering a printing width of 2230 mm.

Uniform’s Brigadier G2 series printers print directly onto standard available uncoated vinyl, banner and soft signage. The machines are targeted at small sign businesses needing versatility or larger operations wanting to extend capacity while gaining flexibility. Application possibilities encompass corporate signs, stage and window graphics, backlit box signage, construction announcements, vehicle graphics, indoor graphics such as photo blow ups, floor graphics, etc.

The new printers feature a completely new industrial look, a new high end LCD display with blue background and white text and a large viewing window providing an excellent view on the output. The integrated light source is an excellent help for production monitoring and facilitates maintenance operations.

The Brigadier G2 utilizes Uniform’s high-performance solvent ink, specifically tuned for the sign industry. The ink will resist cleaners, detergents and commercially available degreasers as good as true solvent printer inks and offers an outdoor durability on compatible media up to 3 years without lamination. For heavy duty applications where mechanical stress is involved (floor & vehicle graphics), lamination is required. The Uniform solvent inks are available in 220 ml and 440 ml cassettes. The Uniform printers also accept Uniform’s Eco-Solvent Ultra inks, for users wanting to use the printer in regular office environments without forced ventilation.

The Brigadier G2 features two head sets in a mirco-staggered layout (one colour per head), allowing both speed oriented production work at impeccable print quality as well as top quality print work. Each of the eight incorporated drop-on-demand piezo inkjet heads has 2 x 180 nozzles. Each 180 nozzle row is delivered by an independent ink channel. Using Dynamic Variable Dot Imaging Technology, each ink droplet is individually adjusted to provide high speed and high quality with low ink consumption. Each head allows print resolutions of 360 x 360 dpi, 720 x 360 dpi, 540 x 720 dpi and 720 x 720 dpi.

The new printers incorporate Intelligent Interweaving print technology (i² - pronounced isquared). Ink is laid down in carefully optimized wave forms, not the straight lines as used by all other wide-format printers. This approach will drastically reduce or even eliminate typical inkjet printing artefacts such as horizontal banding, step mismatch banding, ink mottle, etc. In short, i² will allow bi-directional printing of all images, even the most critical jobs.

Our new Brigadier G2 printers are specifically targeted at sign shops looking for a flexible machine capable of producing both speed oriented production work up to 40 m²/h at impeccable printing quality, as well as top quality print work.

Our proprietary Intelligent Interweaving print technology enables a much more constant print quality, which apart from that is easily reproducible by the machine operator. Moreover, i² enables us to define guaranteed output quality, away from print passes and print resolutions. For the Brigadier G2, we have developed dedicated print modes and i² weaves. These print modes can be used depending on the type of image to be printed, the type of print job and the intended viewing distance (< 1 m / > 1 m / > 3 m / > 5 m). Unique in the Brigadier G2 is that it is possible to get production output quality on all available engine speeds. We are convinced that the Brigadier G2’s 80 m²/h top speed will be used for production of e.g. billboards.

The new Brigadier G2 series printers will be delivered as standard with an ink starter kit (2 x 4 CMYK) and a fully motorized heavy-duty unwinding/winding system for media loads up to 100 kg, allowing unattended roll-to-roll printing.

i² - a revolution in print technology

> Intelligent Interweaving, i² technology, provides impeccable digital printing quality for both Photo and Sign printing. > Quick and simple to set up, printing with i² saves time and trouble while producing outstanding results. Ink is laid down in carefully optimised wave forms, not the straight lines used by all other wide-format inkjet printers. The result is a drastic reduction or even total elimination of the typical difficulties inherent in conventional digital inkjet printing. i² technology means the end of defects such as horizontal banding, step mismatch banding, ink mottle and bleed and the visible effects of missing or misfiring nozzles. i² technology will offer you no less than 5 key benefits: 1) i² immediately offers you an overall better printing quality. 2) i² boosts user-friendly operation as it will vastly increase the workflow's operation tolerances so that you - the operator - hardly need to spend extra time to fine-tune your printer for obtaining top output quality. 3) With i² you will gain time and print any image bi-directionally, even the most critical sign jobs, which you would normally be tempted to print uni-directionally to avoid any kind of banding. 4) When printing @ 720 dpi 4-pass using i²'s SIGN weave mode, you will benefit from an improved ink density yield. Compared with painting a wall, 'traditional' printing can best be compared to covering the wall with a single thick layer of paint, whereas 'i²' is best compared with professional painting using multiple thin layers of paint or spray painting. 5) Dedicated i² profiles for 720 dpi 4-pass in combination with i²'s SIGN weave mode will allow boosting your colour gamut versus traditional printing. In combination with the improved ink density yield, you will also notice up to 10 % less ink consumption.

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