Visit Inkcups Now at the 2013 Pack expo today! Its the last day to stop by our booth and check out our XJET industrial inkjet printer and our ICN-150 2 color pad printer! The PACK EXPO show floor showcases state-of-the-art materials, machinery and methods for packaging and processing. We are at booth #S-7399, come on by!

If you are unable to make it to our booth, NO PROBLEM! Simply contact Inkcups Now and request some free samples! We are happy to provide your business with printing solutions for all your needs.

Inkcups Now is excited to introduce Maurice Baur (BRS GmbH) as the newest Inkcups Now Representative for Europe and the Middle East! BRS Specializes in Garment tag printing systems and UV printing systems so naturally the XJET industrial inkjet printer and our line of pad printing equipment was a perfect fit! BRS has been in the business of inkjet printing for over 20 years and services all of Europe with its 12 technicians.

Swing by the BRS Open House on September 20th – 21st and check out the XJET industrial inkjet printer in action! ICN is very excited to bring our XJET to Europe and the Middle East and provide the level of expertise and technical know-how our customers have become accustomed to.

Inkcups Now is happy to announce that we have updated our polymer plate-making exposure times for garment tag printing on our website! The new update features a colorful new chart of exposure times for all of our alcohol wash and water wash pad printing plates. After years of testing, the techs at ICN have perfected a formula for successfully making photopolymer plates.


Click here to visit our web page!


This how-to guide will explain each step in the plate-making process. Just follow the instructions for a successful plate-making operation. Exposures time for pad printing plates will vary depending on the exposure unit you are currently using, the times on our website are based on the Autolight-1528 or BPL-1220 exposure units.

The web version of the exposure times are also available in a downloadable PDF document. Print it out and keep it with your exposure unit for reference or use it as a training manual for someone new to the plate-making process.


Leave a comment below with any questions, comments, or suggestions you may have about this about exposing pad printing plates.

Inkcups Now will be at the FESPA trade show in MEXICO August 15th – 17th. FESPA is the leading focused graphic arts event where you can discover the latest developments in wide format digital printing, screen printing, garment decoration and signage.

ICN will be showing off some of our most popular machines including the ICN-B100 one color pad printer, the ICN-2200PS two color pad printer and our R160 rotational screen printer. Stop by booth L-10 for live demos machine!

The FESPA show is located at:
Centro Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico (Conscripto 311, Colonia Lomas de Sotelo, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, 11200, México D.F.)

FREE passes are still available here:
ENGLISH VERSION
SPANISH VERSION

With the recent surge of breweries, bars and restaurants all over offering up unique craft beer selections, customers have a growing demand for their favorite brew. What was once a brew you could only enjoy at the facility in which it was manufactured; customers are now given the option to take their favorite beer home in a growler. The heavy glass structure of the growler is the go-to option for packaging beer directly from a keg.

Inkcups Now has the ideal machine to print customized labels, logos, or images directly onto the growler. The M-25 screen printing machine from Inkcups Now is the one and only machine built for growlers. The M-25 was designed to be a heavy, robust machine that can handle large cylindrical parts that are heavy in weight. This screen printing machine can print on large diameter bottles of nearly any size!

The growler market is completely untapped! There are few printers available for growlers and those who own an M-25 screen printing machine is one step ahead of the competition. There is growing demand for customized growlers, yet not enough screen printing machine shops with the right equipment to fill that demand.

Inkcups Now is excited to announce our newest member to our team Irving Pichardo! Irving is taking charge of sales for the northern Mexico region as well as bordering towns in Texas. Irving is a great asset to Inkcups Now because he has over 10 years of printing experience in the industry, 8 of which were focused solely on garment tag printing. With this experience, Irving is able to help any business (large or small) to completely convert their current operation to tag free printing.

Irving has a degree in international business and is bi-lingual in English and Spanish. He has worked with some of the largest printing companies in the world, and now he is ready to work with you! Inkcups Now is very happy to have a salesman as knowledgeable as Irving for our Latin America sales division. Give Irving a call today for garment tag printing solutions.

Customized iPhone cases and the XJET seem like a match made in heaven! This industrial inkjet printer is capable of printing a ton of these at a very rapid pace (about 20 cases in 90 seconds!) One of the best parts about printig on the XJET is that it can handle variable data. Meaning you don’t have to print and entire bed of cases with the same image, you are capable of changing images, text, and coloring per piece!

The XJET is a UV LED printer, and this ink adheres like no other! We have taken a razor to the ink right out of the machine and it holds strong. This ink is cured instantly on the machine by a UV LED light, meaning it cures at very low temperatures. So lets say you would like to print on special iPhone cases that contain electronics such as a backup battery, well a typical UV light would heat that case up and potentially damage the electronics contained inside. With a low temp LED light, you will never worry again because there is no risk of overheating. You could even print directly onto the iPhone!

The smartphone industry is continuously growing, there are 5 billion mobile phone users around the world. That’s a lot of phones that require a case! The XJET industrial inkjet printer is the one and only machine that is capable of handling a high volume of prints while maintaining a high resolution of 1200dpi. Visit Inkcups.com for more information.

Inkcups Now is excited to announce our featured article in plasticsnews.com. The President of Inkcups Now was interviewed for the piece about our recent move to a larger location.

Here is a preview:
Inkcups Now Corp. started the year in a new 26,000 square foot facility designed for efficiency that allows it to consolidate its headquarters, production and warehouse in one place.

“This gives us a launching board to develop new products, and focus on technical and customer services,” said President Ben Adner, in a telephone interview.

The Danvers, Mass., company is a supplier for the pad printing, garment tag printing and specialty inkjet printing industry.

Adner said the new building more than doubles its capacity. The company had been located in Danvers about a mile away, occupying space in three different buildings.

Check out the article here!

The R-160 T-shirt screen printing machine from Inkcups Now can now print on gloves! This screen printing press features six part stations that rotate 360 degrees around the machine and two heat lamps for fast curing of the ink. The R160 screen printing press is a self-contained machine that allows the rapid printing and curing of garments and promotional products in a single machine cycle eliminating multiple handling steps.

These gloves were inserted onto each fixture and then they were screen printed and cured in less than 30 seconds! This machine has the ability to print about 1800 pieces per hour! Hows that for high production? Just take a look at that picture! With the R160, you will get the same high quality print every time. Only available from Inkcups Now!

Printer used in this project:
Type: Screen Printing Machine
Brand: ICN
Model: R-160
Standard applications: koozies, bags, notebooks, gloves, garment neck labels (tags), sleeves, accessories, etc…

More info: R160 T-Shirt Screen Printing Machine page

Inkcups Now is proud to introduce this one of a kind inkjet printer that will change the face of the marketplace forever. The XJET industrial inkjet printer is a UV LED inkjet printer that produces high quality images at high production speeds. This machine fills the void between the slower smaller inkjet printers and extremely expensive high-speed but medium-print-quality inline machines.

What makes this different than another UV inkjet printer? Take one look at this machine and you can tell it is unique. On top of the fast production speed (5 times faster then the Mimaki UJF-3042) and high image quality (1200 x 1200dpi), the XJET also features a conveyorized table with a programmable servo controlled load station for extremely fast loading of parts. The XJET can print an area of 500 x 600mm in just 90 seconds flat! Got large parts? No problem. The XJET can print on parts up to 5.75 inches in height.

Standard Features:

• 6 print heads (CMYKWW)
• 2 UV LED curing systems with bottle
• 19.7″ x 23.6″ (500mm x 600mm) print area
• 5.75″ vertical height adjust (Z)
• Programmable servo controlled load station (patent pending)
• Conveyorized parts handling
• High speed uni- or bi-directional printing
• Programmable platform height adjustment (z-axis)
• Variable quality settings up to 1200 x 1200 DPI
• Variable dot size (7pl, 14pl, 21pl)
• High opaque white ink
• Industrial PC with RIP software
• Staggered print head for simultaneous white and color printing
• Bulk ink system
• Automatic negative pressure ink maintenance system
• Automatic white ink maintenance
• Industrial construction

The greatest inkjet printer in the industry also needs the greatest warranty in the industry, Inkcup Care. The Inkcup Care warranty for the machine means you are completely covered. What’s included? Replacement parts…FREE. Cant install it yourself? Labor and expenses….FREE. And of course you receive unsurpassed tech support from Inkcups Now.

For more information about the XJET, please visit: Inkcups.com.