Industrial ink delivery system
The system needed to make it easier and faster for manufacturing customers to develop prototype digital printing solutions based on Xaar’s award-winning printhead.
42 Technology’s engineers partnered with Xaar to develop a breakthrough performance product – an easy to use, small footprint unit that delivers ink on demand to four printheads while accurately controlling pressure, temperature, viscosity and flow across the head. It even handles high viscosity and heavily pigmented materials.
Dr Brian Rafferty, engineering manager at Xaar said:
“42 Technology has not only helped develop Hydra, a market-winning system to boost sales of Xaar’s 1001 heads but has also optimised our product development strategies. The consultancy’s engineering team took a fresh look at our new product development process and, utilising their own in-depth experience across a variety of markets, worked with our in-house team to introduce some significant improvements. Hydra, which is already a sales success, is the first of a number of breakthrough products that we expect to deliver from this improved approach.”