New Thermal Imagesetter offers Higher Resolution for more demanding Screen & Pad Printing Applications

LUTON, England - April 1st, 2002

OYO Instruments, Europe Ltd, today announce the release of an all new high resolution Thermal Imagesetter… The TECHSETTER. The TECHSETTER uses a new thermal print head design capable of a smaller imaging dot to provide up to 1200dpi imaging quality using it's maximum resolution capability of 2400x600dpi.

The new TECHSETTER has the same footprint and 14@ imaging width as the OYO TECHStyler which has become the industry standard within the T-Shirt Textile Screenprinting market. The higher resolution capabilities of the TECHSETTER will be more suitable for applications where fine line work detail and higher screen rulings are required.

The new TECHSETTER comes with a state of the art Harlequin Scriptworks level 3 PostScript RIP running under Windows 2000 or XP. This RIP includes a number of performance enhancing technologies, including Super-Cell and Stochastic Screening, new Media Saving functions as well as in RIP Colour Management and Trapping options. Connectivity has been enhanced with the addition of a USB  interface.

OYO Instruments design and manufacture a range of Thermal Imagesetter products, using its patented ThermoImpression head technology, for the commercial graphics industry worldwide. The Thermal head system used by OYO offers a unique approach to Film Imaging that produces high quality film separations, with near perfect registration to within 0.01%, suitable for all Screen Printing and Signage applications, directly from digital files, without any chemicals. The system is very cheap to use, being typically 10% or so of the cost of acquiring film separations from a service bureau and with none of the operator costs and waste disposal costs associated with conventional imagesetting solutions.

Artwork and Photographs available upon request.

For More Information Contact:

Mark Evans
F3 Enterprise Way, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 4BU, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1582 573980
FAX: +44 (0) 1582 574945
Internet: mevans@oyo.co.uk

Last modified: May 7th, 2002