SwissQprint Greentech Harnesses Digital Print Technologies And Processes In The Cause Of Environmental Protection

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 It’s the Swiss way of engineering highly profitable and efficient UV large format printers while leaving the smallest possible ecological footprint.

As well as your opportunity to protect the environment and still create high added value.

Customer benefit and environmental compatibility are equally high priorities in developing the large format printers, a principle that takes its firm place in the Swiss company's mission statement.

"swissQprint Greentech" shows how this works in practice.

The result is that swissQprint users attain high added value with the lowest possible environmental impact.

 Small Ecological Footprint

Four main factors contribute to swissQprint large format printers leaving a small ecological footprint: short shipping distances, outstanding durability, low maintenance requirements and UV LED printing technology. 

 The printers are developed and manufactured from start to finish at the headquarters in Switzerland, with the involvement of mostly local suppliers.

The machines' outstanding durability saves on resources – some of these printers are still operating after twelve years.

Their reliability minimises service calls and consumable parts that need replacing, hence CO2 emissions and costs as well. UV LED technology requires neither heating for drying processes nor ventilation for extracting volatile pollutants (VOC).

Furthermore, the LED UV lamps that cure the ink are economical on electricity.

This minimises the system's overall energy requirement.

Maximum energy efficiency A fully equipped swissQprint large format printer with a 2×3.2 metre flatbed draws the same amount of electricity as two ordinary electric kettles – just 3 kWh.

The printer makes extraordinarily efficient use of this electricity, as evidenced by measurements and ISO 20690 certification. 

 The Tesla comparison swissQprint draws an interesting comparison: Nyala, the largest and highestperforming model in the swissQprint range, prints an area about the same size as a tennis court within one hour when running at top speed.

It consumes 3 kWh of electricity to cover this surface of around 200 square metres.

A Tesla, the prime example of "green mobility", can only travel about 16 km with the same amount of energy.

Pollutant-free The current UV standard inks from swissQprint are Greenguard Gold certified.

This means that printed products can be brought confidently into critical places like hospitals and schools as the inks comply with strict upper limits for chemical emissions. Furthermore, UV printing does not emit ozone.

And with LED systems having replaced the mercury vapour lamps used in the past, toxic waste has been eliminated.