At 320 Garments An Hour The POLARIS™ Triple-Star-Digital Print System By M&R Delivers Fast DTG Production On A Cosmic Scale
The POLARIS™ by M&R is a triple-star system: featuring two proven digital print stations that are framed with a durable indexer.
The Polaris™ Industrial High-Speed DTG Printing System combines modern-day screen printing ideals with recent advancements in digital ink delivery.
Based on M&R’s popular automatic carousel press technology and paired with two of M&R’s proven digital printheads, the Polaris produces just-in-time DTG prints with few operators required.
An onboard pretreatment station reduces setup time and touches, and the dedicated white and CMYK digital print stations produce vivid, bold prints.
Set to be introduced globally including the UK, the new machine is fitted with two high-speed digital print engines – one white, one CMYK – which are each equipped with 16 Ricoh Gen 5 print heads.
It has a large-format image area of up to 38.1cm by 48.3cm (15 by 19 inches), with different pallets for garments such as hoodies and fleeces (35.6cm by 30.5cm/14 by 12 inches), mid-size (30.5cm by 38.1cm/12 by 15 inches) and children’s apparel (25.4cm by 30.5cm/10 by 12 inches).
It works with a compact on-board pretreater, inline heat presses and quartz flashes. It can be operated clockwise or anti-clockwise.
Printed garments are fully cured at 150 degrees Celsius in three minutes or less.
It can print on triblend in multiple colours and blended fabrics with polyester as well as 100% cotton.
The Polaris can print over 320 prints an hour for a 35.6cm by 40.6cm (14-inch by 16-inch) adult format at 600×600 resolution in four-pass mode on dark 100% cotton fabric.
Past-Proven, Future-Focused
M&R developed the POLARIS by merging the durability of the STRYKER™ Automatic Oval Screen Printing Press with the proven print engines of the DS‑4000™ Digital Squeegee® Hybrid Printing System.
Working in concert with an onboard pretreater, heat presses and flashes, the Polaris is greater than the sum of its parts.
A Modern Approach To DTG
By combining successful screenprinting traits with our advancements in digital ink delivery, M&R has removed past limitations of digital artwork reproduction without sacrificing cost nor quality.
The compact, onboard pretreatment station comes standard on every POLARIS, which simplifies the DTG process and reduces shirt setup touches.
This pretreatment solution is what printers have been waiting for.
Inline heat presses and quartz flashes smooth garment fibers to increase DTG quality.
The POLARIS is designed to produce full-color designs at a rapid pace, with repeatable, steady output.
Two dedicated digital print engines work in tandem to produce vibrant artwork quickly and effortlessly.
The POLARIS takes DTG printing into a new realm of limitless possibilities.
