FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 15 2008

Gandinnovations; Stable and Opaque, GUV White Inks

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - Gandinnovations a world leader in grand format digital printer innovation, today has launched a new high density UV curable white ink that allows printing on many colored rigid substrates and achieve a brilliant white in one pass without any shadow effect.

This new white also has much better adhesion to many rigid materials including corrugated plastic, styrene, PVC, acrylic and even other exotic substrates like metals, leather, brown cardboard stock and many more. Additionally, the GUV (Gandi UV) white ink can be used as a “spot” color to bring into focus certain parts of an image printed on colored substrates and even on transparent media.

Gandinnovations has also made this new white with using a very flexible formula so it will not crack even when the rigid substrate is bent 360 degrees. This gives the flexibility to use it in many applications. We have also used excellent white pigments to give good outdoor life without discoloring and cracking. And just like all our UV-curable inks, the GUV White ink is a 100% solvent-free formulation using only the safest radiation curable raw materials that does not result in the emission of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) making it both safe to use and environmentally friendly thereby reducing worker exposure to hazardous substances and environmental pollution.

This specially formulated white ink developed at Gandinnovations features a unique chemistry that imparts excellent adhesion, flexibility and outdoor durability. The proprietary manufacturing process and additives used to produce this UV white ink makes it possible to disperse more pigment into the formula while still keeping a stable sub-micron white ink suspension. This means that it is now possible to achieve greater opacity with less amounts of ink laid down with one print pass, where competitive UV curable white inks usually require more ink laid down and more than one print pass.

Gandi’s innovative and world-renowned UV product portfolio, comprising the Jeti1224 true flatbed has a 4ft x 8ft print area, Jeti 2030 X-2 true flatbed has a 6ft 6” x 10ft (2 x 3 meter) print area, and Jeti3150 X-2 true flatbed has a 5ft x 10ft print area. All our UV True Flatbed Printers provide an economic advantage to the customer and create a complete printing solution that ensures full system compatibility.

About Gandinnovations
Founded in 2000, Gandinnovations offers several models of UV flatbeds, Roll-to-Roll Solvent and UV Roll-to-Roll printers for a wide variety of commercial applications. Flatbed models print on rigid and flexible substrates to create poster-sized advertisements, point of purchase displays, or can be used for applications as diverse as adding wood-grain finish to furnishings and flooring. Roll-to-roll printers are typically used for vinyl billboards, truck and bus wraps, but may also be used to create material such as wallpaper.

Gandinnovations range of grand-format printers are designed to meet the needs of the industry, including true 600 dpi, UV flatbed and roll-to-roll printers, three and five-meter solvent printers, solvent printers using 24, or 48 Spectra print heads and offering many technological advantages, including an automated head wiping system, modular camera used to print perfect back to back registration for backlit applications, and the state of the art nozzle replacement system for perfect print quality every time. Since introduced in November 2002, over 1,000 Jeti Printers have been sold in more than 150 countries worldwide.

Gandinnovations headquartered are in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada with sales and service in San Antonio, Texas. Additional offices are located in Mexico City, India, Johannesburg African, Belgium and Dubai, with service centres worldwide. More information can be found at www.gandinnovations.com.

For more information about Gandinnovations and its products, visit the company’s website at www.gandinnovations.com, or call 1-866 500 JETI (5384).

Gandinnovations
5794 falboure street
Mississagua, ON L5R 3V8
Phone: 1-866 500 JETI (5384)
E-Mail: tom@gandigroup.com
Website URL: www.gandinnovations.com