As a Finishing Ambassador, Flexa collaborates closely with Canon to integrate its cutting and unwinding/rewinding systems with Canon’s Colorado roll-to-roll printer, delivering automated workflows that enhance productivity, precision, and efficiency across a wide range of printed materials. The two companies are strengthening their collaboration as part of the Canon Ambassador Programme.
The programme brings together trusted industry partners to develop innovative, high-performance solutions for the large format printing market. Building on Canon’s UVgel printing technology, the collaboration offers customers versatile, fully automated solutions for applications such as wallpaper, self-adhesive vinyl, and other flexible media.
One highlight of this collaboration is the in-line system combining the Canon Colorado with the Flexa Miura Katana automatic XY cutter. This setup enables the automatic cutting of digitally printed wallpaper directly from the printer output, ensuring perfectly aligned panels, no visible white edges and eliminating manual touch-ups. The result is a seamless, ready-to-install wallpaper production workflow with consistent precision and reduced operator intervention.
It is possible to place the Flexa UD170 unwinder before the Canon Colorado printer, allowing the use of jumbo rolls, which are ideal for long, uninterrupted production runs and increased workflow autonomy.
Flexa also offers UD170 and RD170 unwinding and rewinding systems for jumbo rolls, designed to integrate with the Canon Colorado printer. These units ensure consistent accuracy thanks to the automatic vertical alignment (the only ones on the market), without the need of continuous operator supervision, ensuring a superior finishing quality.
The workflow remains continuous, and the finishing quality is superior, making it ideal for those working with flexible materials in high-volume production.
This partnership reinforces Flexa’s and Canon’s shared commitment to innovation and quality, providing the large format printing industry with reliable, high-performance solutions designed to meet the evolving needs of professional print environments.
‘Collaborating with Canon as part of the Finishing Ambassador Programme is a great opportunity to demonstrate how print and finishing technologies can work together to create a complete, automated workflow,’ said Massimo Vettorazzo, President of Flexa.
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