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44 graphics-pro.com S T A R T H E R E 2 0 2 1 The company dedicated its resources to making inks that would work well with different printers and a variety of substrates. Many other companies around the industry have done and still do the same thing. "I'd say we hit a renaissance of ink technology. The chemistry started to come together (as well as) the ability of the machines and the range of things you could do with UV curable inks. The market exploded," Maxwell adds. Canon, Roland, and others are just some of the other companies working within the UV-LED printing market. The Print Head "We use a multi-drop system, which allows the current heads in our current platform to be able to give different drop com- binations," says Lon Riley, LogoJET Inc. "It gives us a lot more granular control over the specific application we are using. That's These printers can create different textures and even two- dimensional images using different drop sizes and layering. (Image courtesy Direct Color Systems) Image courtesy Roland DGA Image courtesy ColDesi