GIS to support Samba GMA printheads

Global Inkjet Systems, which develops printhead drive electronics, has announced that it will support the Fujifilm Dimatix Samba GMA printheads, which are designed for scanning applications such as wide format graphics, textile and soft signage.

GIS has developed this head management board – HMB-FD-GMA – to drive the Fujifilm Samba GMA printheads for scanning applications.

GIS has developed a new Head Management Board, the HMB-FD-GMA, which is based on the Ethernet platform that GIS first showed at the last Drupa. It integrates datapath buffering, printhead management and fire waveform generation, all accessed via Gigabit Ethernet. This in turn allows this new board to drive up to four of the Fujifilm Dimatix Samba GMA printheads, in either the 33 or 99 variants with their full binary and greyscale capabilities.

The Samba GMA 33 & GMA 99 printheads are compact, low voltage, full silicon MEMs printheads. They have 300dpi native resolution, 384 / 1152 nozzles and a 5 picolitre native drop size, and are compatible with a wide range of fluids including solvent, UV curable and aqueous inks. Ink recirculation is directly behind the nozzle. 

This new board also works together with GIS’s Atlas machine control services software, which is server-based and can manage the various printing processes from image to swathe conversion as well as integration of workflow through to print queues, transport systems and so on. In addition, GIS also supplies ink delivery system components that work with the Samba GMA printheads requirements for controlled flow.

Debbie Thorp, business development director for GIS, explained: “The new Head Management Board for the GMA printheads presents another step forward in GIS’ Ethernet platform, which we are now using for all new printheads that we support. The Samba G3L printhead has been very successful in single pass systems and we expect the GMA printheads to do the same in scanning applications.”


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