Durst used a two-day open house at its production facility in Austria to demonstrate its new Rho 1300 series wide-format printers, which were launched at Fespa 2014.

The 2.5m Durst Rho 1312 and 1330 are enhance versions of the Rho 1000 series printers, the Rho 1012 and 1030 respectively, featuring a productivity boost and an advanced media transport with a higher vacuum. Both printers are approximately 25% faster than their 1000 series counterparts, with the Rho 1312 capable of 620sqm/hr and the Rho 1330 capable of 1,250sqm/hr, compared with 490sqm/hr and 1,000sqm/hr respectively for the Rho 1012 and Rho 1030.

The new devices also feature what Durst calls Gradual Flow Printing, which prints a 1.25x2.5m image with a wide array that does not need to scan back and forth across the media. The media remains stationery during printing, while low UV pinning of the ink film during printing fixes the image, enabling curing to take place in an external UV dryer, leading to improved printing on heat-sensitive materials and corrugated board.

Colour configurations are the same on the 1300 and 1000 series, with standard CMYK and optional light cyan, light, magenta and process colour addition.