JetScreen DX

Direct exposure systems with blue

laser diodes to produce flat &
rotary screens

JetScreen DX

DX
SWISS CTS from Lüscher Direct exposure with blue laser diodes

• More than 60 years experience The revolutionary exposure head containing

• Modular system configuration blue laser diodes offers the highest image
• Latest blue laser technology quality and resolution simultaneously with the
• Based on know how gained from over 1,000 CtP installations lowest operating and maintenance costs
• Simple, user friendly operation

JetScreen DX flat
Lüscher offers the JetScreen DX flat with 32, 64, 96 or 128 laser
diodes. The JetScreen DX flat can handle all current printing frame
formats from 500 x 500 mm, up to an external frame format of
8000 x 3800 mm.

Very long-living and extremely high-powered blue laser diodes

and the elimination of other production consumables substanti-
ally reduce the running costs for producing formes for textile and
screen printing; improving the economics of the screen printing
process compared with other, rival printing processes.

The JetScreen DX flat offers a variable resolution from

300 x 600 dpi up to 1200 x 2400 dpi that allows virtually all
current emulsions, including the standard capillary film systems
to be fully and flawlessly exposed from print to squeegee side at
maximum imaging speed. The JetScreen DX flat is equally capable
of handling white, coloured or metal meshes. Excep-tional, full-
depth emulsion curing guarantees very high mech-anical, abrasi-
on, water and solvent resistance for the finished screen.

Competitive, economical direct exposure system

• Best value screen production thanks to the absence of
consumables
• Productivity up to 25m2/h
• Imaging, exposure and hardening in a one step process
• Exposure of all known emulsion materials on all types and
colours of mesh

Modularity
• Number of laser diodes can be upgraded at any time

SWISS CTS. The revolutionary blue laser direct imaging tech-

nology. No consumables, full depth curing of all standard
emulsions – constant tonal value range through guaranteed,
consistent laser output.
 JetScreen DX round
Competitive, economical direct exposure system for
rotary screens

JetScreen DX round
The new JetScreen DX round uses long lasting, state of the art
blue laser diodes to cut the time needed to produce high quality
rotary screens with a maximum length of 3500 mm.

The laser diodes offer tremendous time savings, since they are
capable of exposing screens at a higher resolution and up to
three times faster than is possible with today’s inkjet liquid wax
technologies. The JetScreen DX round also requires no consuma-
bles, so that the overall screen making process is cheaper and
more economical.

With the standard configuration of 1200 dpi resolution and 16

individually controllable laser diodes the JetScreen DX round
exposes a screen coated with a standard emulsion, a repeat of
640 mm and a length of 2200 mm in less than 10 minutes. If the
32 laser diode option is used the exposing time is reduced to 5
minutes.

Unique Imaging Design

• The JetScreen DX - international technology patent
pending - benefits from the years of experience gained by
Lüscher’s CtP division (offset printing)
• Consistent performance due to automatic laser-diode
monitoring and calibrating
• The standard configuration has one 1200 dpi setting head
with 16 laser diodes.

Modularity
• The number of laser diodes can be increased at any time
 Professional service and support as well as
user friendliness make your life simpler

Product innovations are implemented through close and

direct exchanges with our customers and partner compa-
nies, because at Lüscher development, manufacture and
support are all from the same source. This means that we
actively support each XPose! UV in your company through
on site customers aids, preventive maintenance checks and
comprehensive operator training and maintenance courses
for a customer’s own staff. As a result we help you to avoid
production down times and to save costs.

All the important components are easily accessible for

servicing.
No waiting! Remote
operational checks. A special diagnostic tool allows our service engineers to
analyse a problem on site in your premises, which ensures
highly efficient and top quality service. The high-powered
laser diodes are constantly monitored and automatically ad-
justed as required. Should a diode actually fail, the XPose!
UV will operate somewhat more slowly but the quality will
be unaltered.

A Color Touch Panel (graphic user interface), which is simple

to operate and a joy to use because of its clear display of
individual operational functions, controls the setter. Dyna-
mic menus offer you easy access to the key functions at any
Active support. The ser-
time. Customer satisfaction remains our primary objective
vice team arrives on site and so we value a mutual development partnership very
rapidly to assist you. highly and relish the challenge of finding customer specific
solutions.

Simple operation via

the Color Touch Panel.
 Direct imaging with blue laser diodes

The Lüscher JetScreen DX uses blue laser technology to directly image

screens by means of a process that requires no other consumables. The
process works as follows:

The separated files are imaged from the printing side of the coated
screen by blue laser diodes as wrong reading negatives. The high-po-
wered lasers enable conventional diazo emulsions to be cured, even on
coloured meshes, as well as well-known CTS projection emulsions.

Individual control means that each laser can be individually adjusted,

Detail of a laser module. The allowing fully automatic adjustment of the laser energy for each emul-
JetScreen DX flat can be fitted sion and type of mesh. The JetScreen DX can also image emulsions
with up to 128 lasers.
with a thickness in excess of 600 microns.

Loss-free laser technology means that the JetScreen DX delivers

consistent imaging quality and speed when producing screens. In
short, with the JetScreen DX it is possible to standardize digital screen
production.

Laser objective of the imaging

unit, which delivers the laser
energy to the screen.

Direct imaging of the screen at

up to 1200 dpi.
 Technical specifications

Min. printing frame dimensions (W x H) 500 x 500 mm

Max. printing frame dimensions. (W x H) 8000 x 3800 mm
Imaging technology Direct imaging with blue laser diodes (405 nm)
Speed Up to 25 m2/h (depending on number of lasers, type of mesh and emulsion)
Imaging unit Modular with 32, 64, 96 or 128 laser diodes (automatic laser balancing)
Focusing Laser-controlled autofocus integrated into the imaging unit
Resolution Variable resolution from 300 x 600 dpi up to max. 1200 x 2400 dpi
Dot size 40 µm diameter
Tonal value range 2 - 98%
Emulsion thicknesses 3 - 600 µm
Repeat accuracy ± 0.02 mm
Interface SCSI
Workflow Compatible with all standard CAD software systems / RIP software available on request
Integrated output station Based on current state of technology
Power supply and other connections 230V / N / PE, 16A fuse
Compressed air (non-condensing) 6 bar - 150 litres/h
Internet connection (WAN)
Operating conditions Stencil production in amber light
50 - 65% ambient humidity at 18 - 25°C
Service Telephone support, Remote Service via Internet
Quotation for maintenance and support contract on request
Option Upgrade: Lasers can be retrofitted at any time, up to a total of 128

JetScreen DX 22 round JetScreen DX 35 round

Maximum screen length 2200 mm 3500 mm
Maximum repeat 1018 mm 1018 mm
Technology Direct exposure with blue-laser diodes (405 nm) Direct exposure with blue-laser diodes (405 nm)
Resolution 1200 dpi 1200 dpi
Repeatability tolerance +/- 0.02 mm +/- 0.02 mm
Exposure head 16 laser diodes (upgradeable), automatic laser adjustment 16 laser diodes (upgradeable), automatic laser adjustment
Autofocus Laser-controlled auto-focusing system Laser-controlled auto-focusing system
Data format 1 Bit TIFF 1 Bit TIFF
Interface Optical data interface Optical data interface
Integrated output station Windows-based Windows-based
Technical connections 3 x 400V + N + PE / 25A, Internet connection 3 x 400V + N + PE / 25A, Internet connection
Compressed air 6 bar – 150 Litres/h Compressed air 6 bar – 150 Litres/h
Screen production in yellow light Screen production in yellow light
Environmental conditions 50 – 65% air humidity at 18 – 25°C 50 – 65% air humidity at 18 – 25°C
Services Telephone support, Remote service via Internet Telephone support, Remote service via Internet
Quotation for maintenance and support contract on request Quotation for maintenance and support contract on request
Options Exposure head with 32 laser diodes Exposure head with 32 laser diodes
Resolution 2400 dpi Resolution 2400 dpi
Repeat lengths 518 / 537 / 640 / 725 / 820 / 914 / 1018 Repeat lengths 518 / 537 / 640 / 725 / 820 / 914 / 1018

Technical details subject to change

Lüscher AG | Bodenackerstrasse 7 | CH-5014 Gretzenbach | Switzerland | Tel +41 62 767 76 77 | Email [email protected] | www.luescher.com
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