Welcome to our CEC here in Itasca. I'm John, the senior marketing specialist for the Colorado 16 series 1640 and 1650. Now, what you have before you right here is the old state Colorado 1650. You may look at it and say, "Wow, that looks identical to the Colorado 1640." And in many cases, if you walk right up to it, you may not know the difference. The first thing is the nomenclature. Another thing is if you go around here to the side, you'll notice that this actually uses UV gel for 60 inks. These for 60 inks are specific to the Colorado 1650. What's unique about these inks is that they give more elasticity to 85% as compared to a 1640, which has about 15 to 20. That then helps us with the ACE ad market, which is a self-adhesive vinyl applications where you need a little more stretch and a little more give, not only in the media, of course, but the inks themselves. Another thing that you notice is completely different here is we're currently running in what we call gloss mode. The gloss speeds are identical to what you see with the Colorado 1640. It runs anywhere from 215 square feet per hour to 430 square feet per hour, 610, which is our production, all the way up to 1710 square feet per hour, which is our banner high-speed mode. All those are exactly the same as the 1650. What's completely different and unique is our flex finish mode. The flex finish mode on this product is what we call the matte mode. So you can either choose to print matte or you can choose to print gloss. What does this do? Well, this actually expands the application sets for our clients and customers, allowing...
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