EFI showcased multiple productivity and automation enhancements designed to increase the value and versatility of its broad portfolio of production-level digital inkjet printers.

Visitors saw:

• The EFI VUTEk Q3h XP high-speed hybrid flatbed/roll-fed LED printer that combines exceptional image quality, flexible production-level throughput, and advanced media handling and automation options. New at the show was the VUTEk Q3h XP printer featuring new software that delivers faster RIP times and improved smoothing levels.
  
  
• The 3.2m EFI VUTEk M3h hybrid flatbed/roll-fed LED printer designed for PSPs moving into higher-volume production and looking for new capabilities to lower costs, increase margins, accelerate turnarounds, and enable printing on a broader range of flexible and rigid applications. New options available for the VUTEk M3h printer were demonstrated at the show.
  
  
• The 3.5m EFI VUTEk X3r roll-to-roll LED printer engineered for high-volume production of indoor and outdoor sign and display graphics. The VUTEk X3r printer integrates automation, software, and hardware to support minimal operator supervision of print job and an efficient print-to-finished-graphic workflow system.

EFI also previewed several new automation and control innovations to boost throughput, including two new inline finishing options available for the VUTEk X3r and X5r printers:

1. Automatic Y-slitters that reduce manual work, eliminate bottlenecks, and ensure every job is cut cleanly and consistently by automating the slitting process directly on the printer.
2. Smart Slide, that enables efficient, neat, and automatic collection and stacking of finished printed and cut sheets (EFI X-cutter option required).

A preview of EFInsight, a cloud-based intelligence for sign and display graphics printing, was also provided at Printing United. Introduced for use with EFI Nozomi single-pass printers, EFInsight is expanding to EFI’s shuttle-based, multi-pass platforms, starting with EFI roll-to-roll printers. EFInsight aims to track and analyse key performance indicators with real-time data collected directly from the printer.

EFI machines are available locally through Currie Group.

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