Attracting huge crowds during drupa Jetpress 720 will print onto standard offset papers, producing 2700 sheets an hour at 1200dpi with no makeready, using a single print head to print four colours with Fuji Diamtrix inkjet technology. The feed and delivery of the press are similar to offset presses, and indeed so are the internal cylinders, although Fujifilm will give no indication of which offset press manufacturer it is partnering with.

Jetpress 720 uses a Fujifilm technology to precoat the stock immediately prior to printing, the inkjet then fires ink droplets onto the coated stock, then it passes through a fix and dry unit.

Launch date for Jetpress 720 will be late next year, with senior Fujifilm management indicating that it will released with a price point around the US$1m marker.

Fujifilm’s management team told journalists that its graphic systems division business is currently worth some US$2.82bn, and is the fastest growing part of its US$25.9bn Information Systems business.

The company also used drupa as its launchpad into flexo plate CTP, with its direct laser exposure system set to hit the market at the beginning of next year. Fujifilm says its newly developed technology is not hamstrung by the same low productivity and low quality that afflicts current DLE platesetters.

Fujifilm Serical announced a new entry level roll to roll wide format printer, but one which features an inbuilt spectrphotometer

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