Fujifilm’s new digital inkjet web press enables duplex printing within a single tower design, resulting in a compact footprint, while retaining a maximum printing speed of 127mpm, using Fujifilm’s Vivida ink, developed for high speed printing, with less ink transfer from sheet to sheet. The company says digital web presses which enable direct data printing, have greater flexibility in the cut-off size of the paper and can print short-run work more efficiently and handle variable data.
Fujifilm also ran its Jet Press 720 at the show, saying the B2 format size and ultra-high quality allows printers to add additional digital printing services to their portfolios such as short-run commercial print, year books, photo books, proofing, DVD/CD covers and other speciality printing applications that were previously not cost effective to produce in short-runs.
Fujifilm’s also demonstrated its Uvistar Pro8 super wide format printer, aimed at display POP and outdoor advertising markets prints on on flexible and rigid media speeds in excess of 300sqm per hour, using a complete set of light colours within the ink set. Other features include an auto media handling system for rigid media; a fully automated backlit printing option; the ability to switch between four and eight colour printing modes, an intuitive operator interface; and Fujifilm’s new Uvijet QN inks.
The show also saw the launch of the Inca Onset S40i, which uses 168 new-generation, user-replaceable print heads (28 per colour) on a full width print array delivering a 28 picolitre drop size to print at speeds of up to 470 sqm/hr, equivalent to 94 full bed sheets/hr (3.14 x 1.6m) and onto substrates up to 50mm thick. Key features include: reduced bed masking for substrates thinner than 3mm; a UV sensor system that monitors the machine condition and informs the operator when automatic cleaning is required; substrate height detector; and a choice of uni-directional, bi-directional and super high quality print modes.
Fujifilm has developed a new generation of UV inks for use in its drupa demonstrations. These include Uvijet OZ for the new Onset S40i, designed to give a higher degree of flexibility, enabling users to fold, crease, cut, drive and route printed media; Uvijet QN in the new Uvistar Pro8; Uvijet KA on the Acuity Advance HS X2 hybrid printer; and Uvijet LL on the new Acuity LED 1600, an eight colour ink system with high opacity white and clear inks.
The company also released the latest version of its cloud-based web-to-print solution, XMF PrintCentre V3. New capabilities include a text editor module for managing variable text within the existing WYSIWYG template editor; enhanced PDF pre-flight control for ad hoc print jobs; a larger preview of jobs being ordered; front and back office capabilities that allow wide format printed products to be easily and quickly added to the XMF PrintCentre web store; and additional flexibility in how the products are priced.
Fujifilm Dimatix has releaseds its StarFire family of print head products that includes: the StarFire SG-1024/M-C, a self-contained unit that uses a 20-30 picolitre nominal (fluid dependent) drop size with fluids in the 8 to 20 centipoise range to produce single-colour operation at 400 dots-per-inch from 1024 independent channels arranged in eight rows in a single metal nozzle plate that is replaceable and designed to withstand abrasion.
The StarFire uses the company’s new RediJet jetting technology and VersaDrop multi-pulsing technology. RediJet innovations include nozzle plate design, special conformal and non-wetting surface coatings, enhanced on-head electronics, continuous ink recirculation at the nozzle and waveforms tailored to specific fluids.
StarFire print heads have precise registration points enabling drop-in alignment with system-provided mounting features, allowing multiple print heads to be accurately arrayed into print bars for wide-width, higher-resolution and multi-colour printing devices, and reduces set-up and alignment costs during nozzle replacement or print head exchange, according to Fujifilm.
Fujifilm is launching an initiative that will mean the company gives a percentage of the sales of every square metre of PRO-T3 plates sold in Europe, Middle East & Africa to Water Aid to help improve access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in some of the world’s poorest communities.
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