Fujifilm’s expanded portfolio draws crowds
Fujifilm’s sales space was “extremely busy” on day one in every of Drupa with crowds flocking to see its much-enlarged portfolio.
In addition to a raft of latest merchandise introduced previous to the present, the Japanese producer stored another launches beneath wraps till yesterday (28 Could).
Fujifilm Dimatix has launched a brand new next-generation inkjet printhead, the Skyfire SF600, that sits in between its present Starfire and Samba heads.
The drop-on-demand head has a 600dpi decision and drop dimension of 5-25pl and a “no put on out mechanism”.
Goal markets embrace imprinting, signal and show, and packaging.
Fujifilm can also be giving guests a taster of a brand new workflow idea – Good Move – that encompasses quite a few present buzzwords together with AI, robotics, and cloud capabilities.
Takayoshi Suzuki, normal supervisor, head of digital transformation, stated Good Move constructed upon the agency’s XMF, Manufacturing Cockpit and PressReady merchandise and promised “buyer enterprise smartification” via the usage of new sensible instruments.
There was extra information on the 2 new Revoria Press fashions, the 100ppm EC2100 and 85ppm SC285.
Normal managing for digital printing Sachiko Suzuki stated the brand new fashions might run at high velocity on all media from 50gsm to 200gsm.
“They each supply the flexibility to course of envelopes, textured, undersheet, heavyweighted, movies and extra,” she stated, whereas a static eliminator reduces post-press time when processing film-based jobs.
Keita Yamamuro, normal supervisor for digital printing, stated the Jet Press 1160CFG roll-to-roll inkjet for business print was now commercially obtainable in Japan, Europe and North America.
A primary European set up is anticipated “shortly”.
“The paper stabiliser is a singular function and gives so many advantages for purchasers,” he stated.
Yamamuro additionally stated there can be an replace on Fujifilm’s three way partnership with Barberán for single-pass show printing on the present.
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On the wide-format entrance, Fujifilm’s Acuity Extremely Hybrid Professional is being proven with a brand new automation system from a German companion for improved productiveness.
And there’s a technical preview of the Acuity Triton 1.6m-wide roll printer, developed with Mutoh, utilizing Fujifilm’s new Aquafuze inks.
Aquafuze makes use of a singular emulsion dispersion expertise and guarantees to mix the advantages of LED-UV with aqueous ink.
“I feel a number of different distributors tried to attain this, however they failed,” Yamamuro acknowledged.
Drupa guests may have their very own personalised comedian produced on the present, courtesy of a brand new European strategic reseller partnership between Fujifilm and Xerox-owned variable knowledge specialist XMPie.
The settlement was beforehand for the Asia Pacific and North American markets.
Guests to the XMPie sales space, Corridor 7/D05, can create their very own dynamic comedian utilizing the agency’s AI tech.
The comics will then be despatched to Fujifilm for printing on its Revoria Press PC1120 in Corridor 8b, stand A02.
There was no additional replace on the latest announcement that Fujifilm and Konica Minolta might type a three way partnership.
