Leading technology and lasting solutions from Fujifilm
Few companies at PrintEx can match the range of technology and production systems available from Fujifilm Graphic Systems, covering everything from CTP plates to UV inks, workflow solutions to large format printers and media.
The Fujifilm Graphic Systems stand at PrintEx will showcase its expertise in CTP thermal and violet plate setters and processors as well as celebrating Sericol’s 60th anniversary of quality screen, solvent, and narrow web products, and demonstrating the successful Euromedia substrate range. The sales and technical service team will be on hand to welcome visitors and answer any enquiries regarding the latest digital hardware, UV ink technology and workflow software solutions. Fujifilm will also proudly launch its CloudNET service that is set to revolutionise the print industry.
The Fujifilm Graphic Systems advantage is its vast range of hardware, consumables and workflow software with nationwide service and distribution. Digital inkjet printers include the Acuity range and Uvijet inks, Inca Onset, Uvistar super wide format POP printers, right through to Mutoh textile and dye-sublimation and the Epson solvent range of printers. At the same time, narrow web and screen inks have been the backbone of the Sericol brand for decades, ensuring the best quality materials for outputting the best quality work.
Fujifilm’s thermal and violet platesetters cater to the offset market and, with the respected Pro-T and Pro-V plates, set a new benchmark for reliability and quality.
The latest Advance
The Acuity Advance HS (pictured) is the latest breakthrough in wide format UV digital imaging technology from Fujifilm. The printer offers near photographic quality printing and improved speeds, all at a truly affordable price. While the Acuity Advance HS maintains many of the leading design features of the Acuity HD2504 and Acuity Advance models, it incorporates a modified printhead array to achieve up to twice the printing speeds of the Acuity Advance. With typical production speeds of 40m² per hour and a high quality mode with speeds of 28m² per hour, the Acuity Advance HS delivers more daily output than any other printer in its class. In addition, a new ‘express’ mode offers billboard quality prints at up to 65m² per hour.
The Acuity Advance HS also has a newly redesigned UV curing system which reduces heat output by 40 per cent compared to the Acuity Advance while maintaining UV curing output for excellent finishing results. The Acuity Advance HS flatbed design employs a zoned vacuum table to hold all types of media, including irregularly shaped or uneven surfaced materials. This ensures accurate registration even on multiple passes. It also prints edge-to-edge, saving time and labour in finishing. In addition, the Acuity Advance HS expands the number of possible print applications with a versatile white ink option to complement the standard four-colour CMYK offering. It also offers a roll media option for printing onto any number of flexible materials. The Acuity Advance HS is so versatile an operator can prepare rigid material on the flatbed while the roll media option is printing.
Worldwide inks
Fujifilm’s Uvijet inks are used the world over and are recognised for their bright vivid images and low ink usage. The Uvijet ink system is designed specifically for the digital print platform and gives superb adhesion and flexibility. It produces a wide colour gamut and excellent spot colour reproduction. Using Fujifilm’s unique Micro-V ultrafine dispersion technology to maximise pigment loading, Uvijet UV curing inks deliver strong, vibrant, lightfast colours.
Fujifilm’s brand of Sericol Inks are regarded as one of the world’s most reputable products in the printing industry, and rightly so. Established in 1951 Sericol pioneered the development of screen ink products right through to today’s most technologically advanced digital hardware, the Euromedia range of media, and Uvijet UV cure digital inks that are almost instantaneously touch dry.