04.21.16
Electronics For Imaging (EFI) is helping customers create a stronger competitive edge in signage and graphics production with four new printers at the 2016 ISA International Sign Expo. The EFI exhibit highlights the better profit and efficiency possibilities customers can gain with EFI products, and includes the North American debut of a new VUTEk FabriVU aqueous-ink soft-signage printer series that provides the highest speed and print resolution quality in its class.
Show attendees can also see how they can further automate and streamline their operations with an advanced software workflow — shown for the very first time — that expands EFI’s advanced Productivity Suite technologies to the display graphics market.
The new inkjet products on display include:
• The 3.2-meter EFI VUTEk LX3 Pro hybrid roll/flatbed LED inkjet printer, a leader in production-class LED inkjet graphics print engine speeds with fast throughput of up to 3,420 square feet (318 square meters) per hour. Its “cool cure” LED technology is a greener solution that reduces energy usage and costs while giving users the ability to print on a wider range of media, including media that cannot withstand the heat of other curing or drying methods.
• The EFI Quantum LXr LED printer, a dedicated roll-to-roll printer offering a superb price/speed/quality ratio for versatility, the widest range of substrates, and the lowest total cost of ownership in its class.
• The EFI H1625-SD, an entry-level, 65-inch UV hybrid production printer that uses award-winning EFI SuperDraw UV ink for near-photographic imaging direct to thermoformable substrates. The printer runs four colors plus white with high-quality grayscale imaging.
• The EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340 is a 3.4-meter dispersed dye-sublimation ink printer developed by EFI Reggiani. The new FabriVU line, which is also available in a 1.8-meter size, runs environmentally friendly water-based inks and help users produce stunning soft signage and banner applications.
The EFI booth also includes “The Printed Home of the Future,” a unique display of high-quality, innovative applications printed with EFI technologies that expands the realm of industrial inkjet possibilities and profit opportunities for customers.
Items featured in the Printed Home of the Future display illustrate inkjet’s versatility beyond traditional signage, and includes labels printed with EFI Jetrion narrow-web printers, ceramic tiles produced on EFI Cretaprint ceramic printers and home textiles and apparel produced with EFI Reggiani industrial textile technologies.
In the fast-growing market for fabric-printed soft signage, the new VUTEk FabriVU printer on display offers reliable, accurate printing at speeds up to 5,000 square feet (464 square meters). The printer gives customers a competitive advantage, as it has the highest productivity in its class, as well as the highest quality with ultra-high resolutions up to 2,400 dpi. A patented ink circulation system on the printer prevents nozzles from drying out, reducing ink costs by up to 15%.
The newest-version EFI Fiery proServer driving the VUTEk printers in EFI’s booth deliver productivity and quality well beyond a typical printer RIP. This upgraded Fiery digital front end platform gives VUTEk customers the power to process print files 60% faster than earlier versions of the proServer.
A new, major release of the EFI Midmarket Print Suite MIS workflow, version 4.0, is being presented for the first time at the show. The new workflow software suite edition is beneficial for the signage and graphics community, as it offers new features specifically designed to meet the needs of display graphics/superwide-format print providers.
“Operators of signage and display graphics businesses have an unprecedented range of applications to pursue today,” said Scott Schinlever, SVP and GM, EFI Inkjet Solutions. “At the International Sign Expo, visitors will truly see the Imaging of Things concept brought to life and are guaranteed to leave with many ideas for business growth and improved profitability.”
Show attendees can also see how they can further automate and streamline their operations with an advanced software workflow — shown for the very first time — that expands EFI’s advanced Productivity Suite technologies to the display graphics market.
The new inkjet products on display include:
• The 3.2-meter EFI VUTEk LX3 Pro hybrid roll/flatbed LED inkjet printer, a leader in production-class LED inkjet graphics print engine speeds with fast throughput of up to 3,420 square feet (318 square meters) per hour. Its “cool cure” LED technology is a greener solution that reduces energy usage and costs while giving users the ability to print on a wider range of media, including media that cannot withstand the heat of other curing or drying methods.
• The EFI Quantum LXr LED printer, a dedicated roll-to-roll printer offering a superb price/speed/quality ratio for versatility, the widest range of substrates, and the lowest total cost of ownership in its class.
• The EFI H1625-SD, an entry-level, 65-inch UV hybrid production printer that uses award-winning EFI SuperDraw UV ink for near-photographic imaging direct to thermoformable substrates. The printer runs four colors plus white with high-quality grayscale imaging.
• The EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340 is a 3.4-meter dispersed dye-sublimation ink printer developed by EFI Reggiani. The new FabriVU line, which is also available in a 1.8-meter size, runs environmentally friendly water-based inks and help users produce stunning soft signage and banner applications.
The EFI booth also includes “The Printed Home of the Future,” a unique display of high-quality, innovative applications printed with EFI technologies that expands the realm of industrial inkjet possibilities and profit opportunities for customers.
Items featured in the Printed Home of the Future display illustrate inkjet’s versatility beyond traditional signage, and includes labels printed with EFI Jetrion narrow-web printers, ceramic tiles produced on EFI Cretaprint ceramic printers and home textiles and apparel produced with EFI Reggiani industrial textile technologies.
In the fast-growing market for fabric-printed soft signage, the new VUTEk FabriVU printer on display offers reliable, accurate printing at speeds up to 5,000 square feet (464 square meters). The printer gives customers a competitive advantage, as it has the highest productivity in its class, as well as the highest quality with ultra-high resolutions up to 2,400 dpi. A patented ink circulation system on the printer prevents nozzles from drying out, reducing ink costs by up to 15%.
The newest-version EFI Fiery proServer driving the VUTEk printers in EFI’s booth deliver productivity and quality well beyond a typical printer RIP. This upgraded Fiery digital front end platform gives VUTEk customers the power to process print files 60% faster than earlier versions of the proServer.
A new, major release of the EFI Midmarket Print Suite MIS workflow, version 4.0, is being presented for the first time at the show. The new workflow software suite edition is beneficial for the signage and graphics community, as it offers new features specifically designed to meet the needs of display graphics/superwide-format print providers.
“Operators of signage and display graphics businesses have an unprecedented range of applications to pursue today,” said Scott Schinlever, SVP and GM, EFI Inkjet Solutions. “At the International Sign Expo, visitors will truly see the Imaging of Things concept brought to life and are guaranteed to leave with many ideas for business growth and improved profitability.”