07.12.18
Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (EFI) reported that Sandton, South Africa-based Beith Digital has installed an EFI VUTEk 5r roll-to-roll LED inkjet superwide-format printer. The newly installed device delivers the high speed and quality the company needs to improve its graphics capabilities.
For some time, the company has seen an increasing number of European clients entering the South African market and, with the new printer, Beith Digital can deliver the higher-quality backlit prints these new clients demand.
Beith Digital also owns additional VUTEk UV and LED printers and an aqueous dispersed dye sublimation VUTEk FabriVU soft signage printer and is capable of direct digital printing on virtually any type of substrate, from rigid to roll-fed – including paper, glass, fabric and other media.
The automatic backlit printing option and EFI’s high-quality white ink on Beith Digital’s new printer give the company more capabilities to meet evolving customer demands.
“In the past, we had to run backlit images as a standard profile to suit the day, but at night it would be washed out because we couldn’t print both sides,” said Devyn Wagner, Beith digital managing director Devyn Wagner. “That’s one major reason why we purchased an EFI VUTEk 5r. The printed image will always look its best – in daylight as well as at night.”
The company was looking for a machine that uses the latest curing technology at a speed and quality that would allow it to produce large volumes of outdoor work.
“Before we had the VUTEk 5r installed, we were using UV technology that was only capable of running 150 square meters per hour compared to the 400 square meters per hour we now currently run, matte or gloss,” Wagner said.
For some time, the company has seen an increasing number of European clients entering the South African market and, with the new printer, Beith Digital can deliver the higher-quality backlit prints these new clients demand.
Beith Digital also owns additional VUTEk UV and LED printers and an aqueous dispersed dye sublimation VUTEk FabriVU soft signage printer and is capable of direct digital printing on virtually any type of substrate, from rigid to roll-fed – including paper, glass, fabric and other media.
The automatic backlit printing option and EFI’s high-quality white ink on Beith Digital’s new printer give the company more capabilities to meet evolving customer demands.
“In the past, we had to run backlit images as a standard profile to suit the day, but at night it would be washed out because we couldn’t print both sides,” said Devyn Wagner, Beith digital managing director Devyn Wagner. “That’s one major reason why we purchased an EFI VUTEk 5r. The printed image will always look its best – in daylight as well as at night.”
The company was looking for a machine that uses the latest curing technology at a speed and quality that would allow it to produce large volumes of outdoor work.
“Before we had the VUTEk 5r installed, we were using UV technology that was only capable of running 150 square meters per hour compared to the 400 square meters per hour we now currently run, matte or gloss,” Wagner said.