EFI Introduces Next-Gen Single-Pass Reggiani BOLT Textile Digital Printer

The brand-new, next-generation, single-pass EFI Reggiani BOLT textile digital printer from Electronics For Imaging, Inc. made its debut during an open house event at the EFI Reggiani facility in Bergamo, Italy.
 
The advanced, ultra-high-speed digital single-pass printer provides users with high uptime and reliability, superior printing uniformity and accuracy, long printhead life and minimal maintenance needs.
 
Nearly 300 customers and journalists attended the open house to see the new BOLT in action.
 
“The innovative development of our new single-pass printer comes from Reggiani’s speed of innovation in digital textile printing, its 70 years of history, and our proprietary knowledge of high-volume analog rotary printing,” EFI Reggiani VP and GM Adele Genoni said. “The EFI Reggiani BOLT re-writes the rules of digital textile single-pass printing, delivering superior throughput and quality with a highly competitive return on investment for customers.”
 
The BOLT offers an innovative, low-maintenance, fast-startup recirculation printhead that delivers better, more-uniform printing with superior uptime. The BOLT has throughput speeds of up to 295 feet per minute (more than 86,100 square feet per hour) at a 600 x 600 dpi resolution. It features high-end grayscale imaging in drop sizes from 5 to 30 picoliters, and also provides premium-quality 600 x 4,800 maximum-dpi resolution printing, allowing customers to address the full range of design needs. The printhead has been developed in partnership with a leading printhead manufacturer and will be available exclusively for EFI Reggiani.

Features include:

• Enhanced maintenance features– The printer’s contactless wiping system prolongs printhead life and quality. Plus, the printer comes with an assisted alignment system for its test calibration scan unit, and features extractable printing beams for easier maintenance;
• Extended color gamut and superior image quality– Thanks to EFI expertise in color management and flexible color configurations, customers can easily reproduce a wider variety of work, including designs featuring plain colors, geometric patterns, fine lines, deep blacks, and smooth gradients;
•  Proprietary IP combining digital and rotary technologies– One or more analog printing stations, which may be easily connected as an optional feature, can be integrated into the digital printer for special effects.

The BOLT printer is the newest in an important series of EFI Reggiani innovations. In the last 15 months, the team has developed a totally renewed range of digital scanning printers with cutting-edge technologies, launching a new model every quarter to offer customers solutions to whatever their requirements may be for easily scalable textile printing. The list of EFI Reggiani advancements includes two recent launches – the COLORS digital printer, which provides unparalleled performance with up to 12-color printing, and the TERRA pigment ink with binder solution featuring in-line polymerization, a process that speeds up customers’ printing with one of the industry’s greenest production technologies.