Fujifilm Unveils 5D Printing Solution Strategy at drupa 2016 with EPAC Technologies

FUJIFILM Corporation announces a partnership with EPAC Technologies to create a true automated system to fulfill the demands of the printing industry. With the partnership, Fujifilm will unveil its “5D Printing Strategy” at drupa 2016, to showcase the future vision for the digital commercial market.
 
“Fujifilm presents the first step in its revolutionary 5D Printing Solution,” said Takuo Ito, director and corporate VP of FUJIFILM Global Graphic Systems. “On top of the three evolutionary dimensions of printing technologies — offset printing, digital printin, and 3D printing — Fujifilm’s 5D Printing will create two new paradigms in the printing industry with Fujifilm’s “true” offset quality in digital printing and — in partnership with EPAC Technologies — game-changing print automation.”
 
Since 2012, Fujifilm has made contributions to the commercial digital press sector: the Jet Press 720S, a B2 sheetfed digital press, is now the market leader in the “true” offset transfer digital press market with more than 70 units installation worldwide; the Jet Press 540W, a roll-to-roll digital press, has created value for the book publishing market.
 
At drupa 2016, Fujifilm will provide a glimpse of the 5D Printing future. Fujifilm will be bringing the heads from the Jet Press 720S press to roll-fed digital press. At Drupa, Fujifilm is demoing 1200 dpi inkjet heads, prior to the Jet Press 720S printheads being introduced.
 
Fujifilm also introduces a new kind of automation in partnership with EPAC Technologies. EPAC invented and engineered an automation strategy based on the fundamental principle of non-linearity. Powered by its development of the world’s fastest industrial robots and propriety algorithms, EPAC provides a digital printing solution: E2.
 
EPAC’s “non-linear” automation production combines the best printing technology and the best bindery equipment in a fully automated, multi-dimensional system that can produce any quantity at prices that displace most of the offset world. E2 technology enables processes that are infinitely scalable and flexible. For book manufacturing, for example, the E2 systems combine the best components for printing, cutting, binding, trimming and sorting orders for delivery to bookstores or the end user through automated processes that do not involve any human intervention.
 
In 2016, Fujifilm and EPAC established initial production systems in the US, Europe and Latin America that incorporate JetPress and EPAC’s E2 technology, including a new ink. The partnership brings to the commercial print market the ultimate short run, full-automation, zero-waste printing system with “true” offset quality.