Already the owner of five EFI VUTEk machines, Mexico City-based Laboratorio Mexicano de Imágenes (LMI) has expanded its printing capabilities with a sixth, becoming the first Latin American company to install an EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340i printer from Electronics For Imaging, Inc.
The 3.4-meter dispersed dye-sublimation inkjet printer puts LMI ahead of the competition with high production capacity, speed and print quality.
“Our mission as a company is to always be cutting edge, offering quality products, and the purchase of the FabriVU underscored this commitment. We are proud to offer complete solutions that exceed expectations," said Javier Gómez, spokesperson for LMI.
With customers in the B2B and B2C market requiring a broad range of products – from basic photographs to campaigns for brands such as Vans – LMI has a strong presence in the publicity, art and decoration sectors.
“We spent a lot of time working with classic sublimation printing, on paper and with a heat press, but the market has grown and demands more,” Gómez said. “We started to focus our efforts on digital marketing, and we began to receive a lot of new orders.”
The company consulted with a local authorized EFI distributor, TSG, S.A. de C.V., about its soft signage needs. TSG, headquartered in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, sold the VUTEk FabriVU 340i to LMI.
LMI’s new printer delivers high efficiency on premium soft-signage textile graphics, with speeds up to 500 square meters per hour and print resolutions up to 2,400 dots per inch. It offers direct-to-fabric production and in-line sublimation without a separate heat press.
VUTEk FabriVU printers – which are also available in 180- and 520-cm widths – use aqueous dye-sublimation inks from EFI.
“Our products feature high-impact color that attracts attention, and this is the excellence the customer is seeking,” Gómez said. “We do not yet have ROI and investment recovery figures for the machine because, unfortunately, we had to suspend production with the pandemic, but the increase in productivity is evident and visible. Other industry companies that consult with us have also noticed.”
