LAS VEGAS, Oct. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Digital print know-how supplier Electronics For Imaging, Inc., is showcasing its expansive portfolio of progressive show graphics options this week at PRINTING United Expo 2022 in the Las Vegas Convention Center. The vary of EFI™ manufacturing LED inkjet, dye-sublimation inkjet, and Fiery® digital entrance finish (DFE) and workflow choices at the present highlights superior, distinctive, and award-winning applied sciences that give signage and show graphics companies a stronger aggressive edge.
The new EFI VUTEk® FabriVU® Plus sequence of sentimental signage printers, together with the VUTEk FabriVU 340i+ printer with inline fixation EFI is presenting at PRINTING United in sales space #C8107, presents the subsequent degree of high-end dye-sublimation effectivity and alternative. Soft signage is the fastest-growing utility for a lot of EFI clients, together with high-volume commerce provider Orbus Exhibit & Display Group® – an {industry} chief that lately bought the VUTEk FabriVU 340+ mannequin for its Las Vegas facility.
Raising the bar in smooth signage show
Orbus’s newly put in, 133-inch (3.4-meter) vast high-end manufacturing answer supplies the firm with necessary redundancy and manufacturing quantity capability in a rapid-growth market. It can also be one in every of a number of VUTEk FabriVU installations Orbus has accomplished to satisfy the elevated demand it sees in tradeshow graphics and tackle the accelerating desire for smooth signage past the occasions house. “We have four FabriVU printers overall,” mentioned Orbus Vice President of Print Operations Aaron Kozar, “so we must be happy with the technology!”
Designed for high-end direct-to-fabric or switch paper manufacturing with resolutions as much as 2,400 dots per inch (dpi) and three-level grayscale printing with 7pL, 12pL and 18pL drop sizes, the FabriVU Plus sequence achieves exceptional high quality in dye-sub printing – with higher saturation and extra density for smooth signage and flag printing – because of new electronics in addition to eight high-performance printheads in a brand new CMYK x 2 configuration.
The in-line fixation function on the VUTEk FabriVU 340i+ mannequin at PRINTING United eliminates the want for a separate warmth press in direct-to-fabric manufacturing.
The new smooth signage printer is a part of a broad portfolio of extremely superior EFI show graphics inkjet options at the present.
- The 126-inch (3.2-meter) vast EFI Pro 30h hybrid roll/flatbed LED printer in EFI’s sales space stands out as the superb answer for companies focusing on manufacturing signal and show graphics as a development alternative. Running at speeds as much as 2,477 sq. toes (230 sq. meters) per hour, it options 4 colours plus twin channels of white as commonplace, prints in resolutions as much as 1,200 dpi, and consists of an EFI Fiery proServer Core DFE with FAST RIP acceleration know-how.
- The 138-inch (3.5-meter) vast EFI VUTEk Q3r LED inkjet printer on show – the quickest superwide-format roll-to-roll answer in its class – is a part of a VUTEk Q sequence that additionally features a 208-inch (5.2-meter) vast Q5r mannequin. A brand new inline UltraClear Coat choice for the VUTEk Q3r, Q5r and different EFI roll-to-roll LED inkjet printers presents superior safety for outside graphics and high-quality gloss or matte spot enhancement in premium POP work – capabilities that earned UltraClear Coat the 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Pinnacle Award for UV digital inks.
- The VUTEk h5, a extremely superior, high-productivity 126-inch (3.2-meter) vast hybrid roll/flatbed LED inkjet printer at the present, delivers top-tier picture high quality at accelerates 109 boards per hour. With its automated media dealing with choices, together with a ¾ automated media loading and stacker system and tremendous responsibility winders, the VUTEk h5 is able to drive effectivity in high-quality print. To meet rising demand for corrugated board printing, EFI has launched a brand new corrugated media administration system for the VUTEk h5 printer that includes an enhanced vacuum, materials edge guides and a dynamic curler subsystem for superior board throughput.
EFI companions LexJet (sales space #C6407) and Nazdar SourceOne® (sales space #C6425) are additionally displaying EFI Wide Format LED inkjet printers at PRINTING United. LexJet’s exhibit options the 65-inch (1.6-meter) vast EFI Pro 16h hybrid LED printer, a system with a low complete value of possession that delivers high-quality output at speeds as much as 476 sq. toes (44 sq. meters) per hour. The Nazdar SourceOne sales space has the EFI Pro 30f, a devoted flatbed printer with a big mattress dimension for a most printable space of 120 x 80 inches (3.05 x 2.04 meters). Operating at accelerates of as much as 2,130 sq. toes (198 sq. meters) per hour, this versatile flatbed system is the first EFI printer to offer makes use of the capacity to print on media as much as 4 inches (10 cm) thick.
Automation and innovation in show graphics workflows
EFI’s enhanced IQ™ cloud answer featured at PRINTING United offers clients extra energy to observe manufacturing operations and printer utilization – together with precise job-level consumable monitoring information – to scale back downtime and prices. EFI IQ’s distinctive show graphics administration and business intelligence capabilities earned it the 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Pinnacle Product Award for software program and workflow/MIS/CRM options. As the solely administration answer to have a direct connection to EFI printer information, IQ helps business leaders make smarter, data-driven manufacturing choices for every wide-format printer and optimize capability allocation throughout the manufacturing flooring.
Another award-winning EFI show graphics workflow answer at the present, EFI Fiery Prep-it™, is a robust and cost-saving print-for-cut preparation software program providing that can be utilized with any wide- or superwide-format DFE. Its industry-leading improvements in true-shape nesting earned this software program the PRINTING United Alliance Pinnacle Product Award for prepress and premedia. With Fiery Prep-it, show graphics companies can cut back the time wanted to nest complicated objects for wide-format printing by as much as 90%. And, in head-to-head comparability with the competing options in the market, Prep-it’s highly effective and detailed nesting capabilities saves customers a minimum of 10% in media prices.
New digital alternatives throughout rising market segments
EFI has one in every of the broadest and strongest inkjet know-how portfolios for driving the analog to digital transformation in the show graphics, corrugated packaging, textile, and constructing supplies/décor markets. Given the prolonged development in functions EFI helps, PRINTING United additionally options reveals from two of the firm’s latest acquisitions – innovators that ship a few of the greatest and most revered workflow applied sciences in direct-to-textile, direct-to-film (DTF) and direct-to-garment (DTG) printing. Inèdit Software, a part of the EFI Reggiani textile business, is showcasing its superior choices – together with its industry-leading, worldwide benchmark RIP options for digital textile printing – in sales space #C10337. And sales space #C4918 options the newest, extremely superior Digital Factory DTF and DTG automation, manufacturing, and personalization software program options from EFI Fiery’s latest acquisition of CADlink® Software.
“EFI’s leading-edge portfolio at PRINTING United is a great example of our unwavering commitment to providing customers with the best innovation advantage in display graphics and industrial inkjet printing,” mentioned EFI VP of Worldwide Marketing Ken Hanulec. “We continue to drive our customers’ growth in these spaces with the right products to help them earn more margin in more applications, and stay ahead of the game in terms of capability, efficiency, versatility and sustainability.”
For extra details about superior show graphics options from EFI, go to www.efi.com.
About EFI
EFI™ is a world know-how firm, main the worldwide transformation from analog to digital imaging. We perceive our clients need breakthrough applied sciences to steer them by means of their digital journey. That’s why we’re enthusiastic about driving their business development with a scalable portfolio of merchandise, options, providers, assist, and world-class partnerships for the manufacturing of signage, packaging, textiles, ceramic tiles, constructing supplies, industrial print, and personalised paperwork with a variety of printers, inks, digital entrance ends, and workflow software program. They work collectively to extend earnings, minimize prices, enhance productiveness, and optimize effectivity – job after job, yr after yr. We’re dedicated to our clients’ success. And we undoubtedly consider we have now the proper folks, know-how and expertise to assist them obtain their business objectives. (www.efi.com)
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