Print Businesses Gain The Innovation Advantage In Display Graphics With EFI’s Expansive Offerings At PRINTING United

LAS VEGAS — October 19, 2022 — Digital print expertise supplier Electronics For Imaging, Inc., is showcasing its expansive portfolio of modern show graphics options this week at PRINTING United Expo 2022 within the Las Vegas Conference Heart. The vary of EFI™ manufacturing LED inkjet, dye-sublimation inkjet, and Fiery® digital entrance finish (DFE) and workflow choices on the present highlights superior, distinctive, and award-winning applied sciences that give signage and show graphics companies a stronger aggressive edge.

The brand 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, gives the subsequent stage of high-end dye-sublimation effectivity and alternative. Comfortable signage is the fastest-growing utility for a lot of EFI prospects, together with high-volume commerce provider Orbus Exhibit & Show Group® — an {industry} chief that lately bought the VUTEk FabriVU 340+ mannequin for its Las Vegas facility.

Elevating the bar in tender signage show

Orbus’s newly put in, 3.4-meter large high-end manufacturing resolution supplies the corporate with essential redundancy and manufacturing quantity capability in a rapid-growth market. It’s also certainly one of a number of VUTEk FabriVU installations Orbus has accomplished to satisfy the elevated demand it sees in tradeshow graphics and deal with the accelerating choice for tender signage past the occasions area. “We have now 4 FabriVU printers general,” stated Orbus Vice President of Print Operations Aaron Kozar, “so we have to be proud of the expertise!”

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 outstanding high quality in dye-sub printing — with higher saturation and extra density for tender signage and flag printing — due to new electronics in addition to eight high-performance printheads in a brand new CMYK x 2 configuration.

The in-line fixation characteristic on the VUTEk FabriVU 340i+ mannequin at PRINTING United eliminates the necessity for a separate warmth press in direct-to-fabric manufacturing.

The brand new tender signage printer is a part of a broad portfolio of extremely superior EFI show graphics inkjet options on the present.

• The three.2-meter large EFI Professional 30h hybrid roll/flatbed LED printer in EFI’s sales space stands out as the perfect resolution for companies focusing on manufacturing signal and show graphics as a development alternative. Operating at speeds as much as 230 sq. meters per hour, it options 4 colours plus twin channels of white as normal, prints in resolutions as much as 1,200 dpi, and consists of an EFI Fiery proServer Core DFE with FAST RIP acceleration expertise.
• The three.5-meter large EFI VUTEk Q3r LED inkjet printer on show — the quickest superwide-format roll-to-roll resolution in its class — is a part of a VUTEk Q sequence that additionally features a 5.2-metre large Q5r mannequin. A brand new inline UltraClear Coat possibility for the VUTEk Q3r, Q5r and different EFI roll-to-roll LED inkjet printers gives 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 3.2-meter large hybrid roll/flatbed LED inkjet printer on the present, delivers top-tier picture high quality at hurries up 109 boards per hour. With its automated media dealing with choices, together with a ¾ automated media loading and stacker system and tremendous obligation winders, the VUTEk h5 is able to drive effectivity in high-quality print. To fulfill 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 Vast Format LED inkjet printers at PRINTING United. LexJet’s exhibit options the 1.6-metre large EFI Professional 16h hybrid LED printer, a system with a low complete value of possession that delivers high-quality output at speeds as much as 44 sq. meters per hour. The Nazdar SourceOne sales space has the EFI Professional 30f, a devoted flatbed printer with a big mattress dimension for a most printable space of three.05 x 2.04 meters. Working at hurries up of as much as 198 sq. meters per hour, this versatile flatbed system is the primary EFI printer to offer makes use of the power to print on media as much as 10 centimeters thick.

Automation and innovation in show graphics workflows

EFI’s enhanced IQ™ cloud resolution featured at PRINTING United offers prospects extra energy to watch manufacturing operations and printer utilization — together with actual job-level consumable monitoring information — to scale back downtime and prices. EFI IQ’s distinctive show graphics administration and enterprise intelligence capabilities earned it the 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Pinnacle Product Award for software program and workflow/MIS/CRM options. As the one administration resolution to have a direct connection to EFI printer information, IQ helps enterprise leaders make smarter, data-driven manufacturing selections for every wide-format printer and optimise capability allocation throughout the manufacturing flooring.

One other award-winning EFI show graphics workflow resolution on 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 p.c. And, in head-to-head comparability with the competing options available in the market, Prep-it’s highly effective and detailed nesting capabilities saves customers a minimum of 10 p.c in media prices.

New digital alternatives throughout rising market segments

EFI has one of many broadest and strongest inkjet expertise portfolios for driving the analogue to digital transformation within 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 corporate’s latest acquisitions — innovators that ship among the finest and most revered workflow applied sciences in direct-to-textile, direct-to-film (DTF) and direct-to-garment (DTG) printing. Inèdit Software program, a part of the EFI Reggiani textile enterprise, 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 Manufacturing facility DTF and DTG automation, manufacturing, and personalisation software program options from EFI Fiery’s current acquisition of CADlink® Software program.

“EFI’s modern portfolio at PRINTING United is a superb instance of our unwavering dedication to offering prospects with the most effective innovation benefit in show graphics and industrial inkjet printing,” stated EFI Vice President of Worldwide Advertising and marketing Ken Hanulec. “We proceed to drive our prospects’ development in these areas with the best merchandise to assist them earn extra margin in additional functions, and keep forward of the sport by way of functionality, effectivity, versatility and sustainability.”

For extra details about superior show graphics options from EFI, go to www.efi.com.

Posted: October 19, 2022

Supply: Electronics For Imaging, Inc., (EFI)